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Early Addition: Park Slope doesn't usually smell this bad
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Emily Nadal
Published Feb 23, 2024
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It's Friday afternoon in New York City where there's been another fatal shooting at a Bronx subway station.
Here's what else is happening:
- There are currently 150 red light cameras at intersections around the city, but Department of Transportation officials want to up that number to 1,325.
- Organizers of the Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade have long insisted that gay groups did not belong at the event, even as a ban on LGBTQ groups participating in the Manhattan parade was lifted a decade ago. This year, however, will be different.
- TikTok is driving the demand for Swedish candy in the U.S. way up.
- Bobi the dog was posthumously stripped of his “oldest dog ever” title following an investigation sparked by a December report in Wired.
- It’s the end of an era. Vice Media is essentially dead.
- Sometimes all you need is to share a free cup of tea with a guy in a Brooklyn park.
- “It smells like sewage – poop and pee mixed together,” one person said of a mysterious, foul smell radiating through Park Slope for months.
- And finally: no survival skills, all of the cuteness skills:
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