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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where the Bronx Museum has a good graffiti exhibit.
Here's what else is happening:
- Nassau County officials are assuring the public that the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum will be the "safest place in the country" when Donald Trump comes through for a rally on Wednesday.
- A state board has voted to recognize all of Washington Heights east of Broadway as the Washington Heights-Dominican Cultural Historic District. Some African American, Puerto Rican, Mexican and Cuban residents are upset about it.
- If you love Donald Trump, the Hawk Tuah girl, "DILFS," "MILFS," napping, good vibes, hustling, Thrasher magazine or Zach Bryan, the Wildwood, New Jersey boardwalk has a T-shirt to sell you.
- "When they found out [Son of Sam’s] name was Berkowitz, I remember a copygirl saying, “Uh-oh, he’s Jewish.” Then it turned out he had been adopted. Alan Whitney started musing about a headline that we would never write: 'NOT REALLY JEWISH.'": Here's an oral history of the New York Post's coverage of the Son of Sam saga.
- A Buena Vista Social Club musical is coming to Broadway.
- We've now learned that the FBI raids of Sean "Diddy" Combs' homes turned up 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lube.
- One time for Dakota Fanning and Brittany Murphy's 2003 comedy "Uptown Girls."
- And one time for Ina and Jeffrey for sticking together through their previously unreported rough patch in the '70s.
- Finally, could do this all day:
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