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Early Addition: Should New York City embrace the flip-flop?
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Published Aug 27, 2024
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where the plan to add more legal basement apartments got nudged forward.
Here's what else is happening:
- U.S. Open attendees, be advised: it's hot out there.
- Average hourly wages, when adjusted for inflation, dropped in New York City between 2021 and the start of this year. Credit card debt has in turn spiked.
- NYPD radio chatter in six precincts in the Bronx is now being encrypted, blocking reporters and the public from following officers' communications.
- A Staten Island man whose Lamborghini earned him an automated noise violation ticket is suing the city, arguing that his extremely loud car wasn't deliberately modified to sound that way.
- A New Jersey woman was charged with trespassing after allegedly jumping into the tiger's enclosure at the Cohanzick Zoo.
- The Oasis reunion is indeed happening.
- "Perhaps if everyone in the city was forced to wear flip-flops, there would be greater delicacy, calm and consideration." Maybe!
- I'd also look this happy if someone brought me a bag of Jack In the Box.
- And finally, careful jumping into the tiger enclosure:
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