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Published Apr 11, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where officials are creating parcel lockers so your packages don't get stolen.
Here's what else is happening:
- A new bill in the City Council would require the health department to disperse rat birth control pellets in two neighborhoods as part of a pilot program.
- Multiple law enforcement agencies in New Jersey are investigating a break-in and vandalism at the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University that happened during Eid.
- Thirteen young Orthodox Jewish men on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges related to an illegal tunnel found at the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Crown Heights.
- The increase in people getting hit by subways since 2018 — which experts say has been driven by mental illness — is taking a toll on train operators.
- Hell Gate has a long profile of NY1 anchor Dean Meminger.
- Margot Robbie, who's already at work on a "Sims" movie, is also now producing a "Monopoly" movie.
- In other board game news, Mattel is making a "less competitive" version of Scrabble because Zoomers want a game that's more geared towards hangin' out and creating fun words.
- NPR reports that skinny jeans are out, but they may come back at some point?
- And finally, howling on cue:
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