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Early Addition: Top honor goes to the rookie Hamptons cop who pulled over Justin Timberlake for drunk driving
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James Ramsay
Published Mar 6, 2025
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where Andrew Cuomo apparently lives in a $8,242-a-month two-bedroom apartment on East 54th Street.
Here's what else is happening:
- "NYC’s Congestion Pricing Is Good for the US," writes Michael Bloomberg.
- City officials said rat sightings reported to 311 have dropped significantly since new trash containerization rules took effect last fall.
- The Sag Harbor Village Police Department has named 24-year-old Michael Arkinson — the rookie cop who pulled over Justin Timberlake for drunk driving — its Officer of the Year.
- New Jersey police have ticketed a truck driver who hit and seriously injured motorcyclist and famed cannabis activist Ed “NJ Weedman” Forchion last weekend.
- Alec and Hilaria Baldwin are hosting a grand reopening of Planet Hollywood on West 42nd Street.
- Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has been hired to "curate" a Super Bowl-style halftime show for the 2026 World Cup final, which will be held at MetLife Stadium.
- The guy who created the AI sizzle reel for "Trump Gaza" said it was intended as "satire about this megalomaniac idea about putting statues [in Gaza]."
- Generation Beta ... you can change your name when you're 18.
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