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Pat Kiernan
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I wake up early to deliver the news on #MorningsOn1 for . Sometimes I host game shows. New Yorker. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
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New schedules today.
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If you ride the Rockaway ferry during the week, big warning: the afternoon schedules are changing radically next week and will no longer be leaving at 15 minutes after the hour. It’s stunning that neither @NYCferry or @NYCEDC has done any kind of serious outreach about this.
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Thank you and for featuring the story about Jordan Neely, and whether there is a legal obligation or moral duty to intervene when New Yorkers see someone who appears to be in danger. More from Pat’s “In the Papers” segment below. ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug
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As Jordan Neely tried to free himself from a chokehold on an NYC train, there were the passengers who pinned him down & the ones who watched. His killing has prompted convo abt what duty onlookers have to one another & to the most troubled/vulnerable 🧵 nytimes.com/2023/05/17/nyr
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Broadway production of “Bad Cinderella” will be put out of its misery on June 4th, closing a week before the Tony Awards. This ends Andrew Lloyd Webber’s decades-long run of having at least one active Broadway show.
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For this week’s Crosstown podcast: Has tipping gotten out of hand in places like bakeries, coffee shops and fast foot restaurants? What’s an appropriate tip for “to go” service?
  • A few coins from change
    40.5%
  • A dollar
    43.2%
  • 15 percent
    9%
  • 20 percent
    7.3%
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Icon of Canadian music.
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He sat on top of the mountain. He shared what he saw. For so many around the world, they knew our stories because of him. Rest in peace Gord. Golden forever. Gordon Lightfoot 1938-2023
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We continue this series of reports from today at 8:15 am.
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ACS decided that Julissia Batties should live with her mother, over the objections of Julissia, her grandmother and others. A little more than a year later, the 7-year-old was beaten to death. specne.ws/RzBvsH
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Until we prioritize density and transit these impossible traffic jams will persist.
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Something that always strikes me whenever I go to a booming America sunbelt city - in this case Miami, is that you get these two amazing benefits: good weather and more space for less money (compared to, say, SF/NY/DC) BUT the devil takes his due with *brutal* traffic.
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UPDATE: Twitter customer service says my blue check mark will not go away, even though I cancelled Twitter Blue yesterday.
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I’m trying to get rid of my blue checkmark of regret. I was verified in 2013. Subscribed to Twitter Blue earlier this year to access a specific video feature is valuable to me. Now that the ✔️ is the opposite of desirable, I cancelled Twitter Blue today but the badge won’t go… Show more
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I’m trying to get rid of my blue checkmark of regret. I was verified in 2013. Subscribed to Twitter Blue earlier this year to access a specific video feature is valuable to me. Now that the ✔️ is the opposite of desirable, I cancelled Twitter Blue today but the badge won’t go… Show more
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For all of the places that don’t have or one of our other 24/7 local channels, there’s now a national feed from Spectrum News.
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📺 The latest news 📍 More local stories 🇺🇸 Across the country 🕛 Around the clock 👥 Anchored by @BreeDriscoll, @SharonTazewell and more Spectrum News journalists Introducing Spectrum News+ specne.ws/ykRS8w
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I have secured the $29 takeout sandwich. Leaving it wrapped up so we can try it on tomorrow morning. I declined the opportunity to tip 15% on the transaction, which consisted of me retrieving it for myself from the display.
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Poll for : Are you dining out (sit-down restaurant/table service) as often as you were before the pandemic?
  • Yes
    44.7%
  • No
    55.3%
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Poll for : The NYPD is testing a new schedule which extends the workday to 10 or 12 hours, but cuts the number of workdays per week. Would you prefer:
  • 5 x 8 hour days/week
    9.8%
  • 4 x 10 hour days/week
    90.2%
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“I want to have my own team… there's just no way, as a new leader, to get everything that we need as the largest fire department in the country done without having your own team,” said Commissioner Kavanagh after facing backlash for demoting some of the FDNY's top brass.
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