Extra Extra: The landmarked Seagram Building put a pickleball court in the basement to lure new tenants

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Published Aug 10, 2022

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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where we all aspire to be Puddle Kid. Here's what else is happening:

"I once asked, 'If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?' Now I know the answer to that question.": Donald Trump said he refused to answer any questions in his deposition this morning in relation to the New York attorney general's civil investigation into Trump Organization fraud.
A Megabus headed from New York City to Philadelphia flipped over on the New Jersey Turnpike last night after colliding with an F-150, killing at least two people and injuring more than a dozen others.
An upstate man was arrested for hand-drawing a replica New York State inspection sticker and putting it on his windshield.
I would also read an oral history of what went into this Mondaire Jones/Pete Davidson/pro-Supreme Court expansion tweet.
Angela Yee is leaving the Breakfast Club to host her own syndicated midday iHeartRadio show.
The landmarked, Mies van der Rohe-designed Seagram Building in Midtown is no longer desirable enough to tenants as is, so the landlord has installed a D.Z. The Discovery Zone-esque "playground" in the basement, complete with a rock climbing wall and a pickleball court.
Inflation appears to be easing, and stuff may soon become more affordable.
Venice's population is expected to officially drop below 50,000 this week, and residents are worried that any semblance of a local culture will soon be entirely wiped out by tourism and the town will simply become a museum.
Bama Rush season is back.
The latest from this very drawn-out lawsuit brought against Taylor Swift by the songwriters of 3LW's "Playas Gon' Play": Swift recently said she did not steal the lyric "haters gonna hate" from the 3LW song (which was a huge 2001 hit) to use in her 2014 song "Shake It Off," but she did once have a T-shirt from Urban Outfitters that said "haters gonna hate."
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And finally, who doesn't love standing on their feet:

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