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Extra Extra: Mayor Eric Adams' hype man gets promoted
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Emily Nadal
Published Aug 15, 2023
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It’s Tuesday afternoon in New York City where there’s a new deputy mayor in town.
Fabien Levy was promoted (in a dramatic ceremony) on Monday from Adams’ press secretary to deputy mayor for communications. Levy has been a key part of the mayor’s goal of controlling his messaging by offering more “direct to consumer” messaging. The new title also means a pay bump to $251,900, on par with his fellow deputy mayors.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Some landlords in the city are skirting rent stabilization laws and renovating buildings to be repackaged as co-living spaces that bank thousands of dollars from one apartment in gentrifying neighborhoods.
- Amazon is shutting down most of their in-house brands after a lawsuit arguing the company was not upfront of labeling the products as their own.
- Sagging pants may be highly controversial for men, but they’re making a comeback with women under a comfy chic aesthetic.
- A humpback whale washed up on Long Beach on Monday, the third dead whale in local waters in the past four days.
- There’s something magical about receiving a letter in the mail (that isn’t a bill). A Chinatown workshop this weekend will guide participants through an oracle card mail exchange.
- NYC may have made outdoor dining permanent, but with hot summers only getting worse, do people even want to dine outside anymore?
- As a former park ranger for the National Park Service in New York City, people always assumed I worked in city parks. But I never had the pleasure of doing the work of these cool folks.
- And finally, speaking of our fearless park rangers:
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