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