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Early Addition: New Jersey Zoomers are addicted to 'baby Botox'
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Published Aug 19, 2026
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where you still have time to bid on this defunct MetroCard vending machine.
Here’s what else is happening:
- A North American river otter has been spotted in the Bronx River for the first time in a century, which conservationists say is a promising sign for the waterway's health.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani got a bike helmet.
- Putting artists up in pieds-à-terre so the owners could avoid the second-home tax was a joke. What if it's not?
- New Jersey Zoomers are trying to get ahead of ever developing wrinkles by spending hundreds of dollars a month on low-dose Botox injections.
- This week in happy endings: Chinatown bar Whiskey Tavern recovered its penis sculpture by tracking its AirTag all the way to Bushwick.
- The East Village is getting what appears to be an excellent and affordable Southern buffet. (I gotta take Joanna.)
- Columbia House, the mail order music club that still exists, said it's shutting down on September 15th.
- Freaky little plant.
And finally, Mlemsday lives:
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