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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where the Knicks lost and the president got booed.
Here's what else is happening:
Billie Tisch, the philanthropist, chair of the WNYC Foundation and grandmother of the current NYPD commissioner, has died at the age of 98.
Phase one of the project to fortify the Battery against sea level rise has been completed.
Not a single person filed to run for mayor in the affluent Long Island village of Bayville, so when voters go to the polls on June 16, whoever gets the most write-ins will presumably get the $5,000-a-year job.
Jersey City and Hoboken are announcing a slate of "quick-build" street safety upgrades that'll be added to intersections over the coming months.
Variety says "Jean-Michel," a new Basquiat documentary that just premiered at the Tribeca Festival, is extremely good and well-rounded for a project that had the late artist's family's cooperation.
After all this, the U.S. men's soccer team's first game of the World Cupstill isn't sold out.
...maybe they should go back to the $25 ticket model.
And finally, ready: