Good Thursday afternoon in New York City, where out-of-staters are buying up apartments.
Here's what else is happening:
- It's getting more expensive to have a car in New Jersey.
- Chris Cuomo has become a big ivermectin booster.
- If New York City spent real money to maintain its dog runs instead of letting them turn into flooded mosquito breeding grounds, would all the angst about dogs, poop, violence and gentrification go away?
- The Stew Leonard’s animatronic mascots are going on tour this fall across the chain's tristate area locations.
- The New York Botanical Garden is staging a Nightmare Before Christmas-themed light show this fall.
- An exhibit honoring '90s "street-style" skate videos is coming to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.
- Wally Amos, the cookie-maker made famous by Famous Amos cookies, has died at the age of 88.
- The second annual Race Across Europe, a 1,200-mile race from London to Albania that takes place over public transit, kicks off this weekend.
- As Brazil becomes more conservative, fewer people are carrying on the country's tradition of being naked on the beach.
- And finally, everyone's doing the Raygun: