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Early Addition: The summer of riding around on weird toys
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Published Jun 24, 2024
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where teens with pre-paid MetroCards are, for some reason, not swiping.
Here's what else is happening:
- The MTA on Wednesday will hold its first board meeting since Gov. Kathy Hochul put congestion pricing on ice and ruined the tour.
- If someone with a microphone approaches you in Washington Square Park and asks you to describe your "dream apartment," it may be part of Zoomer TikTok mogul Davis Burleson's partnership with Zillow.
- It's the summer of odd electric scooters, unicycles and skateboards.
- The 86-year-old pedestrian who was fatally hit by a city truck driver in Bay Ridge earlier this month has been identified as former Genovese family mobster Anthony "Tony Cakes" Conigliaro.
- Michael Bloomberg: City schools should ban phones.
- People in South Africa are working 12-hour shifts for $4 a day to mine "healing" crystals for wellness enthusiasts.
- It's the 25th anniversary of Tony Hawk's 900. (And just more than a week after a 9-year-old did three of them in a row.)
- We talked about the best sandwiches in New York City.
- Rising and grinding is out, mornings are for shedding now.
- And finally, feel the rhythm:
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