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Published Dec 21, 2023
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where you're (still) not allowed to bring a diaper full of bullets on a plane.
Here's what else is happening:
- The NYPD said more than 230 cars have been towed for blocking bus lanes — and more than 4,511 tickets have been written — since the Bus Lane Enforcement Task Force launched on Dec. 4.
- A New York City jobs boom is not in the forecast for 2024.
- Eric Adams' son, Jordan Coleman, gave Hell Gate an update on his plans to become an international music star.
- Italian Americans are selling their Dyker Heights mansions, leading to a drop in the number of Christmas light displays.
- Several clowns are suing Long Island-based Clowns.com for back wages.
- A personal finance guru told The Brian Lehrer Show that if you can't afford to tip your building staff at the holidays, you shouldn't be living in that building.
- This year's Golden Globes goodie bag (for top-tier attendees) is worth $500,000. (It counts as taxable income.)
- 2023 was the year a Kansas newspaper opinion editor dared to ask, How come the Taliban and ISIS can have cool lil' Japanese pick-up trucks but the only thing you can buy in the USA is a big honkin' F-150?
- And finally, holed up:
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