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Early Addition: Some New Yorkers spent the snowy weekend smoking weed
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Published Jan 26, 2026
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where you should really stay off the roads and sidewalks if you can.
Here's what else is happening:
- Frank Carone, Mayor Eric Adams' former chief of staff and a longtime Brooklyn Democratic power broker, is under federal investigation ... for something.
- Kaz Daughtry, the former deputy mayor for public safety under Mayor Adams, has a new job at the Department of Homeland Security.
- The MTA is using some cool vintage trains to de-ice the rails.
- Sales were up at weed dispensaries ahead of the storm.
- We love a New York City backyard ice skating rink.
- New York City nightlife impresario Richie Akiva has been arrested for allegedly breaking into a man's house in Soho and hitting the victim in the head with a metal pipe while he was in bed.
- Happy 30th birthday to "Infinite Jest."
- And finally, snow in Cincy:
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