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Extra Extra: Woody Allen was not impressed with the food service at Jeffrey Epstein's dinner parties
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Published Aug 5, 2025
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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where the food in Jackson Heights is great.
Here's what else is happening:
- New Rochelle added so many new apartments over the past couple years that median rents have gone down slightly.
- Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene asked President Donald Trump to pardon George Santos, who just began his seven-year prison sentence for fraud.
- Diddy has been denied bail and will remain in jail until he's sentenced.
- The New York Times published a picture of a statue of a bride that hung in the atrium of Jeffrey Epstein's Upper East Side mansion. (The Times also published a copy of Woody Allen's 2016 birthday letter to Epstein, which criticized the food service at his dinner parties.)
- A 2.7 magnitude earthquake hit Bergen County, New Jersey around noon today.
- In an excerpt from Kid Cudi's forthcoming memoir, he writes about almost overdosing from cocaine in his Tribeca apartment.
- Citi Bike is giving out free rides on Saturdays in August.
- It sounds like George W. Bush is a better artist than Adrien Brody.
- Never seen "The Graduate?" You can watch it on Howdy.
- And finally, hustlin':
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