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It’s a wet, dreary Friday morning in New York City, where bodega rats aren’t as popular as bodega cats.
This video of a huge rat scurrying around a bodega is making its rounds, and while I do believe there are rats of that size roaming the city, this is probably a muskrat. Either way, neither belong in a deli.
Here’s what else is happening:
- MTA and FDNY officials had to break down an 18-wheel tractor trailer carrying paint after it got stuck in the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel on Thursday morning. Traffic was backed up for hours and the driver was issued numerous summonses.
- After hundreds of auditions and months of competition, 20 acts took to the stage at the United Palace yesterday for the grand finale of The Talent Is Timeless, a citywide talent show for seniors.
- New York City public schools with more than 700 students are required to have a full-time librarian, yet a Chalkbeat analysis found that nearly a third of schools don’t have a librarian listed on their most recent budget.
- In more disappointing school news, a Flushing High School teacher and baseball coach was reassigned “away from students” and relieved from his coaching duties after a video of him shouting homophobic remarks went viral.
- The Long Island Sound Trawl Survey crew caught a 6-foot long, roughly 400-pound stingray in the Long Island Sound.
- It seems like the only MTA station in the city without OMNY readers is the JFK Airtrain. But that changed this week when officials installed the machines, except they’re not in use yet.
- A New York couple loves Costco so much, they went around the world to visit the franchise. So far, they’ve hit 200 stores, and wrote a book about it.
- Who says New Yorkers are rude? We ranked among the top five least petty states in the country. The pettiest, however, is Alabama, according to this Canadian study.
- And finally, the cat savior:
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