"The executive can no longer use the pandemic as a shield to circumvent the independent oversight enshrined in long-standing statutes and rules," Stringer said in a Wednesday statement.
Transportation Alternatives’s bold plan to claw back a quarter of the city’s public space from the domain of automobiles is already making waves in the mayoral race, with five top progressive candidates backing the safety and quality-of-life initiative. Others reacted tepidly or not did not return responses.
Called “NYC 25 by 25,” the plan asks mayoral candidates to commit to dedicating 25 percent of the space now designated for vehicles including 19,000 miles of roads and three million on-street parking spaces as space for people by 2025 so that New Yorkers might have room to recover from (and thrive after) the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted the city’s lack of equity when it comes to active transportation and green space.
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The plan, which Adams’ has dubbed NYC Advanced Income Deployment, or NYC AID, aims to boost the earned income tax credits poor families receive by more than 10 times and cost the city $1 billion annually.
Calls for outside probe, resignation grow as second woman accuses Gov. Cuomo of sexual harassment
ALBANY Lawmakers are no longer holding their tongue when it comes to Albany’s most powerful politician.
In the wake of a second woman coming forward with claims of sexual harassment against Gov. Cuomo, Democrats and Republicans alike are piling one of the most feared men in politics and calling for, at bare minimum, an independent investigation into the allegations against him.
Sen. James Skoufis (D-Newburgh), the chairman of the state Senate investigations committee, said harassment “cannot be tolerated, regardless of how powerful individuals involved are.”