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Extra Extra: 'Things have gotten overwhelming over the past few weeks'
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Published Sep 27, 2024
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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where Mayor Eric Adams has pleaded not guilty.
Here's what else is happening:
- New York is going to use $90 million from the Biden infrastructure bill of 2021 to replace old lead water lines across the state so our drinking water is safe.
- The e-scooters of eastern Queens: Some residents love 'em, some think they're too woke.
- The judge hearing a pair of lawsuits aimed at canceling Gov. Kathy Hochul's congestion pricing pause noted in court today that traffic getting to the courthouse "was terrible."
- Chappell Roan has backed out of her Forest Hills concert gig on Saturday, explaining that "things have gotten overwhelming over the past few weeks and I am really feeling it."
- A New Jersey farm stand/raw bar "in the middle of nowhere" made the New York Times' list of the 50 best restaurants in the country.
- Heads up South Shore drivers, some roads will be closed tomorrow for the Jones Beach Ironman triathlon.
- Here's one woman's quest to get rid of a Fall Out Boy song that was stuck in her head.
- One way to spend $6,000 and lose 5 pounds is to go to the Lanserhof Clinic in Germany, a very stylish looking spa where you steam, sauna, eat fennel broth and use Epsom salts to clear out your bowels.
- Meanwhile, these tadpoles will go 40 days without pooping at all!
- And finally, cat on a wet tin roof:
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