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Early Addition: Despite vendor ban, Brooklyn Bridge pedestrians still found a way to clog up the path
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James Ramsay
Published Jan 4, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where you can no longer buy cool keychains on the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian path.
Here's what else is happening:
- You can, however, get stuck in Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian traffic due to people taking pictures of the "No Vending" signs.
- Tourists are flocking to the Upper East Side to take selfies in front of Jeffrey Epstein's old townhouse.
- The NYPD dance team has been hard at work learning the moves to "Mamacita" by the Black Eyed Peas and Ozuna.
- Will Union Square become the new Silicon Valley, or an epicenter for illegal weed shops and vacant storefronts?
- The Smucker jam family is auctioning off its one-bedroom residence at the Plaza.
- NBC 4 caught a bunch of people scurrying through the MTA's new style of fare gates without paying.
- A 13-year-old from Oklahoma has become possibly the first person to beat Tetris.
- That giant Pop-Tart is having a moment.
- And finally, hot girl walk:
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