Extra Extra: If you build skateable structures, they will come

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Published May 9, 2024

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Emily Nadal

Published May 9, 2024

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It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City, where artist Bianca Giaever is down to help you with just about anything (except sex).

Here’s what else is happening:

Four flight attendants were arrested for allegedly smuggling millions of dollars in drug money through JFK Airport to the Dominican Republic on their flights.
Some Connecticut residents are pushing to ban mini liquor bottles, AKA nips, because they are tired of seeing so much litter from them.
Virginia’s Danville Dairy Daddies join a long line of minor league baseball teams with some seriously unserious names.
We've almost made it: Tomorrow is the first day of 2024 where the sun will set at 8 p.m.
Graffiti writers may have slowed down during the pandemic but they’ve started tagging tag subway cars again — and the NYPD Vandals Task Force is not happy about it.
While some Staten Islanders have long called for their borough to secede from NYC, a new review by the city's Independent Budget Office finds secession would lead to a deficit of up to $199 million for Staten Island.
One way to revive fallow public spaces: make them skateable.
The Harlem Children’s Zone, an anti-poverty nonprofit, is launching an initiative to build wealth among local families by giving students $10,000 each to invest.
And finally, you call it naughty, I call it resourceful:

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