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Early Addition: About 100 Long Island zoo animals need a new home
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where the polls are open until 9 p.m.
Here's what else is happening:
- "Cool Girls for Capitalism" have joined the president in urging New Yorkers to vote for Cuomo.
- Stephen Colbert is urging New Jersey to vote for Sherrill.
- One problem in New York politics that doesn't get much attention: A lot of agencies and organizations have identical or near identical acronyms or initials.
- Brooklyn's own Super Mario is getting a balloon in this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
- Maya Hawke is selling her cool apartment near Union Square.
- The Long Island town of Brookhaven is trying to figure out what to do with more than 100 animals when it closes the Holtsville Zoo.
- Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84.
- "One Upon a One More Time," the Britney Spears jukebox musical that flopped on Broadway, has been revived by a Fort Lauderdale high school.
- And finally, stayin' put:
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