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Much of Clove Lakes Park, alongside Staten Island’s Sunnyside neighborhood, is about as close to untamed as city parkland gets. That isn’t a cheap Staten Island joke: Nearby residents have long complained about a sulfurous stench coming from the creek. The Departments of Environmental Protection and Parks recently zeroed in on the effluent from the employees-only toilets in a building on Slosson Avenue as the likely source. But there is some haziness around where the restroom’s waste goes. There’s a holding tank catching it all, or maybe a septic tank, or — you knew this was coming — the outflow has been going straight into the creek. Hence the radioactive-looking situation seen here, which is the outcome of a dye test. Here is how the city is addressing the radioactive-looking situation: nymag.visitlink.me/jYTPKo

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Donald Trump, who always loves to insert himself into major celebrity gossip, was already involved in the Tiger Woods DUI crash simply because the golf great is dating his former daughter-in-law, Vanessa Trump. But it turns out the president was even more mixed up in this story than we initially knew. TMZ reported that Woods called up the president after the rollover crash near his home in Jupiter, Florida, on March 27, 2025. As police assessed the scene, Woods stepped away and made a phone call. When he got off the phone, he said he was chatting with Trump. Woods pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence, and has said he’s “stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment and focus on my health.” So, why was Trump the first call Woods made? Margaret Hartmann has some theories: nymag.visitlink.me/fm87Xj

‘The Drama,’ a dark-hearted, cringe-inducing romantic comedy with a sterile sheen premieres this week, courtesy of wannabe provocateur director-writer Kristoffer Borgli and producer Ari Aster. The film follows Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson), a Boston-based couple who are speedily approaching the date of their wedding. The story finds its propulsion when Emma and Charlie are tasting the menu for their wedding alongside another married couple, Mike (Mamoudou Athie) and Rachel (Alana Haim). Conversation turns to how innocuous people are capable of horrible actions, and Rachel encourages everyone to confess the worst thing they’ve ever done. Then, between gulps of orange wine, Emma stumbles through a story that throws her wedding and interpersonal bonds in disarray. But following this revelation, which puts Emma at the center of a very American controversy, “Borgli seems to lack the conviction and curiosity to look at the Black womanhood of this character, despite the fac

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The bizarre intra-Republican struggle over reopening the Department of Homeland Security has taken another turn. House Republicans are resisting but not quite defying Donald Trump’s order to accept a Senate-passed bill funding the non-immigration functions of DHS. Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have agreed on a plan to reopen DHS, then separately pre-fund ICE and Border Patrol. House Speaker Mike Johnson agreed to the plan in principle, too. But then when he brought the marching orders back to his caucus in a conference call, his perpetually grumbling right-wing faction revolted. In part, they were angry because Johnson himself had earlier denounced the Senate bill as “a joke.” They also didn’t trust senators to follow through on promises to fund masked immigration agents until the end of time (well, actually until 2029, when Trump will leave office). “After a solid day of bitching and moaning, House Republicans decided, like recalcitrant children, to slow-walk the Sen