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Good Monday morning in New York City, where the diners keep disappearing.

Here's what else is happening:

• Congrats to Ozone Park fencer Lauren Scruggs on winning the silver medal in the women's foil competition at the Paris Olympics. (Congrats as well to American Lee Keifer, who won gold. (And good luck to Bensonhurst fencer Anne Cebula in her epée events!))
• Despite Mayor Adams' campaign pledge to prioritize repairs for NYCHA playgrounds , one in six public housing playgrounds is currently closed .
• Robert Menendez Elementary School in West New York, New Jersey, is changing its name back to Public School No. 3 following its namesake senator's bribery conviction.
• Midtown steakhouse Gallaghers put stickers on its framed photo of actor Perry Como reading, "This is not Jeffrey Epstein. This is Perry Como," because so many customers were asking why they had a picture of Epstein on their wall .
• The New York Times has removed a quote from a recent story about voter sentiment after interviewing a self-described Trump supporter who, it turns out, can't vote because she went to prison in the early 2000s for fraudulently sticking a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili in an attempt to get a settlement.
• New York City sidewalks are crowded .
• Edna O'Brien , the Irish author best known for her trilogy, "The Country Girls," has died at the age of 93 .
• A new study found that American adults are having sex an average of 5.6 times a month .
• And finally, portion control: