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Early Addition: It basically hasn't rained in NYC for a month
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Published Sep 24, 2024
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where a lot of dogs and cats are in need of foster homes.
Here's what else is happening:
- Dr. Jay Varma, the city's former COVID czar who recently admitted to hosting sex parties in 2020, was fired yesterday from his job at a pharmaceutical company.
- Nassau County Republican Rep. Anthony D'Esposito may have violated House ethics rules by giving jobs to both his fiancée’s daughter and a woman he was having an affair with.
- The Civilian Complaint Review Board, the NYPD's independent watchdog, is barely able to function while five of its 15 seats remain unfilled.
- Williamsburg's Domino Square Public Plaza, a little egg-shaped plot that'll host an ice skating rink in the winter, has opened to the public.
- Rockefeller Center has a Jimmy Fallon-branded haunted house.
- The South Korean Olympic pistol shooter who went viral for her cool eyewear and overall aura has been cast as an assassin in a Korean movie.
- Jacob Elordi, the only actor left, has been cast as Heathcliff in a new "Wuthering Heights" adaptation.
- Boy, it's been a dry September.
- And finally, foster a dog:
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