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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:
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Update: Councilman Yeger to be removed from the immigration committee after his comments saying "Palestine doesn't exist."
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.⁦ @AndrewYang ⁩ is the first mayoral candidate to speak ⁦ @TheRevAl ⁩ ⁦ @NationalAction ⁩ MLK Day celebration “The memory of Dr. King has been sanitized “
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The @nypl wins the award for the best Black Friday ad.
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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:
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My Ivy League degree didn’t prevent me from being stopped by the police or even racially profiled while trying to enter City Hall.
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Ross Barkan
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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
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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.
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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
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A new NYC comparison from @nycmayor : “New York is the Rome of America.” The line draws applause.
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Here’s the moment Julianne Hoffenberg, a protestor with ⁦ @NYjusticeleague ⁩, interrupted ⁦ @BilldeBlasio ⁩ during his #CNNTownHall , asking why no other officers in the #EricGarner case have been fired.
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. @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.
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“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.
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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.”
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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
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“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.
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. @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.
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.⁦ @NYCMayor ⁩ ⁦ @ABetterNY ⁩ speech is interrupted by protesters saying he failed working class New Yorkers: “We need a new mayor!”
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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
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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
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Thanks, @chriscoffeytalk . I simply misheard @AndrewYang yesterday. I regret the error.
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@theYangDynasty @AndrewYang @YangforNY Mistakes happen. He corrected it. @JeffCMays is a terrific reporter. 100% wasn’t intentional. Thx for raising.
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NY AG Eric Schneiderman says @POTUS lacks the "constitutional authority" to defund sanctuary cities as promised.
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Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley laying out her policing plan in the wake of the #GeorgeFloydverdict
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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.
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Maybe now’s not the time to cut the tree pruning budget. #harlem #treecollapse
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“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.”
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. @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.
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. @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
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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
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@SethBarronNYC Isn't it the job of reporters to demand data and not just let public officials create unprovable narratives? #journalism101
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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
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Some exciting personal news.....
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Dean Chang
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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.
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“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
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#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
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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."
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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
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.⁦ @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
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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
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Breaking News: "Do not put hand sanitizer in your mouth," says @NYCMayor
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#NYC ’s newly named rat czar, Kathleen Corradi, first started combatting rats when she was just 10 years old, according to her parents.
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#NYC wants to suspend rent guidelines process and create a #rentfreeze for rent stabilized apartments and new leases in light of the #coronavirus says @NYCMayor
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. @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.
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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.
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"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."
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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:
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At Brooklyn Navy Yard where companies will produce 325,000 reusable surgical gowns this month, @NYCMayor , wearing a facial covering, thanks workers #coronavirus
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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
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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.
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. @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
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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
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. @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
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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
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. @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.”
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“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
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This may bring some peace, but this is not justice. My full statement on the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial:
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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.
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Lois Beckett
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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.
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“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.”
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. @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.
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"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.
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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
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. @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.
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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.
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. @nycmayor endorses outdoor dining. “I really enjoy the feel of outdoor dining.” Compares it to Paris and says it helps to boost business.
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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
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"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.
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Asked about the ranked-choice voting alliance between @AndrewYang and @KGforNYC , @ericadamsfornyc says: "We know America's dark past," references "poll taxes"
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. @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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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)
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.⁦ @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”
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"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."
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The Navy hospital ship the Comfort at Pier 90 where @NYCMayor is about to hold a news conference about #coronavirus
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"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
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Citywide 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew is extended through June 7, says @nycmayor
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“The city does not have a parking problem, it has a car problem,” says @CMReynoso34 “There are too many cars in the city of New York.”
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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."
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. @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.”
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The approximate number of #COVID2019 patients currently intubated on ventilators in #NYC is 4,000, says @NYCMayor #coronavirus
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. @NYCMayor says the deadly fire in the Bronx that left 19 dead, including 9 children may have stemmed from a space heater.
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. @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.
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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."
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Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
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My statement on the AG’s damning report against Governor Cuomo. The findings of sexual harassment & misconduct mean the governor must step down #ResignCuomo ⤵️
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The earliest reopening for #NYC will be June, @nycmayor said this morning.
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Jesse McKinley
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BREAKING: @NYGovCuomo expected to allow reopening in several upstate regions as soon as this weekend. First take here:
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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.”
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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
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. @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.”
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“You cannot call New York City a progressive city when you have no black elected officials in positions of power.”
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. @NYCMayor says the goal is to have “omnipresence” of police in the subways because “people feel as if the system is not safe.”
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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.
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"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.
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Breaking News: @NYCmayor will not immediately be back at the Park Slope Y when it opens. "I'm not planning to go back. Someday."
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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
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"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.
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“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.
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"We will not allow any New Yorker to go hungry," @nycmayor says focusing on food insecurity during the #CoronavirusOutbreak More details here:
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“We have to kill this myth that Black and Brown people don’t want t to be safe,” said @ericadamsfornyc
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