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Extra Extra: Alec Baldwin, you can't sell the Amagansett house, it's too special
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Published Jan 17, 2024
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It's Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where Green Day played in the subway (for a network TV show).
Here’s what else is happening:
- A reminder to property owners: The city will ticket you if you don't shovel the snow and ice off the sidewalk.
- The Downtown Alliance is holding a contest to award one filmmaker $50,000 to make a movie in and about Lower Manhattan.
- This 3-year-old tourist who found New York City full of "rubbish" has no obligation to come back.
- New Jersey is considering legalizing magic mushrooms for medical and recreational use.
- They finally sold Joan Didion's old Upper East Side apartment.
- They haven't sold Alec Baldwin's house in Amagansett, so he starred in his own promotional video for the place and it's clear his heart still belongs to the East End.
- San Francisco Mayor London Breed is not happy with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which approved a cease-fire resolution for the Israel-Hamas war.
- Meanwhile, Dua Lipa is doubling down on her calls for a cease-fire.
- Americans don't bowl on weekdays anymore and it's hurting the economy.
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken had to get off his Boeing 737 before leaving Davos because the plane had "a critical failure related to an oxygen leak." (The government sent him a replacement plane.)
- The "Sleepy Girl Mocktail" probably won't help you sleep, but it'll do a better job than a Sleepy Girl Double Makers Mark.
- And finally, insufferable:
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