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Early Addition: Foliage is beautiful until it clogs a drain and causes flooding
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Published Nov 6, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. ET
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where MTA Chair Janno Lieber says the blue wave in this midterm election could mean a green wave for transit funding.
Here’s what else is happening:
- The owner of a Clinton Hill business that flooded last year has become an evangelist for clearing autumn foliage from storm drains so it doesn't happen again.
- The parliament of barn owls that was evicted from an Upper West Side water tower has so far not been attacked by a hawk.
- Good interview with the production designer of "Club Kid" on recreating the club.
- After 138 years of prohibition, Collingswood, New Jersey voters have decided to allow liquor sales.
- The top prize honestly could've gone to any of these incredible gingerbread houses at the Great Borough Bake-Off at the Museum of the City of New York.
- After ditching the John Galliano theme, the next Met Gala will now be about "Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday."
- Cybertrucks out.
And finally, Antler Queen:
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