Early Addition: Order For 'Moana' Cake Becomes 'Marijuana' Cake
July 10, 2019, 11:15 a.m.
Loud farting suspect, a new movie studio in Astoria, the British Ambassador's resignation, a bad NJ judge, and more mid-day links.
Photograph outside a deli in lower Manhattan celebrating USWNT
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- The NJ judge who asked a rape victim if she knew how to close her legs now says he's sorry, as his conduct is being examined during a disciplinary hearing.
- Have you ever ordered a birthday cake with a decoration of "Moana" but then the bakery gives you one with "marijuana" and a stoned My Little Pony?
- A Long Island Rail Road employee who was repeatedly caught at home while he claimed he was working got to retire with his full pension.
- After wires where he called President Donald Trump "insecure" and his administration "dysfunctional" and "inept," Kim Darroch, the British Ambassador to the U.S., has resigned.
- Robert De Niro and his son are betting big on a Queens film and TV production studio, as they are part of a group that has purchased a five-acre lot in Astoria.
- Here's a real trip: "tl;dr my in-laws communicate as and via mouse figurines who they see as family members"
- Rip Torn, best known as "Artie" on The Larry Sanders Show, "Patches O'Houlihan" in Dodgeball, and "Don Geiss" on 30 Rock, has died at age 88.
- Nearly seven years after Superstorm Sandy, a long-promised Staten Island seawall may finally start construction.
- Police were able to find a person suspected of having a controlled substance when the suspect farted loudly.
- And are you as good at sharing as this baby and these Huskies:
