New Yorkers mark one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death with long moment of silence and protest Tim Balk, Shant Shahrigian, Leonard Greene
The one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s galvanizing police brutality death was commemorated in New York Tuesday by reform-minded politicians, including one who was arrested for his part in a peaceful protest.
Local leaders took a nine-and-a-half minute break out of their day to honor Floyd’s unwanted legacy, a nod to the amount of time he was pinned under Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin’s knee during a Memorial Day arrest last year.
The Rev. Al Sharpton hosted elected officials including Mayor de Blasio at his National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, where city leaders took a knee to mark the last minutes and seconds of Floyd’s stolen life.
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The City Planning Commission last week started the approval process for the rezoning of Brooklyn’s once industrial and still polluted Gowanus neighborhood in a bid to spur the building of 8,000 new apartments along with shops and parks.
The commission is soon expected to give a similar go-ahead to a proposal to rezone SoHo and NoHo to authorize 3,200 new housing units in Lower Manhattan as well as overhaul a cumbersome process for approval of retail stores.
Meanwhile, also wending through the approval process is a plan to rebuild the New York City Blood Center on East 67th Street to allow the organization to expand its ability to do research and to create a hub for other life science efforts in the heart of the city’s key medical complex.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a $723 million funding commitment Monday to finish the Manhattan greenway, a pedestrian and bicycle path around the entire island of Manhattan. (NYC Mayor s Office (left); Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office (right))
NEW YORK, NY The city s long-held goal of building a waterfront path around the island of Manhattan for walkers and cyclists inched closer to reality on Monday, when Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city would spend $723 million to complete the project by 2029. We re going to be doing something unprecedented all around Manhattan: to have the greenway finally completed, de Blasio said Monday as he unveiled his $98.6 billion post-pandemic recovery budget.