Early Addition: That's not Luigi

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James Ramsay

Published Jan 27, 2025

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Good Monday morning in New York City, where the mayor isn't feeling his best.

Here's what else is happening:

A Manhattan startup that enlisted lobbying services from Mayor Adams' former chief of staff, Frank Carone, appears to have bypassed a competitive bidding process on its way towards getting a lucrative contract to install electric vehicle charging poles around the city.
Queens music venues Juan Bar and Trans Pecos have both canceled upcoming shows for bands with alleged neo-Nazi connections.
The owner of Aqua Blu Kitchen & Cocktails, a popular Toms River restaurant, is apologizing after facing a ton of backlash for offering a "Proud Boys Burger" that consisted of "white American cheese, onion ring layers of truth, resilience pickles, freedom fries, cancel culture coleslaw, and liberty sauce."
Here's how graffiti artists have been tagging the tops of skyscrapers in the Financial District.
Hope the governor at least had fun at the Bills bar last night.
Trump is once again waging war on brutalist architecture.
"Dave Franco Knows Who He Looks Like." (The answer is not, as I suspected, his brother.)
2340, dude!
And finally, stuck in the house:

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