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Early Addition: Empty nesters are hiring consultants to figure out what to do with themselves
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Published Jan 29, 2024
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where it's extremely noisy.
Here's what else is happening:
- The city's largest police union is trying to block reforms — which the NYPD already agreed to after lawsuits stemming from the 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations — that would temper how officers can respond to protests.
- Only 60 of the 190 retail spaces in the subway system currently have active tenants.
- The Open Street-turned-permanent pedestrian plaza on 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights has been a major selling point for real estate brokers.
- It's unclear how Donald Trump is going to come up with $83 million to pay E. Jean Carroll — and, potentially, $370 million for the state of New York.
- Jannik Sinner is the first Parmesan cheese spokesperson to win a tennis Grand Slam.
- "Helicopter parents" are spending $250 an hour on empty-nest consultants to help them figure out what to do with themselves when their kids go away to college.
- Crystal Hefner, the former spouse of late Playboy editor Hugh Hefner, claims the animals living at the Playboy Mansion were depressed and malnourished.
- And finally, suave:
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