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Extra Extra: Snug as a bug in a pub with a rug

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Published Oct 24, 2025

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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where people clearly love a phone booth.

Here's what else is happening:

• New York Attorney General Letitia James pleaded not guilty today to federal mortgage fraud charges.
• The Knicks sent Zohran Mamdani's campaign a cease-and-desist letter over his remix of the team's logo in an ad.
• The West Side Rag said people keep writing in about antisemitic graffiti outside an Upper West Side bar — but the bar owners said it's just their own Halloween decorations.
• Is baseball secretly Canadian?
• Is this guy the Louvre thief himself?
• Are Vans the new Sambas?
• British Zoomers are rediscovering carpeted dive bars, known over there as "boozers."
• And finally, get that outta here:

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