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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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