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Early Addition: Good luck finding parking at the Jersey Shore
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Dana Binfet
Published Aug 24, 2026
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where Mamdani plans to build a temporary highway to fix a crumbling section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Chinatown leaders urge Mayor Zohran Mamdani to reconsider the $16 billion high-rise jail plan.
- Community members look to liberate the land in East New York and buy back the neighborhood.
- Gym, tan, laundry – but no parking at the Jersey Shore according to a recent survey that ranked Island Beach among the worst in the nation for traffic and parking.
- It seems even New York bookstores can’t escape Anthropic’s book destruction.
- NYPD are investigating a new video of three people climbing out of a manhole near Penn Station.
- While Broadway production costs continue to soar, Off-Broadway musicals are the ones to watch.
And finally, cuteness overload:
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