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Early Addition: New Jersey did it. They made a one-pound mozzarella stick.
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Published Feb 29, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where Upper West Siders are experiencing a little parking panic.
Here's what else is happening:
- An appellate court judge yesterday denied Donald Trump's request to delay his $454 million penalty stemming from his civil fraud case.
- A plan backed by Tony Hawk's foundation to create one of the East Coast's largest skateparks at Mount Prospect Park is getting pushback from locals who don't want to see the green space replaced with poured concrete.
- Several immigrant women who say they've been working 13-hour days for about $8 an hour in a Brooklyn sweatshop processing tobacco that goes into spliffs have filed complaints with state labor authorities.
- The Pride March has announced its 2024 theme: "Reflect. Empower. Unite."
- Happy birthday to these Brooklyn siblings who were both born on Leap Day, four years apart.
- Stand-up comedian and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Richard Lewis has died at the age of 76.
- Colombo crime family captain Vincent "Vinny Unions" Ricciardo has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for extorting — you guessed it — a union.
- Are you Jersey enough to eat a 1-pound mozzarella stick — and then chase it with a few scoops of Taylor ham ice cream?
- Humpbacks gonna hump.
- And finally, cat didn't want that smoke:
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