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Early Addition: Hearing embarrassing videos off someone's phone speaker is kind of fun
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Published Jun 14, 2024
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where the "heat dome" is coming.
Here's what else is happening:
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The Lewis Latimer Museum in Flushing, which honors the Black inventor who was involved in the creation of the lightbulb, the telephone and the air-conditioner, is reopening in time for Juneteenth.
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An extremely rare beaked whale carcass washed up on the beach at Spring Lake on the Jersey Shore this week.
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The Queens district attorney's office and the NYPD this week seized nearly 100 unlicensed mopeds that were parked illegally across the borough.
- This comes as Jackson Heights residents complain of moped and e-bike riders speeding through their 26-block open street.
- The proliferation of gas-powered mopeds has been driven, in part, by politicians' failure to provide delivery workers with safer e-bike batteries as promised.
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A new documentary called "Emergent City," which premiered at the Tribeca Festival, tells the story of Sunset Park residents and elected officials successfully blocking Industry City's developers from turning the waterfront into a hotel-and-"innovation economy" hub.
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"Well it was brief, he spoke in Italian, so I'm not quite sure what was said ... I had a wonderful time": Conan O'Brien on meeting the Pope.
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It's a city, people are going to play music and YouTube videos and TikToks on their phones with no headphones and the speaker turned up and there's nothing you can do about it.
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If you read the manual first, good for you.
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And finally, all in the hips:
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