The city plans to partner with Masbia, a kosher soup kitchen, to expand an existing program that collects and distributes donations at migrant shelters across the city.
Governor Cuomo Announces Construction Completion and Opening of Under The K Bridge Park in Brooklyn Share
North Brooklyn Parks Alliance to Oversee Park s Future Maintenance and Programming
Before and After Pictures Available Here
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the completion of construction and official opening tomorrow of Under the K Bridge Park, which will utilize land occupied by the former Kosciuszko Bridge to transform nearly seven acres beneath the Kosciuszko Bridge in Brooklyn into premier open space for the North Brooklyn Community. Under a permit, the State Department of Transportation, which oversaw construction of the facility, has turned nearly seven acres of state land to the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance to operate and maintain the facility.
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The unfolding nursing home crisis that’s got Gov. Andrew Cuomo sweating has left Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a tough position too. He’s remained largely silent as outspoken members of his conference have increasingly supported repealing the governor’s vast emergency powers and as Cuomo attacks one of his own members.
But ahead of what could potentially be a contentious conference on Monday about the governor’s emergency powers, members of the Assembly still appear to be giving him political room to maneuver.
Heastie has for the most part stayed mum about the nursing home COVID-19 death scandal rocking the executive chamber, even as his state Senate counterpart is pushing ahead with legislation to curb Cuomo’s extraordinary powers granted to him at the start of the pandemic. “I think everyone understands where we were back in March and where we are now,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said in a statement. “We certainly see the need for a