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Extra Extra: If a signora is making pasta behind the trattoria window, stay away
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Published Jul 21, 2026
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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where the storms could be bad.
Here's what else is happening:
- New York City renters are getting got by AI-generated apartment listing photos.
- New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said after roughly 6,600 noncitizens were mistakenly registered to vote by the DMV, 400 of them actually went and voted.
- The Upper West Side's Cheesy Pizza, a 36-year-old neighborhood staple, appears to have closed.
- Colorful wood cutouts of Washington Heights neighborhood scenes have been affixed to the gate outside the Hispanic Society Museum & Library.
- If you go to Italy and see a cute trattoria with a woman hand-making pasta in the window, it's a tourist trap and you shouldn't eat there.
- I listened to all 20 of these "Song of the Summer" nominees and I disliked them all but maybe one does it for you?
- A 400-year-old shark!
- And finally, just catching up on Jimothy:
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