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Extra Extra: Hell hath no fury like an UES underage drinker scorned
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Emily Nadal
Published Aug 2, 2023
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It’s Wednesday afternoon in New York City and if you love the game Uno, Mattel has the perfect gig for you.
The company is searching for a New York-based “Chief Uno Player,” for a four-week job that requires you to play the new game, Uno Quatro, for four hours a day, four times a week. I sense a pattern here.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Even Uber’s own CEO was shook at the price ($51.69) of a three-mile trip in New York City.
- An underage drinker who was denied an alcoholic beverage multiple times from the bar of a swanky Upper East Side hotel is now facing a defamation lawsuit after taking his rage out in the form of paid protestors who he reportedly hired to shout bizarre claims in front of the hotel.
- Beyoncé is paying tribute on her website to O’Shae Sibley, a professional dancer who was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn on Saturday night after “voguing” to her music.
- Bike New York, the organization behind the Five Boro Bike Tour, has another impactful program, this one a bike mechanic training program for formerly-incarcerated people.
- More than two dozen NYC school buses will have new automated enforcement cameras on them this fall which will record how many drivers illegally pass them.
- The Brooklyn statue of rapper Notorious B.I.G. is moving from Clumber Corner park, where it’s been since December, to Columbus Park.
- Romance novels are having their moment (thanks Colleen Hoover). If you’re a fan of the genre, then this romance-only bookstore opening this weekend in Brooklyn may interest you.
- And finally, Goldilocks' karma:
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