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Early Addition: Barclays Center Pumps Perfume Into Arena Hallways
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Nell Casey
Published May 20, 2013
Modified May 20, 2013
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Published May 20, 2013
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- Cops nabbed 51 people in a large drug bust in Queens housing developments Queensbridge and Ravenswood Houses.
- The perfume-like scent inside the Barclays Center comes from a custom fragrance pumped through the arena's ventilation system.
- A $190 million estate in Greenwich, Connecticut is the most expensive private home on the market in the United States.
- Democratic mayoral candidates continue to bash Bloomberg on education.
- Video: Tenacious D do the weather in New Zealand.
- An autistic man was branded with a hot potato masher at a Bronx group home.
- Hedge Fund owner Steven A. Cohen will plead the fifth in the grand jury trial about alleged insider trading.
- The so-called "crack baby" generation that were born in the '80s didn't actually happen.
- The federal government spent $400,000 on smoke detecting underpants that track the wearer's smoking habits.
- Domino's Pizza in Brazil has created DVDs that smell like pizza after they've been played.
- And finally, now that David Beckham is out, the soccer world should look to this talented pooch:
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