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Early Addition: Are you living in one of the 50 most expensive neighborhoods in NYC?
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Published Feb 5, 2026
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where the mayor wants to dismantle the heavily armed NYPD unit that responds to protests.
Here's what else is happening:
- David A. Ross, the former head of the Whitney and a prominent art world figure, is stepping down from his current role at the School of Visual Arts after dozens of his emails with Jeffrey Epstein surfaced last week.
- Former Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop now leads the Partnership for New York City, a group representing prominent city-based businesses, and he plans to be way more politically aggressive than his predecessor, Kathy Wylde. Bad idea?
- These are the 50 most expensive neighborhoods in New York City, according to Property Shark.
- We're sending 23 athletes with ties to New York to the Winter Olympics.
- A solid shouting match broke out at a transportation hearing in Albany this week.
- Bad Bunny has inspired white people to start learning Spanish, and specifically Puerto Rican slang.
- Italy's biggest fast-casual chain, a flatbread sandwich shop called Piadi by La Piadineria, has landed in New York City.
- Down goes Eddie Bauer.
- And finally, "good job silly":
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