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Early Addition: Is Happy, the Bronx Zoo elephant, happy?
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Published Aug 1, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where Electric Zoo vendors and employees said they got stiffed out of $1 million in wages and invoices.
Here's what else is happening:
- Former President Donald Trump said yesterday at the National Association of Black Journalists convention that he was the best president for Black Americans since Abraham Lincoln and falsely claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris "happened to turn Black" after years of "only promoting Indian heritage."
- Emergency management officials told some Upper East Side residents to stay inside and close their windows last night after a steam main leak sent asbestos into the air.
- A 28-year-old Astoria woman has been arrested and charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime for her alleged role in the vandalism at Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak's apartment building back in June.
- After an animal rights group expressed concern that Happy the elephant hasn't been seen in her Bronx Zoo exhibit area for two weeks, the zoo said "nothing is wrong with Happy," and she's simply choosing to hang out behind the scenes.
- A 2.2. magnitude earthquake hit New Jersey yesterday, marking the 201st earthquake in the Garden State since that big one back on April 5.
- Now, 20 years after shuttering, the Upper West Side's historic Metro Theater could be reopened by a film nonprofit.
- Long Island legend Michelina Lombardi of the Mamma Lombardi's restaurant and catering empire has died at the age of 92.
- Vacationing by train is hot right now.
- And finally, elite:
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