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Extra Extra: Pumpkin Spice Gowanus Canal?
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James Ramsay
Published Aug 26, 2024
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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where drinking a beer on the beach comes with a $25 fine.
Here's what else is happening:
- Gowanus residents didn't like the cinnamon-y "Christmas" scent the Department of Environmental Protection was spraying over the canal to mask its odor, so now they just live with a body of water that smells like the anal gland of a beaver.
- The Brooklyn Public Library (presumably the central branch?) is famous on TikTok.
- An umpire had to be carried off the Yankee Stadium field on a stretcher yesterday after a piece of Giancarlo Stanton's broken bat hit him in the neck.
- The big news from the other baseball team in town: the rally pimp!
- Happy for the Pakistani Olympian who won a gold medal in the javelin and then, upon returning home, was gifted a buffalo and a Suzuki Alto as a bonus.
- Billy Baldwin appears to have ended his friendship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- This 40,000-square-foot New Jersey mansion that cost $27 million to build could be yours for $10 million.
- A federal judge has barred Martin Shkreli from owning or distributing the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album he once possessed and claims to have copied.
- Let him peel his shrimp.
- And finally, keeping watch:
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