When he was a teenager,
@EddieGibbsNY
killed a man, he says, in self-defense. Now, as a state Assemblyman, he works to help the currently and formerly incarcerated. This is a story about remorse, atonement and second acts:
Do you know the median sales price for a home in Brooklyn? It’s $80k to $100k, according to two candidates for mayor of
#NYC
and $1.8M according to a third candidate.
@mihirzaveri
explains:
The college education question is particularly interesting and an awkward one for the Times, which is staffed with Ivy Leaguers.
@CoreyinNYC
has no college degree.
@mayawiley
earned degrees from Columbia and Dartmouth
The
@NYPDnews
has confirmed that
@InnaVernikov
was arrested on charges of criminal possession of a firearm this morning for the butt of her gun being exposed at this rally. Her permit to carry a firearm has also been surrendered. Story on the way.
At
@BrooklynCollege
rally this afternoon with
@CMFarahLouis
&
@KalmanYeger
. If you’re standing w/ the protestors, yelling “GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA” & “FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE” while innocent women and babies are being raped, massacred and beheaded, you’re
.
@Dianne4NYC
calls for $3 billion cut from the
#NYPD
budget, half of their $6 billion spending plan. She's the only candidate to put a figure on the call to defund the police tonight. The call during the spring protests was a $1 Billion. cut.
“You can’t be a good shepherd if you are not among the sheep,”
@NYCMayor
says in explaining why he will be riding the subway and taking Citibike to get around the city.
Another no vote, this time from
@OsseChi
, citing not enough affordable housing funding and a “bloated” NYPD budget. “I cast this vote as a reminder of why we ran for office and how much more we can do for our people.”
NEW: In an attempt to curb a surge in overdose deaths caused by increasingly potent street drugs, New York City will allow two supervised injection sites in Manhattan to begin operating as soon today. W/
@andylocal
“Funding education is how we actually stop crime,” says
@Kristin4Harlem
in criticizing the mayor on education funding. Votes no on the budget and also criticizes cuts to mental health funding.
.
@AndrewYang
says he wants to require city residency for new police officers which would help change the culture and that he’s likely to have a police commissioner of color if elected. Not in favor of stop and frisk.
If New Yorkers aren't practicing social distancing in parks
@nycmayor
says he will make the decision to close playgrounds by Saturday. City will open two streets per borough to create space starting Thursday.
#coronavirus
On the day
#NYC
became the 1st U.S. city to allow authorized injection sites to open, staff said they reversed two overdoses.“That means the world,” said
@samrivera1111
“Two people are alive because we’re here.”
A second take w/
@andylocal
I will restructure the NYPD from top to bottom, starting with strong civilian oversight – policies that make clear what policing is & is not, what conduct will not be tolerated, & policing priorities – which need to be problem-oriented & community-driven, instead of punitive.
“This was never about Mr. Yeger," said
@lsarsour
“This sends a wider message that saying anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian things comes with consequences.”
.
@AndrewYang
says Asians are being beaten and victimized and that’s why he called out a cartoon from the Daily News that he thought was racially stereotypical and could lead to the type of
#asianhate
attacks the city has been seeing lately. Crowd applauds.
.
@AOC
will make her first statewide endorsement in the contest for lieutenant governor, backing
@AnaMariaforNY
an activist who some on the left believe has a chance of becoming the first Latina elected to statewide office. w/
@gr_ashford
This isn’t the first time Ms. Adams has been accused of political retaliation. Crystal Hudson, a left-leaning Brooklyn councilwoman, was recently removed from Council leadership team after abstaining on a pension sweetener for police officers. w/
@emmagf
N.Y.C. is poised to allow over 800,000 New Yorkers who are green card holders or have the legal right to work in the U.S. to vote in municipal elections, a move that could set off a wave of reaction to expand and restrict voting rights. w/
@anniecorreal
Congrats and welcome aboard,
@jeffcmays
, who will be joining
@nytimes
to focus on City Hall and politics. Attn Room 9: We're going to need that third desk.
“What these protests are about are that...If a black person is killed by the police, there can be no reasonable expectation that the police officer is going to be held accountable,” said
@RichardBuery
w/
@danarubinstein
#NYC
mayoral candidate Andrew Yang says "George Floyd’s murder wasn’t just injustice, it was inhuman."
“Police mistreatment of Black and brown Americans is both a painful, deadly reality for too many, and a moral stain on our society."
#GeorgeFloydverdict
This is usually a soft interview for
@NYCMayor
but after de Blasio says the best way to honor
#EricGarner
is to make sure it doesn't happen again,
@oldmanebro
chimes in: "I disagree. I believe the number one way you can honor Eric Garner is firing Officer Pantaleo."
Mr. Adams did not hold a news conference about the storm or address the public until almost noon on Friday after large swaths of the city were already under water and service had been suspended on half the subway system. w/
@emmagf
@danarubinstein
.
@AndrewYang
chokes up at
@NationalAction
talking about the attacks against Asians Americans in Georgia. Says he grew up with a sense of “invisibility” and “disdain,” the sense that some thought he could never be fully American. Attackers don’t see Asians as human
For decades, police invoked a legal doctrine known as qualified immunity to protect themselves from lawsuits claiming they had violated the constitutional rights of plaintiffs. The
@NYCCouncil
voted to end the practice. w/
@AshleyAtTimes
.
@AndrewYang
says there's a need to eliminate hundreds of millions in police misconduct lawsuit payouts because the city is "underinvesting in so many of our communities" struggling with mental health and substance abuse issues.
If New York City is the epicenter of the
#coronavirus
outbreak in the country, minorities and people in the city’s poorest neighborhoods reside at the core.
"This is going to be a tough time," says
@AndrewYang
who says he should be the next mayor b/c he can activate resources from fed gov and philanthropy, speed up the recovery and "wring the budget of everything that is not people."
I enjoyed writing about the Black women in this Brooklyn political sisterhood and their quest to expand who gets a seat at the table. Fantastic pics by
@kholoodeid
Take a look:
At Brooklyn Navy Yard where companies will produce 325,000 reusable surgical gowns this month,
@NYCMayor
, wearing a facial covering, thanks workers
#coronavirus
A dispute between Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council intensified on Thursday, as the Council voted overwhelmingly to override the mayor’s veto and expand a city housing voucher program designed to address rising homelessness. w/
@mihirzaveri
Advocates like Susan Lerner
@commoncauseny
call it "standard practice" in ranked-choice elections: "There is nothing insidious or cynical about two candidates transparently using a legitimate strategy in a democratically approved system of election," she said.
.
@AndrewYang
, the final candidate of the night, tells
@TheRevAl
he looks better every time he sees him: “You’re the only candidate who said that tonight,” the Rev. quipped back
Kathy Hochul became governor following her predecessor’s sexual harassment scandal and vowed to “change a culture of harassment and abuse." But one of her closest advisers had a history of sexually harassing women. w/
@npfandos
.
@AdrienneEAdams1
will become the first Black woman to lead
@NYCCouncil
, help set the city’s agenda and negotiate a $100B municipal budget that is larger than most states. Her victory is a notable political setback for the incoming mayor. w/
@katieglueck
NEW: One of the women whose allegations of sexual harassment led to the resignation of a key aide to NY attorney general Tish James, said she csme forward because she believed that Ms. James was protecting her longtime chief. w/
@Jonesieman
@WRashbaum
.
@NYCMayor
said a temporary remote option is under consideration for the public schools. “We want to provide the safest place for our children and we want to have our children in school.”
“There isn’t accountability, justice, or anything else in this verdict. The system and conditions that led to George Floyd’s murder still exist and we are no safer today than we were yesterday,” said
#NYC
mayoral candidate Dianne Morales about the
#GeorgeFloydverdict
Credit goes to
@AshleyAtTimes
for her unflinching coverage of the
#NYPD
. I was asking the question on her behalf but I fully stand behind the query and the responsibility of members of the media to not just accept public officials' narratives.
Appreciating
@JeffCMays
and all the journalists across the country today who are pushing for real data, context, and answers on shooting numbers this weekend, rather than splashing completely misleading, unscientific, and politicized statistics on the front page.
“It’s a huge deal,”
@tiffany_caban
said of
@bradlander
's lead in the contest for comptroller. “His campaign and the execution and the outcome is a beautiful model of how progressive movements can build power.”
.
@NYCMayor
de Blasio defends calling for the officers in the George Floyd killing "to be charged immediately" even though he did not do the same in the death of Eric Garner. Says the city will "act immediately" in the future.
"You are all very nervous right now because you know we are facing a historic crisis,"
@AndrewYang
tells
@DistCouncil37
forum. Cites federal aid, vaccine rollout and balancing the budget as top issues facing the city.
NEW: Zellnor Myrie, an Afro-Latino state senator from Brooklyn known for backing progressive causes, will announce on Wednesday that he is moving to challenge
@NYCMayor
Eric Adams in next year’s Democratic primary in NYC. W/
@emmagf
.
@tiffany_caban
praises portions of the budget, not adding 578 corrections officers, but says "I want to tell you why I'm voting no." Says funding for policing remains too high and doesn't reflect her commitment to "care and not cages" Third no vote so far.
Stringer says he will do what Mayor de Blasio failed to do and take on the NYPD, saying you are not an independent agency, you work for the people of this city.
Mr. Adams emerged from the club at 1:04 a.m. but the night was not over. “We’re going over to Cipriani’s," he told his team. A look at the first few hours after Eric Adams became mayor-elect w/
@emmagf
"I have never witnessed something like this," says
@ericadamsfornyc
on
@WCBSTV
about the flooding. Normally it's bad in Coney Island but Crown, Heights, Fort Greene and Bed-Stuy are also being affected by the flooding, he says.
.
@NYPDnews
issued just over 50 summonses and made three arrests Saturday for violations of social distancing rules, says
@NYPDShea
. Some are questioning whether the rules are being enforced equitably.
I don't know specifics of each pic.
I do know:
-we all must abide by social distancing rules
-too many people aren't & its problematic
-many warned
@NYCMayor
about relying so heavily on
@NYPDnews
-there's been no response to
@nycpa
request for summons/arrests demographic data
Eric Adams, the next likely mayor of New York City, has a comfort with public shape-shifting that will make him the biggest City Hall wild card in decades.
@mattfleg
@mrothfeld
and I spoke to 130 people about Mr. Adams.
NEW: NY AG Letitia James, continued to employ her longtime chief of staff in spite of his “known propensity to sexually harass and to commit sexual assault and batteries,” according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by a former aide w/
@Jonesieman
@WRashbaum
Fun times at Crotona Park in the Bronx this morning: “As workers set up a stage for Mr. Trump on Wednesday, a campaign representative asked a New York Times reporter to leave and threatened to call the police” (I didn’t leave)
.
@mayawiley
says the attacks against Asian Americans are “about all of us.” “Andrew Yang, you have a home here,” she says. “Everyone is a New Yorker who resides in this city”
"I am not a hero. I am not posing myself as a savior," says
@Dianne4NYC
adding that she doesn't have a "sliver bullet" to save the city but is running a grassroots campaign to "radically reimagine who we can be as a city."
BREAKING: The longtime chief of staff to Letitia James,
@NewYorkStateAG
, has resigned after at least two separate sexual harassment allegations: w/
@Jonesieman
@WRashbaum
:
"Ranked choice voting incentivizes consensus building and collaboration...and Mr. Adams himself has taken advantage of it to ask for
#2
votes," Ms. Lerner adds. Mr. Adams praised
#2
votes from
@hakeemjeffries
@GregMeeksNYC
@RitchieTorres
The rise of the Delta variant won;t prevent a return to school in the fall, says
@nycmayor
. "Our kids need to be back in school," he says. "We are coming back 100 percent in September."
.
@SandyforCouncil
votes no on the @
budget saying it “falls short on basic needs.” Schools are facing cuts and sanitation is not fully funded. The budget is “not where it needs to be.”
.
@NYCMayor
says projections failed and have been made a "mockery" of. "From now on what I think we tell New Yorkers is to expect the very worst." It might be "alarmist" but the only way to proceed in the future, he adds.
Black lawmakers had supported Cuomo, calling for a thorough investigation into sexual harassment allegations. Now, the Brooklyn Dem Party leader calls the governor "unfit for office" and says he should "step down and resign."
My statement on the AG’s damning report against Governor Cuomo. The findings of sexual harassment & misconduct mean the governor must step down
#ResignCuomo
⤵️
“Eric Garner and George Floyd are examples of what can happen to any Black man in this country and what has happened to all too many Black men in this city,” said
@RayForMayor
NEW: Assemblywoman Inez Dickens
@iedickens70
won’t run for reelection: “The job of fighting for the under-privileged, under-resourced, and under-represented does not end with my retirement. As I close this chapter of my life, the story is not over.”
The
@NYCCouncil
is set to approve legislation on Thursday that would prohibit stores, restaurants and other retail outlets from refusing to accept hard currency. w/
@edkshanahan
"If anyone was caught off guard, they had to be living under a rock,"
@nycmayor
says on
@1010WINS
when asked if he did enough to publicize today's storm.
.
@NYCMayor
says
@aoc
is being the “word police” in criticizing his comments about “low skill” workers. Says he meant to say “low wage” workers. “Blue collar workers run this city,” he said and the focus is on NYC being “safe, productive and open.”
After he pleaded guilty last week to federal charges of evading $82,000 in taxes,
@ChaimDeutsch
said he had no intention of stepping down from his seat on New York’s City Council. On Tuesday, he was forced to change his plans.
"Some protesters last night came with an agenda of violence and incitement," says
@nycmayor
, says they meant to harm police officers. Mayor has now criticized protestors and the
#NYPD
for last night's protests in Brooklyn.
While Columbia leaders remained in the background, Mr. Adams, a former police officer, forcefully stepped in, embracing a role adhering to his law enforcement background, focus on reducing disorder and strong support for Israel. w/
@emmagf
@danarubinstein
"I gotta bounce," is becoming one of
@NYCMayor
's favorite terms, especially while he's taking questions from the press. "It is not we gotta wrap, it's we gotta bounce," he tells spokesman at the end of the news conference.
“He’s proven over the years and multiple elections that he can fight his way up as an underdog," said Dante de Blasio, who's headed to Iowa to help boost his dad's,
@NYCMayor
, campaign for president.