Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at how the federal government shutdown is playing out in New York. We’ll also get to the bottom of a rumor that the Yankees kept Red Sox fans out of Yankee Stadium during Game 1 of the American League Wild Card series.
Ana Maria Carreño, a 21-year-old Colombian who is spending a week in New York City, arrived at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site on Wednesday hoping to learn more about the 26th president.
Her friend Juanita Corredor said that Carreño had described the Rough Rider chief executive as “one of the best presidents the U.S. had” on their way there. “And the teddy bear,” Corredor said, mentioning the stuffed toy that was inspired by a presidential hunting trip.
But the lights at the birthplace site were off and the doors were locked, the result of a government shutdown.
A few miles away, Gov. Kathy Hochul warned that one of the country’s best-known symbols, the Statue of Liberty’s torch, could go dark in the shutdown. Proposals to end the stalemate failed in the United States Senate on Wednesday, and Democrats and Republicans dug in for what could be an extended fight — and an extended shutdown.
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