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Early Addition: Get to know Wanda, the donkey in the Met's 'La Bohème'
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James Ramsay
Published Oct 19, 2026 at 8:26 a.m. ET
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Published Oct 19, 2026 at 8:26 a.m. ET
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where there's a new resource for people in need of mental health or addiction help.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Columbia University students are giving out visitor QR codes to locals as a way to help their neighbors and protest the school's ongoing closure of the campus to the public.
- Update on New York Republican congressional candidate/rapper/sticker mogul Anthony Constantino: His lead in the polls district has shrunk.
- Pumping carbon monoxide into a sidewalk burrow is one way to kill a rat.
- Some residents in Forest Hills are mad their neighborhood got Citi Bike docks.
- One of the "Real Housewives of New York City" cast members is mentioned in the Epstein Files, and it finally came up on the show.
- Meet Wanda, the 18-year-old donkey who stars in the Met Opera's production of "La Bohème," as well as an annual Palm Sunday service at an uptown church.
- Selena Gomez is warning against vaping, saying it altered her voice.
And finally, heat's on:
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