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    Early Addition: Staten Island's Giant Wheel Hits Speed Bump

    by John Del Signore
    Published June 21, 2017
    Modified June 23, 2017
    Shel Serkin / Flickr

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    • Transit advocates say the $1.6 billion Cuomo is spending to transform the post office across the street from Penn Station shouldn't be used to turn it into a shopping mall.
    • A legal battle could jeopardize Staten Island's giant Ferris wheel before it even gets rolling.
    • Idiot tourists are taking selfies in front of the burned out London tower where 79 people died.
    • The latest Transformers movie is “two-and-a-half hours of racist robot torture,” says Nick Schager at the Daily Beast.
    • Meanwhile, new Blade Runner 2049 footage has been teased, and it is looking magnificent.
    • Some members of the Trump White House are apparently obsessed with Thucydices and his eponymous "trap."
    • Temperatures in Phoenix are hitting 120 degrees, and it's even hotter in the "Tent City" jail, where inmates are forced to live outdoors.
    • The NY Times has a touching profile on an NYPD officer who has gone the extra mile to help the family of a young woman critically injured by the out-of-control Times Square driver.
    • Is the solution to our intensifying subway problems targeted months-long repair shutdowns, like the L train rehab project?
    • Anyone up for a dip in this Florida river?


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