Extra Extra: Adams says you never know if you'll wake up to another 9/11, that's just NYC

Dec. 18, 2023, 2:24 p.m.

Because New York City is like a box of chocolates, here are your afternoon links: That's not a penthouse, George Santos says his biopic is "fiction," Flaco the peeping tom and more.

Mayor Eric Adams at a nighttime press conference

It's Monday afternoon in New York City, where the mayor was likely aware that everyone would get upset about proposed library budget cuts.

Here’s what else is happening:

  • "New York. This is a place where every day you wake up you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our Trade Center through a person who's celebrating a new business that's open. This is a very, very complicated city, and that's why it's the greatest city on the globe," Mayor Eric Adams said while discussing another year in New York City.
  • For more Adams quotes, along with an exhaustive and very-fun-to-look-at chart of all his friends, head over to Hell Gate's "The Eric Adams Table of Success."
  • More and more, real estate agents are listing apartments as "penthouses" when they're simply the top-floor unit in a four-story walk-up.
  • The NYPD is booting reporters from the grungy press room they've long occupied inside One Police Plaza and moving them to a (nicer?) trailer outside the building.
  • If you were a professional baseball player with a beard, would you say no to the Yankees — and their money — in order to keep your facial hair?
  • Former U.S. Rep. George Santos is cautioning people not to believe the "fiction" being told in the HBO biopic about him.
  • Flaco, you rascal, stop peeping in people's windows!
  • Zoomers just want to lay in bed and record a podcast.
  • And finally, it's almost vacation: