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Extra Extra: Sexy lil' Build-a-Bears
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It's Friday afternoon in New York City, where you can bet on who will win the Super Bowl — but not on ancillary stuff like how many times they'll show Taylor Swift on TV.
Here’s what else is happening:
- People eager to rent $4,000-a-month apartments in Greenpoint don't seem to care that the G train is going to be shut down this summer.
- A Brooklyn woman who worked at a call center for getting health care workers hotel rooms during the early days of the pandemic has been fined $650,000 for fraudulently snagging rooms for herself and her friends and renting them out on Facebook.
- Court papers show that back in December, Rockland County Republican Chair Lawrence Garvey was charged with drunk driving after leaving what might've been a fundraiser for Rep. Mike Lawler.
- Tons of items from Elton John's former mansion in Atlanta are being staged inside Christie's at Rockefeller Center for a free exhibition before they're auctioned off.
- Build-a-Bear now makes sexy bears that you have to be over 18 to purchase.
- The Citi Bike Boyz go hard.
- Usher Raymond also goes hard.
- And finally, I'd flinch, too:
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