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City Hall Says No Decision Yet On Hiring 475 New NYPD School Safety Agents arrow Safety officers walk past P.S. 452 in NYC on August 11th, 2020. Peter Foley/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Despite an assertion that NYPD was considering a $20 million hiring spree of 475 new school safety agents amid a fiscal crisis by a city education official, City Hall and police leaders say there's been no official decision made. Politico reported Thursday that Kenyatte Reid, executive director of the Department of Education's Office of Safety and Youth Development, said at a City Council hear...

Delayed shipments have put our entire vaccination effort at a standstill. As of this morning, New York City has fewer than 1,000 first doses remaining on-hand. pic.twitter.com/frXPryVwKS— Avery Cohen (@CohenAvery) February 20, 2021 The City gets its supply from the state. The state says their shipments were delayed this week due to the winter storms impacting much of the country. Governor Cuomo said Friday, "Every dose that should have shipped on Monday was held back, and only a limited number of Pfizer vaccines left shipping facilities on Tuesday and Wednesday." Mayor Bill de Blasio said h...

A City Hall spokeswoman said distribution delays had left New York bereft of the lifesaving injections.

arrow Members of the Strategic Response Group confronting a Black Trans Liberation march in November Scott Heins/Gothamist On a Thursday night in November, two days after the presidential election, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside the Stonewall Inn for a march against police brutality. The event was one in a series of Black Trans Liberation marches, a recurring protest and pride parade held each week since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Unlike the previous iterations, which had proceeded without incident, this one was accompanied by scores of heavily ...

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