The Vibe Report: Episode 3 — Field Notes on a Candy Shop

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The Vibe Report: Episode 3 — Field Notes on a Candy Shop

The Vibe Report · episode 3 · 2026-09-29

Episode 3 closes yesterday's Queens candy-shop mystery with Schmidt's Candy's hundredth year, tours the day's borough moods in a mock nature-documentary style, and opens a new mystery about a strange bench for tomorrow.

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65th Street Station by Kidfly182 · CC BY 4.0 · source
New York Transit Museum Court Street platform by Marcin Wichary · CC BY 2.0 · source
Dynamic American City, The (Part I) by Baskaw (Frederick J). · Public domain · source
Porter Robinson at Forest Hills Stadium 04 by SWinxy · CC BY 4.0 · source
Rainy Night 65th Street (15265985954) by Billie Grace Ward from New York, USA · CC BY 2.0 · source
Sign of the New York Stock Exchange, Broad Street by Billie Grace Ward · CC0 · source
Too short adjacent benches 4 by B137 · CC0 · source
Lower Manhattan from Staten Island Ferry Jan 2006 by Diliff · CC BY 2.5 · source

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