Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where the MTA is putting spikes on turnstiles.
Here's what else is happening:
- An update on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's free bus plan: It could die, it could become a watered-down free bus pilot or it could expand into a statewide free bus program. Albany will have to debate!
- Vendors in the Turnstyle Underground Market at the Columbus Circle subway station are struggling to get commuters to stop and shop instead of hustling to the train.
- The mayor of New York City could get a pay raise — bringing the job's salary to $300,500 a year — under a bill in the City Council.
- That's almost enough to be able to "afford" having a kid.
- According to the New York Post, Bill de Blasio is getting iced out by Mamdani and didn't get his CNN contract renewed — but he may not care because he just flew to Mexico with his new girlfriend.
- It's tonight: The NBA Cup (?) Final between the Knicks and the Spurs.
- The darts got dark.
- The mayor of a small town in southern Italy was in New York City recently to try to get us to adopt the Mediterranean diet.
- Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is trying to get us to eat more saturated fat.
- And finally, fancy feet:
