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Early Addition: It's been said by Eric Adams that NYC is the Port-Au-Prince of America
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Published Mar 14, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where tweens have helped turn "Six" into a Broadway juggernaut.
Here's what else is happening:
- New census estimates say New York City’s population declined by roughly 78,000 people last year, dropping the city's overall headcount to 8.26 million.
- Mayor Eric Adams is writing another book.
- To express solidarity with Haitians facing violence, the mayor yesterday tweeted, "We call New York City the Port-Au-Prince of America" ... which was flagged on X with the caption, "Not one person has ever said this before Eric Adams."
- A restored British Airways Concorde jet is floating down the Hudson River this morning on its way back to the Intrepid Museum.
- Former NY1 weatherman Erick Adame, who was fired in 2022 over nude videos of himself surfacing on an adult website, is now broadcasting weather reports on his own app.
- The scaffolding has mostly been removed from the exterior of hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen's 30,000-square-foot West Village townhouse. A neighbor said it looks kind of like a federal office building.
- "I feel like I look healthier": Skin cancer be damned, Zoomers are tanning.
- Ye, né Kanye West, has found an audience for his new music: Tweens who are discovering him for the first time on TikTok.
- And finally, bro!:
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