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Extra Extra: The health department is about to spray mosquito killer around town
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Published Jun 4, 2024
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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where the transportation department is selling street signs.
Here's what else is happening:
- New York City's health department will begin spraying mosquito killer in parts of Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and the Bronx on Friday.
- State Sen. Jessica Ramos of Queens, who's been making headlines for her opposition to a casino across from Citi Field, said she's "interested in seeing how the landscape takes shape" ahead of a possible mayoral run next year.
- Happy retirement and thank you for your service to Maggie Poston, a Park Slope crossing guard who's leaving the job at the age of 90.
- Curbed stands by the city's new public bathroom map.
- Eater stands by the new Taco Bell giant Cheez-It tostada.
- If you don't trust the new McDonald's Grandma McFlurry — which features crumbles of "the candies Grandma used to hide in her purse" — but the idea sounds enticing, here's how to make one at home.
- The guy who won a record eight New Yorker cartoon caption contests shared his secrets to success.
- "The Baldwins," a reality show following Alec, Hilaria and their seven kids, is coming to TLC in 2025.
- And finally, evenly matched:
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