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Emma G. Fitzsimmons

@emmagf

5 months

The best reporting days end up inside a preK class

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Emma G. Fitzsimmons

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1 year

*NEW* Mayor Eric Adams Calls Off Unpopular Library Budget Cuts:

N.Y.C. Libraries Stave Off Sunday Closings in Adams’s New Budget Plan (Published 2023)

The mayor had faced growing outrage over budget cuts to New York City libraries that would have forced many branches to close on weekends.

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Here’s a demo of New York City’s new automatic side loading garbage truck lifting large on street containers. A pilot program is expanding to all of Community Board District 9 in West Harlem.

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Mayor Eric Adams just told a story again at a public safety ceremony about how when his son Jordan was born and coming out of "his mother's womb," Adams moved the doctor's hand away and said, "I want to be the first person to touch my son."

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One of my least favorite NYC rituals is when cars inch closer and closer to you in a menacing way when you’re walking in a crosswalk, especially when I’m with my preschooler. Are you really in that much of a rush? Are you mad that we’re walking at a normal kid pace?

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*NEW* Could New York City finally get trash containerization like other big cities across the globe? The Adams administration says it’s possible, but would require losing 150,000 parking spots:

Why New York’s Giant Trash Bag Piles May Be an Endangered Species (Published 2023)

Containerization, which has been embraced by global cities like Barcelona and Buenos Aires, could force New York to eliminate 150,000 parking spots.

www.nytimes.com

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The mayor's management report is out for the first full year under Eric Adams. One statistic that immediately jumps out: the timeliness rates for applications for cash assistance and SNAP (food stamps) at 29 percent & 40 percent, versus 95 percent & 93 percent in 2019.

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Here’s the logo for New York City’s new branding campaign. What do we think of the font/design?

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Mayor Eric Adams has lost Ms. Rachel, a top power broker among NYC toddlers.

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👀 Tiktok + YouTube star Ms. Rachel calls on Mayor Adams to restore pre-K funds w/ @NY4ChildCare : "Here in New York City our Mayor cut $400 million from early childhood education programs and is proposing more cuts"

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1 year

Mayor Eric Adams's office is defending his slow and muted response to the storm. His office sent a "travel advisory" about heavy rainfall via email at 11pm on Thursday. Adams has not hold a news conference or appeared on TV or radio, like Hochul and MTA officials, until 11am.

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Remarkable that you are ignoring that @NYCMayor and @nycemergencymgt actually sent out releases on the storm yesterday. He's also holding a briefing on this shortly.

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TFW you’re at the Western Wall in Jerusalem as a female journalist and you have to climb a bench and look over a fence to see the mayor.

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New York lawmakers will unveil legislation on Tuesday that would eliminate enormous property tax breaks for Columbia University and New York University:

Columbia and N.Y.U. Would Lose $327 Million in Tax Breaks Under Proposal

Under the plan, the universities, which do not pay property taxes, would have to make payments to the City University of New York.

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4 months

*NEW* The New York Times was just informed in a letter from the Eric Adams administration that each news outlet will have only one seat in Room 9 starting at the end of June. We have three reporters covering City Hall and we’ve had three desks for years.

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Mayor Eric Adams, asked if his message isn't reaching New Yorkers because of his communication strategy, says: "I'm not a traditional mayor." No mayor has had a bald head or wore an earring, he says, and his staff: "All of them are going to go to therapy from working with me."

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Mayor Eric Adams says on WABC radio that Columbia University doesn’t want the NYPD to return to clear encampments and that you can’t negotiate with protesters because they’re “unrealistic and antisemitic.”

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1 year

Here’s the statement from New York City’s three library systems about Mayor Eric Adams’s proposed budget cuts: “We would need to suspend Saturday service at a number of locations… and completely eliminate Sunday service.”

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Mayor Eric Adams is increasingly critical of President Biden on the migrant crisis. “It’s a real embarrassment on a national level,” he says on WABC. “The president has an obligation to deal with the immediate concerns… We’ve done our job. There’s no more room in the inn.”

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11 months

In response to Mayor Eric Adams’s budget cuts, libraries are cutting Sunday service 📚

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Mayor Eric Adams visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem. I asked him what the moment means to him, and he said he was thinking of his mother Dorothy who never got to visit.

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Raising kids in New York City has so many moments of random beauty. My 4-year-old likes to stop and admire the stained glass windows on the subway.

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Zellnor Myrie on congestion pricing via @clairemfahy : "If you want to be popular, you do what is easy. But if you want to lead, you do what is best... To tell New Yorkers that you care about the cost of living & then to propose a raise on their taxes, to me is incomprehensible."

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COVID cases are rising again in New York City. I had it last week and it still very much sucks. City resources here:

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10 months

Eric Adams drops to a 28 percent approval rating, lowest for a New York City mayor since 1996.

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1 year

Library leaders in New York City have warned that the mayor’s budget cuts could force them to cut hours. Now they’re saying explicitly that most libraries would be closed on weekends.

Gothamist

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1 year

A fresh round of budget cuts from Mayor Adams could bring an end to six-day service at the New York Public Library and its counterparts in Queens and Brooklyn.

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3 months

Congestion pricing would have started today. The advocates aren’t giving up.

Streetsblog New York

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We made this counter to show just how much we're losing every second that congestion pricing is paused.

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A tough statement from @JumaaneWilliams : "From orange skies to flooded streets, a pattern is becoming clear - the administration has been delayed & insufficient in using... effective tools in notifying New Yorkers about extreme weather emergencies which are only increasing."

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More trash news 🗑️ 🐀 New York City is moving to require 40,000 restaurants, bodegas and food-related businesses to put their trash in containers, instead of bags:

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Mayor Eric Adams at a town hall in Coney Island: "Growing up poor has prepared me for this moment." He says he couldn't afford Converse sneakers and tells a new tale: "We used to pray for snow so we could melt it so we could have enough water because the water was turned off."

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Liz Krueger, a state senator from Manhattan, called Zellnor Myrie a "smart senator" and told @clairemfahy : “I will happily go on record. I want a different Mayor for New York City. Desperately. One who has competence and actually understands the job.”

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Good morning from Israel! I’m here covering Mayor Eric Adams’ trip. As a former transit reporter, of course I had to take the new rapid train from Tel Aviv’s airport to Jerusalem and then stepped right on to the light rail. Fast and easy, no notes!

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Mayor Eric Adams, asked on Pix 11 about concerns over losing parking spots when shared trash containers come to residential blocks says: "If they push back, we are not going to fall back. The city must be clean."

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One of several tense exchanges at Eric Adams's town hall in Sunset Park. A man says 100 officers are attacking street vendors in the park who are selling tamales and churros "chasing out working people." The mayor defends the enforcement and eventually takes his microphone away.

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A source confirms that New York City libraries will be spared from $36 million in cuts. I'm told that leaders of the City Council threatened to walk away from budget negotiations. (Library leaders had warned that the cuts would force them to close many branches on the weekends.)

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1 year

I’m increasingly hearing this criticism about the mayor from bike and bus advocates.

Jon Orcutt

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Here’s the thing about Eric Adams & New Yorkers who ride bikes: For years, he courted us and helped amplify our demands He stood with us…until it really mattered. Until he became mayor & assumed full control over city streets

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7 months

15 minute headways on the weekend. Not great!

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9 months

I’ve lived in New York City for 12 years and still am baffled by Alternate Side Parking. A truly bizarre and inefficient way to run a city!

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9 months

“I wake up in the morning and sometimes I look at myself and I give myself the finger”

katie honan

@katie_honan

9 months

Angry with @NYCMayor and want to give him the finger? You have more in common with him than you might think

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3 months

The @NYWFP is organizing the anti-Eric Adams voting bloc one year before the Democratic primary for mayor.

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2 years

The nation’s four largest cities all have Black mayors for the first time. We talked to them about their shared backgrounds and challenges, with @JeffCMays :

Black Mayors of 4 Biggest U.S. Cities Draw Strength From One Another (Published 2023)

The mayors of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston have banded together as they confront violent crime, homelessness and other similar challenges.

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8 months

Good question for Mayor Eric Adams yesterday about why the city is using contractors at a cost of $16 million to create his MyCity portal instead of doing it in house. He says it's hard to hire tech workers because they want to work remotely and now there's a hiring freeze.

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1 year

Mayor Eric Adams lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial.

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11 months

With my first grader at the Washington Heights library, which will soon be closed on Sundays due to budget cuts.

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1 year

My son starts first grade tomorrow at a New York City public school, and we haven’t heard anything about his bus route. He has a disability, and he’s supposed to get picked up at our home. We’ll be fine, but the system is so frustrating for parents to navigate.

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3 months

Happy disability pride month! As journalists, we could all do a better job of hiring disabled writers and editors, writing stories about disability issues and quoting disabled people in routine news coverage.

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*NEW* The raid was part of a broad public corruption investigation into whether Eric Adams’s 2021 campaign conspired with a Brooklyn construction company and the Turkish government to funnel foreign money into the campaign’s coffers:

U.S. Investigating Whether Adams Received Illegal Donations From Turkey

A raid at the home of Eric Adams’s chief fund-raiser was part of an inquiry into whether foreign money was funneled into his mayoral campaign, a search warrant shows.

www.nytimes.com

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4 months

Transit advocates on Gov. Hochul moving to delay congestion pricing:

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1 year

It’s pretty wild that you can become a New York City Council member with 3,000 votes.

Chris Sommerfeldt

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Looking increasingly unlikely that Brooklyn's incumbent Councilman Charles Barron can come back — challenger Chris Banks is leading him by a ~7% edge with more than 96% ballots counted.

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3 months

Columbus Circle subway stop on a weekday afternoon: the next A train is in 14 minutes 🙃

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9 months

I asked Mayor Eric Adams what he’d say to New Yorkers who are feeling whiplash over his budget cuts. He says they aren’t feeling whiplash; they’re thanking him for restoring police hiring and preventing further cuts to libraries.

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A young person asks Eric Adams at his Sunset Park town hall why he's under-funding community programs while the NYPD has a huge $11 billion budget. Adams says: "This city is going to be safe & I'm unapologetic about having a well-funded, disciplined police department."

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4 months

Mayor Eric Adams just told a reporter at his weekly news conference that it looks like he’s been working out and working on his “summer body.”

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2 years

Library leaders in New York City are really worried about $36 million in proposed budget cuts and rallying at City Hall today 📚

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Mayor Eric Adams, asked by @JeffCMays about the lack of air conditioning at migrant shelters during a heat wave, says "Every day New Yorkers don't have air conditioners. We make do." He recommends paper fans and says his mom told him to put his head in the refrigerator.

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1 year

New York City’s new ad campaign against 🐶 💩, one of my biggest pet peeves since the pandemic began.

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2 years

My son and I just rode an R211 for the first time, and it’s a beauty. The MTA’s first new subway cars in five years 🚇

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Mayor Eric Adams says he trusts the NYPD press office to put out their own posts on social media (even ones critical of a specific reporter). He asked them to “stand up for police officers” and “I think that’s what they’re doing.”

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1 year

*NEW* Mayor Eric Adams is announcing a $700 million climate research campus on Governors Island led by Stony Brook University:

Governors Island to Be Site of $700 Million Climate Campus (Published 2023)

A “living laboratory” for climate solutions will rise on the idyllic 172-acre island off Lower Manhattan, led by Stony Brook University.

www.nytimes.com

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Mayor Eric Adams is hosting a national 🐀 summit

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Mayor Eric Adams reiterates in El Paso that he doesn't want any more migrants from the Mexican border coming to New York City. "New York cannot take more. We can't... There is no more room in New York."

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This is one of the many tense moments from Mayor Eric Adams’s interview on the Breakfast Club:

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Mayor Eric Adams says for a third time on NY1 that New Yorkers who didn't know about the storm in advance were "living under a rock. "Job well done... instead of being a naysayer, let's be a yay-sayer. I'm proud of the city."

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A major immigrant rights advocacy group responds to Mayor Eric Adams’s comment yesterday about migrants being “excellent swimmers.” @HeyItsMurad says it was racist and dehumanizing.

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9 months

An interesting exit interview with departing council member Charles Barron:

Joseph Spector

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Last NY Playbook of 2023! 🎉 Thanks for reading; shoutout to our tireless team who brings it to you each day: @emilyngo @JCColtin @NickReisman @JasonBeeferman -- Barron’s exit interview -- Lawsuits to knock Trump off ballot -- Most popular weed strains

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NYC’s chief climate officer under Mayor Eric Adams:

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I hope no legislator who votes for this sham effort to protect the worst policy decision in NYS in ages ever, ever has the chutzpah to call themselves a climate leader. I know what climate leadership looks like. This is the opposite.

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The Progressive Caucus in the New York City Council will rally on Wednesday to oppose the mayor’s budget cuts and to call for more spending on housing, schools and mental health services:

Progressives to Challenge Adams Over Cuts to Schools and Libraries (Published 2023)

The Progressive Caucus will rally on Wednesday to oppose the mayor’s budget and to call for more spending on housing, schools and mental health services.

www.nytimes.com

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Phil Banks, New York City’s deputy mayor for public safety, responds to questions about federal investigations by making fun of a reporter saying she needs a mint.

katie honan

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Deputy mayor for public safety Phil Banks really doesn’t want to discuss the federal raid at his home!

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Weight discrimination is legal. New York City wants to change that:

You Can Be Fired for Being Overweight. Should New York Change That? (Published 2023)

The City Council is expected to approve a bill this spring that would ban weight discrimination in hiring and housing.

www.nytimes.com

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2 months

Story updated with comment from Tatiana Schlossberg: “Like law enforcement, I had no idea who was responsible for this when I wrote the story.”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Left a Dead Bear in Central Park:

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. @AMBichotte tells the crowd at this Brooklyn fundraiser at Junior’s that the mayor isn’t coming and is stuck at City Hall. Then news breaks that two high-ranking Fire Department chiefs were arrested on federal bribery and corruption charges.

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Quite a statement from Jumaane Williams: “New Yorkers have little trust in the administration, and little information from the mayor to help restore it.”

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Lisa Zornberg, Mayor Eric Adams’s chief legal adviser, abruptly resigned on Saturday. She wrote in a letter: “It has been a great honor to serve the city. I am tendering my resignation, effective today, as I have concluded that I can no longer effectively serve in my position.”

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1 year

When Mayor Eric Adams talks about women in his administration, he often mentions that they wear high heels. On his new chief counsel: “Lisa won't fill his shoes, she's going to bring her own pair and they're going to be pumps with heels to them."

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The leaders of the New York, Brooklyn and Queens libraries on Mayor Eric Adams's latest budget cuts: "Make no mistake, this is a devastating development to our already strained operations." They say "the total funding cuts to libraries are a staggering $52.7 million."

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*New* A woman who accused Mayor Eric Adams of sexually assaulting her in 1993 told nine people about the encounter and documented her account in emails years ago, her lawyer said in a legal filing on Monday.

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Thankful for @katie_honan and her dogged reporting. I made a donation to @THECITYNY and you should too!

katie honan

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. @NYCMayor ’s first comments on low numbers in recent poll - “everybody’s angry right now, I’m angry, that’s why we’re going down to DC.” The mayor travels later to meet with @SenSchumer & @RepJeffries and then attend White House holiday party to try and discuss migrant $$

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From the report: "The CA and SNAP application timeliness rates declined by 53 percentage points and 20 percentage points, largely as a result of an unprecedented and continuing increase in applications and fewer staff due to attrition and retirements."

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On SNL, there was a joke on Weekend Update about the name of Eric Adams’s seized cell phones:

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While library leaders and the City Council are celebrating the return of Sunday service at some branches, I have to rave about the new Inwood library - it’s beautiful and bright and has wonderful spaces for children, and my kids love it.

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I’ve received comments saying the library looks empty. Actually, there were more than a dozen little kids at story time on Sunday when the staffer told them next week would be the last one. I intentionally took a photo away from kids to protect their privacy.

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With my first grader at the Washington Heights library, which will soon be closed on Sundays due to budget cuts.

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Outdoor Dining in New York City Is Here to Stay. (Just Not in Winter.)

Outdoor Dining in New York City Is Here to Stay. (Just Not in Winter.) (Published 2023)

City officials intend to pass a law that formally allows roadway dining sheds, but with some design guidelines.

www.nytimes.com

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*NEW* New York City began distributing debit cards to migrant families on Monday after an uproar over the program: "I do struggle with why people are being so negative when it comes to providing something so basic for families with children.”

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The New York City Council is about to approve a solitary confinement ban. Lincoln Restler, a chair of the progressive caucus, calls it transformative and thanks speaker Adrienne Adams for her "bold leadership."

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Interesting alliance here between Bradley Tusk and Chi Ossé on a push to ban broker fees in NYC, @JCColtin reports.

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The Mayor Had a Photo of a Fallen Officer. Was His Story About It True?

The Mayor Had a Photo of a Fallen Officer. Was His Story About It True? (Gift Article)

Mayor Eric Adams has often talked about a wrinkled photo of a fallen police officer that he kept in his wallet. Now that photo and the story have been called into question.

www.nytimes.com

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Mayor Eric Adams is defending himself after two embarrassing veto overrides last week. He says there were 68 overrides under Mayor Bloomberg: "Democracy is working... I am cool." The last veto override of a Democratic mayor was in 1991 under Dinkins and it was his only one.

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Mayor Eric Adams, asked by @bariweiss on her podcast if he’s worried about NYC becoming the next San Francisco in terms of homelessness, says “no, I’m not worried because the mayor is Eric Adams” & “we went after those who were living on our streets.”

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Jessica Ramos, another possible 2025 Adams challenger, sharply criticizes the governor’s congestion pricing reversal.

Jessica Ramos

@jessicaramosqns

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In pausing congestion pricing, Gov Hochul has effectively killed the MTA Capital Plan. This is a slap in the face to our neighbors who rely on a functioning public transportation system. This decision will also cost NYers jobs and will have devastating environmental consequences.

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Zellnor Myrie, a 2025 mayoral challenger, sharply criticizes Mayor Eric Adams over his response to the governor’s reversal on congestion pricing:

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My old subway station at 181st Street is finally accessible! You love to see it.

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WFP on Mayor Eric Adams’s preliminary budget: “setting your own house on fire and then putting it out doesn’t make you a hero.”

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Mayor Eric Adams says on PIX11 that he's excited congestion pricing is moving forward. On criticism from New Jersey, he says: "I really encourage any New Jersey person that doesn't want to go back and forth, just come move to New York... This is one of the best places to live."

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@emmagf

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My son’s one of a kind T train hat 🚇 The Second Avenue Subway was going to be called the T train; then the MTA decided to extend the Q

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Emma G. Fitzsimmons

@emmagf

12 days

I'm told that Mayor Eric Adams's top spokesman is on vacation (at a moment when the administration is in crisis).

Chris Sommerfeldt

@C_Sommerfeldt

12 days

Just got a bounce-back email saying @Fabien_Levy , Mayor Adams' top City Hall spokesman, is out of the office until Monday. Reason unclear.

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Emma G. Fitzsimmons

@emmagf

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I asked Jumaane Williams if he’s prepared to become acting mayor if Eric Adams resigns. He says any public advocate “always had to be prepared - that’s part of the job. Is it something you want to happen? No.” He says he’s angry about the allegations & focused on restoring trust.

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Emma G. Fitzsimmons

@emmagf

2 years

Mayor Eric Adams again defends the new "We ♥️ NYC" logo: "I thought it was brilliant. Those who want to highlight the numerical minority that sits in the corner of their home somewhere in their pajamas saying, 'Let me criticize everything,' that is not the spirit of New Yorkers."

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Emma G. Fitzsimmons

@emmagf

9 months

Justin Brannan, the City Council finance chair, on the mayor’s police budget cuts reversal:

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Emma G. Fitzsimmons

@emmagf

2 months

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Left a Dead Bear in Central Park:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Left a Dead Bear in Central Park

Mr. Kennedy, an independent presidential candidate, confessed to dropping off the bear cub 10 years ago and making it appear that a bike had hit the animal.

www.nytimes.com

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Emma G. Fitzsimmons

@emmagf

4 months

When I was in the trenches of the baby and toddler years, a colleague told me that when your youngest turns 5, it feels like the giant tire you’ve been lugging around disappears. Things do feel lighter now, with so many fun firsts - camping trip, Broadway show, kayak ride.

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