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Early Addition: NYC looks to ease double-parking logjams with 500 new dedicated loading zones
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James Ramsay
Published Nov 25, 2024
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where the NYC Ferry is succeeding, sort of.
Here's what else is happening:
- After Florida voters shot down a ballot measure that would've ended the state's near-total abortion ban, New York abortion providers are expecting to see even more patients coming north.
- The city's transportation department said it used resident feedback about streets plagued by double parking to install 500 dedicated loading zones for delivery trucks.
- Time will tell if this veteran Chinatown vendor's vote for Trump will change the spending habits of tourists, but his traditional palm leaf animal sculptures look very cool.
- New York's legal recreational weed sales are about to hit the $1 billion mark.
- The northern Italian city of Ravenna is opening a museum dedicated to the poet Lord Byron inside the palazzo where he had a passionate affair with a local aristocrat's wife.
- "Gladiator II" is not historically accurate.
- These Advent calendars are not authentic to the vision for Advent laid out at the Council of Tours of 567, but the Bluey one is cute.
- Beetlejuice bedroom!
- And finally, get outta there:
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