Early Addition: Would you pay $28 for a cup of coffee?
July 17, 2025, 10:15 a.m.
Because that's an option at the Chrysler building coffee shop, here are your early links: Hot dog prices at baseball stadiums, cane sugar coming to U.S. Coca-Cola, why tween girls love this SoHo retail worker and more from around the city and internet.
It’s Thursday morning in New York City, where there’s really no point in stomping on spotted lanternflies anymore.
Here's what else is happening:
- There’s a coffee shop inside of the Chrysler building selling a $28 coffee.
- FlashPicks analyzed hot dog prices at 30 Major League Baseball stadiums and found Citi Field to have the third most expensive hot dog with a price tag of $7.19. Over at Yankee Stadium, a hot dog costs $3.08.
- The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, home to The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park, has reopened after an 18-month renovation.
- This 17-year-old girl who works at the clothing store Brandy Melville in SoHo gained influencer-level popularity on TikTok and now her mostly middle school girl fans line up to say hi while she’s working a shift.
- Coca-Cola agreed to switch from high fructose corn syrup to cane sugar in their drinks, according to President Trump.
- A 61-year-old archery instructor was struck and killed by lightning while giving a lesson to a scout group in the woods of New Jersey on Wednesday.
- We no longer have to take off our shoes to go through airport security, and now the Department of Homeland Security is considering letting us carry more liquids in our carry-ons.
- And finally, sometimes the cat chooses you:
@kaitlyncruns Didn't even get to finish the run.... and now we have a cat? Two solid dog people and now here's Sam
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