Early Addition: Older NYC Renters Now Outnumber Millennial Renters
May 3, 2019, 11:54 a.m.
Because there are new Scrabble words to argue about, check out today's midday links: AOC memes, RIP Peter Mayhew, Washington composting bodies, older NYC renters, Amazon Prime oral history, and dog gets tucked.

A delivery man from <a href="https://www.scottsflowersnyc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scotts Flowers NYC</a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/onegrove/32821442257/in/pool-gothamist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">onegrove's flickr</a>
- Follow Gothamist on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here.
- Learn more about Annie Donaldson, former White House Counsel Don McGahn’s chief of staff whose copious, detailed notes provided the special counsel’s office with its version of the Nixon White House tapes.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s fans and enemies are inventing a new kind of politics: fandoms and anti-fandoms that drive how we bond over candidates online. BuzzFeed goes inside the AOC meme machine.
- The Post reports that a 60-year-old man was killed by a subway train this morning when he fell down onto the tracks and "couldn’t pull himself back up to the platform."
- CNN found that a group running robocalls impersonating Trump's campaign team has already raised more than $100,000.
- Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and more remember Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, who has died at the age of 74.
- Washington has passed a bill to become the first state to compost human bodies.
- Older renters in New York City outnumber millennial renters—they also outnumber homeowners in their age range.
- Vox has an oral history of the development of Amazon Prime, which is more interesting than that sounds.
- The official international Scrabble dictionary has updated its list of approved words for the first time since 2015, adding 2,800 words including genderqueer, bae, antivaxxer, and most controversially, ok.
- It's Friday, so listen to new albums from Big Thief, Vampire Weekend and Pile.
- And finally, I too require my human to tuck me in before bed, what's weird about that:
when your dog insists on being tucked in every night
(redditor : u/tleemon08) pic.twitter.com/hBRiLElZlE— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) May 2, 2019