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Mayoral Candidates Respond to the Shooting in Times Square [Want to get New York Today by email? Alternate-side parking: In effect until Thursday (Solemnity of the Ascension and Eid al-Fitr). Image Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times A shooting near Seventh Avenue and West 45th Street on Saturday afternoon left three bystanders wounded: a 4-year-old Brooklyn girl who was shopping for toys with her family, a 23-year-old tourist from Rhode Island and a 43-year-old woman from New J...

The Biden administrations failure to appoint an ambassador to Israel is a serious problem, analyst says May 11, 2021 As the Israel-Palestine conflict escalates, the lack of a U.S. ambassador to Israel or a consul general in Jerusalem for Palestinians is becoming more glaring, Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Tuesday. I realize the Administration has lowballed and deprioritized the Middle East and Israeli-Palestinian issue. But the lack ...

Ben Affleck reportedly started flooding Jennifer Lopez with loving and longing emails in February No, you havent accidentally stepped into a time machine and emerged back in 2003: it appears Bennifer really might be a thing again. After it was revealed Monday that exes Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck recently vacationed together for a week, TMZ reported Tuesday that they "didnt just rekindle their romance within the last two weeks," but "instead, its been building since February." According to ...

Former HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan guessed around $100,000 Former Citigroup exec Raymond McGuire went lower, at $80,000-$90,000  In the first quarter of 2021, the median price went above $900k for the first time As recently as 2003, the median price in Brooklyn was still way above $100k The only candidate to correctly name the median home cost was Andrew Yang  Donovan and McGuire are two of the biggest contenders left in the mayoral race The primary, which essentially decides the mayor in NYC...

NYC Mayor Candidates Shaun Donovan, Ray McGuire Think Average Brooklyn Home Costs $100K On 5/11/21 at 11:16 AM EDT Two Democratic candidates vying to be the next mayor of New York City, former Citigroup executive Raymond McGuire and former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, both expressed their belief that the median sales price of a Brooklyn home is at most $100,000. The two joined 14 other Democratic mayoral candidates in speaking with The New York Times for endor...

How The Mayoral Candidates Will Make Housing More Affordable In NYC arrow People gather for a protest in August 2020 demanding New York cancel rent outside of Brooklyn housing court. JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock This is part of our (subject line: One Issue Explainer) Last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill extending a moratorium that prevents New Yorkers from getting evicted from their home, a move the State Legislature says is intended to avert an eviction cr...

Bird Song of the Day * * * #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. All the charts are becoming dull — approaching nominal, if you accept the “new normal” of cases, for example. “Many police officers spurn coronavirus vaccines as departments hold off on mandates” [WaPo]. “Police officers were among the first front-line workers to gain ...

By Vivian KaneMay 11th, 2021, 3:32 pm New York City’s mayoral primary election is next month and so far, much of the national media coverage has been on how out-of-touch some of these candidates are. Andrew Yang entered the race late and has been dominating in the polls thanks to name recognition—but he also lost the endorsement of a prominent LGBTQIA group after making some seriously “tokenizing” remarks. (He also doesn’t appear to know what a bodega is.) Scott Stringer has been acc...

Some of the NYC Mayoral Candidates Have an Absurd Idea of How Much It Costs To Buy a Home Vivian Kane © Provided by The Mary Sue A meme of Lucille Bluth looking disdainful with the text New York City’s mayoral primary election is next month and so far, much of the national media coverage has been on how out-of-touch some of these candidates are. Andrew Yang entered the race late and has been dominating in the polls thanks to name recognition—but he also lost the endorsem...

Can You Vote in New York City’s June 22 Primary Election? Time is running out to register. Here is what you need to know to make sure you can cast your ranked-choice ballot for everything from your local City Council contest to the citywide race for mayor. Share this story Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY This article is adapted from our weekly Civic Newsroom newsletter, which is sent out every Tuesday. You can sign up We’re officially six weeks out from Primary Day on June 22. May 28. That’s...