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It’s a rainy Monday morning in New York City where a massive landfill in Seneca Falls may soon get bigger.
At nearly 300-feet tall, Seneca Meadows is the state’s largest landfill. It takes in about two million tons of trash each year, including from New York City. But plans to expand the landfill are facing pushback from local community members, business owners and environmentalists.
- The co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, Jann Wenner, was removed from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s board of directors over comments he made that Black and female musicians were not “articulate.”
- Twenty-seven Boston Markets in New Jersey have been closed for over a month after the Department of Labor issued stop-work orders over unpaid wags. The owner has since paid out more $630,000 to hundreds of workers, and the eateries will be allowed to operate again.
- A string of white lights in the sky above New Jersey on Saturday night were not UFOs, they were actually Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink satellites.
- “Echoes – A Voice from Unchartered Waters,” is the name of a new art piece on display in the Garment District featuring a 55-foot-long whale with interactive sound and light. You can check it out until November 13.
- The price of parking meters in the city’s most congested areas will start increasing next month, with Manhattan drivers seeing higher costs first on October 16.
- Spotted lanternflies may not be as harmful to hardwood trees as we previously thought, but that shouldn’t deter you from continuing to do your duty of stomping all of them out.
- The site of the original Scarr’s Pizza in the Lower East Side is now an 8-seat sushi counter. The inside still gives very retro vibes, but the details have been tweaked to be more fitting of a Japanese restaurant. Oh and getting a…
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