Tag Archives: NYC

NYC Fires Anti-Masker After She Ambushes Mayor

The New York Daily News reports: Daniela Jampel has worked for the Law Department since 2016, according to city payroll records and her LinkedIn profile. She has also become a prominent figure in parent-led protests since 2020 to expand access to in-person schooling and relax mask rules for kids. On Monday morning, Jampel got access to Adams press conference by …

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NYC Launches Pro-LGBTQ Billboard Campaign In Florida

NBC New York reports: New York City, where the Stonewall Inn riots ignited what many consider to be the birth of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, has long voiced its support for that community. Now it wants its message heard in one place, especially: Florida. Starting Monday, Mayor Eric Adams is wallpapering the Sunshine State with digital billboards espousing New …

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Rising Prices Upend NYC’s “Pizza-Subway Principle”

Bloomberg News reports: The “pizza principle,” a mainstay of New York economics for more than four decades, states that a slice of cheese pizza will always be the same price as a subway ride. The rule has largely held true since first conjectured in the New York Times in 1980, with any increase in pizza prices tending to predict a …

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NYC Amazon Warehouse Workers Vote To Unionize

The New York Times reports: Workers at Amazon’s massive warehouse on Staten Island voted by a wide margin to form a union, according to results released on Friday, in a landmark win for a campaign targeting the country’s second-largest employer and one of the biggest victories for organized labor in a generation. Employees cast 2,654 votes to be represented by …

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Lawmakers Work On Deal For Casinos In Manhattan

The New York Times reports: A Monaco-style casino atop Saks Fifth Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick’s Cathedral. A gambling den with East River views, alongside a popular wedding venue. A Hard Rock casino in the center of Times Square. In the next several days, as part of state budget negotiations, Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders may well …

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NYC Unions May Sue Over Pro Sports Vax Exemption

Politico reports: A still-unvaccinated Kyrie Irving played his first home game in Brooklyn last night after New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ decision to reverse the city’s vaccine mandate specifically for athletes and performers while leaving it in place for everyone else. While Nets fans at the Barclays Center greeted Irving with a big ovation, elsewhere in the city, the …

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NYC Mayor Under Fire For Pro Sports Vax Exemption

The New York Times reports: Since lifting the private employer vaccine requirement for professional athletes and performers based in New York City on Thursday, Mayor Eric Adams has drawn the ire of city employees, their unions and others who still must adhere to the mandate or lose their jobs. The Police Benevolent Association, the largest police union in the city, …

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NYC Uber Users Will Be Able To Select Yellow Taxis

The New York Times reports: New Yorkers ordering a ride on the Uber app could choose a yellow taxi under a new partnership between the ride-hail company and two taxi technology companies. The taxi option will begin later this spring and will be available to all Uber riders in New York City, Uber said. Uber riders will pay roughly the …

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NYC Mayor To Drop Vax Mandate For Pro Athletes

The New York Daily News reports: The private-sector vaccine mandate that has benched Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving for home games — and would have kept Aaron Judge and other key members of the Yankees and Mets from taking the field in New York City — will be lifted, sources said. Mayor Adams plans to rescind the restriction for performers …

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Ex-Prosecutor: Trump Guilty Of “Numerous Felonies”

The New York Times reports: One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” and that it was “a grave failure of justice” not to hold him accountable, according to a copy of his resignation letter. The prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted his resignation last month after …

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NYC Mayor Axes New Advisor Over Anti-LGBTQ Past

The New York Daily News reports: A Staten Island pastor who once equated homosexuality to pedophilia was removed from Mayor Adams’ education policy panel within hours of being hired Tuesday after the Daily News exposed her anti-gay track record. Rev. Kathlyn Barrett-Layne was announced Tuesday afternoon as one of Adams’ nine picks to the Panel for Educational Policy, which serves …

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NYC To Drop School Mask Mandate For Kids Under 5

The New York Daily News reports: As long as New York’s coronavirus infection risk remains low, the city’s youngest kids won’t have to wear face masks in school anymore starting next month, Mayor Adams announced Tuesday amid concerns that a new COVID variant will continue to drive cases upward. Adams, who dropped the mask requirement for K-12 students on March …

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Metropolitan Opera To Ban Man Who Heckled Show

The New York Observer reports: The New York Metropolitan Opera’s March 17 performance of the German opera Ariadne auf Naxos was cruising through its second act when it happened: an attendee sitting in the upper balconies screamed “You have no technique” as soprano Brenda Rae [photo] concluded an aria, temporarily setting the theater abuzz with horrified whispers. It was a …

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NYC Fire Department To Begin Using Robot Dogs

The New York Times reports: Inside a dimly lit tunnel along a stretch of simulated subway track, one of the New York Fire Department’s new dogs showed off a few of its tricks. Lie down. Roll over. Stay. But the most remarkable things that the two robotic dogs can do were mastered by real dogs long ago: jogging across rugged …

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NYC Mayor Revives Controversial Anti-Crime NYPD Unit, Warns Public About Recording Actions Of Police [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Mayor Eric Adams rolled out a controversial new NYPD unit Wednesday dedicated to getting guns off the streets, fulfilling a campaign pledge to revamp and revive a team that was disbanded over concerns about police brutality.  Adams welcomed the new anti-gun unit at the city’s Police Academy in Queens — vowing not to repeat the mistakes of the …

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NYC Mayor Headlines Miami Cryptocurrency Event

The New York Daily News reports: Mayor Adams waxed poetic about cryptocurrencies during a visit to Miami on Tuesday, touting the non-government-backed currencies as an antidote to “historical inequalities” in the U.S. economy. Adams, a vocal crypto booster who promised last year to convert his first three City Hall paychecks into Bitcoin and Ethereum, offered the effusive praise while attending …

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Suspect Nabbed In Shootings Of Homeless In NYC, DC

The New York Daily News reports: The gunman police believe has been targeting homeless men in New York City and Washington, D.C., shooting at least five of them as they slept and leaving two dead, was nabbed in the nation’s capital early Tuesday, authorities said. “Early this AM, law enforcement arrested the suspect in Washington, DC,” the Metropolitan Police said. …

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Eastern US Braces For Another “Bomb Cyclone”

USA Today reports: Tens of millions of Americans are in the path of a winter storm that’s forecast to wallop much of the eastern U.S. with snow, rain and wind over the next couple of days. Winter weather alerts were in place from Texas to Maine for the storm, which is expected to reach bomb cyclone status on Saturday. “A …

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“Vegan” Adams May Ban Chocolate Milk In Schools

Patch New York reports: A bipartisan group of New York City’s congressional representatives this week tried to moooo-ve Mayor Eric Adams to reconsider a potential chocolate milk ban. Children who drink flavored milk consume more nutrients than non-milk drinkers, among other health benefits extolled in a letter written and signed by the delegation — and published on the National Milk …

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NYC Man Arrested For Assaulting Cop During DC Riot

Law & Crime reports: A man in a Donald Trump baseball cap “blind-sided” a U.S. Capitol police officer with a “football-type tackle” on Jan. 6, knocking him off a ledge, prosecutors said in announcing the New Yorker’s arrest on Wednesday. Ralph Joseph Celentano III, a 54-year-old from Broad Channel, Queens, now faces seven federal charges, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding …

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