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Early Addition: Meanwhile, Jimmy Carter is at home eating ice cream
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Published May 16, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where some NYU student protesters are being forced to write "reflection papers.”
Here's what else is happening:
- Nine members of a mutual aid group were arrested in Harlem last weekend for distributing hot meals without a permit.
- It's illegal to sell uncertified e-bike batteries in NYC, but Amazon, Target and some mom-and-pop bike stores are doing it anyway.
- It's illegal to bring non-service dogs into NYC restaurants, but some diners are doing it anyway.
- Lucy the Elephant, a 143-year-old elephant-shaped museum in the Jersey Shore town of Margate, was named America's best roadside attraction by USA Today.
- This is it: The MTA is releasing two more promotional MetroCards before the switch to OMNY is final.
- "If high inflation hurts just about everyone, why can’t we have no inflation?"
- Teaching a child how to spell and use punctuation is hard.
- Peloton is dying.
- Jimmy Carter is at home eating peanut butter ice cream.
- And finally, red card:
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