New York
Cases Are Rising in Schools. So Why Are Masks Off?
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On Tuesday night time, Mayor Eric Adams went to the Museum of Fashionable Artwork to soak up the primary reside Ralph Lauren runway present in additional than two years, a set whose theme — New York in all of its center-of-the-universe glamour — would appear to have been ordered by the mayor himself and produced on demand. In honor of the event, Mr. Adams wore an overcoat, half of which was coated in swirls and faces and iconic New York Metropolis buildings (and the title Eric Adams), all on a taxicab yellow background, creating one other Instagram second in his marketing campaign to let the world know that New York is going on once more and that everybody actually wanted to get on with it.
“That is the brand new mayor wardrobe in New York,” he stated, in jovial spirit, to reporters on the occasion. “Our metropolis is again. That is the style capital.” Time and again the mayor has instructed New Yorkers to return to their workplaces, to return to experiences carried out exterior of the home and reside it up.
The day after the Ralph Lauren occasion the mayor adopted with the announcement that masks would quickly be non-compulsory for kids within the metropolis’s preschools and day-care facilities, although what impact liberating 3-year-olds from their KN95s would have on repopulating workplaces and resurrecting the economic system of Midtown was not self-evident.
The masks mandate for college kids in kindergarten via twelfth grade was lifted on March 7. Acknowledging that the problem was certain to be divisive, the mayor stated that he had spoken with many mother and father who begged him to unmask younger youngsters — and likewise many others who implored him to please preserve faces coated. He had adopted the “science” and made his resolution. It was now time, the mayor stated, “to peel again one other layer on this total initiative.”
The reprieve goes towards the rules nonetheless in place by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, which recommends common indoor masking for early childhood teaching programs, on condition that vaccines have but to be licensed for kids beneath the age of 5. Though the chance of great sickness and hospitalization from Covid in youngsters is extraordinarily low, the prices of unmasking, largely within the title of symbolism, will not be fully fictional.
Over the course of the previous two weeks, Covid positivity charges have ticked upward in New York Metropolis. However case charges amongst college students have surpassed these within the normal inhabitants (13.3 per 100,000 versus 9.6 citywide, for a seven-day interval ending on March 22), figures town’s Division of Training didn’t tackle once I reached out to ask about them. Some faculties have had vital jumps. Hunter elementary college ended the week of March 12 with 4 instances; the week of March 19, there have been 24.
One grievance advocates of continued masking have had is with the provision of information on Covid instances coming from town’s training division, which gives a each day tracker some discover insufficiently complete. One group, Dad and mom for Responsive Equitable Protected Faculties got down to scrape information recurrently and ship a broad view. What their figures reveal is a rise within the whole variety of Covid instances in New York Metropolis faculties this educational yr, which jumps from 135,977 instances on March 7 to simply beneath 137,900 instances on March 23, a notable enhance over the earlier two-week interval.
Even when most kids haven’t fallen particularly sick for the reason that repeal of masking guidelines, penalties stay. On condition that college students must isolate for 5 days after they check constructive, the rise in instances implies that a whole bunch of youngsters are saved out of college after two years of what are clearly vital educational losses ensuing from diminished or nonexistent in-person studying. What they’ve as an alternative is “asynchronous” studying at house.
Past that, vaccination compliance for kids eligible for inoculation varies throughout town. In East Harlem and components of the South Bronx, vaccination charges for these between 5 and 17 hover at slightly below 55 %; in components of Central Brooklyn, the determine is nearer to 45 %. And these neighborhoods, in fact, are the place Covid introduced a few of its worst devastation.
A number of days earlier than the mayor’s announcement concerning the abandoning of masks guidelines for younger youngsters, Annie Tan, a instructor and activist, posted an image of herself on Twitter lugging her personal air air purifier to highschool within the title of serving to her expenses stay secure. The following day she introduced a second when she found that a few of her college students could be taking standardized exams in windowless school rooms the next week.
Final month, dozens of educators, mother and father, medical doctors, political teams and public well being officers drafted a letter to the mayor, the governor and others asking for higher information from the Division of Training, improved air high quality and the continuance of masks carrying. However the forces on the opposite aspect of the talk proved extra aggressive. Just some days earlier than the mayor’s most up-to-date announcement, dozens of largely white mother and father — a few of them on the vanguard of the motion to reopen faculties in an earlier section of the pandemic — gathered at Metropolis Corridor to demand that the Adams administration “unmask our toddlers.” An analogous protest was held a couple of weeks earlier.
One Manhattan mom, Natalya Murakhver, who has been particularly vocal about masks removing, was concerned with an motion to outfit vans with billboards within the title of her trigger and despatched them across the metropolis. One featured an image of a little bit blond boy subsequent to a textual content block that learn: “I carry the least danger, however essentially the most burden.” Final yr, Ms. Murakhver began a GoFundMe marketing campaign with the intent of hiring a lawyer and suing town if faculties didn’t return to in-person studying full time.
After the mayor’s announcement this week she took to social media to rejoice the victory however puzzled why youngsters must wait till April 4 to take their masks off.
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New York
Senator Menendez’s Resignation Letter
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ROBERT MENENDEZ
NEW JERSEY
COMMITTEES:
BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN
AFFAIRS
FINANCE
FOREIGN RELATIONS
The Honorable Phil Murphy
Governor of New Jersey
Office of the Governor
Trenton, N.J. 08625
Dear Governor Murphy,
United States Senate
WASHINGTON, DC 20510-3005
July 23, 2024
528 SENATE HART OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
(202) 224-4744
210 HUDSON STREET
HARBORSIDE 3, SUITE #1000
JERSEY CITY, NJ 07311
(973) 645-3030
208 WHITE HORSE PIKE
SUITE 18-19
BARRINGTON, NJ 08007
(856) 757-5353
This is to advise you that I will be resigning from my office as the United States Senator from
New Jersey, effective on the close of business on August 20, 2024.
This will give time for my staff to transition to other possibilities, transfer constituent files that
are pending, allow for an orderly process to choose an interim replacement, and for me to close
out my Senate affairs.
While I fully intend to appeal the jury’s verdict, all the way and including to the Supreme Court,
I do not want the Senate to be involved in a lengthy process that will detract from its important
work. Furthermore, I cannot preserve my rights upon a successful appeal, because factual matters
before the ethics committee are not privileged. This is evidenced by the Committee’s Staff
Director and Chief Counsel being called to testify at my trial.
I am proud of the many accomplishments I’ve had on behalf of New Jersey, such as leading the
federal effort for Superstorm Sandy recovery, preserving and funding Gateway and leading the
federal efforts to help save our hospitals, State and municipalities, as well as New Jersey families
through a once in a century COVID pandemic. These successes led you, Governor, to call me the
“Indispensable Senator.”
I thank the citizens of New Jersey for the extraordinary privilege of representing them in the
United States Senate.
Sincerely,
Pabet Menang.
Robert Menendez
United States Senator
New Jersey
cc: The Honorable Kamala Harris, President of the Senate
The Honorable Ann Berry, Secretary of the Senate
New York
How Well Do You Know Literary Brooklyn?
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A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary geography quiz celebrates Brooklyn and novels set around the bustling borough. To play, just make your selection in the multiple-choice list and the correct answer will be revealed. Links to the books will be listed at the end of the quiz if you’d like to do further reading.
New York
See How Your Subway Service May Suffer Without Congestion Pricing
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After Gov. Kathy Hochul halted New York City’s congestion pricing program last month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority cut $16.5 billion worth of planned upgrades to the city’s vast transit network, mostly to account for the loss of funding that was tied to revenue from the toll.
Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Notes: The chart shows the $28.5 billion in uncommitted funds in the M.T.A.’s 2020-24 capital program; an additional $27 billion had already been committed.
The impact of the congestion pricing suspension on the M.T.A.’s funds for capital projects
Projects were cut from each part of New York City’s transit system, which is the largest in North America and is used by millions of people every day. The projects included elevator and ramp installations that would make subway stations accessible for people with disabilities, structural repairs to aging infrastructure and upgrades to 1930s-era signals that regularly cause delays.
Here are some of the subway projects the authority says it has shelved:
The cuts announced by the M.T.A. — the state agency that runs the subway, bus and commuter rail lines — will also affect transit outside the subway system. The authority has postponed the purchase of more than 250 electric buses and charging infrastructure at bus depots, as well as upgrades to regional rails and a ramp reconstruction on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
The $12 billion remaining in the M.T.A.’s capital funds will be spent on projects the authority considers the most urgent, like track replacements and repairs to power substations. It will also replace some of the “least reliable” subway and railway cars, the authority said in a report.
All told, there are 92 subway stations that will not get planned improvements, including 22 stations that will not get new elevators or ramps; 10 that will not get upgrades like structural repairs, platform replacements and new barriers between platforms and tracks; and 71 that will not get upgrades to their public announcement systems.
Below is a list of the subway stations where upgrades have been put on hold, based on what the M.T.A. has detailed so far:
Projects on hold at 41 stations in Brooklyn:
Union St R
- upgrade to public announcement system
4 Av-9 St R
- upgrade to public announcement system
36 St D N R
- upgrade to public announcement system
59 St N R
- upgrade to public announcement system
Bergen St F G
- upgrade to public announcement system
15 St-Prospect Park F G
- upgrade to public announcement system
Church Av F G
- upgrade to public announcement system
Avenue X F
- upgrade to public announcement system
Neptune Av F
- upgrade to public announcement system
- elevator or ramp installation
- platform or waiting area replacement
Jay St-MetroTech A C F
- upgrade to public announcement system
Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts A C G
- upgrade to public announcement system
- elevator or ramp installation
Franklin Av C
- upgrade to public announcement system
Nostrand Av A C
- upgrade to public announcement system
- elevator or ramp installation
Utica Av A C
- upgrade to public announcement system
Euclid Av A C
- upgrade to public announcement system
7 Av B Q
- upgrade to public announcement system
Kings Hwy B Q
- upgrade to public announcement system
Avenue U Q
- upgrade to public announcement system
Neck Rd Q
- upgrade to public announcement system
Sheepshead Bay B Q
- upgrade to public announcement system
Brighton Beach B Q
- upgrade to public announcement system
Ocean Pkwy Q
- upgrade to public announcement system
W 8 St-NY Aquarium F Q
- upgrade to public announcement system
Jefferson St L
- elevator or ramp installation
Nevins St 2 3 4 5
- platform or waiting area replacement
Crescent St J Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
Norwood Av J Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
Cleveland St J
- upgrade to public announcement system
Van Siclen Av J Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
Alabama Av J
- upgrade to public announcement system
Chauncey St J Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
Halsey St J
- upgrade to public announcement system
Gates Av J Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
Kosciuszko St J
- upgrade to public announcement system
Myrtle Av J M Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
Flushing Av J M
- upgrade to public announcement system
Lorimer St J M
- upgrade to public announcement system
Hewes St J M
- upgrade to public announcement system
Marcy Av J M Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
Kings Hwy N
- elevator or ramp installation
18 Av D
- elevator or ramp installation
Projects on hold at 9 stations in the Bronx:
Norwood-205 St D
- upgrade to public announcement system
Bedford Park Blvd B D
- upgrade to public announcement system
Kingsbridge Rd B D
- upgrade to public announcement system
Fordham Rd B D
- upgrade to public announcement system
Tremont Av B D
- upgrade to public announcement system
161 St-Yankee Stadium B D
- upgrade to public announcement system
Wakefield-241 St 2
- elevator or ramp installation
Brook Av 6
- elevator or ramp installation
- repairs for structural or aesthetic issues
3 Av-138 St 6
- elevator or ramp installation
- repairs for structural or aesthetic issues
Projects on hold at 27 stations in Manhattan:
Roosevelt Island F
- upgrade to public announcement system
Lexington Av/63 St F Q
- upgrade to public announcement system
47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctr B D F M
- upgrade to public announcement system
42 St-Bryant Pk B D F M
- upgrade to public announcement system
- elevator or ramp installation
34 St-Herald Sq B D F M
- upgrade to public announcement system
Broadway-Lafayette St B D F M
- upgrade to public announcement system
2 Av F
- upgrade to public announcement system
Delancey St-Essex St F
- upgrade to public announcement system
- elevator or ramp installation
East Broadway F
- upgrade to public announcement system
190 St A
- repairs for structural or aesthetic issues
145 St A C B D
- elevator or ramp installation
W 4 St-Wash Sq A C E
- upgrade to public announcement system
Canal St A C E
- upgrade to public announcement system
Chambers St A C
- upgrade to public announcement system
World Trade Center E
- upgrade to public announcement system
Lexington Av/59 St N R W
- elevator or ramp installation
168 St 1
- elevator or ramp installation
3 Av L
- new fencing between platform and track
5 Av 7
- elevator or ramp installation
Times Sq-42 St 7
- new fencing between platform and track
Delancey St-Essex St J M Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
- elevator or ramp installation
Canal St J Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
Chambers St J Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
- repairs for structural or aesthetic issues
Broad St J Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
110 St 6
- elevator or ramp installation
59 St 4 5 6
- elevator or ramp installation
7 Av B D E
- elevator or ramp installation
Projects on hold at 14 stations in Queens:
21 St-Queensbridge F
- upgrade to public announcement system
111 St J
- upgrade to public announcement system
75 St-Elderts Ln J Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
Ozone Park-Lefferts Blvd A
- upgrade to public announcement system
Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer E J Z
- upgrade to public announcement system
Sutphin Blvd-Archer Av-JFK Airport E J Z
- new fencing between platform and track
Jamaica-Van Wyck E
- upgrade to public announcement system
Parsons Blvd F
- elevator or ramp installation
Sutphin Blvd F
- upgrade to public announcement system
Briarwood E F
- elevator or ramp installation
- repairs for structural or aesthetic issues
Howard Beach-JFK Airport A
- upgrade to public announcement system
Broad Channel A S
- upgrade to public announcement system
Far Rockaway-Mott Av A
- upgrade to public announcement system
Rockaway Park-Beach 116 St A S
- upgrade to public announcement system
Projects on hold at 1 station in Staten Island:
Clifton SIR
- elevator or ramp installation
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