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Extra Extra: Jill Biden trying to rally older voters with bingo and pickleball
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Published Jun 12, 2024
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where a former TAO employee has been accused of dumping poop in the restaurant's koi pond.
Here's what's happening:
- The $500 million toll camera system for congestion pricing is already in place — should the MTA go ahead and use it as a way to collect traffic data?
- The Brooklyn Heights co-op where the Brooklyn Museum's director lives was vandalized last night with red paint and a sign reading "Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White Supremacist Zionist."
- Central Park officials are warning parkgoers to keep their dogs on leashes tonight when fireworks go off after the New York Philharmonic's concert.
- Grover Cleveland's old house in New Jersey is up for sale for $5.95 million.
- Jill Biden is hitting the campaign trail in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nevada and Arizona, hosting bingo nights and pickleball games in an effort to drum up support among older voters.
- Morrie Markoff, a Los Angeles-based blogger who was the oldest living American man at 110 years old, died earlier this month.
- Boys are chewing really hard gum to give their jawlines a workout.
- Dutch people are sitting too much.
- And finally, water's nice:
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