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