Extra Extra: Woody Allen was not impressed with the food service at Jeffrey Epstein's dinner parties
Aug. 5, 2025, 3:01 p.m.
Because the food wasn't really the point of those gatherings, it seems, here are your afternoon links: New Rochelle's housing boom, another New Jersey earthquake, Adrien Brody's bad art and more.

Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where the food in Jackson Heights is great.
Here's what else is happening:
- New Rochelle added so many new apartments over the past couple years that median rents have gone down slightly.
- Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene asked President Donald Trump to pardon George Santos, who just began his seven-year prison sentence for fraud.
- Diddy has been denied bail and will remain in jail until he's sentenced.
- The New York Times published a picture of a statue of a bride that hung in the atrium of Jeffrey Epstein's Upper East Side mansion. (The Times also published a copy of Woody Allen's 2016 birthday letter to Epstein, which criticized the food service at his dinner parties.)
- A 2.7 magnitude earthquake hit Bergen County, New Jersey around noon today.
- In an excerpt from Kid Cudi's forthcoming memoir, he writes about almost overdosing from cocaine in his Tribeca apartment.
- Citi Bike is giving out free rides on Saturdays in August.
- It sounds like George W. Bush is a better artist than Adrien Brody.
- Never seen "The Graduate?" You can watch it on Howdy.
- And finally, hustlin':
Incoming..š¦š pic.twitter.com/yrwsw0uIUV
— šoĢ“gĢ“ (@Yoda4ever) August 5, 2025