Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where Columbia University put up barriers in anticipation of Oct. 7 protests.
Here’s what else is happening:
- “‘Man, f— that guy,’ said a tall blonde woman, referring to the mayor. ‘All my homies hate him.'” Hell Gate interviewed Zero Bond and Casa Cipriani patrons about their thoughts on fellow clubgoer Eric Adams .
- Just because members of Adams’ inner circle are loyal to the boss doesn’t mean they get along with each other .
- Here’s how Long Islanders are marking the 50th anniversary of Hello Kitty .
- A glitch on a recent Quantas flight meant that everyone on the plane traveling from Sydney to Tokyo had to watch the same movie — and they voted on “Daddio,” an emotional (and at times explicit) drama that almost entirely takes place during Dakota Johnson’s cab ride from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Hell’s Kitchen .
- Whitfield County, Ga., school officials have spoken: Pajama pants are now deemed acceptable under the dress code.
- Out in Utah , women are dumping entire bottles of vanilla protein shake in their giant cups of Diet Coke.
- Up in Boston , they’re putting “a blue-green mixture of vanilla vodka, amaretto or pistachio liqueur, a splash of blue Curaçao, maybe a bit of Baileys and, depending on which bar you’re sitting at, a scoop of pistachio gelato” in a Martini glass.
- Here’s some Halloween costume advice .
- And finally, this actually seems really frustrating: