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Early Addition: Some people just love to eat a little dirt
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James Ramsay
Published Dec 19, 2023
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where this former break dancer is trying to make it in the city's ballet scene.
Here's what else is happening:
- New York City's population shrank by 5% between 2020 and 2022 and now skews older and wealthier, according to a new report from Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
- An unlicensed weed shop in Bay Ridge that kept getting shut down and then reopening is the first of its kind to be permanently padlocked by state authorities.
- One-off tax breaks for offices and luxury buildings in Times Square and Hudson Yards, along with NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters and Bank of America's tower, have cost the city $1.5 billion in missed property taxes since 2014.
- Book fans held a candlelight vigil outside the Greenpoint branch of the Brooklyn Public Library to mourn the end of Sunday service under the mayor's proposed budget cuts.
- There's a tree covered with pet memorial ornaments hidden somewhere in Central Park.
- Alec Baldwin told a pro-Palestinian protester to "shut the f**k up" during a fiery exchange in Chelsea last night.
- More and more kids these days are missing out on the cousins experience.
- More and more kids these days are also going to the hospital after (accidentally?) ingesting THC gummies.
- People with a condition called pica syndrome willingly ingest dirt, clay, pencil erasers and other inedible objects — and love it.
- And finally, window display:
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