Compiled by Sahalie Donaldson Monday, September 19, 2022 |
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Partly sunny in New York City, a chance of showers in Albany and showers in Buffalo. New York City, 83; Albany 80; Buffalo, 74. |
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| Housing Court headaches abound Stop and frisk ramps up |
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* The Albany County District Attorney's Office and the state Board of Elections are moving forward with an investigation focusing on duplicate signatures submitted in nominating petitions on behalf of gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Times Union writes. * New York City is eyeing legal action to stop Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from sending more buses full of asylum-seekers to the city, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday, Politico New York reports. * A new bill in the state Legislature would require the New York City Housing Authority to provide residents with free food if their drinking water gets cut off – in response to this month's arsenic scare at a Manhattan public housing complex, the Daily News reports. * As New York struggles to find housing for a wave of migrants arriving in the city, Adams is seriously considering housing them on cruise ships, The New York Times reports. * With rents soaring and tourism rebounding, New York's ambitious plan to convert tens of thousands of coronavirus-emptied hotel rooms into affordable housing is looking like a bust, Politico New York writes. * More news below … |
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* State officials are working with immigration advocates to help streamline the process for an estimated 800,000 New Yorkers who are eligible to naturalize, the Times Union writes. * A New York City Police Department lieutenant who had been facing discipline for 52 substantiated allegations of misconduct is retiring instead – avoiding penalties in three cases and getting docked 64 vacation days in five others, The City reports. * Scores of community leaders in southern Brooklyn are rallying around beleaguered Maimonides hospital as it bats back complaints of declining patient care, plummeting finances, fat executive compensation and mismanagement, the New York Post writes. * The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will begin allowing parents and caregivers to bring open strollers on some city buses, reversing a long-standing policy that required customers to fold their strollers before boarding, Gothamist reports. * Plant-based pizza and strikingly presented branzino are on the menu at Italian restaurant Osteria La Baia in Midtown, which is helmed by twin brothers who are convicted felons and close friends of Adams, The New Yorker writes. * Yeshiva University will temporarily shut down all of its undergraduate clubs in the college's latest attempt to avoid recognizing an LGBTQ campus group after a legal bid was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court, Gothamist writes. |
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* Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration agreed to purchase 26 million tests from Digital Gadgets for roughly double the per-test price being offered by other distributors – is her administration inept? Or do we have a serious scandal on our hands, Chris Churchill writes for the Times Union. * There's no upside for a first-year mayor putting out numbers from a fiscal year that runs from July to June and mushes the last six months of the previous administration and the first six months of the new one, let alone after the pandemic shutdown of shook-up and washed away old trend lines, Harry Siegel writes for the Daily News. * With S&P stock down nearly a quarter this year, the worst performance in half a century, and inflation at 8%, cutting deeply into savings, it's time to worry about pensions – yours and the retirement security of the city's government workers, which you also have to pay for, Nicole Gelinas writes for the Post. |
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DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre) – the Dubai Government Authority for commodity trade and enterprise – will stage its flagship international roadshow Made for Trade Live – New York in Focus in partnership with the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and AmCham Dubai, on September 21 2022. The event plays a key role in promoting Dubai as a leading international centre for trade, particularly of commodities, as well as the promotion of DMCC, the world's fastest-growing Free Zone. We facilitate trade across a range of goods from diamonds, gold and precious metals to tea, food and industrial materials, some of which the UAE and USA share a significant mutual interest. |
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* School board races, traditionally local contests, are now the latest targets for a handful of national conservative groups with backing from a GOP megadonor seeking to shape how potentially difficult discussions on race and gender identity happen – or don't – in classrooms across the country, Politico reports. * Hurricane Fiona battered Puerto Rico yesterday, cutting power to the entire island while bringing destructive winds and life-threatening flash flooding, The Washington Post reports. * When asked, six Republican nominees for governor and the U.S. Senate in key midterm states, all backed by former President Donald Trump, would not commit to accepting the November outcome. Five others did not answer the question, the Times writes. |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: To Maggie Moran, former managing partner at Kivvit … to Steve Stites, managing attorney at Stites Law LLP … to Janno Lieber, acting chair and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority … to Jeremy John, chief of staff for the New York City Council … to Mike Yon, DRIE ombudsperson at the New York City Department of Finance … to Liz Peters, senior communications manager of external affairs at the International WELL Building Institute … to Laurie Petersen, senior director of community education at Presbyterian Senior Services … to Sadye Campoamor, chief equity officer for New York City Comptroller Brad Lander … to Thahitun Mariam, founder of the Bronx Mutual Aid Network … to Soledad O'Brien, founder and CEO of Starfish Media Group … and to Evan Menist, deputy chief of staff and director of communications to state Sen. Elijah Reichlin-Melnick. MOVING ON: Ann Cheng, former assistant commissioner at the New York City Office of Labor Relations, has been named deputy director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Policy and Planning … Stephanie Millian, former strategic communications consultant at the American Red Cross, joins Anat Gerstein Inc. as a vice president for the social services practice team. |
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Gov. Kathy Hochul is in Erie County, New York City and Washington, D.C. 9 a.m. – New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivers remarks at the Concordia Annual Summit, Sheraton Times Square New York, 811 Seventh Ave., Manhattan. 9 a.m. – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra joins Dr. Ramon Tallaj, chair of the Somos Network, national Latino advocate Henry R. Muñoz III, local elected leaders and community doctors at an Upper Manhattan clinic as families receive boosters and vaccines to urge all generations of New York City families to get their whole family vaccinated and fully boosted, with a focus on lower-income communities of color, Pediatrics 2000, 3332 Broadway, Manhattan. 10 a.m. – New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams joins the council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus leaders for a press conference and oversight hearing on diversity, equity and inclusion at the fire department, City Hall steps, Manhattan. 10 a.m. – The New York City Council Consumer and Worker Protection Committee holds a hearing on Introduction 613, increasing civil penalties and prohibiting issuance of the food service establishment permit for outstanding penalties for violations of the fair work week law; and Introduction 640, requiring a workers' rights training for certain fast food employees, 16th floor Committee Room, 250 Broadway, Manhattan. 10:30 a.m. – Adams makes a technology-related announcement, Langston Hughes House, 308 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn. 11 a.m. – Advocates call on Hochul and the state Department of Health to bring New York's drinking water standards on toxic PFAS in line with new EPA health advisories, Outside of the LCA Press Room, Third floor, State Capitol, Albany. 11 a.m. – The New York City Council Fire and Emergency Management Committee holds a hearing on: Oversight – evaluating diversity and inclusion in the FDNY and several related bills, Committee Room, City Hall, Manhattan. 11:30 a.m. – Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican Party and Conservative Party nominee for governor, calls again for a special legislative session to address cashless bail after a man who wielded an ax, shattering tables and walls and swinging at customers in a McDonald's in New York City, was released on cashless bail, McDonald's, 114 Delancey St., Manhattan. 1 p.m. – Acting Chief Judge Anthony Cannataro presides over the court system's annual statewide public hearing to evaluate the continuing unmet civil legal services needs in New York, with this year's hearing focusing on the civil justice crisis arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, Court of Appeals, 20 Eagle St., Albany. 1 p.m. – The New York City Council Hospitals Committee, Health Committee and Land Use Committee holds a joint oversight hearing on the current state of access to hospitals and health care, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan. 1 p.m. – The New York City Council Technology Committee and the Zoning and Franchises Subcommittee hold a joint hearing on: Oversight – Broadband and Equal Access to the Internet in New York City and several related bills, 14th floor Committee Room, 250 Broadway, Manhattan. 3:30 p.m. – Adams holds a photo spray before meeting with Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees, City Hall - COW, Manhattan. 8:30 p.m. – Adams delivers remarks at the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the NYC Hospitality Alliance, 54 W 21st St., Manhattan. |
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"This is an American crisis that we need to face – a humanitarian crisis that was made by human hands, by some of the governors in the southern states." – New York City Mayor Eric Adams on the many migrants entering New York City, via Politico New York |
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Don't they have lots of hotels in NYC? Reserve half the rooms for the illegals. Then roll your sleeves up NYC and get to work. You are a sanctuary city after all, aren't you?
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