Extra Extra: What happens if a ‘natural force’ like an eclipse or earthquake hits when you’re about to putt?

Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where people are itching “to be in our bodies and in places.”

Here’s what else is happening:

• More than 20 New York state courts are closing or limiting proceedings during the eclipse.
• About 140 people, mostly New Yorkers, pooled together to buy a middling Danish professional soccer team that once counted Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr among its players. They gather at a Williamsburg bar on weekends to watch games and drink breakfast beer.
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told New York Magazine about when she was a server at the erstwhile Coffee Shop near Union Square and waited on Hanson (the band).
• Metropolitan Opera Director Peter Gelb confirmed the late Luciano Pavarotti used to snack on pasta backstage between arias.
• The Bronx Night Market is returning to Fordham Plaza this year after a hiatus in 2023 due to safety concerns.
• The Vatican came out with a statement on Monday calling gender fluidity a threat to human dignity and “a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God.”
• J Cole has apologized for his “goofy” diss track about Kendrick Lamar, saying it “didn’t sit right with my spirit” to speak ill of an esteemed peer.
• If an earthquake hits while you’re golfing and it moves your ball and creates a little crack in the green between you and the cup, sorry, but the rules are clear: You gotta play that sucker as it lays.
• And finally, groovin’: