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Early Addition: Throwing eggs, spiking coffee with Viagra, sticking a guy with a needle and other alleged misdeeds of the North Bergen police chief
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Published Mar 27, 2025
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where someone who works on Wall Street should buy you a drink.
Here's what else is happening:
- "Every 7 minutes on average, a traffic crash causing death, injury or significant property damage happens on Long Island": Newsday has a big feature on the island's extremely dangerous drivers.
- A New York City law requires the mayor to spend 50% of the city's ad budget on things like public health announcements and school registration reminders in ethnic and community media outlets. Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly failed to hit that mark.
- The hot tub at Bathhouse, the vibey spa in Williamsburg, is giving people urinary-tract infections, according to some Redditors.
- Several New Jersey cops preparing to sue North Bergen Police Chief Robert Farley are accusing him of spiking coworkers’ coffee with Viagra and Adderall, pooping on floors, sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis, sneaking hot peppers into officers' food, throwing eggs and other bad behaviors. (The town denies the allegations.)
- The head of a Bronx charter school network said they've instated all-day phone bans and it's going great.
- The F.I.T. textile lab looked into the difference between Levi's from Levi's and Levi's from Amazon.
- Boogie!
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