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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where the residents of underground tunnels are more than “mole people.”
Here’s what else is happening:
- New York City landlords kept an estimated 26,310 vacant rent-stabilized apartments off the market last year, according to a new Census Bureau tally.
- “The commissioner says that you can take the skills home and use them. Name me one company in the United States — not just New York, but the United States — that presses license plates”: Ronald Dennis, a formerly incarcerated New Yorker, weighed in at a hearing this week as state lawmakers consider a bill to raise the minimum wage for imprisoned workers to either $1.20 or $3 an hour.
- The Public Theater said it’ll stage “The Comedy of Errors” at several parks and plazas around the city this summer while Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, the home of Shakespeare in the Park, is under construction.
- Yesterday’s snowstorm left a bunch of celebs stranded at the Delta lounge at JFK Airport.
- The U.S. military, which has been struggling with enlistment numbers, is targeting potential teenage recruits through video games like Fortnite.
- The Federal Trade Commission said Americans lost a record $10 billion to scammers last year.
- Cases of sexually transmitted infections have gone up in New York City, according to the latest available public health data. (Here are nine great ways to spend this Valentine’s Day all by yourself.)
- And finally, work with what you got:
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