Extra Extra: Colin Jost's Staten Island Ferry party boat is full of asbestos and roaches

James Ramsay

Published Oct 31, 2022

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Shalom Stavsky

James Ramsay

Published Oct 31, 2022

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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where eight 311 complaints have been made this year about ghosts occupying people's apartments. Here's what else is happening:

Tenants of a Crown Heights apartment building who've been on a rent strike for a year are trying to purchase the building outright now that the landlord, who let hundreds of repair requests go unanswered, has died.
Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were all at the Met Museum today for the memorial service for Donald Blinken, a major Democratic Party donor and the father of current Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
A man died early this morning after being hit by a D train at the 47th-50th Streets-Rockefeller Center subway station.
Volunteers with the group Chinatown Assembly are helping restaurants in the neighborhood disassemble and discard their outdoor dining sheds so they don't become magnets for trash, rats and illegal activity.
Former crew members on the now-decommissioned Staten Island Ferry purchased by Colin Jost and Pete Davidson said it'll likely cost millions to renovate the boat and make it a performance venue because it's full of asbestos and roaches.
So far this year, Google has recorded more than 2 million searches for variations of "realistic excuses for missing work," which is far higher than in previous years. (In 2018, that got 300,000 searches.)
The hot new trend on TikTok is buying Treasury bills.
The other hot trend on TikTok is wearing eye makeup that makes you look like you are crying.
Remember seven Halloweens ago when an asteroid that looked like a skull flew past the Earth? Spooky.
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And finally, hope there's a treat in this feeder: