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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where the Democratic establishment struck back in last night’s primary election.
Here’s what else is happening:
- A cold front will sweep into the area tonight, putting a momentary end to this heat — and potentially causing tornadoes.
- Cancelling congestion pricing will cost New York 100,000 high-paying jobs over the next five years, according to the budget watchdog group Reinvent Albany.
- A new study of 947 urban areas in 37 countries found that NYC drivers spend more time sitting in traffic jams than anywhere else.
- The secret Russian trial of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was falsely accused by the Kremlin of espionage, begins today.
- The former Pfizer headquarters at 42nd Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan is being converted into a 1,500-unit residential building, marking the city’s largest office-to-apartment conversion yet.
- Clinton Hill is getting a Chick-fil-A on the ground floor of the new 29-story tower that took the place of former bar Hot Bird.
- TriBeCa residents are mad about plans to cover the faded remnants of old-timey ads on the side of 109 Broadway with shiny new ads for Fendi.
- Police said a 20-year-old New Jersey video game enthusiast who’d developed an online beef with a fellow gamer flew to his nemesis’ town in Florida, bought a hammer at a local hardware store, broke into the guy’s house, waited for him take a bathroom break and then tried to murder him with the hammer.
- Mayor Adams made an appearance at Sara’s birthday in Southampton last weekend.
- And finally, good hiding spot: