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Early Addition: The cold truth about LinkNYC hotspots
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Emily Nadal
Published Aug 9, 2023
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Welcome to Wednesday in New York City where our 87-year-old noise queen is hard at work making the city a little less loud.
It’s hard to quiet down this noisy city, but Arline Bronzaft is the woman for the job. The Upper East Sider has made it her mission to get the city to quiet down everything from buses to ice cream trucks, and she even helps resolve messy noise-based disagreements (one of which involved a windmill).
Here’s what else is happening:
- It’s been a dangerous year so far for NYC cyclists with at least 20 people dying while on bikes, the deadliest first half of the year for cyclists in more than a decade.
- The city’s medical examiner is conducting an analysis of a foot that was found floating in Staten Island waters Sunday morning.
- A New Jersey woman who was injured last summer after she fell while intoxicated is now suing a Jersey Shore bar for serving her too much alcohol.
- While we’re on the topic of the Jersey Shore, one Jersey coastal community has become the epicenter of anti-wind energy projects in our region as opponents argue that offshore wind harms the environment more than it helps it.
- Jeopardy!’s solution to being short on content due to the TV writers’ strike is to recycle clues from its past 39 seasons.
- When the city converted old payphones to hi-tech LinkNYC kiosks with free wifi, it was supposed to be groundbreaking. But it turns out the machines are actually over-collecting data and being used to watch porn.
- Hornblower, the California-based company that operates NYC Ferry, was just granted a new contract from the city worth up to $405 million — more than twice the amount of revenue the city is expecting to receive from ferry fares.
- And finally, he didn't know any better!
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