MOMI AWARDS IN SHULMAN’S NAME: This May, Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) inaugurates a special event honoring business innovators and leaders in Queens. The 2023 Claire Shulman Awards will be held on Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. at MOMI’s Redstone Theater. At 6:30 p.m., the program in the Redstone Theater will
The lawmakers shared stories of inmates held in detention for years awaiting trial and said the trip only solidified their opposition to including in the already-late state budget the governor’s proposals to give judges more leeway in setting bail.
New York lawmakers are passing a bill to ensure state employees get paid through the week. It's a stopgap measure to buy more time as the budget continues to be negotiated.
Humanity forward, but pedestrians backward?
New mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang kicked off his campaign on Thursday with a four-borough transit-only tour, but along the way suggested pedestrians better stay out of some streets in a Yang administration.
Yang’s final stop of his tour was in Brownsville, where he took a short walking tour with Assembly Member Latrice Walker. Streetsblog asked Yang how he would how he would improve on traffic safety and Vision Zero in Brownsville, where between 2018 and 2020 there were 4,870 crashes injuring 1,967 people and killing seven people, to bring the neighborhood’s crash numbers down to somewhere like Park Slope, where there were 46 percent fewer crashes resulting in 73 percent fewer injuries (and no deaths) over the period.