Extra Extra: What it takes to become a New Jersey diner completist
Aug. 6, 2025, 3:01 p.m.
Because one couple has spent the last 10 years doing it and they've nearly hit all of them, here are your afternoon links: Gay Army helicopter pilot running for Congress on Long Island as a Democrat, cow colostrum ice cream, Costco's autumn decor and more.

Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where the food in Jackson Heights is great.
Here's what else is happening:
- New York City's Campaign Finance Board today once again denied Mayor Eric Adams the public matching funds he's requested.
- A volunteer Long Island fire chief has been relieved of his duties after being caught on camera swearing at a 10-year-old girl while she was loaded into an ambulance.
- Chris Gallant, a former Black Hawk helicopter pilot in the Army who also happens to be a Long Island volunteer firefighter, is running for Congress as a Democrat against sitting Republican Rep. Nick LaLota.
- A lot of people have probably said they want to eat at every diner in New Jersey, but this couple has spent the last decade actually doing it. (They just hit diner number 285.)
- You have a couple days left to get the cow colostrum ice cream at OddFellows.
- Type A college kids are putting casual hookup appointments on each other's GCals.
- They're saying good things about the fall accent rugs at Costco.
- That's a big ranch.
- And finally, aw:
This is so important to me. pic.twitter.com/zDqGi0PJjk
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) August 4, 2025