Early Addition: New Jersey, you could’ve been The Egg State

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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where you kids don’t just get to skip school and make snowmen all day.

Here’s what else is happening:

  • The New York Times checked in with Via Verde residents 12 years after they moved into the architecturally lauded and slightly upscale public housing complex in the Bronx. Their review: It’s great having a doorman.
  • A licensed weed dispensary in Bushwick painted over a Notorious B.I.G. mural on its exterior because it violated state regulations for dispensary signage, and fans of the late rapper are mad about it.ย 
  • Animal activists are concerned that netting around the scaffolding on a giant Upper East Side apartment building is going to kill a bunch of birds.
  • Before New Jersey decided to call itself the Garden State, Jersey farmers almost got lawmakers to name it the Egg State.
  • An analysis of social media tags found that Central Park is the 9th most popular place in the world to propose to your boo.
  • Usher somehow found time to marry his boo in Vegas on Super Bowl Sunday.
  • It turns out cracking your knuckles isn’t bad for you.
  • And finally, black and white look good on everyone:

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