🌱 Ivana Trump Dead At 73 + NYC Ferries Raise Price + Cannabis News

Good morning New York City, and happy Friday! Ivana Trump, the former wife of Donald Trump, is dead at 73; NYC ferries cost $4 now; and New York's getting a new suicide prevention hotline. The state's also inching closer to issuing licenses to open a cannabis business, and you can dine at these 25 city restaurants in contention for Michelin awards.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny. High: 87 Low: 70.

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Here are the top five stories in New York City today:

1. Ivana Trump, the former wife of Donald Trump, was found dead in her Upper East Side apartment on Thursday. She was 73. Both the former president and his children released statements honoring her life. Ivana Trump made headlines in the 90s when she accused her ex-husband of raping her–a charge she later walked back. (New York City Patch)
2. NYC ferry tickets are now going for $4 a pop, up from $2.75, which is the price of a subway ride. The change comes with new discounted fares for roughly one million low-income city residents, and the option to pay a lower price if you buy 10 tickets at a time. (New York City Patch)
3. A new national 3-digit suicide prevention number, 988, is set to launch across New York State this Saturday, July 16. It will connect people in distress with trained councilors, while reducing the reliance on law enforcement agencies in responding to mental health emergencies. The hotline also comes with a chat function on its website. (SILive.com)
4. New Yorkers eager to open a cannabis business may get their chance as early as the end of the summer, after the NY Cannabis Control Board voted to approve regulations. The first licenses will benefit people who have suffered from the over criminalization of weed in the state. (Patch)
5. The MTA has quietly been removing their iconic COVID-era yellow mask signs from the subway over the past month. Meanwhile, a rarely-enforced mask mandate remains in place on public transit. (AMNY)

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Today in New York City:

• Fever-Tree Drink Truck - Complimentary Non-Alcoholic Cocktails (11 a.m.)
• "Domino Art: Design, Build, and Topple!" with Lily Hevesh (6:30 p.m.)
• George Dawes Green + Kurt Andersen: The Kingdoms of Savannah (7 p.m.)
• U.S. Premiere of Taneyev’s At the Reading of a Psalm (8 p.m.)
• Schimanski Presents: Nothing But Beats (10 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• A missing teen from Brownsville, Arwen Delgado, was last seen. on Wednesday in Downtown Brooklyn's Tillary Park. (New York City Patch)
• A woman in Crown Heights was hit in the hand by a stray bullet while sleeping in her bed a little after midnight on Thursday. (New York City Patch)
• A 14-year-old girl running away from home was sex trafficked by a 62-year-old man outside of Penn Station, according to prosecutors. (New York City Patch)

From my notebook:

• These twenty-five New York City restaurants are possible contenders for Michelin awards. (Eater NY)
• Mayor Adams' Chief of Staff Frank Carone has been circling the globe 'selling' NYC to international businesses. Most recently he was spotted in Israel, before that South Korea. (New York Post)
• Landmarked no more–a historic building in Upper Manhattan's Sugar Hill will be torn down due to neglect, Patch has learned. (New York City Patch)
• An upstate summer camp popular with New Yorkers was forced to close its first session early due to a COVID outbreak that's infected 50 staff and 4 campers. (Gothamist)

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