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Early Addition: Leaf-peepers and booze cruisers unite on the ferry to West Point football games
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James Ramsay
Published Nov 12, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. ET
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where we're monitoring the latest on a deadly building collapse in Flatbush.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Former New York Jets coach Rex Ryan has turned himself in after striking two pedestrians with his truck in a hit-and-run in Nashville last week.
- Glad someone dressed up like Abraham Lincoln to go see the Met Opera's "Lincoln at the Bardo."
- The veteran magazine writer whose work of "journalism" about young disco-loving Italian-Americans in Brooklyn, which inspired "Saturday Night Fever," made the story up.
- Foliage fans, Army veterans and guys who just want to get drunk on a boat are all loving the 52-mile ferry ride up the Hudson from the city to West Point football games.
- The short seller from upstate New York who called this Nvidia scandal should factor into the next season of "Industry."
- How did chickens — the animals famous for crossing roads — nonetheless become synonymous with cowardice?
- Happy 100th birthday to "Eloise" illustrator Hillary Knight.
And finally, also not cowardly:
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