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Extra Extra: Would you be happier if you lived in Minneapolis?
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Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where new $500,000 garbage trucks have descended on Harlem.
Here's what else is happening:
- Andrew Cuomo said this week that after calling for a pause on the congestion pricing program he signed into law, he now supports it again.
- New York City hotel owners — and Mayor Eric Adams — said they want to reduce the hotel occupancy tax (currently about 5%) because fewer tourists are coming to the city since Trump took office.
- Maybe Pulitzer finalists "Marjorie Prime" and "Becky Shaw" could draw in more tourists when they hit Broadway this season.
- The DUMBO penthouse where Denzel Washington's character lives in the new Spike Lee movie could be yours for $19.5 million.
- For a lot less than that, you could live happily in Minneapolis.
- This is a fun conversation between Patrick and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- No dress sneakers in the club, sir.
- King of herrings.
- "Goodnight Moon" stamps.
- And finally, disappointed cat:
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