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Early Addition: The fastest way to get from Midtown to LaGuardia
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Published Dec 18, 2024
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where Subway is struggling but Popeye's is crushing it.
Here's what else is happening:
- A Bronx tax preparer known by clients as "The Magician" has pleaded guilty to shorting the I.R.S. out of about $145 million in what the U.S. Department of Justice said was one of the biggest tax fraud schemes it has ever encountered.
- Four Wall Street Journal reporters raced each other to LaGuardia to see which mode of commuting — e-bike, mass transit, taxi or Uber shuttle — was the fastest. Guess who won.
- 30 Rock and a bunch of other iconic New York establishments are getting rid of their neon signs.
- George Santos, who's scheduled to get his prison sentence in February, had a launch party for his new podcast this week.
- A Hudson Valley homeowner found a prehistoric mastodon jaw in their backyard.
- Aaron Rodgers did a lot of drugs.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1848 novella "White Nights" is big on TikTok.
- Rain pants!
- And finally, rude:
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