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Extra Extra: Trump revives his war on weak water pressure
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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where it's about to get "dangerously cold."
Here's what else is happening:
- Police said two men were slashed on the 4/5/6 platform at Grand Central Station after an argument broke out early this morning.
- "It’s called rain, comes down from comes down from heaven. And they want to do, no water comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip. So what happens you’re in the shower 10 times as long, you know. No water comes out of the faucet," President-elect Donald Trump said today.
- The alleged drunk driver accused of killing NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, who were cycling on a rural New Jersey road, pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide and other charges today.
- Rudy Giuliani, who's been held in contempt of court for failing to turn over assets in his Georgia poll worker defamation case, complained yesterday that the courtroom sketch artist made him look like a dog.
- The Queens Botanical Garden has a cool light show running through March.
- Good slices of pizza are everywhere.
- Is 2025 the year people start name-checking the types of wheat in their bread?
- Happy for Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster.
- And finally, weee:
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