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Good Monday morning in New York City, where it’s Election Day and the polls are open until 9 p.m.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Flaco the owl, the famed Central Park Zoo escapee, has migrated to the East Village.
- The judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial yesterday wouldn’t let the former president show him a piece of paper Trump had in his jacket pocket that he claimed would clear his name.
- Hell Gate looks at the particular challenges facing asylum-seekers from Mauritania, the West African country from which more than 10,000 nationals have fled to the U.S. this year in search of protection from racism and police violence back home.
- NYC Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, his wife and two daughters are suing the daughters’ school, the expensive Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx, accusing teachers and other faculty of pervasive racism.
- This guy in New Jersey was so close to selling his old pickup truck out of his driveway when a massive deer leapt into it and put a dent in the side.
- The Mets have hired Yankees bench coach Carlos Mendoza as their new manager.
- Vapes are cute now.
- Brian Lehrer is hosting an Election Night special on WNYC at 8 p.m., highlighting some of the tight contests in NYC’s swing districts.
- And finally, you gotta see this leap:
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