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Early Addition: Jersey City is planning to make a bunch of quick street safety upgrades
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Published Jun 9, 2026
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where the Knicks lost and the president got booed.
Here's what else is happening:
- Billie Tisch, the philanthropist, chair of the WNYC Foundation and grandmother of the current NYPD commissioner, has died at the age of 98.
- Phase one of the project to fortify the Battery against sea level rise has been completed.
- Not a single person filed to run for mayor in the affluent Long Island village of Bayville, so when voters go to the polls on June 16, whoever gets the most write-ins will presumably get the $5,000-a-year job.
- Jersey City and Hoboken are announcing a slate of "quick-build" street safety upgrades that'll be added to intersections over the coming months.
- Variety says "Jean-Michel," a new Basquiat documentary that just premiered at the Tribeca Festival, is extremely good and well-rounded for a project that had the late artist's family's cooperation.
- After all this, the U.S. men's soccer team's first game of the World Cup still isn't sold out.
- ...maybe they should go back to the $25 ticket model.
- And finally, ready:
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