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Early Addition: The NYPD's protest response truck smashed a bus stop before parking at Hamilton Hall
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James Ramsay
Published May 2, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where a new "it" brand was born.
Here's what else is happening:
- A five-alarm fire broke out yesterday at a Bushwick grocery store and spread to neighboring apartments before 250 firefighters put it out.
- Curbed has a detailed account of the MRAP truck, or mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, the NYPD used to knock over a bus stop shelter before sending cops into the second story window of the campus building being occupied by Columbia students.
- Rudy Giuliani, who owes his creditors $153 million, told a bankruptcy court he'd limit himself to a $43,000-a-month budget. He didn't.
- There's now a 65-foot-long hot dog sculpture in Times Square.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign pays well.
- Happy 50th birthday to Tyra Banks.
- Hotel slippers are canceled.
- And finally, got him:
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