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Extra Extra: The leaning tower of 1 Seaport is now more of a banana shape
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Published Feb 3, 2025
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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where you're only a train ride away from an indoor surfing wave pool at a megamall.
Here's what else is happening:
- The leaning tower of 1 Seaport, which is allegedly now shaped slightly like a banana — now the subject of more than two dozen lawsuits — got the New Yorker treatment this week.
- President Donald Trump's favorability rating in New York is a currently a comparatively high 41%, according to the latest Siena College poll.
- Bradley Cooper's part-time East Village cheesesteak place was open and operating over the weekend.
- "You've got people who have decided that they're a professional DJ who are commanding ever higher and higher fees." In addition to weathering young patrons' sobriety, Bushwick dance clubs are also being stretched thin by DJs who want to get paid well (and landlords who want to get paid well).
- Would making clubgoers put their phones away solve anything?
- New York City just held its 10th annual Braille Challenge for low vision and blind students.
- The Sims is 25.
- The Bridget Jones franchise is 24.
- And finally, what a move:
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