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Early Addition: Two of the three Banks brothers reportedly love expensive cigars
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where the Feast of San Gennaro is about to commence.
Here's what else is happening:
- Mayor Eric Adams has assigned NYPD Deputy Inspector Timothy Wilson to be the "chief of enforcement" for the parks department as part of a broader move toward installing cops in civilian agencies.
- Top Adams aide Timothy Pearson, who made news last fall when he was seen physically assaulting two security guards outside a Midtown migrant shelter, then had the guards arrested and later threatened them, the guards say in an upcoming lawsuit.
- The New York Post reports that Phil and Terence Banks, two other Adams allies who are now under federal investigation, love expensive cigars.
- Valarie D’Elia, a longtime travel reporter for NY1, has died at the age of 64.
- "Woman 1: 'I have no children. Does that mean I have no say?' Woman 2: 'I think there’s a better way to have put that, but it is true.'" — NYMag collected some interesting quotes from a New York Young Republican Club debate watch party.
- Nashville police are thanking Jon Bon Jovi for talking a distressed woman off the edge of a bridge.
- The Zero Bond guy's contentious East Hampton restaurant is closed.
- But summer's not over!
- And finally, useful cat:
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