A subway station bathroom: Too hard to find?

Plus: Coney Island's Luna Park gets extended spring break hours [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [Announcements, maps and signs: Manhattan BP presses MTA to improve restroom accessibility]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ⛅ Mix of sun and clouds, with possible showers later and highs in the lower 60s. It's Wednesday in New York City, where subway station bathrooms are pretty nice now — if you can find them. Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, who praised the renovations on some of the MTA's reopened 121 station bathrooms, is asking the transit agency to [put signs up directing people to the loo](. Here's what else is happening: - Police said one person died and three others were injured in [a shooting involving gunmen riding scooters]( in the Bronx on Tuesday. - A 10-year-old girl died yesterday after [a driver hit her]( near the intersection of Wallabout Street and Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. - The New York City Council is fighting back against Mayor Eric Adams’ [new demand that they fill out forms]( to meet with agency heads — by scheduling an oversight hearing on the policy. - Lawyers at Mobilization For Justice, a nonprofit legal assistance group aimed at helping tenants fight evictions, have [been on strike for nearly two months]( demanding higher pay and more city resources. - A lawyer for an NYPD officer who's on trial for [allegedly assaulting a man in an Upper West Side Apple store]( argued in court yesterday that his client "hardly even" punched the victim — and only because he believed the man was about to hit him. - A 41-year-old Queens man who prosecutors say was behind the wheel when his companion shot and killed NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller last month [pleaded not guilty yesterday to criminal possession of a weapon]( and other charges. - The Adams administration has yet to clear a waitlist of new migrants waiting for shelter beds, [more than a week after a court-ordered deadline]( for eliminating the backlog. - Dawn Pinnock, commissioner of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, announced her resignation yesterday, joining a group of other [top Adams administration officials who've left before the end of the mayor's first term](. - Meanwhile, the mayor is trying to hire Randy Mastro — who worked under Mayor Rudy Giuliani and then defended New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the Bridgegate scandal — [to serve as the city's top lawyer](. - A new bill in the City Council would ban all "non-essential" helicopter traffic at the city's heliports until the federal government approves [the technology for electric (and thus quieter) take-offs and landings](. - The MTA is pretty certain [this 30-year-old turnstile at the Grand Central–42nd Street station]( is the busiest turnstile in the entire subway system. - Ms. Rachel doesn't approve of the Adams administration's [cuts to 3-K and Pre-K](. - How did [this 2010 video]( of Tony and Carmela Soprano, Chris Rock, Donald Trump, Spike Lee and Harvey Weinstein all begging LeBron James to join the Knicks fail to convince him? - New chess scandal: A French grandmaster was [walking way too loudly]( in the playing hall. - The coming [double-brood of cicadas]( is great news for cicada killer wasps. - Demetri Martin [is 50](. - Have some time for a game? 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