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Early Addition: Charles Kushner, from prison to Paris
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Published May 20, 2025
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where the WhatsApp school chats for parents are "hell."
Here's what else is happening:
- With only a year and a half until New York's next gubernatorial election, it looks like we may be in for a Kathy Hochul vs. Elise Stefanik contest, according to a new Siena Poll.
- Just because the regulators at New York City's Department of Buildings approve your application to build a home with an accessory dwelling unit doesn't mean they won't change their mind and decide that something's actually wrong with your paperwork and you have to stop.
- The western side of Lincoln Center's outdoor area is getting a big facelift.
- Two planes almost crashed on the runway at LaGuardia earlier this month.
- Charles Kushner, Ivanka Trump's father-in-law who spent two years in federal prison for tax evasion but has since been pardoned by President Trump, will be our next ambassador to France.
- Update on the New Jersey house with an elaborate model train set in the basement that was up for sale: An “Impractical Jokers” co-star who loves trains bought it and will let the model train club keep meeting there.
- Juan Soto stood in the batter's box last night while watching his long ball not go out of the park.
- In other baseball news, police said they're looking for the thieves who stole six youth baseball bats worth nearly $2,100 from a Long Island Dick's Sporting Goods ... which means kids these days are playing with $350 bats?
- Pickle lemonade?!
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