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Early Addition: Magnet fishers pulled a safe with $100K out of a Corona Park lake
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James Ramsay
Published Jun 4, 2024
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where the mayor is pledging to build more public bathrooms.
Here's what else is happening:
- Democrat Mondaire Jones, a former Westchester congressman who's trying to win back a seat, has endorsed George Latimer, the Democratic primary opponent of his onetime ally, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, arguing that Bowman's criticism of Israel has created “pain and anxiety” for Jewish New Yorkers.
- Here are some shiny new renderings of what a shiny new Port Authority Bus Terminal might look like.
- Red Hook residents want a direct bus line to Manhattan.
- At last month's city surplus auction, nobody bought the decommissioned Staten Island Ferry boat that was involved in a deadly crash in 2003. (The starting bid is now being knocked down to $100,000.)
- ... maybe the local couple who were magnet fishing in Corona Park last Friday and dredged up a safe with an estimated $100,000 in it could buy the boat.
- Rapper Brother Marquis of the group 2 Live Crew has died at the age of 58.
- Zoomers are thriving in Lithuania.
- J. Lo: What happened?
- And finally, welcome bears:
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