Early Addition: The other Mangione

James Ramsay

Published Dec 11, 2024

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Chuck Mangione playing the flugelhorn

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James Ramsay

Published Dec 11, 2024

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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where the cops plan to crack down on drunk Santas at Penn Station.

Here's what else is happening:

An NYPD sergeant who allegedly shoplifted from a Long Island Target by not scanning all her merchandise at the self-checkout machine has been charged with two counts of petty larceny.
Metrograph, the Lower East Side indie film theater, launched a print magazine.
The Melrose branch of the New York Public Library in the South Bronx has reopened after a three-year renovation.
Mets star Francisco Lindor just bought this $20 million penthouse on the Upper East Side.
The rebels who took control of Bashar al-Assad’s palace in Damascus discovered, among other things, the escaped dictator's collection of sports cars and benzodiazepine antianxiety pills.
Today in the Luigi Mangione case: Is he related to 1970s smooth jazz flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione?
Endangered monarch butterflies are getting federal protections.
Tweed for all.
And finally, earning those seeds: