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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where Taylor Swift-themed karaoke is an option tonight.
Here's what else is happening:
- Meet the NYC "rehabbers" who adopt and care for sick squirrels, opossums, rats and pigeons — often in their apartments without their landlords or the city's health department being aware.
- In other urban wildlife news, Keith McNally accused someone of letting mice loose in Balthazar to get back at him for calling Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sanchez "revolting."
- Gov. Kathy Hochul notched a 40% favorability rating — her lowest since getting the job — in a new Siena College poll.
- Hudson Yards has proven the haters wrong and become a comparatively popular place for companies to rent office space. (People still don't want to live or hang out there, though.)
- Nova Knicks, this is your time.
- Sammy’s Roumanian steakhouse is reopening in a former sushi restaurant space on the Lower East Side.
- Flying to Disney World and back in one day: It can be done.
- Getting a good night's sleep is now a status symbol.
- And finally, chilling at the rehabber's place:
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