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Early Addition: Would you like to know a restaurant's decibel level before you go?
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Emily Nadal
Published Dec 31, 2024
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It's Tuesday morning in New York City, the last day of 2024, and the new year will bring new toll prices for drivers.
Here's what else is happening:
- A cat named Tsar got lost on Governors Island in October while he and his family were on the island for a photoshoot. This month, Tsar was found alive and well, likely keeping warm underneath porta potties and hunting mice.
- Fellas, Pete Davidson has some advice for you: Keep your feet covered.
- The Epoch Times is known for being a far-right promoter of conspiracy theories. But the media organization also has a bit of an obsession with the traveling dance group Shen Yun, having published more than 17,000 articles about the show, and this New York Times article explains why.
- If you haven’t heard enough rat stories this year, here’s one more horrifying experience about a toilet rat mystery for you.
- With Jimmy Carter’s memorial planned for Jan. 9, here’s a look at how American presidents plan their own funerals, with some leaders accounting small details like seating arrangements.
- Are NYC restaurants too loud? This New Yorker who has been measuring decibel levels around the city thinks so. He started a petition — which has garnered over 100 signatures — to get the NYC Council to consider legislation requiring restaurants to measure and post their decibel levels.
- Happy 25th anniversary of Y2K.
- And finally, don't yuck my yum:
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