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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where we’re getting a new hot dog-eating champ.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Mayor Eric Adams after Gov. Kathy Hochul’s congestion pricing about-face: “She has really knocked it out of the park.”
- It’s not just NYC — business owners in cities around the world push back against tolls or restrictions on driving because they overestimate how many of their customers arrive by car.
- Federal prosecutors have charged a Manhattan anti-poverty charity founder with embezzling $2.5 million and spending it on a Columbus Circle apartment, cosmetic surgery and frequent meals at high-end restaurants.
- As criminal justice advocates push for more use of probation as an alternative to jail, the union representing NYC’s probation officers says they’re losing workers because the job doesn’t have the same pay and benefits as police, fire and sanitation jobs.
- After trying and failing to sell slices of pizza at $1.50 each, an East Village dollar slice shop has gone back to its roots.
- Police in New Jersey shot and killed a bear that trapped a mom and her daughter inside a Locust Grove nature preserve this week.
- “Sleep No More,” which was initially scheduled to close back in January, has now been extended to September because audiences keep buying tickets.
- Some people love a wet hot Florida summer.
- And finally, almost the weekend: