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Early Addition: The Financial District is now the Stroller District
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James Ramsay
Published Oct 23, 2023
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where these Upper East Side walkup tenants are facing a classic dilemma: Is it worth living in a construction zone if the rent is decent?
Here's what else is happening:
- Since the pandemic, office buildings in the Financial District have been converted into residential towers, and now the neighborhood is a family zone.
- "I came to know his sense of humor and his penchant for working on the weekends, his positivity and charm. And the more we spoke, I came to know something else as well: the peculiar experience of being confided in and lied to at the same time." A New York Times reporter has been on the horn with George Santos.
- Lorde rides the subway.
- Some of the biggest pumpkins in the world are coming to the New York Botanical Garden.
- You can still get a beer and a shot for five bucks in this city.
- More than 1,000 utility workers, AKA "electric cowboys," have been racing up wooden poles at the 39th Annual International Lineman’s Rodeo in Kansas.
- Marathon season is nearly over, which means it's almost time for runners to pay attention to their families again.
- ¡Sábado Gigante!
- And finally, it's bad luck to put your back feet down:
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