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Extra Extra: The 34th Avenue Open Street in Jackson Heights is becoming a permanent park
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James Ramsay
Published Dec 21, 2023
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It's Thursday afternoon in New York City, where the 5th Avenue Apple store's bathroom is open 24/7.
Here’s what else is happening:
- The state health department is investigating Bellevue Hospital's use of unlicensed surgical technicians, who've been brought in to help carry out an exceptionally high number of bariatric surgeries.
- Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy after a judge ordered him to pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers who sued him for defamation.
- Here are photos of Deputy Mayor Phil Banks — previously an unindicted co-conspirator in a bribery case involving two Brooklyn businessmen with ties to Israel — firing machine guns on a 2014 trip to Jerusalem.
- A 28-block stretch of 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights — a beloved if once contentious creation of the Open Streets program — is officially becoming a permanent linear park.
- Plans are underway to bring back the Scranton-to-New York City Amtrak line.
- The butter bean was the "it" bean of 2023.
- ... and water was the "it" beverage.
- Tonight is the winter solstice. It only gets brighter from here!
- And finally, naw:
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