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Published Jul 17, 2025
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It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City, where New York officials are suing the Trump administration over FEMA cuts.
Here’s what else is happening:
- The Adirondacks and the Catskills both made it on U.S. News & World Report’s list of best cheap family vacations.
- Two years ago, indie film and television studio A24, known for works such as “Moonlight” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” purchased the Cherry Lane Theater in the West Village, and in September, it will open it for business as a live performance venue.
- Elsewhere in the West Village, hot people get to do cool things for free.
- There’s a new dating app for Disney adults to find love.
- A 61-year-old man was critically injured after he was sucked into an MRI machine at a Long Island facility because he entered a room without permission while wearing a large metallic chain. (There’s an eerily similar scene like this in the new Final Destination movie.)
- A paranormal investigator on tour with the supposedly haunted “Annabelle” doll died in a Pennsylvania hotel. His cause of death has not been released.
- Connie Francis, whose song “Pretty Little Baby” gained renewed popularity because of TikTok, died at the age of 87.
- And finally, they didn't like the taste:
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