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Extra Extra: The Bridgehampton Kmart held strong
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where two guys in a Mercedes are allegedly going around stealing people's watches.
Here's what else is happening:
- Mayor Eric Adams yesterday once again defended the NYPD officer who shot four people on a Brownsville subway platform while pursuing an alleged fare evader with a knife, arguing that bodycam footage showed the cops involved "did what they were trained to do."
- Jared Kushner's private equity firm has taken in $3 billion in funding — 99% of which has come from overseas, mainly Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — but the company has yet to return any profits to investors.
- Shady Rest Country Club in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, the country's first Black country club, is getting a proper restoration.
- The Bridgehampton Kmart — the once-mighty discount retailer's last-remaining full-size store — is closing next month.
- If you could pass as a high school-age Elle Woods, Amazon would like to see you at its open audition for the "Legally Blond" prequel.
- Fred Flintstone, big in Europe.
- The Detroit Bridgerton Ball was a movie.
- It's Fat Bear Week again.
- And finally, pull up:
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