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Early Addition: Scam texts are telling New Yorkers they owe unpaid parking fines
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Published Mar 3, 2025
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where the Democrats who told Andrew Cuomo to resign four years ago are kind of quiet now.
Here's what else is happening:
- Congrats to Oscar winners Mikey Madison (best actress, "Anora"), Adrien Brody (best actor, "The Brutalist"), Daniel Blumberg (best original score, "The Brutalist") and Paul Tazewell (best costume design, "Wicked").
- Mayor Eric Adams marched with the Pride Center of Staten Island at the borough's 61st annual St. Patrick's Day Parade yesterday.
- The New York Times has a detailed analysis of a 2024 subway fare evasion enforcement incident that led to police shooting multiple bystanders.
- New Yorkers over the weekend started getting scam texts telling them they owed unpaid parking fines.
- The St. John's men's basketball team is roaring into March.
- David Johansen, the lead singer of the punk band New York Dolls, has died at the age of 75.
- Hockey players have big butts.
- Australia has massive worms.
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