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Early Addition: Mayor Adams' liaison to the Turkish community is now cooperating with the feds
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Published May 21, 2024
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where Memorial Day weekend traffic is going to suck.
Here's what else is happening:
- Rana Abbasova, a City Hall aide who served as Mayor Eric Adams' longtime liaison to the city's Turkish community, is now cooperating with the federal investigation into Adams' fundraising operation.
- The Long Island-based private security firm hired by CUNY to deal with campus protests described pro-Palestinian demonstrators as using "asymmetrical guerrilla warfare tactics" — and announced its CUNY contract on social media using "#StopTheSteal."
- It's finally happening: The police are shutting down and padlocking unlicensed weed shops.
- Former Miss New York Briana Siaca told the New York Post she was scammed out of $2,000 by several teens raising money for their "basketball team."
- A former NYU student told the New York Post about her struggles with a cheese addiction that was brought on by the stresses of leading a Zionist student group.
- Grid-connected charging docks for electric Citi Bikes are now up and running in Hell's Kitchen and Greenpoint.
- Rudy Giuliani lamented that the guy who recently served him his Arizona indictment didn't do it "stylishly," but rather walked into his birthday party in Florida and simply handed him "a folded-up, crumpling piece of paper."
- NPR wasn't a big fan of Ice Spice's debut as a "Saturday Night Live" musical guest.
- Climate change is turning the oceans green.
- And finally, breathe it in:
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