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Early Addition: Should we turn empty offices into dorms for Zoomers?
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where Nick Offerman stopped by WNYC's "All Things Considered" last night for a live chat about the state of New York's entertainment industry.
Here's what else is happening:
- In a 2018 incident that went unpublicized at the time, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's now-wife, Nadine, hit and killed a man with her Mercedes and came away uncharged, according to Bogota Police Department records obtained by NorthJersey.com.
- One way to boost New York City's housing supply: Turn empty offices into "flexible co-living" spaces (dorms) for Zoomers.
- A 30-year-old New Jersey woman who was caught on camera drunkenly telling German tourists on an NJ Transit train to "get the f**k out of our country" has been fired by her employer, Capital Rx.
- Brooklyn Bridge Park is getting an ice skating rink.
- Several female professors at Vassar College are suing the school for "systematically" paying male teachers more than women.
- A woman is suing Walt Disney Parks and Resorts after allegedly getting such a bad wedgie on a Disney World water slide that she had to go to the hospital.
- Saturday Night Live returns on October 14, with Pete Davidson hosting and Ice Spice as the musical guest.
- If you wear high-performance stretchy clothes to the office, you will smell bad.
- And finally, cooler than being cold:
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