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Welcome to Wednesday in New York City where our new trash cans just dropped.
Say goodbye to those green mesh trash bins NYC has been using for two decades. The city’s new trash receptacles won’t be showing off our garbage with a mesh design anymore. The sleek new baskets are made up of three parts: a concrete base, a metal lid on a hinge and a lightweight plastic basket.
Here’s what else is going on:
- On “Ask Governor Murphy” tonight at 7 p.m., WNYC’s Nancy Solomon will ask the governor how New Jersey can live up to the lofty, welcoming ideals he’s articulated, if it can’t make space for these migrants?
- Elon Musk reportedly secretly welcomed a third child with Grimes last year, whose name is Techno Mechanicus.
- After pandemic-era government benefits expired and with increased inflation, U.S. child poverty rates more than doubled last year.
- Walmart redesigned their shopping carts and shoppers have very polarizing opinions about it.
- Don’t even bother buying an over-the-counter decongestant this cold and flu season, the Food and Drug Administration says they don’t work.
- This video of a pigeon gang took a very dark turn.
- Pickleball courts may be booked up, but so are feather bowling lanes, the hot new pastime in Brooklyn that combines curling, shuffleboard, bocce and bowling.
- And finally, I’ll take any and all advice from this tortoise influencer:
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