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Extra Extra: Restaurants want you to hurry up and leave
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Published Aug 13, 2024
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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where loads of people want gun licenses.
Here's what else is happening:
- "If we don’t get those three turns, we don’t stay in business": Nice restaurants in New York City are now explicitly telling diners they have 90 minutes to eat, pay and leave so they can seat another party.
- After a six-week trial of making a plaza north of McCarren Park a 24/7 Open Street, the transportation department said the corner in Greenpoint would go back to being car-free only on weekends.
- EMS Station 40 in Sunset Park got a cool new "Dragon's Den" mural on its garage door.
- The traveling production of "Annie" starring Whoopi Goldberg as Ms. Hannigan is coming to Madison Square Garden in December.
- Scientists have discovered a reservoir full of water deep beneath Mars' surface.
- Here on Earth, scientists have created sparkling water that tastes like a hot fudge sundae.
- Don't worry, the cat who got emotionally displaced by a baby in that New York magazine essay is fine.
- ...but Antonio, a beloved Woodside bodega cat, has gone missing (and was possibly stolen).
- And finally, this cat is a dragon:
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