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Early Addition: Death, taxes and nonstop honking on your block because a double-parked car is blocking an Amazon truck
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James Ramsay
Published Mar 6, 2024
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where the indie theatre scene is thriving in people's basements.
Here's what else is happening:
- One New Yorker went to respectable lengths to try to get people to stop honking on her block.
- The Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has subpoenaed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for questioning over his handling of nursing home deaths during the height of COVID.
- NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell is running an online store selling merch — including sweatshirts, holiday ornaments and commemorative "challenge coins" — to ostensibly fund his office's snack pantry.
- THE CITY looked into some odd donations to Eric Adams' 2021 mayoral campaign that came from workers at Queens' New World Mall — some of whom said they didn't make the contributions attached to their name.
- Nikki Haley has dropped out of the Republican presidential primary, but not before winning Vermont.
- "The story was taken down because I felt it was the wrong story for our publication," said the editor in chief of Road & Track magazine regarding a well-respected journalist's 5,000-word article about power and wealth in Formula 1 that was briefly published online.
- The Voyager 1 space probe, which launched in 1977 and is now floating about 15 billion miles away, is sending messages back to Earth that don't make any sense, and NASA is concerned.
- And finally, capy aerobics:
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