Early Addition: Get these mosquitos outta here
Aug. 19, 2025, 10 a.m.
Because Staten Island and Queens are getting sprayed again, here are your early links: An emergency $50 million to save local public radio stations, Bad Bunny's many fans, BuzzBalls' many fans and more.
Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where the contest for a casino license is nearing the final stage.
Here's what else is happening:
- Parts of Staten Island and Queens are again getting sprayed with mosquito pesticide this week.
- Mayor Eric Adams is again suing the city's Campaign Finance Board to get the public matching funds he keeps being denied.
- A group of major philanthropists is trying to raise an emergency $50 million to prevent local public TV and radio stations from shutting down after congressional Republicans defunded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- Salvo Lo Castro, a former chef at the Vatican, has opened a high-end Italian restaurant on Spring Street.
- Puerto Ricans who live in the continental U.S. are having really moving experiences going to the island for Bad Bunny's 30-concert residency in San Juan.
- Jon Hamm also had a great experience at one of the Bad Bunny shows.
- New science suggests that eating cheese before bedtime can cause you to have nightmares.
- Young Brits love BuzzBalls.
- And finally, bunny buffet:
Bunny hit the jackpot..🐇😅 pic.twitter.com/9mMrH3M8e2
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) August 19, 2025