Tag Archives: NYC

De Blasio Rejects Calls For Return To Indoor Mask Rule

Gothamist reports: In the face of a steady climb in coronavirus cases, Mayor Bill de Blasio is resisting calls to reissue an indoor mask mandate, saying that doubling down on vaccination remains the best approach to fighting the recent rebound. “Masks have value, unquestionably, but masks are not going at the root of the problem,” he said Tuesday, during his …

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NYC Congestion Pricing May Happen, Trump Blocked It

Gothamist reports: Mayor Bill de Blasio is hoping to pressure the MTA to move forward—and more quickly—with its congestion pricing program. He said he’ll appoint the city’s representative to the six-person panel that will determine the charges and exemptions drivers will face, and is asking the MTA to have it up and running by next year. Congestion pricing would create …

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Cultist NYC Council Candidate May Have Forged Ballots

Gothamist reports: A booster of former President Donald Trump who falsely claimed election fraud in the 2020 presidential election without any evidence of wrongdoing is potentially facing charges of election fraud himself. Federal and state investigators are looking at the campaign tactics of Marko Kepi, a former U.S. Marine who ran in the Republican primary election to succeed City Councilmember …

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Live Video: Ticker Tape Parade For NYC Health Workers

ABC News reports: Essential workers who helped New York City through the COVID-19 pandemic are being honored Wednesday with a parade up Broadway, a celebration of flying paper and floats that’s been used to fete returning soldiers, astronauts and championship sports teams in the past. “We’ve got a lot to appreciate, because we’re well underway in our recovery. We’ve got …

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Adams Holds Narrow Lead In Latest NYC Mayoral Tally

The New York Daily News reports: Eric Adams appeared on the brink of winning the city’s Democratic mayoral race on Tuesday after a pivotal release of absentee ballot results placed him at the top of the pack by a razor-thin margin over Kathryn Garcia. The Brooklyn borough president led Garcia by just 8,426 ballots after more than 120,000 newly counted …

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New York City Disses Cleveland In Twitter Post

Here’s what started it all: Some eye catching billboards urging businesses to consider a move to Ohio are garnering attention across New York City. There are three print billboard placements and 13 programmatic in Manhattan along with four print and seven programmatic in Brooklyn, and the marketing campaign is the brainchild of private nonprofit economic development corporation JobsOhio. One board …

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New World Record Set In Gross NYC July 4th Tradition

The New York Post reports: Joey Chestnut broke his own world record at the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Sunday — a Fourth of July feat much of America missed thanks to ESPN’s shoddy live feed. Live footage from the contest in Coney Island cut out three times — including just as the 37-year-old eating champ hoovered up his …

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“American LGBTQ+ Museum” Planned For Manhattan

Gothamist reports: The American LGBTQ+ Museum will have a permanent home in the expansion of the New-York Historical Society’s headquarters on Central Park West, with a $35 million infusion in capital funds from the city. The capital funds represents a quarter of the historical society’s $140 million expansion to add more than 60,000 square feet onto the lot directly behind …

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NYC Worst In Gridlock Study For First Time In Decades

Gothamist reports: New York is suffering from more traffic congestion than anywhere else in the country — surpassing car-choked Los Angeles for the first time in nearly four decades, a new study revealed. According to the annual mobility report released this week by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, the average driver in the New York region wasted 56 extra hours …

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New York City’s MTA Unveils Coming Subway Cars

Gothamist reports: The MTA has unveiled the first of the brand new subway cars that will begin replacing some of the system’s creakiest trains at the end of next year. At a rail yard in Sunset Park on Thursday, transit officials pulled back the curtain on a handful of long-awaited R211 cars. The new model — part of a $1.4 …

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Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, And Jennifer Hudson To Headline Massive Central Park “Homecoming” Concert

The New York Daily News reports: The Boss is coming home to Central Park to boost NYC’s comeback from COVID. Rocker Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and soulful superstar Jennifer Hudson will headline a Central Park concert in August to celebrate NYC’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor de Blasio called the “homecoming concert” a can’t-miss-event that will go down in …

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Nonprofit That Created Ranked Choice Software Used By NYC Says BOE Ignored Their Offer To Help Tabulate

Gothamist reports: The head of the non-profit, non-partisan group that created the software used by the city Board of Elections to carry out the ranked-choice voting tabulation process said offers to help with a smooth ranked-choice counting process were ignored. The BOE’s first tabulation of in-person votes (including early voting and on Primary Day) led to sheer chaos on Tuesday …

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Revised NYC Tally Shows Tight Race Between Top Three

The New York Times reports: A day after New York City’s Board of Elections retracted a tabulation of ranked-choice preferences, throwing the primary contest into chaos, the board on Wednesday released a fresh tally of ranked-choice preferences among those Democrats who voted in person last Tuesday or during the early voting period. The tally showed Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough …

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De Blasio Urges New Yorkers To Reduce Power Usage

The New York Daily News reports: Mayor de Blasio pleaded for New Yorkers to reduce their power use on Wednesday afternoon as the city baked in temperatures approaching triple digits. “We need people to take immediate action,” the mayor said in a news conference after the mercury spiked to 98 degrees at LaGuardia Airport, setting an all-time record for the …

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NYT Board: Heads Must Roll After Mayoral Debacle

From the editorial board of the New York Times: New Yorkers have endured the incompetence of the city’s Board of Elections for so long that complaints on the subject blend into the background noise of life in a megalopolis, alongside gripes about overstuffed subway cars and putrid piles of sidewalk trash. This page called the board “at best a semi‐functioning …

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Famous Loser Predictably Leaps On NYC Mayoral Mess

Just in from the world’s most famous loser: Just like in the 2020 Presidential Election, it was announced overnight in New York City that vast irregularities and mistakes were made and that Eric Adams, despite an almost insurmountable lead, may not win the race. The fact is, based on what has happened, nobody will ever know who really won. The …

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Tally Error Throws NYC Mayoral Primary Into Chaos

The New York Times reports: The New York City mayor’s race plunged into chaos on Tuesday night when the city Board of Elections released a new tally of votes in the Democratic mayoral primary, and then removed the tabulations from its website after citing a “discrepancy.” The results released earlier in the day had suggested that the race between Eric …

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Adams Holds Very Slim Lead In NYC Mayoral Primary

The New York Daily News reports: It’s all about the absentees. Eric Adams’ lead in the city’s Democratic mayoral race shrunk drastically after ranked-choice tabulations were released Tuesday — with Kathryn Garcia trailing him by less than 16,000 votes, meaning the winner will be determined by scores of yet-to-be-counted absentee ballots. After 11 rounds of ranked-choice counting, Adams, Brooklyn’s borough …

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Fox To Pay $1M Fine In NYC Human Rights Law Case

Yahoo News reports: Despite Fox News’ claims to have repaired the company’s toxic workplace culture since the firing of founder and chairman Roger Ailes in July 2016, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has effectively admitted to ongoing misconduct that includes sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation against victimized employees, and has agreed to pay a million-dollar fine for what New York City’s …

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70 Year Old Woman Serves As NY Yankees Bat Girl Six Decades After Being Refused For Being A Girl [VIDEO]

ESPN reports: Gwen Goldman exchanged fist bumps with the New York Yankees, whom she had been admiring for decades from afar, walked onto the field and waved to the crowd. She got to be a Yankees’ bat girl on Monday night at age 70 — a full 60 years after she was turned down because of her gender. Shaking with …

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