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Early Addition: Upper West Siders deeply offended by massive billboard for West End Ave condo building
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James Ramsay
Published Jan 31, 2024
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where one in five public school cafeterias have a food safety code violation.
Here's what else is happening:
- A former editor of a Brooklyn-based Orthodox Jewish newspaper has pleaded guilty to obstructing police officers at the Capitol riot.
- Atlantic City casino workers are divided over a bill to ban indoor smoking — supporters say it'll improve their health, while detractors fear it could deter chain-smoking gamblers and ultimately lead to layoffs.
- The city canceled walk-in appointments for IDNYC cards after migrants lined up overnight to obtain them — which aren't work permits, contrary to what some migrants have been told.
- A semi-famous '80s Club Kid living in a crumbling Lower East Side apartment informed his yuppie neighbors that they were all paying market rate for what were actually rent-stabilized units, so they sued, got their rents dropped ... and most of them didn't even thank him.
- Upper West Siders are appalled by the massive (and technically illegal) billboard at 720 West End Ave advertising condos at 720 West End Ave.
- Look at the Knicks winning eight games in a row.
- "We inhale a credit card's worth of microplastics each week." Now you know.
- And finally, serve:
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