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Early Addition: Carlos Beltrán, bang-on-a-can all-star in waiting
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Published Jan 24, 2025
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where you don't have to pay sales tax on your fraternity initiation fees.
Here's what else is happening:
- "What happened to me was extremely traumatic. But I will eventually make my way back to the train": The New York Times interviewed Joseph Lynskey, the man who miraculously survived being pushed onto the 1 train tracks in Chelsea on New Year's Eve.
- When temperatures dip below freezing, the subway system becomes a de facto rolling shelter system.
- Nine months after Columbia University called in the NYPD to crack down on pro-Palestinian demonstrations, the campus is still keeping its gates closed to the public.
- A black bear in the Poconos tested positive for rabies after it briefly attacked a local man walking to the store. (The guy's neighbor immediately drew a gun and shot the bear to death. Pennsylvania!)
- Carlos Beltrán, a central figure in the Houston Astros' 2017 trash-can-smacking sign-stealing scandal, was shut out of the baseball Hall of Fame for the third year in a row.
- Director Robert Eggers is making a "Labyrinth" sequel.
- F**k it, I'm an overhead light guy.
- And finally, it's happening:
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