Early Addition: You can't plant a tree and park a cop's car in the same spot on the sidewalk
Aug. 18, 2025, 10:01 a.m.
Because the sidewalks outside some police precincts are conspicuously lacking shade, here are your early links: Good deaf basketball players, not-as-good comedian basketball players, U.S. Open ball kids and more.

Good Monday in New York City, where Trinity Church got a new pipe organ.
Here's what else is happening:
- The FBI is still reportedly investigating Mayor Adams allies Philip, David and Terence Banks, whose phones were seized last year. Here's what authorities might be looking at.
- Hell Gate found that on at least 10 occasions going back to 2018, scheduled tree plantings have been canceled outside police precincts where cops regularly park their personal cars on the sidewalk.
- New York City's official Deaf Community basketball team is very good.
- The official "Saturday Night Live"-cast-and-other-comedians basketball team is not that good, but some of the players are famous.
- Meet the elite 80 newcomers who earned spots in the U.S. Open ball kid crew out of a total of 1,600 applicants.
- Look outside, they're filming "The Devil Wears Prada 2."
- Rich Boomers are spending upwards of $100,000 to have their memoirs ghostwritten and self-published for their families to read.
- Sit tight, we're almost in the second-best month.
- And finally, goth:
Good night..😅 pic.twitter.com/S0qMMiu3oi
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) August 18, 2025