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Early Addition: People really want to buy luxury apartments in Gowanus, toxic canal be damned
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Published Jun 28, 2024
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where libraries are getting Sunday hours restored.
Here's what else is happening:
- Only 24% of New York City voters think Mayor Eric Adams deserves a second term, according to a new Slingshot poll.
- This real estate agent and prospective Real Housewife definitely thinks the mayor deserves a second term.
- “I’m usually the one who brings it up, when people start talking about gardening — this is soil you can’t plant anything in if you want to eat it": Real estate brokers say their clients looking at luxury homes in Gowanus really don't care about the toxic stuff in and around the canal.
- Authorities are still searching for a Rikers Island detainee who was receiving medical care at Bellevue Hospital on Wednesday and managed to escape custody and flee on a city bus.
- Joseph Reznick, a 72-year-old retired deputy NYPD commissioner, told the New York Post he apprehended two teenagers at gunpoint after they jumped the fence into his backyard in Queens.
- Greenpointers who support removing vehicle lanes and adding protected bike lanes to the historically dangerous McGuinness Boulevard are celebrating the primary win of Democratic Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, who trounced her challenger who opposed the street changes.
- "BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical" is coming to Broadway.
- The Newark home of Uncle Junior from "The Sopranos" is up for sale for $579,000.
- And finally, right 'round:
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