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Early Addition: Paris Is The New Brooklyn


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Published Sep 17, 2015

Modified Sep 17, 2015


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  • A livery cab driver was found stabbed to death in East New York.
  • Handlebar mustaches, artisanal jams, and other Brooklyny things take Paris: "That is just fake Brooklyn for French people. It’s Disneyland."
  • Hillary Clinton tries to access her human side in a jokey conversation with Jimmy Fallon-as-Donald Trump.
  • Now even aliens are making giant corn mazes in Taylor Swift's image.
  • Here's the compelling case against ad blocking apps.
  • A disturbing video shows Connecticut kids at juvenile jails put in solitary.
  • A contestant got Alex Trebek to say "Turd Ferguson" on Jeopardy this week.
  • Kate McKinnon's advice for people annoyed by the all-female Ghostbusters: "They should call their moms, work some stuff out."
  • Watch out for this reckless, car-crashing Mr Softee driver who was spotted on the Lower East Side.
  • Ice-T live tweeted the Republican debate, thinks Trump should come clean about his crack use.
  • A seal was spotted surfing on top of a whale because interspecies love is TOO REAL.
  • And finally, this dog has to get rid of all witnesses:

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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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