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‘She’s one of the brave ones.’ Yuh-Line Niou’s outspoken leadership style
She came to the Legislature as an insurgent, and she hasn’t lost that attitude. Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou from Manhattan has garnered attention and risen in prominence as a leading progressive voice in the Legislature. Mengwen Cao The must-read daily newsletter for NY s political community. Get it in your inbox.
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After a day of meetings, Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou arrived for an interview at Manousheh, a Lebanese restaurant on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on a warm June afternoon, flanked by a few staffers. At the time, some of the biggest issues were with small-business owners looking to her office for guidance on changing regulations. “We do a lot more running around more often than when we’re in session, my crew never stops,” Niou said. Before getting started, she said she wanted to buy her staff some ice cream, to wh
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Officials Call For New Safety Measures After Woman Dies After Falling Off East Village Roof
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Officials are calling for more safety measures after a woman died falling between rooftops during a party in the East Village early Saturday morning.
A NYPD spokesperson tells Gothamist that the incident happened around 3:10 a.m. Saturday when Cameron Perrelli, 23, fell to her death from the seventh floor roof of 202 Avenue A, near East 12th Street. Officials say she was trying to climb over to 200 Avenue A during a rooftop birthday party when she fell down an airspace between the two buildings. She was transported to Bellevue Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
By MARC BUSSANICH
Assembly Member Dan Quart on the Lower East Side
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May 6, 2021 at 11:23 PM
New York, NY Assembly Member Dan Quart (D-73) said that anybody running for office, especially to be the next Manhattan District Attorney, can talk about reform, anyone can put it up on their website as a plan of reform of what they would do, but nobody has his record of actually accomplishing reform.
“I’m the one with the actual record of real legislative change on a whole host of issues of getting rid of predicates that were a continuation of stop and frisk, and other criminal justice reforms,” said Quart.