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Extra Extra: The real reason that Bronx barbershop Trump visited had a $15K electric bill
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Emily Nadal
Published Oct 24, 2024
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It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City, where you should be on the lookout for this zine next time you ride the subway.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Last week, Donald Trump visited a Bronx barbershop where the owner griped about his electricity bill increasing from $2,100 to $15,000 a month. It turns out that a mistake by Con Edison caused the outrageous surge, not the state of the economy.
- Community Board 1 in Lower Manhattan is pushing a plan to revamp a small plaza in Tribeca, a project that a real estate firm had abandoned years ago.
- Goldfish crackers are temporarily rebranding as ‘Chilean Sea Bass’ in an effort to get more adults to snack on the cheesy crisps.
- Although you don't actually need a license to operate a hotel in New York City, that will probably change after the City Council passed legislation to require licenses on Wednesday.
- There’s a replica of "Beetlejuice's" Deetz residence in New Jersey that will be open to visitors until Nov. 4.
- Wegmans says its Brooklyn location is piloting a facial recognition program with some of its employees, and that it will delete any data belonging to anyone else that it collects in the process.
- Northwell Health, whose nurses are threatening to go on strike, just launched a television studio to develop scripted and documentary-style medical shows after the success of several other shows centered on the hospital system.
- And finally, delivering more than mail:
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