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Extra Extra: This summer, we skimboard
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Published May 15, 2024
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where the police are warning about robbers posing as online car salesmen.
Here's what else is happening:
- Pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied CUNY's Graduate Center in Midtown yesterday.
- More and more, brownstone Brooklyn's garden-level apartments are flooding every time it rains.
- Central Park now has designated pizza box recycling bins, so people who've had pizza in the park can properly toss their oversized cardboard instead of leaving it for the rats.
- Pat Kiernan, Post Malone, Tory Burch, Walt "Clyde" Frazier and hundreds of other rich and famous people turned out for the Matrix-themed Robin Hood gala this week.
- Congrats to the Cinema Village employees on their successful unionization vote.
- Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to face off in a pair of televised debates, starting with a June debate on CNN that will not feature a live audience.
- Fresh off the dissolution of his "centrist" digital news startup The Messenger, media boss Jimmy Finkelstein is talking to investors about starting something else.
- If I were still 13, you know I'd be signed up for skimboarding camp on Long Island this summer.
- The new trend is to baste your face with butt paste.
- And finally, pawerful aura indeed:
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