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Extra, Extra: XXX Lounge Chairs Are Just What Times Square Needed


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Published Aug 25, 2016

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  • Jezebel writes about how some restaurants still get away with looks-based discrimination.
  • Sheldon Silver has bought himself another year before he has to start his 12-year prison sentence.
  • Lounge chairs are now in Times Square for some reason.
  • Zardulu has sold out for an advice column.
  • Here's why The Girl On the Train switched locations from London to New York.
  • Truman Capote died on this day in 1984, and you can revisit his New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando from 1957.
  • The woman who wrote about moving to a tropical island to scoop ice cream last year reflects on going viral.
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  • The Brooklyn garden shut down over pot plants is going to reopen.
  • And finally, these toads really do not appreciate having to share at dinnertime:

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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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