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Early Addition: Business is booming for the people who wait on line at designer sample sales
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Published Oct 29, 2025
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where some neighborhoods just aren't adding affordable apartments.
Here's what else is happening:
- Here's why Andrew Cuomo's podcasting career fell apart.
- Here's why Zohran Mamdani has declined to publicly take a position on this year's housing-related ballot proposals.
- The NYPD earlier this year enacted stricter rules about when police car chases are appropriate. City Councilmember Tiffany Cabán wants the restrictions to go even further.
- The Times of London retracted an interview with Bill de Blasio in which he criticized Mamdani after discovering that the person they spoke with was not, in fact, de Blasio.
- Meet the guys making $25 an hour holding spots on line outside The Row's sample sale.
- The new Bruce Springsteen biopic has an error in it related to The Boss' real-life taste in condiments. (He actually hates mustard.)
- Halloween decorations this year: Too spooky?
- In related news, beware the scary, frantic or flashing decorations if you're prone to migraines.
- And finally, elite pacer:
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