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Early Addition: PopUp Bagels can't stop popping with nationwide expansion
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Published Jul 8, 2026
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where the structural emergency at the old Pfizer headquarters in Midtown remains an inconvenience for some locals.
Here's what else is happening:
- Some even deemed it a snafu.
- Several Manhattan lawmakers are urging the city and state to start reimbursing victims of food stamp theft.
- Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman released a new ad featuring an AI-generated Gov. Hochul saying things like, "We provided luxury accommodations for illegal migrants in beautiful hotels."
- Staten Island got a pair of public health "vending machines," which offer free socks, condoms, naloxone and fentanyl test strips.
- PopUp Bagels has franchise agreements to pop up at 300 more locations across the country.
- A Dolly Parton musical is coming to Broadway in December.
- Sacha Baron Cohen made another Ali G movie.
- The sea is therapy.
- Stoop is beach.
- And finally, ice cold:
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