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Early Addition: The dream of winning a U.S. curling championship is alive at the American Dream Mall
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Published Jan 30, 2024
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where the MTA really wants you to exit subway stations through the turnstile.
Here's what else is happening:
- Under a new Biden administration program, immigrants with expired legal status who've been in New York for years are getting work permits in exchange for reporting to the feds about exploitative employers.
- Is the planned multimillion-dollar Chinatown arch in Manhattan a wasteful piece of "chinoiserie Orientalism," or a marker that "celebrates that [Chinese Americans] are here, and we'll be here forever?" The neighborhood is a bit divided.
- The Curling National Championships are currently going down at the American Dream Mall in New Jersey.
- Williamsburg: You changed. (Blame the Australians.)
- A Pog, a slammer, an Oscar Meyer Little Smokies wrapper and some “Lion King” merch were among the contents of a time capsule from 1994 that someone found in the crawl space of a Missouri house.
- Scotland is ramping up effort to find a monkey that escaped from a wildlife park in the Highlands.
- The latest TikTok trend: People lighting cakes on fire.
- And finally, is this lizard wearing mascara?:
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