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Early Addition: The case of the Bronx beer bandits
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James Ramsay
Published Apr 4, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where the opponents of Tony Hawk's Brooklyn skatepark have written a protest song.
Here's what else is happening:
- Federal prosecutors have charged eight Bronx men with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of beer — mostly Modelo and Corona — by robbing train yards and warehouses.
- A pretty nice-looking apartment tower exclusively for households making between $38,130 and $139,810 a year has opened on the Greenpoint waterfront.
- Elsewhere in Greenpoint, National Grid's Newtown Creek wastewaster treatment plant is still burning off excess methane, even though its system for purifying methane — which was supposed to "virtually eliminate" the need for flaring — is now up and running.
- Here are some cool old photos of the subway system being built.
- Last night's game between the Rangers and the Devils began with a massive brawl that got eight players immediately ejected. (Blueshirts won 4-3.)
- Deli owners said, despite the current Powerball prize being over $1 billion, they're selling about half the amount of tickets they did a few years ago because customers are feeling "jackpot fatigue."
- J. Lo said her go-to bodega order as a kid in the Bronx included "an orange drink." It's unclear what she's talking about.
- "Cracks are back."
- Instant coffee is potable.
- And finally, wrong kinda mouse:
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