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Early Addition: The Coney Island boardwalk doesn't fix itself
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Published May 23, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where sharks probably won't bite you.
Here's what else is happening:
- Thanks in part to a large donation from the head of a private equity firm, all New York City 8th graders at public and charter schools will soon take field trips to the Museum of Jewish Heritage to learn about antisemitism.
- THE CITY, The Guardian and Documented published a long investigation about a Queens hotel owner who raised a ton of money for Mayor Adams — and then secured millions of dollars in contracts with the city.
- Shout out to Donald Grupski and his guys for repairing the Coney Island-Brighton Beach boardwalk.
- The New York Young Republican Club has been hard at work soliciting bodega and grocery store shoppers to attend Donald Trump's rally in the South Bronx today.
- A New Jersey gym owner who faced 80 charges for opening his facilities during early COVID lockdowns in 2020 has now had all those charges cleared.
- State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said New York City's tourism tax revenue from 2023 surpassed pre-pandemic levels.
- Scientists have discovered that microplastics are making their way into human testicles.
- Feeling down? Dig a hole.
- The dogs at the Pet Gala got some fits off.
- And finally, birds on a hog:
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