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Extra Extra: Should Mamdani be using Signal?
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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where it's cold again.
Here's what else is happening:
- Someone told Politico that Mayor Zohran Mamdani used Signal to discuss official city business, which raises lack-of-transparency concerns. (Mayors Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio also came under scrutiny for using the app.)
- Someone told NBC that President Donald Trump wasn't happy with FBI Director Kash Patel for partying with the U.S. men's hockey team and flying to and from Milan on a government plane.
- Former New York Gov. George Pataki criticized Mamdani for snowball-gate, reiterating the claim that snowball pelters also hit cops with rocks.
- Pinnacle, the notorious property management company that recently sold off 93 buildings in a bankruptcy auction, is still trying to evict more than a dozen tenants who say they've been withholding rent due to pest problems and a lack of repairs.
- New York City just signed a new five-year, $1 billion deal with a vendor of automated ticketing cameras that can't read temporary paper tags.
- The new owners of the Upper West Side's Absolute Bagels, facing the threat of legal action from the old owners, have changed the shop's name to 2788 Bagels.
- Five stars for the new Ms. Rachel special.
- The skies are simply becoming more turbulent.
- And finally, togetherness:
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