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Extra Extra: Water fountains everywhere
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Published Oct 29, 2024
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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where 10-year-olds are thinking this election is "mid."
Here's what else is happening:
- A new City Council bill would add 500 water fountains — complete with water bottle filling taps — across the five boroughs.
- Jesse Hamilton, a former state senator and a longtime ally of Mayor Eric Adams, has joined the seized-phone club for reasons too convoluted to explain in this sentence.
- Nearly half of New Jersey renters are putting more than 30% of their income towards rent, according to a new survey.
- Among teens, smoking weed is more of a girl thing now.
- Ivanka's at the beach.
- Who put the poop desk on the National Mall?
- Good looking cakes at the Tribeca Cake Picnic.
- Weird looking houses in the New York Times.
- And finally, took me a second:
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