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Early Addition: Grand Central passageway now smells like a Bath & Body Works
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Published Nov 13, 2025
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where the Adams administration really pulled a switcheroo with the Elizabeth Street Garden.
Here's what else is happening:
- The day before the mayoral election, Erick Salgado, Mayor Eric Adams' assistant commissioner of immigrant affairs, posted a meme of the Twin Towers exploding next to the words “We forgot” superimposed over Zohran Mamdani’s face.
- If you think the Grand Central passageway between the shuttle train and the 4, 5 and 6 lines smells distinctly like a Bath & Body Works holiday scent, you have a good nose.
- An absolute unit of a great white shark was just clocked off the coast of New Jersey.
- The Unisphere at Flushing Meadows Corona Park could use a facelift.
- One time for the residential flushometer toilet.
- Happy 20th anniversary to Guitar Hero.
- Have we had enough with the condensed serif fonts?
- We've had enough with the penny.
- And finally, posh pup:
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