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Early Addition: We got a pair o' pudus
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Published May 24, 2024
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Good Friday morning in New York City, where officials want more shady trees.
Here's what else is happening:
- Nearly 10,000 New York City apartments lost their rent-regulated status last year, marking the biggest decline in eight years.
- Since the end of 2022, the NYPD hasn't published data (that it's required to publish) about how many arrests have been made for a variety of crimes, leaving the public to wonder ... if the NYPD is solving crimes.
- Wednesday night's NJ Transit meltdown was Amtrak's fault .
- The saga of artist Richard Prince taking a Paper magazine photographer's picture of Kim Gordon and making a crass Instagram-themed image out of it — and then getting sued by the photographer, who'd been paid $100 for the original work — is, among other things, a rough story about the state of New York's magazine industry over the past 30 years.
- If you join a running race that you didn't register and pay to take part in, you should have to be wearing a salmon costume.
- Prospect Park got a pair of pink inflatable chair sculptures that are actually rock solid.
- The Prospect Park Zoo got a pair of South American pudu deer that are extremely cute.
- Europe is in for another hot summer.
- And finally, the mighty pudu:
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