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Early Addition: Does the Radio City Music Hall live Nativity scene stress out the donkey?
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Published Dec 22, 2023
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where the Upper West Side will be experimenting with its curbsides.
Here's what else is happening:
- New York City will end 2023 with one of its lowest pedestrian death rates in 114 years — but its highest cyclist death rate in 20 years.
- Congrats to Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx for becoming the first-ever city school to win a state football championship.
- Cardinal Hayes' win notwithstanding, the City of Swagger is not having a December to remember.
- "Look, if you want to eat fried chicken while traveling over the holidays, then Chick-fil-A should be open on Sundays." So says Manhattan Assemblyman Tony Simone, sponsoring a state bill that would force Chick-fil-A restaurants inside publicly operated rest stops to be open seven days a week.
- In other Chick-fil-A news, a New Jersey court has ruled against Cinnaminson Township's attempt to seize a local woman's property in order to build a new location for the chicken sandwich chain.
- Alec Baldwin is urging Radio City Music Hall to stop using live animals in its Nativity scene, noting that the donkey, camel and sheep involved may feel fear, pain and stress.
- A Travis Scott concert at the Barclays Center earlier this week caused neighboring streets to shake.
- The Secret Service said it's aware that the actor who played Bo Duke on "Dukes of Hazzard" tweeted that President Joe Biden is "guilty of treason and should be publicly hung."
- "The Gilded Age" has been renewed for season 3.
- What's that in Kim Kardashian's bathtub?
- And finally, wait!:
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