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Early Addition: Feels like it's getting windier around here
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Published Apr 23, 2024
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where seniors get priority on the sidewalk.
Here's what else is happening:
- The Secret Service has been meeting to figure out how they'd protect Donald Trump if he gets sent to Rikers Island or a prison upstate.
- Meet the Long Island dad who has used his LIRR commute over the years to become a Candy Crush champion.
- Meet the Little Falls, New Jersey man who's 110 years old and still drives himself everywhere.
- The host of a social media show called "Crackhead Barney & Friends" tried and failed yesterday to get Alec Baldwin to say "Free Palestine" and "F**k Israel" inside a Greenwich Village coffee shop. (Instead, Baldwin allegedly smacked her phone.)
- "'Hell's Kitchen' Is the We <3 NYC of Musicals."
- Has it gotten windier in New Jersey? Residents say "yes," meteorologists say "maybe."
- Salt & Straw, a Portland-based ice cream shop famous for weird flavors like pear and blue cheese or buttered mashed potatoes and gravy, is opening two locations in New York City.
- The "I am not a robot" tests are getting harder.
- And finally, blowin' o's:
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