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Extra Extra: Royal treatment for Central Park carriage horses
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Emily Nadal
Published Jul 31, 2023
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It’s Monday afternoon in New York City and the MTA jumped the gun on fare increases.
While the new commuting costs aren’t supposed to go into effect for another three weeks, an OMNY software glitch caused some users to be charged the new price today. The MTA refunded the extra 15 cents, though, but savor that $2.75 ride while you still can.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Central Park carriage drivers have a royal solution to improving conditions for their horses: a Buckingham Palace horse expert.
- Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee-Wee Herman, died at age 70 over the weekend after a six-year battle with cancer.
- I’ve always had my suspicions about those crosswalk buttons being useless in New York City, and it seems I was right. Out of the roughly 1,000 buttons across the city, only about 100 of them actually work.
- Let’s be real: the burrata agenda is being unfairly pushed on us.
- All school subjects should be taught with the help of puppets.
- A housing development slated for East New York has a vision of becoming a place where residents live to be 100 through the creation of nurturing environments inspired by real-life “Blue Zones,” where high numbers of people live unusually long, healthy lives.
- Justice for East Rutherford.
- Move out of the way Tide Pods, another laundry detergent has found its way to our palates. TikTokers sharing their recommendations for ingesting borax.
- And finally, some galumphing content:
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