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Early Addition: Uber drivers hate the traffic they've caused
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Published Jul 22, 2024
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where one unlucky couple found a mouse inside their couch.
Here's what else is happening:
- After Gov. Kathy Hochul told an interviewer last week that the kitchen staff at an unspecified Sheraton gave her a "standing ovation" for pausing congestion pricing, Hell Gate did some investigating and discovered no evidence that this ever took place at any Sheraton in the region.
- In other congestion news, New York City Uber and Lyft drivers hate all the traffic caused largely by the explosion of app-based ride-share vehicles over the past decade.
- Some residents of southeast Queens are complaining about the expansion of an e-scooter pilot program into the area, claiming that people ride the scooters recklessly and then dump them where they're not supposed to go.
- The Jersey Shore town of Beachwood is closing its beach to swimmers for the rest of the summer due to unsafe levels of bacteria in the water.
- "Odd Man Out," an immersive two-hour show about flying from New York to Argentina that takes place completely in the dark, closes next month.
- Mark Zuckerberg is considering buying a stake in Supreme as part of an effort to eventually sell Meta smart glasses to young people.
- A painting of Abraham Lincoln wearing a floral tuxedo with a flashy Rolex was stolen from a Hamptons art fair.
- This guy!
- And finally, alien or mouse:
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