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Extra Extra: NYC airport restaurants may jack up prices as workers get 75-cent raises
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Published Nov 13, 2024
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where the fire situation across the Hudson remains bad.
Here's what else is happening:
- The Port Authority is considering letting restaurants at New York City area airports raise their prices (even more) in response to a mandated raise for food service workers, who are set to make $25 an hour by the end of 2032.
- President-elect Donald Trump is vowing to get people with drug addiction and mental illness off city streets and stick them in "mental institutions," which the federal government doesn't really have the power to do.
- Paul Mescal is coming to BAM next year in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
- Musicians who were booked to play at Rockwood Music Hall this week said the venue suddenly shut down.
- The Jets are a mess.
- Ray J claims that celebrities are paying hush money left and right to keep people from mentioning their names in association with Diddy's sex parties.
- Adults who've grown used to dating apps told the Wall Street Journal they had no idea how to respectfully hit on someone in person, or detect whether someone's flirting with them.
- It's Fat Sandwich Fall.
- And finally, this is how you know someone's flirting with you:
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