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In 2014, Tony Caifano and his girlfriend Jean Kim found themselves huddled in freezing temperatures watching the inauguration of Bill de Blasio. Both were steeped in New York City’s political world: She was a well-known lobbyist, he served as the political action director for a printers union.
As they sat on steel folding chairs, Caifano could feel his toes becoming numb. But it was important for both of them to be there. “It was a see-and-be-seen kind of day,” he said.
The day would later become emblazoned in both their minds for other reasons. According to Kim, it was the last time she remembers interacting with Scott Stringer, the current city comptroller and mayoral candidate who she accused last week of sexually assaulting her when she volunteered on his 2001 public advocate campaign.
In 2018, Columbia Mailman School Professor Peter Muennig published a research study on the benefits of capping the Cross Bronx Expressway to reduce air pollution and create green space. Last week, Bronx Congressman Richie Torres hosted a press conference on a sidewalk across from the highway, to make a case for fixing the Cross Bronx Expressway using a.
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New York City used to be an early adopter of new transportation modes. In the late eighteen-sixties, New Yorkers took up the velocipede, a primitive version of the bicycle. Half a century later, the city embraced the automobile, and eventually made free parking available for the fossil-fuel-burning machines a remarkable giveaway of expensive public space that many carless citizens would like back now. New York also engineered and built a subway system, above ground and below ground, which, before the
Covid-19 pandemic hit, carried five and a half million riders every weekday a landmark of American people-moving the city may never reach again, if remote work is here to stay.
Confusion surrounds NYC students returning to school amid new 3-foot rule, report says
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Last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that approximately 51,000 students would be able to go back to campus beginning April 26 following another opt-in period for families to switch from remote to in-person instruction. In this March 2021 photo, Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter talks to students at PS 45 in West Brighton. (Staten Island Advance)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. New York City public school students who recently opted for in-person learning are slated to begin returning to campus on Monday, April 26, but according to Chalkbeat, some principals in two school districts told families those plans have been put on hold due to conflicting messages about the three-foot rule a rule that reduced the distance between students from six feet to three feet amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.