Extra Extra: What do you consider rich in NYC?
Aug. 14, 2025, 3:19 p.m.
Because it's complicated, here are your afternoon links: a stolen dog, adult sleepaway camp, Bojangles coming to Brooklyn and more from around the city and internet.
It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City, where foot traffic in Manhattan is finally rebounding from pandemic lows.
Here’s what else is happening:
- Someone stole an American bully dog from a man sleeping on the subway in the Bronx.
- Whether Zohran Mamdani’s $142,000 salary makes him rich in New York City is pretty complicated. It’s actually so hard to compare New York City's wealth classes to the rest of the country that city leaders have actually developed their own metrics to measure affordability.
- Want to make friends as an adult? Try sleepaway camp.
- New York City's first Bojangles is coming to Brooklyn.
- The world’s largest Spanish-language rap battle is also coming to Brooklyn.
- Dozens of cannabis shop owners around the city are facing uncertainty after state officials realized they miscalculated how far away marijuana stores can be from schools.
- That wasn’t a UFO you saw flying over New Jersey the other day.
- And finally, gentle giant:
Bro is wagging his whole body pic.twitter.com/mn7wforZkh
— Jonathan Slater (@slater57649) August 6, 2025