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This wasn’t supposed to happen. A former Pfizer headquarters was being turned into more than 1,600 luxury apartments. Then support columns started buckling. Construction workers described steel beams “bending like cigarettes.” Floors between roughly the 21st and 26th stories began sagging. 🚨🇺🇸 PFIZER HQ COLLAPSING IN NYC! The former Pfizer headquarters is at risk of …
Convenience stores across the country are saying sales are down 4.3% year over year and chips and cigarette sales in particular are taking a hit. And of course these items are discretionary and not necessary which is yet another economic warning sign people are going broke.
A city Correction officer was indicted Wednesday for allegedly smuggling more than $15,000 worth of contraband – including 200 cigarettes and a cell phone – into Rikers Island, prosecutors said. Kendell Felix, 37, is accused of accepting a $3,000 bribe from an outside person in order to sneak the illicit items into the jail complex …