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Early Addition: The challenge of street vending while shy
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Published Oct 7, 2024
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where another top Adams aide has resigned (this time it's Phil Banks).
Here's what else is happening:
- City transportation officials said subway and bus ridership are up now that students have free OMNY cards.
- NPR has a good interview with an Ecuadorian migrant who made it to Queens last year only to face a new challenge: Being a street vendor while extremely shy.
- Is Hudson Square, the longtime home of the WNYC office, cool now?
- Behold the damage a raccoon infestation did to this Kensington townhouse.
- The Liberty will move on to the WNBA finals.
- Owning Florida real estate seems more and more like a bad idea.
- A bunch of famous East Village storefronts from the '90s have been resurrected for a movie shoot.
- "The party has evolved in a good way, we are not policing what people do in their bedrooms": Sources told Page Six that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sexting scandal won't hurt his changes at getting a cabinet position in a Trump administration.
- Forest Hills bar crawl!
- And finally, put this guy in an eating contest:
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