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Extra Extra: The rise of the 99-unit* apartment building
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Published Apr 15, 2026
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where the SantaCon organizer has been charged with fraud.
Here's what else is happening:
- New York City enacted a tax break for new apartment buildings that have fewer than 100 units and include affordable housing. Now there's a boom in massive complexes that are technically divvied up into 99-unit pieces.
- Automated bus lane enforcement is coming to a pair of routes in Queens on Friday.
- The very lime green Pier i Cafe in Riverside Park is back in business.
- Aubrey Plaza rode the subway.
- Tons of people are watching the new TV show, "Marshals."
- Pilots text the darndest things when they're above 10,000 feet.
- You could be breathing dysfunctionally and not even know it.
- You could be storing your sleeping bag improperly and not know it.
- And finally, just give me a moment:
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