Tab City Diary

Celebrating our tabloid city. Soak up dat high cultcha.

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#1train is the best train

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“Tuna? We got John Catsimatidis. You got Death Valley? We got the Long Island Expressway”

—Cindy Adams not impressed by launch of sister pub The California Post

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“HE DID IT ALL FOR THE NUZZI”

“Roses are red / RFK’s eyes are blue / he loves ‘Livvy’/ But her editors have no clue!”
—@nypost

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Trump reading the NYPost as he arrived for his golf game Saturday.

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“GET YOUR MESSAGE IN FRONT OF THE POWERS THAT BE”

—@nypost selling ads off its most famous reader

“…the new administration will be paying attention.”

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“He had this routine at night where he’d go to the bathroom and announce to the newsroom, ‘If Madonna calls for me, I’m in the middle stall,’ ‘If the Pope calls for me, I’m in the middle stall.”

https://t.co/oyNzUYojPQ

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Legendary Post editor, mentor, Michael Hechtman dies at 82 https://t.co/tGpPqKeD5e

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Sad day for New York Post nation. RIP to legendary night city editor Mike Hechtman.

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“…like potpourri with an undercurrent of rotting rat carcass.”

—MTA testing scent diffusers at two subway stations, @nypost reports

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RFK Jr. spotted working out in jeans & hiking boots at the Hudson Yards Equinox, @PageSix reports.

Members chuckled at the sight of him on treadmill in boots.

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“In the vast constellation of NYC bagel shops, Absolute Bagels held a lofty but unusual place of honor”
—NYT

“Heartbroken crowds flocked to the beloved Absolute Bagels to mourn its sudden shuttering—which came after the kitchen was taken over by rats”
—NY Post

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“Wall Street Titans Can’t Wait for Trump 2.0”
—@nytimes feature on banking execs sucking up to Trump & expecting to profit from his policies

“Don Sent Dimon to Voicemail”
—@nypost recap of the story

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🎶 …a blaze of light in every word…🎶

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“Do not bring a reporter to the gym.”

—Chris Licht reflects on the profile of him in @TheAtlantic, where he did squats and told a reporter “Zucker couldn’t do this sh*t.”

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“I’m alive, bitch!”

—@nypost resurrects Andrea Peyser after Martha Stewart claims she’s dead.

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Page Six stands by its reporting on a gay sex club operating out of a Park Slope grocery, prints claim suggesting the NY mag writer who questioned it is a virgin. Writer denies it.

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“Your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.”

“Oh! Girl, baby girl! Don’t even play!”

“If someone starts talking about somebody’s bleached-blonde, bad-built butch body, that wouldn’t be engaging in personalities?”

“A what now?”

—@NYPost covers House hearing

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“The New York Times, he said, ‘is known as the Gray Lady — as opposed to their readership, the White Lady.”

—Mayor Eric Adams roasts media at the 101st annual Inner Circle show (via @nypost)