Early Addition: The fungi are flourishing

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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where there's a way to find out about great apartments before they hit the market and come with exorbitant broker's fees.

Here's what else is happening:

• All this heat and humidity has been great for the city's mushroom population.
• The Bronx's Fulton Fish Market is a scene at 3 a.m.
• Louis CK is selling his impressively preserved 1901 Shelter Island house for $9.25 million.
• A Brighton Beach homeowner who appeared to be flying the flag of the Taliban has taken it down after a local City Council member complained.
• Reality TV casting directors are facing new challenges from would-be contestants who submit portfolios of AI-altered pictures instead of honest images of themselves.
• Adam Lambert of "American Idol" and "Moana" star Auli’i Cravalho are taking over for Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin in the Broadway production of "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club" this September.
• If at any point in the last year you saw the viral Eastern European video clip of an animated head popping out of a toilet singing "skibidi" and thought, Michael Bay will want to develop this as a film and TV franchise, you guessed right .
• Maybe Trump's ear just got hit by shrapnel ?
• And finally, get that outta here: