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Early Addition: The time RFK Jr. allegedly cut off a beached whale's head with a chainsaw
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Published Aug 28, 2024
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where the Central Park coyote is no longer single.
Here's what else is happening:
- An 18-year-old Long Island man who was arrested for walking through a residential Long Island neighborhood while allegedly carrying a knife and wearing a ski mask has become the first person charged under a new Nassau County mask ban.
- Mayor Adams said yesterday that he's not ready to implement a ban on cell phones in city schools because he first needs to get parents on board.
- The mayor also said yesterday he's offering $1,000 of his own money to catch the wrong-way driver who hit and killed a groom on the Henry Hudson Parkway the night before his wedding and then fled the scene on foot.
- Dozens of people were evacuated off a ferry headed from Wall Street to Jersey City yesterday after a fire broke out on board.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might have broken a federal conservation law years ago when, according to his daughter, he cut off the head of a beached whale with a chainsaw and transported it from Cape Cod to New York on the roof of the family car.
- Good to see Michael Cyril Creighton, long a budding That Guy, get a recurring role on "Only Murders in the Building."
- They're turning part of Park Avenue into a park.
- They're turning the Flatiron Building into luxury condos.
- Doing it over the phone is a great way to avoid STIs.
- And finally, it's lit:
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