Early Addition: FBI raided the Polymarket founder's SoHo apartment
Nov. 14, 2024, 9:01 a.m.
Because the crypto betting platform recently gained attention for fielding wagers on a Trump win, here are your early links: Trump wants back at Wollman Rink, Black Santa on Long Island, an ASMR spa in NYC and more.

Good Thursday morning in New York City, where park fires are increasingly common.
Here's what else is happening:
- The AP called it last night: Republicans won a majority in the House of Representatives.
- A 14-year-old boy has been charged with arson for allegedly setting a forest fire last month that burned 52 acres in Marlton, New Jersey.
- The Trump Organization said it wants to return to operating Central Park's Wollman Rink.
- Van Ritshie, the man behind the voice announcing stops along the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North since the mid-90s, has died at the age of 80.
- Big Ocean, the first hard-of-hearing K-Pop boy band, put on a surprise show this week at St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf in the Bronx.
- The FBI last night raided the Manhattan home of 26-year-old Shayne Coplan, the founder of crypto-based betting site Polymarket, which was used by loads of people to place bets on a Trump win.
- "There are many different ways that Santa was born and in our world we believe he was Black": Santa James, a.k.a. Black Santa, is coming to Wyandanch Plaza on Long Island starting this Friday.
- If you want someone to play with your hair in an ASMR-y way, there's a spa in New York City for that.
- And finally, good assist:
— cats with jobs 🛠 (@CatWorkers) November 14, 2024