Early Addition: Going By Pret-A-Manger Sales, Lower Manhattan Is Halfway Back, Baby

James Ramsay

Published Sep 21, 2021

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James Ramsay

Published Sep 21, 2021

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About one million mail-in ballots still have to be counted, but it appears Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will remain his country's leader after yesterday's nationwide election.
A Texas abortion provider recently performed the procedure, in defiance of the new law, partly in order to get sued — and he did, by two out-of-state individuals who are not anti-abortion, but rather want to bring up a challenge to the law in court.
Ahead of the General Assembly, BTS shot a music video inside the U.N. and then gave an address about climate change and youth and the future and dance.
Speaking of Manhattan offices, Bloomberg's proprietary tracker of Pret-a-Manger sales indicates that Wall Street and Tribeca are now filling up at about 50% during workday hours.
Eric Clapton apparently reneged on his boycott of venues with vaccine mandates by performing at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, which has a vaccine-or-negative-test requirement for people over 12 (and a masks-while-not-eating mandate).
Eric Adams said he wasn't really a fan of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Met Gala dress.
The Fugees are getting back together for a reunion tour.
Awkwafina was asked about her "blaccent." And this was her response, which was delivered in a non-blaccent: "You know, I’m open to the conversation. I think, you know, it really is something that I think is a little bit multifaceted and layered. And so, yeah."
A new op-ed in The Guardian that begins with the headline, "I want to buy a house in Philadelphia. Does that make me an evil gentrifier?" masterfully reaches the conclusion, "I think that maybe we ought to retire the term 'gentrification.'"
And finally, gotta get in those last rays of summer!

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