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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where this map will show you whether lead pipes are carrying water into your home.
Here's what else is happening:
- Here's a succinct look at how an Upper West Side developer overcame local opposition to build a complex of very affordable apartments for low-income and formerly homeless New Yorkers.
- The Williamsburg priest who let Sabrina Carpenter film a music video inside his church has been demoted.
- Walking 200 miles across northern England is one way to spend your honeymoon.
- Disneyland's adult social clubs have had better days.
- Boredom is booming...
- ...but we Dull People are taking it in stride.
- Escaped South Carolinian monkey update: A few of them are still missing.
- Happy World Toilet Day.
- And finally, you just gotta dive in:
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