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Extra Extra: Doctors say hot toddies are not medicine
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Published Dec 12, 2025
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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where the air has gotten a bit cleaner thanks to congestion pricing.
Here's what else is happening:
- The MTA is in better shape than public transit agencies in other American cities.
- Maybe Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will try building housing on sites currently used as parking lots for cops.
- It's undeniable, Mamdani loves soccer.
- Not a great look for Fishs Eddy.
- Canadian liquor stores that took American whiskey off their shelves earlier this year to protest the Trump administration's tariffs are now selling it again — but donating the proceeds to food banks and other charitable causes.
- Doctors say they don't advise drinking hot toddies to cure colds.
- Columbus Circle got a Grey Dog.
- And finally, lfg:
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