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Extra Extra: Renovate the kitchen in your rent-stabilized apartment, it maths
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where a 28-year old woman is accused of posing as a Bronx high school student.
Here's what else is happening:
- Police in Mahwah, New Jersey, said a beaver that recently attacked multiple people, including at least one child, has tested positive for rabies.
- A by-appointment-only library dedicated entirely to the Epstein files is opening in Tribeca.
- If you have some extra cash, renovating the kitchen in your rent-stabilized apartment you intend to stay in for a while is not a bad idea at all.
- This Philadelphia crossing guard has a great hat.
- Ted Turner has died at the age of 87.
- Are lesbian bars dying or are sports bars becoming lesbian bars (and gambling dens)?
- And finally, if you're going to do it, do it:
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