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Early Addition: Put the 'Saturday Night Fever' dance floor in your living room
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Published May 22, 2024
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where Fleet Week is underway.
Here's what else is happening:
- That $1,100-a-month two-bedroom on Craigslist is probably a scam.
- National Grid wants to begin using biogas generated from human and food waste — and to hike customers' rates for it.
- "For decades, under the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations, City Hall tended to mischaracterize the issue as a scarcity problem, as if segregation were a natural outcome because high-performing schools are like a popular restaurant or hot dance club": Errol Louis takes aim this week at New York City's perpetually segregated schools.
- The Whitney Museum posted a cool project online showing paintings of New York City streetscapes side-by-side with photographs of the same locations today.
- Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers explained that he faced two options: "Retire and be [RFK Jr.'s] VP or keep playing. I wanted to keep playing."
- I wonder if Rodgers believes Avril Lavigne is actually back?
- The light-up dance floor from "Saturday Night Fever" is being auctioned off, and is expected to fetch about $300,000.
- For a comparative bargain at $28,417, you could've bought the world's most expensive feather.
- And finally, you're in the way man:
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