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Early Addition: Brad Lander, not a crypto-and-Cadillacs guy after all
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Published Dec 12, 2025
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where DoorDash and Uber are suing the city over its delivery tipping laws.
Here's what else is happening:
- A federal grand jury in Virginia yesterday again declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges, marking the second time in a week jurors refused to revive a case hhat was dismissed last month.
- Mayor-elect Mamdani won't get to fire as many Adams-era City Hall appointees as he intended because some of them have union protections.
- Someone hacked Brad Lander's X account this week and started posting about cryptocurrencies and a Cadillac.
- Anheuser-Busch is selling off its massive, decades-old brewing facility in Newark.
- Here's where Robert Sietsema ate in the East Village in the late '70s when he first showed up from Wisconsin.
- Dick Van Dyke turns 100 tomorrow.
- A new This Is Lorelai album comes out today.
- We love a mug.
- And finally, zero swag gap:
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