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Early Addition: More trees are getting pruned

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Published Sep 17, 2024

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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where police have had a hard time with their Tasers.

Here's what else is happening:

• Give Mayor Eric Adams credit: More trees are getting pruned.
• Raul Pintos, a high-ranking NYPD officer who served as chief of staff to now-former Commissioner Edward Caban — and whose phone was confiscated by the FBI — has filed for retirement.
• American Transit Insurance Company, which provides insurance for about 60% of the for-hire vehicles on city streets, is on the verge of collapse.
• Here's what the World Trade Center's two new towers will look like.
• Happy 10th anniversary to Brooklyn's Sade Night dance party.
• The feds arrested Sean "Diddy" Combs in Manhattan last night.
• The Lower East Side's Una Pizza Napoletana remains the best pizzeria in the world, according to the Italian website 50toppizza.it.
• M&J Trimming, Sarah Jessica Parker's favorite Manhattan ribbon store, is at the end of its rope.
• Why can't moms be pageant queens?
• And finally, punching down:

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