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Early Addition: Remembering the Guardian Angels' colorful history
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Published Oct 21, 2025
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where Zohran Mamdani just turned 34.
Here's what else is happening:
- Former independent mayoral candidate Jim Walden is trying to remind people that Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels used to fake crimes for publicity.
- Here's a detailed account of what it was like on board the 4 train that split in half over the weekend.
- A new Bushwick pizzeria is making pies in a 135-year-old coal oven that had been boarded up behind drywall in the restaurant's basement.
- An Amazon Web Services outage caused much of the internet to fritz yesterday.
- To make things worse, the Amazon Prime Video India account on X negged a woman for her petite engagement ring.
- Go Blue Jays.
- City of sophisticated pastries.
- The abandoned Bristol Zoo gorillas aren't sad.
- And finally, snug:
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