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Early Addition: The Roosevelt Island tram swings sometimes
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Published Nov 9, 2023
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where the mayor has lawyered up.
Here's what else is happening:
- Being on the Roosevelt Island tram when it starts swinging doesn't sound like fun.
- Federal prosecutors have charged 10 alleged members of the Gambino crime family with extortion, witness retaliation and other crimes related to their attempt to control disposal and demolition businesses in New York.
- How Mayor Adams starts his day: "I cannot tell you how much I start the day with telling my team, 'We gotta follow the law. Gotta follow the law.' Almost to the point that I'm annoying."
- Comptroller Brad Lander says the city isn't fairly distributing homeless shelters, waste transfer sites and parks across different neighborhoods.
- The manhunt is still on for a New Jersey National Guard veteran who's accused of pepper-spraying law enforcement at the Capitol riot.
- Sally Jessy Raphael is selling her 43-room Tudor mansion in Dutchess County that may or may not come with an oil painting of the talk show host.
- The actors' strike is over.
- Australian surfer Laura Enever has set a new record for riding the biggest wave ever paddled into (as opposed to being towed in by a jet ski) by a woman.
- And finally, the rizz ain't working:
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