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Published Nov 21, 2024

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Emily Nadal

Published Nov 21, 2024

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It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City, where Mayor Eric Adams and the NYC Council struck a deal on a sweeping housing plan in the 11th hour amid an historic housing crisis.

Here’s what else is happening:

AMC wants you to shut up and watch "Wicked" without singing along to all the songs.
This cool new tool, which was born out of the MTA’s inaugural Open Data Challenge, allows users to explore art in NYC subway stations.
There’s a new Irish soda bread shop in the East Village.
Subway surfing has become dangerously popular lately, fueled in part by social media. One solution to the problem could be to roll out more of the MTA’s new open gangway subway cars, which are all connected, eliminating the opening in between — which is a essentially a door to subway surfing.
The rental market is pretty bleak in New York City lately (what else is new?), but on the bright side, rent is actually falling in these five neighborhoods.
The Gen-Z uniform: light washed loose jeans and a black shirt.
A curator at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan may have uncovered a previously unknown music composition by European composer Frederic Chopin.
And finally — sneaky, very sneaky:

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