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Early Addition: NYC subway ridership hit post-pandemic record last week
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Published Sep 17, 2025
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where the Mamdani-Lander bromance appears to be fizzling.
Here's what else is happening:
- More than 4 million people rode the subway every weekday last week, marking a post-pandemic record for the MTA.
- In other transit news, famed dive bar Siberia has reopened inside the Columbus Circle subway station.
- Can Antonio Delgado defeat Kathy Hochul in a Democratic gubernatorial primary by being younger than her?
- Democratic City Council Member James Gennaro, who happens to be a personal friend of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has introduced a bill to ban fluoride from the city's tap water.
- New York City private school kids are posting clips of their daily lives on TikTok and fellow teens who don't live here are loving it.
- A decorated Suffolk County cop pleaded guilty this month to co-managing a Long Island brothel.
- Running a steep downhill marathon sounds hard.
- Go ahead, wear a little Disney stuffed animal on your shoulder.
- And finally, yikes:
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