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Extra Extra: Should the Calico Critters corporation be suing the Sylvanian Drama creator, or thanking her?
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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where Brooklyn Mirage isn't reopening any time soon.
Here's what else is happening:
- Update: We still don't know what really happened with the Summer Youth Employment Program payment card ATM scam.
- City & State wrote up everything you'd want to know about how dogs — their safety, their park space, their owners, their poop — play into the city's politics.
- "The voters have spoken." The Staten Island Democrats, who endorsed Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, are now backing Zohran Mamdani.
- Joby, an electric air taxi company that doesn't yet have FAA approval for its own aircraft, bought Blade helicopters' passenger business.
- Tourism in New York City may be down, but that isn't stopping people from renting any space they can get to open a restaurant.
- The Japanese parent company of Calico Critters is going to war against the Irish woman who makes those cute-but-crude Sylvanian Drama videos.
- Congrats to Pauline Ferrand-Prévot on becoming the first French woman to ever win the Tour de France Femmes.
- Be careful trying to get those cool tan lines!
- And finally, no consent:
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