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Early Addition: Are the Mets having a ‘Hot Grimace Summer’?
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Emily Nadal
Published Jun 20, 2024
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Published Jun 20, 2024
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It’s Thursday morning in New York City, and across the water in New Jersey, a ritzy city is blocking an affordable housing development with rezoning.
Here's what else is happening:
- Preservationists are pushing for a Greek Revival rowhouse on West 13th Street to be designated as a landmark, and even though the process is moving along, it might be too little too late.
- A group of neighbors in Hell's Kitchen rescued a bodega cat left to fend for itself after the deli closed.
- Could Grimace the McDonald’s character be the Mets’ good luck charm?
- It’s soft-serve season, and while a cone from Mister Softee will almost always hit the spot, here are some other great places to get soft serve in the city.
- For years, advocates have been pushing against the city’s plans to build affordable housing at the Elizabeth Street Garden. Now, that fight may be over after the state’s highest court ruled in favor of the city.
- Archaeologists discovered glass bottles with perfectly preserved fruit in George Washington’s cellar.
- Con Edison workers in Staten Island built two electrical poles for an osprey hawk to perch and nest. The osprey welcomed a couple of hatchlings there earlier this month.
- And finally, we all start somewhere:
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