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Early Addition: Get your aura in order
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Published Jan 10, 2025
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where congestion pricing-related scams are already afoot.
Here's what else is happening:
- While Floyd Bennett Field prepares for its next phase, the Adams administration is still sending migrants to the tent complex at Randall's Island.
- Meet the 350-odd feral cats living on Rikers Island.
- More than 200 NYPD sergeants rallied outside the Apollo Theater during Mayor Adams' State of the City Address yesterday to demand pay raises, arguing that many of them make less than the beat cops they supervise.
- Stuffy old Manhattan co-op boards, which used to enjoy interviewing and then turning down prospective buyers, are now reluctantly letting mystery residents buy units through LLCs.
- The pitch for a massive casino complex at Coney Island, which is being put forth by the developer behind a recently closed crab restaurant near the boardwalk, would involve removing some of the existing rides and attractions.
- Congrats to Quinton Law, the 27-year-old who made history this week after being sworn in as the youngest and first Black mayor of Moorestown Township in South Jersey.
- Wearing freaky clothes is out, having an aura is in.
- Gossip remains in.
- And finally, mastering the flick:
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