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@newyorkers Column 🤪

Thankful to call the greatest city - and its incredible people - home

Here are this week’s highlights that prove why.Thanksgiving 2025

• Here’s some thing that NYers are thankful for ❤️

• NYers shared their stories and memories of the Thanksgiving Day parade to the red mic 🎤

• We ran into Mayor Eric Adams after the Thanksgiving Day Parade, who gave a special message to the city.

• Shoutout to the sanitation team cleaning up after the parade

  tidying up the city before dinner

• It’s Thanksgiving weekend in NYC, which means the city is looking a little quiet 🤫

• Street closures due to the parade on Thanksgiving provided the rare opportunity to walk down a closed Fifth Ave.

• The crowds just to watch the balloon inflation the day before the Thanksgiving Parade were crazy

Other Highlights

• With the holiday season here, we wanted to find out what New York’s favorite Christmas movie is.

• We asked NYers how they feel about the penny being phased out by the government.

• We interviewed Bob, the man behind the Washington Square Park cigarette meetup.

• We asked people a classic NYC question: rats or pigeons?

• Mayor-elect Mamdani met with President Trump, and the internet could not wait to meme on the situation.

• Water expert Martin Riese explains why NYC has the best tap water in the world

• Pei Chung, who gained notoriety for “dining and dashing” from several Brooklyn restaurants, is now being held on Rikers Island

• People are forming groups to help cleanup NYC’s streets of litter

• Saks Fifth Ave kicked off the 2025 holiday season with their iconic Light Show

• The Rockettes invited 500 current and former dancers to celebrate the first show of their 100th anniversary season 💃

• A view that never gets old: NYC as seen from the top of bear mountain, over 40 miles away

• This legend named Fabrizio goes by the title “the Wolf of Spring Street”

• So cute: this might be the friendliest store manager I’ve ever seen

• When there’s no 7 train, the alternative shuttle busses turn into MAYHEM

• A double decker carousel opened in Herald Square just in time for the holidays

• The LIRR unveiled their first ever Holiday Lights Train 🚊

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