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Early Addition: People are lining up in the West Village to have a guy repair their shoes out of his car

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Published Jul 22, 2025

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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where city-backed grocery stores already exist.

Here's what else is happening:

• Starting today, PATH riders who commute through Hoboken Terminal are being offered free or discounted rides on NJ Transit and NY Waterway ferries because of ongoing switch problems at the station.
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yesterday pledged to flood New York City with more ICE agents after last weekend's shooting of an off-duty Border Patrol agent.
• Videos obtained by The City reveal the conditions inside packed detention rooms at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, where ICE detainees are being held for days at a time.
• Police said a 1-year-old Staten Island girl who was dropped down a third-floor garbage chute by her uncle yesterday miraculously survived unscathed.
• Thanks to some viral Instagram posts, business is currently booming for a veteran West Village shoe-and-watch repair man who lost his shop and now works out of the trunk of his car.
• Italian Americans for and against Zohran Mamdani met up to argue outside his Queens office yesterday.
• Nassau County officials are warning pet owners that rabies is now an "imminent public health threat" in the area.
• The FBI said thousands of North Koreans have fraudulently secured American remote jobs — but officials think they're easy to root out because they have an affinity for using Minion iconography in their email addresses and social media profiles.
• And finally, they seem friendly:

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