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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where the cops had to shut down the Versace sample sale.
Here’s what else is happening:
- A new bill in Albany would ban the sale of sticky glue traps for rodents on the grounds that they’re cruel and can accidentally harm other innocent critters.
- Shortly after Mayor Adams took office, the city backed out of contract negotiations with a renewable diesel vendor and instead chose to do business with Approved Oil of Brooklyn, a company that made three donations to the mayor’s campaign.
- When asked this week why top mayoral aide Timothy Pearson isn’t facing apparent consequences after allegedly fighting security guards at a migrant shelter and being accused of sexually harassing a former suboordinate, Mayor Adams explained that “as a person who was in the [World] Trade Center when the buildings collapsed and saved a great deal of people in guiding them out and protecting this city for the time he has, I think [Pearson] is due, due process.”
- The City Council is considering a bill to let food carts and other vendors move two feet towards the middle of a sidewalk so the person operating the cart isn’t centimeters away from moving traffic.
- A New York City fitness trainer set a pair of Guinness World Records for lunging.
- Next month’s total eclipse is going to hit in the middle of a day game at Yankee Stadium.
- The Judd Foundation is suing Kim Kardashian for claiming to have Donald Judd-designed tables in her company’s office when, in fact, they’re knock-offs.
- Donald Trump is selling $60 Bibles with Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless The USA” lyrics printed in there as a bonus.
- Push button, allow Dutch fish to enter mating waters.
- And finally, but can she lunge: