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Early Addition: The unsanctioned wee-hours bike ride on the NYC marathon route is now extremely unsanctioned
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Published Oct 17, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where you can now get coffee in a pouch that looks like a colostomy bag.
Here's what else is happening:
- Mayor Adams' legal defense fund, which he's ostensibly using to pay his high-priced lawyers, is currently $43,000 in the red.
- "Sources close to the case" told the New York Post that Adams is betting on Trump winning the presidential election and installing a new attorney general who'll get the charges dropped.
- A former FBI agent from Queens Village has been charged with allegedly stockpiling loads of ghost guns and ammunition.
- New York Road Runners said it's blocking cyclists from trying to ride the car-free New York City marathon route in the wee hours before the race after a cyclist allegedly hit a pedestrian during last year's unsanctioned joyride.
- The new music site Hearing Things says these are the 100 songs that define our decade so far.
- Sydney Sweeney got swole.
- Snackin' in the car rules.
- Goalies scorin' goals also rules.
- Kids singin' Bjork: beautiful or spooky?
- And finally, spa day:
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