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Early Addition: Bay Ridge dentist who pleaded guilty to insurance fraud is selling his gilded mansion for $25M
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Published Jul 30, 2025
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where booze ads are returning to the subway.
Here's what else is happening:
- In a southern Brooklyn Republican City Council primary that came down to 16 votes, at least one absentee ballot was "cast" by a woman who died in 2013.
- The Mayor’s Office on Climate & Environmental Justice said it's going to help halal carts swap their gas generators for battery-powered alternatives.
- A bunch of parties want to further transform 14th Street into a bus-and-pedestrian haven. What could get in the way?
- A gilded Bay Ridge mansion built by a Ukrainian dentist who pleaded guilty to insurance fraud could be yours for $25 million.
- A lost kitten boarded the subway and got herself adopted.
- The data is in: Tons of people are actually buying The Row's $700 flip flops.
- You can't show up barefoot to your $13,000 appointment to have microplastics (allegedly) filtered out of your blood.
- Keep rollin'.
- And finally, the kitten:
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