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Early Addition: How fast could you eat an entire rotisserie chicken?
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Published Jul 21, 2025
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where Battery Park is getting a bathroom upgrade.
Here's what else is happening:
- Congrats to 35-year-old Far Rockaway resident Robert McGee on winning yesterday's rotisserie chicken-eating contest in Park Slope. (In that heat!)
- Staten Island leads the five boroughs with the most known cases of mosquitos carrying West Nile virus.
- 2025 has been a big year for Mayor Eric Adams going on Fox News.
- Greenpoint's Jubilee grocery store said it's slashing its "s**tty high prices" after customers complained.
- Aaron Judge has tied Alex Rodriguez on the Yankees' all-time home run list.
- Charli XCX got married.
- Third place is still good.
- When the subway inexplicably stalls, I think it'd be helpful if the conductor came on the intercom and narrated what was going on the same way this Delta pilot gave a long-winded explanation of why he made a wild sudden maneuver in order to avoid a mid-air collision with an Air Force bomber.
- And finally, refreshing:
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