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Extra Extra: The 2021 Rock Center Christmas tree was turned into houses

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Published Mar 10, 2025

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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where I have no clue what time it is.

Here's what else is happening:

• The sun will stay up past 7 p.m. starting Wednesday evening.
• An unnamed and unlicensed juvenile is facing "death by auto" charges after allegedly driving a BMW through several Jersey Shore towns — at one point doing 118 mph in a 35 mph zone — before crashing into a Camry and killing two people.
• The 2021 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been turned into lumber and used to construct two Habitat for Humanity houses near the tree's original site in Maryland.
• A new lawsuit accuses Odell Beckham Jr. of participating in a gang rape at a Diddy party in 2018.
• They're making a fourth season of White Lotus.
• Jean Smart is starring in a one-woman show on Broadway this summer.
• Toy Fair haul.
• Ball don't lie.

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