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Extra Extra: Gen Xers flocking to Florida are discovering they hate the bugs and the politics
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Published Feb 26, 2025
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where the Port Authority now has a 40-seat theater inside an old Mrs. Fields cookie shop.
Here's what else is happening:
- "Harriet the Spy" and "Ice Princess" star Michelle Trachtenberg, 39, was found dead inside her Midtown apartment this morning.
- Friends of Andrew Cuomo have formed a super PAC ahead of the former governor's anticipated mayoral run.
- The NYPD, facing a hiring crisis, is lowering the number of college credits required to become a cop.
- Seems like a bad parent-involved brawl broke out at a New Jersey high school wrestling match.
- "The ideal poo is a 'type 3' or 'type 4' – cracked or smooth sausage – delivered once per day," according to doctors.
- Gen Xers are moving to Florida and discovering that they hate the politics, the bugs and the home insurance premiums.
- Well look at this wooly lil' devil.
- If you give a cockatoo a blueberry yogurt-covered noodle...
- And finally, stocking up:
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