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Early Addition: The new TikTok trend is discovering you're overpaying for a rent-regulated NYC apartment
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James Ramsay
Published Mar 1, 2024
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where neighbors tend to mind their own business, for better or worse.
Here's what else is happening:
- A 29-year-old Schenectady man who smoked a joint in a Democratic senator's office during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
- Brooklyn’s first legal weed dispensary owned by a Black woman opened in Park Slope yesterday.
- New Yorkers who've dug up their apartment's tenant records and discovered that they're overpaying for regulated units are sharing their stories on TikTok, inspiring other tenants to do the same and hopefully get back some of their money.
- Mayor Eric Adams' decision to take his early paychecks in cryptocurrencies has finally landed him in the black.
- In other financial news, room service at The Carlyle sure is expensive.
- Holsten's diner in New Jersey, where "The Sopranos" filmed its final scene, is undergoing a renovation — and auctioning off that booth on eBay.
- The Gottscheer Hall honky-tonk sounds like the hottest scene in town.
- Consider the farmer.
- And finally, yikes:
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