Regional
By Reuvain Borchardt
NEW YORK -
Friday, April 16, 2021 at 4:40 pm | ד אייר תשפ א
Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang at a campaign appearance in City Hall Park last month. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
Andrew Yang still appears to be the candidate to beat in the New York City mayoral race, with a poll showing him maintaining a double-digit lead over all rivals for the Democratic nomination fewer than 70 days from the primary election.
Yang, an entrepreneur most noted for his proposals to give cash payments to the poorest New Yorkers and for the city to aggressively reopen and offer incentives for businesses and employers to return from the Covid lockdown, has first-place support from 26 percent of respondents in a poll by Data for Progress, a progressive think tank and polling organization. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has 13 percent of first-place votes, city Comptroller Scott Stringer 11 percent, and Maya Wiley, a former counsel to Mayor Bill de Bl
If he expects flooding, he rolls up the downstairs rugs and takes his valuables upstairs.
“That’s just life in Broad Channel,” he said. “If you want to live close to water, you just pay attention.”
The extra attention is worth it to Riepe, who serves as the Jamaica Bay guardian for the American Littoral Society, a marine conservation group. He loves to take his boat out on the water, surrounded by the marsh with the city skyline visible on clear days.
When he rebuilt his house after Superstorm Sandy, he put the electrical outlets four feet off the floor. If another storm hits and destroys his home, he’s resigned to go somewhere else a thought that lingers in the back of his mind.
‘Doctors to the people’ would bring healthcare to low-income patients, under plan by NYC mayoral candidate Ray McGuire Shant Shahrigian
New York City would set up two mobile doctors’ clinics in each borough to tackle the dire health care inequities exposed by the COVID pandemic, according to a plan proposed by mayoral candidate Ray McGuire.
The roaming medical buses could visit as many as 60 locations per borough every month under the plan to provide routine check-ups and other services by NYC Health + Hospitals professionals in underserved communities, McGuire’s policy adviser Anthony Hogrebe told the Daily News on Sunday.
The “Doctors to the People” fleet would focus on communities with the least health care coverage, starting with NYCHA buildings, and enroll people without insurance in the city’s “NYC Care” program that connects low-income people with primary care, Hogrebe told the News.
The “Doctors to the People” fleet would focus on communities with the least health care coverage, starting with NYCHA buildings, and enroll people without insurance in the city’s “NYC Care” program that connects low-income people with primary care.