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Extra Extra: It's hard to open the windows of a luxury apartment without letting in bugs
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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where the NYPD team responsible for beating a man inside a Brooklyn liquor store last week has been disbanded.
Here's what else is happening:
- Three New York state lawmakers told Hell Gate that Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is standing in the way of a law that would require repeat reckless drivers to install speed limiters in their cars.
- The problem with the big glass windows on new luxury buildings is they don't have screens, so you can't really open them to let in fresh air without also letting in bugs.
- Five IHOPs in the Bronx are selling oxtail omelets and quesadillas that are apparently great.
- The Resorts World casino in Queens, which won a full gaming license last year, is getting its table games next week.
- The Nine West 57th Street office tower is the hot place to work right now.
- Cribl, Axonius and Netskope were at the Red Sox game yesterday.
- A lot of cities are getting Harry Potter drone shows in honor of the franchise's 25th anniversary, but New York City is not among them.
- And finally, crushing cheese:
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