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Early Addition: The safer way to wash skyscraper windows
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James Ramsay
Published Jun 13, 2025
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where the water is unfortunately too filthy for swimming at the new beach in Chelsea.
Here's what else is happening:
- It seems like the safer move is to have robots wash skyscraper windows while a person on a laptop works the controls.
- Paul Marantz, the Michael Jordan of lighting design whose work includes the New York Public Library's Rose Main Reading Room, the 9/11 Memorial, the Times Square New Year's ball and Studio 54, has died at the age of 87.
- Cent'anni to Lorenzo the 110-year-old lobster, who's been mercifully released from the tank at a Long Island clam bar.
- Cent'anni to Chris Vaccaro, a Long Island man who's been named Italian American of the Year and is pushing for an Italian American Smithsonian.
- Here are some cool photos of skaters in New York City back in the '90s.
- There's now a bodega-themed sandwich shop in Williamsburg.
- ...the girls on the Sex and the City reboot should go there.
- And finally, shredding:
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