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Early Addition: The time Hart Island hosted a sober music fest with the Velvet Underground
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Published Dec 5, 2023
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where voters need to get ready for life after George Santos.
Here's what else is happening:
- The MTA is testing out harder-to-jump-over fare gates at the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue subway station in Queens.
- PATH stations at 33rd Street in Manhattan and Journal Square in Jersey City are piloting an OMNY-like tap payment system called ... TAPP.
- Will New York City voters blame the expensive migrant crisis for Mayor Adams' proposed cuts to police and library budgets — or just blame the mayor?
- At least four of the gold bars the FBI retrieved from New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's house as part of a federal corruption investigation have been traced back to a 2013 armed robbery.
- "Hell's Kitchen," the Alicia Keys musical currently running at the Public Theater, is moving to Broadway in the spring.
- In addition to serving as a mass burial site for nearly one million New Yorkers, Hart Island was also home to a rehab facility in the 1970s that once hosted a sober music festival featuring the Velvet Underground.
- The U.S.A. got a cool logo for its 250th birthday.
- Nicolas Cage said he's done making movies. (He's pivoting to television/retirement.)
- It's high tourist season in Pinecraft, Florida, AKA "The Amish Las Vegas."
- And finally, 10/10:
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