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Early Addition: Turns out 'Sal the Shoemaker' was doing more than making shoes
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Published Apr 18, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where ballerinas briefly took over the Plaza.
Here's what else is happening:
- Timothy Pearson, a former NYPD inspector and current aide to Mayor Adams, was sued yesterday for the second time this month — this time by a retired police sergeant who accused Pearson of retaliation and harassment.
- Several MTA bus drivers who couldn't do their normal duties while pregnant plan to sue the transit agency for not giving them alternate assignments, forcing them to burn through sick days and comp time.
- Salvatore Rubino, a.k.a. "Sal the Shoemaker," pleaded guilty this week to operating an illegal gambling parlor for the mafia out of his Sheepshead Bay shoe repair shop.
- City Hall's Digital Content & Communications department asked staffers across several agencies to write poems about their jobs for Poem in Your Pocket Day, which is today, April 18. The request was not well received.
- NPR business editor Uri Berliner, who was suspended without pay for writing an essay criticizing the network for alleged liberal bias, has now resigned.
- The producers of the hit Broadway musical "SIX" are now making a musical about the man who attached 42 helium balloons to his lawn chair and cruised above Los Angeles in 1982.
- Ashanti and Nelly are engaged and expecting.
- Fat Joe is selling beard dye.
- They keep making ugly shoes.
- And finally, not a sloth:
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