Early Addition: It smells like weed at the U.S. Open
Aug. 27, 2025, 10:01 a.m.
Because one of the players is complaining about it, here are your early links: How to date when you live with your parents, Andrew Cuomo's deleted car video, getting high while filming the 1990 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie and more.

Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where U.S. Open tickets are expensive.
Here's what else is happening:
- There's also a pervasive weed smell at the U.S. Open this year, and it's annoying one of the players.
- "If there’s one thing I know, it’s cars," said Andrew Cuomo in a video he posted and then immediately deleted last week.
- The City reports that Franklin Sepulveda, the NYPD’s director of traffic, is under internal investigation for allegedly sideswiping a car and then telling a city worker to lie about the source of the damage.
- Police said a 69-year-old woman yesterday crashed her Jeep into a Planet Fitness in Elizabeth, New Jersey, killing one man who was working out near the front.
- The American Dream megamall could be breaking New Jersey's centuries-old "blue law" by being open on Sundays.
- Congrats to Sammi Sweetheart on the birth of her son.
- Some good tips for dating if you're an adult who lives with your parents.
- "[Donatello] pulled out a blunt and we were like: 'Yeah. Come on!' We’d all been through so much": Here's an oral history of the making of the 1990 live-action movie of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
- And finally, turtle power:
a baby turtle enjoys a cleaning. 🐢🪥 pic.twitter.com/j9WO6lJATi
— Nature & Animals🌴 (@naturelife_ok) August 23, 2025