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Early Addition: We now have two Times Square diners where the waiters sing
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James Ramsay
Published Oct 8, 2026
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where the kids are learning to rock.
Here’s what else is happening:
- A new owner bought the Chrysler Building and plans to fix it up.
- There's a new restaurant a block away from Ellen’s Stardust Diner where the waiters will also get up on the tables and sing.
- This season, Blood Manor is offering a $350 experience where they'll dress you up in a costume and you can practice scaring people.
- For $0, New York City public school teachers can get art supplies at this warehouse in Queens.
- Good luck to the treadmill king Vinny Mauri in this weekend's Chicago Marathon.
- I'd eat this $5 Frito pie.
- Can't say I'd eat the skin of a kiwi.
And finally, foliage:
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