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Extra Extra: Mamdani canvassers bounced from UES building by doorman with a bat
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Published Oct 23, 2025
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Good Thursday afternoon in New York City, where Eric Adams has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for mayor weeks after calling him "a snake and a liar."
Here's what else is happening:
- They're going to fix the potholes on that part of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Carroll Gardens, along with other chewed-up roads elsewhere in the state.
- Academy Bus Lines, the New Jersey-based charter bus operator, is on the verge of getting NYC's largest-ever exemption to the ban on idling for more than three minutes.
- From a Curbed tag-along with Zohran Mamdani canvassers in an Upper East Side building: "'Get the f— out the building right now,' one of the doormen says, while the other pulls out a bat."
- The corner of Great Jones Street and Bowery was co-named "Jean-Michel Basquiat Way" this week.
- Good luck to this fourth-grader trying to land a laser heelflip.
- Teddy Swims' "Lose Control" (you'd know it if you heard it), your 112-week run on the Billboard Hot 100 has come to an end.
- Fancy fried chicken — delivered!
- And finally, not intuitive:
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