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Austin Butler and Kaia Gerber are still going strong.

The “Elvis” star and the model shut down breakup rumors as they were spotted holding hands after dinner in New York City on Saturday.

The actor was photographed opening the car door for his girlfriend before they made their way to Radio City Music Hall for a Gracie Abrams concert.

Butler, 33, shielded his face with a blue baseball cap, which he paired with a blue sweater, cargo pants and Nike sneakers.

As for Gerber, 23, she sported a blue cropped tee, low-rise jeans and black ballet flats.

While leaving the venue, the couple walked close together, with the “Carrie Diaries” alum covering his face with a black mask.

The rare sighting of the duo together comes after Gerber was seen having dinner with Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth at The Polo Bar in NYC last week.

Photos exclusively obtained by Page Six showed the trio smiling upon leaving the ritzy restaurant, however Butler was nowhere in sight.

A insider told Page Six that the “Dune: Part Two” star was supposed to join the outing, but he got stuck filming his forthcoming movie “Caught Stealing.”

We learned he couldn’t make it because “he has been filming long hours for Darren Aronofsky’s new movie.”

The following day, the actor was photographed kissing co-star Zoë Kravitz while filming in the Big Apple.

Butler and Gerber have been facing split rumors since a blind item posted on gossip blog DeuxMoi alleged the model was seen “all over” comedian Marcelo Hernandez while dining at NYC restaurant The Odeon.

Photos posted on Reddit showed Gerber and the “Saturday Night Live” star close together.

And last week, Cindy Crawford’s look-alike daughter attended a musical with music video director Cole Bennett.

“Everything is fine with Kaia and Austin,” an insider told Page Six. “She’s just out and about.”

Even though Butler and Gerber have rarely been seen together publicly, we’re told they are often spending time together privately.

According to a source, the pair has busy schedules and enjoys their alone time.

The couple has been dating since early 2022 following Gerber’s split from “Euphoria” star Jacob Elordi.

Try reaching across this table for the salt and pepper.

Hundreds of New Yorkers congregated at a city block-long table in Chelsea Sunday afternoon for the third annual “Longest Table” potluck lunch party – where foodies hailing from Chelsea to Harlem to New Jersey to Lithuania broke bread in the name of fostering community connections.

“We live in this city that’s so densely populated, and it’s just easy to walk by people who are just having a ‘how’s the weather’ conversation,” said longtime Chelsea resident and event volunteer Nathaniel Hawkins.

“I feel like now [with] important issues, when we need people to show up, more and more people show up,” said Hawkins, 52.

The large-scale lunch affair, held on a car-free Open Street on West 21st Street between Ninth and 10th avenues, began in 2022 after the pandemic lockdown drove event co-founder Maryam Banikarim to find safe, new ways to reconnect with her Chelsea neighbors.

“I passingly knew my neighbors [before], but during COVID I really got to know them because we were each other’s life lines,” Banikarim, another longtime Chelsea resident, told The Post.

“There’s also this epidemic of loneliness and mental health issues,” she added. “People have this incredible desire, particularly post-COVID to connect with each other in real life … [The Longest Table] changed my experience in the neighborhood.”

A photo circulating social media of neighbors sharing a massive outdoor meal in Egypt inspired Banikarim to set up a similar outdoor dining experience, with the help of about eight volunteers. News of the event spread on neighborhood-based social media website Nextdoor — with a whopping 500 people attending the inaugural soirée.

“Table captains” were designated to host tables, bring chairs and coordinate their potluck contributions — which ran the gamut from baked goods to Chinese food to Indian cuisine to a great big hero sandwich.

“It’s the diversity of the city,” she said. “Everyone’s curious what everyone else has brought.”

The second iteration of the event in 2023, which amassed about 700 participants, was even studied by college students from Barnard to understand the impact of the project, Banikarim said.

“What we learned was a lot of the people came from Chelsea, but also from other parts of the city, it’s a microcosm of New York City,” she told The Post, noting that 92% of the people who showed up were able to connect with other attendees. By the end of the event, more than 60% felt less lonely, she said.

Banikarim reports that, in her own neighborhood, the project has fostered more communication and helping hands, from borrowing ladders to facilitating conversations about new projects in the area — such as Vanderbilt University’s recent takeover of the site of the General Theological Seminary.

“More people end up speaking to each other, and then they can be there [for each other] in moments of need,” she said.

Both newcomers and returning attendees seemed to agree that the bustling event helped New Yorkers get to know one another better.

“The biggest surprise [moving] here was the community,” Ilma Tiki, 41, a Chelsea resident who moved from Lithuania two years ago, told The Post during the Sunday afternoon soirée. “This is the reason why you want to live in the neighborhood and this city … this was a must-thing to do.”

“I am so excited to be here,” said Chelsea resident Eleanor, 82, who declined to give her last name. “Chelsea can get very divisive … to get everybody together, it’s really great.”

“In a city where it’s so hard to find community or [where] sometimes you don’t know who your neighbor is, this is an opportunity to meet all your neighbors – meeting them in a fun, unorthodox setting,” Council Member Erik Bottcher, who represents Chelsea, told The Post. “And it happens to be on one of the most beautiful blocks in Chelsea.”

Since its inception, the Longest Table has been replicated in other cities from Kansas City, Mo. to Paris, France using an online toolkit Banikarim has since made available online.

Chelsea residents George Duval and Lisa Lindo-Duval recreated the project in Harlem last week, and plan to bring the table to underserved neighborhoods in Manhattan and Bronx.

Lindo-Duval is also planning a similar event in her mother’s home city of Kingston, Jamaica.

“It’s not just for a sense of community, but also for safety,” Lindo-Duval said. “It’s so everyone can get to know each other, so that they can call on each other.”

Banikarim says she has big dreams of one day bringing the Longest Table over the Brooklyn Bridge to connect the boroughs – and another one uniting the coasts for America’s 250th anniversary next year.

“Wouldn’t it be a beautiful thing,” she mused, “to share food and come together to celebrate humanity?”

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVLA) — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has cited a star from the hit television show “Swamp People” for the improper tagging of alligators after an undercover sting.

Troy Landry, 64, was cited on two counts of failing to tag an alligator upon taking, according to an LDWF incident report.

LDWF agents received a tip on Wednesday, Sept. 18, that someone was setting alligator lines in Lake Palourde in St. Mary Parish, despite not having permission to hunt on that property. The following day, agents set up surveillance in the area and discovered alligator lines that matched the description of the suspected hunter who was not allowed on the property.

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Agents surveilled the area until they spotted Landry and two other people who were on a boat that was making their way toward the alligator line, according to the incident report. During the check, agents discovered that Landry did have permission to hunt on the property.

When Landry was asked about the alligator tags, he said “he had two tags gifted to him.” He added that every alligator in the boat was from the Atchafalaya Basin area and was tagged accordingly, according to the incident report.

Agents said Landry reportedly did not have the right alligator tags to hunt in that area.

According to an incident report, at first, Landry said he didn’t take an alligator from the property. After agents proved to him that they were “watching the entire time,” Landry admitted he had taken an alligator from the area.

“Mr. Landry also admitted that prior to agents making contact with him, he cut a dead “stiff” alligator loose from his line and let it float away,” the incident report said.

Landry received two citations, one for the improperly tagged alligator and the other for cutting the dead alligator from the line. According to the incident report, the boat and the boat’s engine were seized in connection with this violation.

Landry is among the group of Louisiana alligator hunters that appear in the History Channel’s “Swamp People” series, which has been on-air since 2010. Landry, dubbed the “King of the Swamp,” hunts alongside his sons, Jacob and Chase, and “consistently fills more tags than any swamper,” according to the show.

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Two teenages boy, ages 12 and 13, were arrested on Saturday following an assault on former New York Gov. David Paterson and his stepson on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Police said the boys were arrested on gang assault charges one day after Paterson and his 20-year-old stepson were beaten and bruised in an evening sidewalk brawl. Investigators had been looking for a total of five people in connection with the assault.

“Governor Paterson and his family are glad to see the suspects turned themselves in. We hope that the young people involved learn something from this unfortunate encounter," a statement from Paterson's spokesperson said Sunday. "The Governor is grateful to see the kids' parents hold them to account and would also like to thank the NYPD for their strong work.“

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The former governor described the incident in detail Saturday, telling reporters that he had been "punched in the face a couple times," and that his stepson, Anthony Chester Sliwa, required five stitches in his lip.

Paterson, who is legally blind, and Sliwa were walking the family dog on Second Avenue near East 96th Street around 8:30 p.m. at the time of the attack. The assault was preempted by an altercation that took place about 45 minutes earlier, Paterson said.

According to the former governor, Sliwa was walking the dog when he noticed a group of teens climbing up the fire escape to a building.

"Which has been a way that people have been able to gain access to the building and to either vandalize or rob the building in the past," Paterson explained. Sliwa, he said, admonished the boys.

Paterson joined his stepson for a walk less than an hour later, and that's when they bumped into the same group of teens. But this time, Paterson said, the teens had back-up, which included a couple of adults.

"[A woman] threw the first punches in the actual fight and another adult was the second person to throw punches," he said.

Both Paterson and Sliwa were taken to the hospital to be treated for bruises and cuts. They were released by the next morning.

When we met, Luis Beltran was standing in a crowd, looking a little shell-shocked, holding an ice cream.

"People in the city can be so rude," he said.

It was still summer, and we were in the middle of one of the largest parks in New York City: Flushing Meadows Park in Queens. As the heat winds down, NPR has been interviewing parkgoers about life as recently arrived immigrants.

This park is a great place to hear all kinds of stories. Queens is traditionally a hub for immigrants from all parts of the world, and thousands of people come here every weekend. On that summer day, there was live music, and food vendors selling goodies at the top of their lungs. Which is exactly what Beltran was trying to do for the first time: sell some ice cream.

But when he got there, he froze. (No pun intended.)

The thing is, Beltran is very shy.

"Especially around women," he said, laughing and looking down. Beltran is 23 years old. He’s short and stocky, a handsome guy.

Originally from Ecuador, he left home about a year ago. He says he paid a coyote, a guide to migrants, to bring him up through Central America and Mexico, all the way to the U.S. border. It cost about $20,000.

This is not an uncommon fee for that journey: Migrants often sell everything they own and get deep in debt to pay for the trek north. “Coming to the U.S. is expensive,” said Beltran.

Beltran is among the more than 200,000 migrants who have arrived in New York City since 2022, according to local government. Like many of them, although he is in the immigration system, he doesn’t have work authorization. This is a problem because he owes money to that coyote, who knows where his family lives.

La deuda, the debt, is a frequent topic of conversation among recently arrived immigrant communities.

“I think about how to pay la deuda,” Beltran said.

He got a job in construction. Then one day, he picked up a book called Atomic Habits, by James Clear. "It teaches you how to take more risks, be more open, be more of a businessman. Challenge yourself."

Beltran finished the book and decided to come to the park and sell ice cream. Specifically, helados de salcedo, an Ecuadorian-style popsicle.

But when he got here this morning, he got nervous.

When we met, he was just standing there quietly, a now-dripping ice cream cone in hand, as if holding a white surrender flag.

He said he was thinking about his aunt. When he was a kid, he used to sell flowers with her on the street. He was already very shy back then, and one day she told him: "Luis, you can’t afford to be shy."

So he says this morning when he got to the park, he came up with a mantra: "Send money to cancel the debt. Cancel the debt. Cancel the debt. Keep going. Keep fighting."

Beltran's eyes light up a little as he says it aloud. He takes a deep breath and yells:

"Helados de lado de salcedo, helados de sabores, helados, helados, helados… no se quede con las ganas. (Salcedo ice cream! All kinds of flavors! Ice cream! Don’t hesitate to get yours!)"

As he shouts it, he smiles for the first time since we met.