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Early Addition: We're getting new coins with pilgrims on them
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Published Jan 5, 2026
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where people have largely stopped complaining about congestion pricing.
Here's what else is happening:
- The NYPD parked a billboard truck reading "beware of pickpockets" near Radio City Music Hall last Friday. (Petit larceny and overall crime are down in the area, according to police.)
- Whales are increasingly in danger of being hit by large boats in New York waterways.
- You may or may not be surprised by the eight New Jersey towns that voted almost unanimously for Democrat Mikie Sherrill in last year's gubernatorial race.
- President Donald Trump reportedly did not like Nicolás Maduro's dancing.
- In honor of the country's 250th anniversary, new coins with pilgrims on them are coming out this week. (The Trump administration rejected proposals for coins featuring Frederick Douglass and Ruby Bridges.)
- Banks are back.
- Friction is in.
- Pizza is out?
- And finally, here we go:
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