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Early Addition: Long Island beachgoers can resume swimming after rainstorm caused bacteria spike
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Published May 29, 2024
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where these sailors are racing to France.
Here's what else is happening:
- Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday that the city's Department of Investigation is "looking into" THE CITY's report that Winnie Greco, a senior mayoral aide, and Jordan Coleman, the mayor's son, both stayed in a Queens hotel — on the city's dime — while it was being used as a migrant shelter.
- After some unruly and allegedly violent behavior on the Jersey Shore last weekend, Cape May County is warning teenagers not to return the boardwalk if they plan on causing any trouble this summer.
- After all that rain on Memorial Day, health officials on Long Island warned beachgoers to avoid swimming until 8 a.m. on Wednesday because of unsafe bacteria levels in the water.
- Lawyers for Rudy Giuliani's creditors want a bankruptcy trustee to take over the former NYC mayor's finances in part to keep him from selling coffee beans through an LLC and then using that business as an ATM.
- An update on the superfan of the 1982 mystery book "The Secret: A Treasure Hunt" who believed the author buried some treasure on Staten Island: He dug and dug and didn't find any treasure.
- "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz was denied parole for the 12th time last week.
- In response to South Korean activists who sent balloons carrying anti-regime leaflets and USB drives with K-Pop music into North Korea, Kim Jong Un attached garbage and possible excrement to 300 balloons and sent them back across the border.
- Some adults just want to be picked up and carried.
- And finally, it happens:
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