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Early Addition: There's finally stuff inside the Times Square tower where the ball drops
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James Ramsay
Published Oct 2, 2026
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where the designation of "real New Yorker" can be earned but also revoked.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Don't worry, it'll be more fall-like next week.
- The skinny tower at One Times Square that hosts the ball drop on New Year's Eve but otherwise sat vacant for most of the year now has tourist attractions inside.
- Two City Council members yesterday paid an unauthorized visit to inspect a Queens homeless veterans shelter after the Mamdani administration turned down federal funding for the facility over concerns that the city would be required to discriminate against transgender vets.
- Andrew Rannells will star in a kind of stage adaptation of "It's a Wonderful Life" on Broadway this holiday season.
- New York Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin launched a puck all the way down the ice and into an empty net last night, becoming the first goalie in Rangers history to score.
- We complain about it, but there's also dignity in scaffolding.
And finally, she said what she said:
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