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Extra Extra: Discarded GLP-1 needles could be poking sanitation workers
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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where this Knicks ticker-tape parade could be the city's largest ever.
Here's what else is happening:
- The Children's Museum of Manhattan is holding a separate Knicks ticker-tape celebration for kids tomorrow afternoon. (Skipping school on Thursday has not been approved.)
- This Long Island man is hosting a Knicks light show celebration in his front yard.
- Meanwhile, the Yankees are also good.
- If Mayor Zohran Mamdani gets to attend two championship ticker-tape parades in one year, he enters an elite tier.
- New York City sanitation workers say they're increasingly getting poked by discarded needles that GLP-1 users could be carelessly throwing in the trash.
- The "Paddington" musical, a smash hit in London, is coming to Broadway next April.
- Here's the science behind why you have to pee when you swim.
- And finally, rest o'clock:
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