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Early Addition: Happiness costs $145K in NYC
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Published Sep 8, 2023
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Happy Friday morning in New York City. Don’t be mean to Central Park maintenance workers.
Cleaning the park’s Sheep Meadow is a tough job, not just because it’s a massive open space, but also because park goers often get fussy when they’re told it’s time to go, as two Central Park Conservancy workers explain in this video.
Here’s what else is going on:
- There will almost certainly be a lot of mess to clean up in Central Park this weekend after the fashion show with the most attendees ever wraps up.
- Money actually does buy happiness in New York City, $145,028 to be exact, according to a new study, which also found Santa Barbara, California to be the most expensive place to be happy.
- Luckily French fries also bring happiness, and they’re pretty cheap. Here are the best in the city, according to the New York Times.
- The mother of a man who allegedly died after a Peloton bike fell on him and sliced open his artery, filed a lawsuit against the exercise equipment company.
- A Rolling Stone report accuses Jimmy Fallon of fostering a toxic workplace for staff of The Tonight Show. Hours after it was published, Fallon called employees to a Zoom meeting to apologize for his behavior.
- Rescue efforts are underway for a New Jersey researcher who became trapped 3,000 feet below the entrance of a Turkish cave after becoming ill.
- More people are traveling by air these days, which means there are more gross incidents happening on airplanes.
- And finally, bears always remind us that they do what they want:
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