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Mayor Adams Announces Budget Adds — and New Head of NYPD

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  Mayor Adams Announces Budget Adds — and New Head of NYPD At what was expected to be a fairly routine briefing on tweaks to city spending, the mayor announced Jessica Tisch would be getting her third commissionership. This article originally appeared in The City. By  Katie Honan NEW YORK - Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday unveiled a modified budget that includes funding for 1,600 new police officers and money for rental vouchers — and then introduced a new police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, in a surprise announcement. The November changes — an annual occurrence — are the latest  update to the city’s fiscal year 2025 budget passed in late June, now adding $3 billion to the original $112 billion.  The increased spending comes from adding 1,600 new police officers, bringing the total number of NYPD officers to almost 34,000, Adams revealed on Thursday. It also adds $467 million into a cash-assistance program that helps low-income New Yorkers pay for groceries an
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Rikers Island Shutdown Plan Progresses With Construction Firms for New Manhattan Jail

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  The selection of Tutor Perini and O & G Industries to design and build the White Street lockup represents a final piece in the borough-jails puzzle.   This article originally appeared in The City. By  Reuven Blau NEW YORK - The city’s ambitious plan to close Rikers Island took a major step forward after the Adams administration this month tapped two construction firms to build a new lockup in lower Manhattan — one of the final major outstanding contracts.  The city’s Department of Design and Construction intends to use Tutor Perini and O & G Industries to construct the new 1,040 bed jail on White Street in Chinatown, officials announced earlier this month.    “This is the last big piece when it comes to the jail side of construction,” Zachary Katznelson, executive director of the Independent Rikers Commission which lobbies for the closure of the jails by the East River, told THE CITY on Wednesday. In May 2023, Tutor Perini was also selec
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Perv Robber Went for Takeout After Lewd Act

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The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with a robbery and a lewd act near Times Square. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice November 19, 2024  Follow @x NEW YORK - Cops released new video of a man suspected of robbing a woman in her own building and then performing a lewd act on himself in front of her.  The NYPD released a new video of the suspect taken from inside a take out restaurant near the building where the incident took place. Previously investigators had a dark, grainy video of the suspect taken of him walking at night down the street. The new video is taken from inside a brightly lit takeout joint. In the video the suspect is seen without a mask walking up to the counter showing a clear view of his face.  The suspect is described as a male with a medium complexion and medium build. He has a beard and mustache and was last seen wearing a dark winter coat with a hood. At around 2 am on November 17, a 38-year-old woman was walk
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Perv Robs, Sexually Assaults Woman Near Times Square

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Posed as a Beggar Before Performing Lewd Act The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with a robbery and a lewd act. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice November 18, 2024 Follow @x NEW YORK - Cops are looking for a pervy mugger who robbed, and performed a sex act in front of a woman inside her building near Times Square.  At around 2 am on November 17, a 38-year-old woman was walking into a residential building in the vicinity of West 44 Street and 9 Avenue. Cops said a man in a winter coat followed her inside the building and asked for money.  The man then cornered the woman and forcibly removed her purse, cellphone and bank cards. Then the man exposed himself and performed a lewd act in front of the woman, cops said. He then ran out of the building in an unknown direction.  The NYPD released surveillance video of the suspect. He is described as a male with a medium complexion and slim build. He was la
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Trump Presidency Looms Over New York’s Ambitious Climate Agenda

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  With former Hochul rival Lee Zeldin nominated as next EPA commissioner, commitments to carbon-free electricity and steeply reduced greenhouse gas emissions grow increasingly hazy. This article originally appeared in The City.  By  Samantha Maldonado NEW YORK - With President Donald Trump set to return to the White House, New York is all but on its own to play catch-up with its ambitious, legally mandated climate goals. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, passed in 2019 during Trump’s first presidential term, requires the state to have zero-emissions electricity by 2040 and slash greenhouse gas emissions 85% by 2050. While the state has made some progress — aided in large part by the Biden administration, whose friendly stance toward climate action gave way to smoother offshore wind permitting and tax incentives for cleaner vehicles — it’s got a long way to go. Even with that wind at its back, however, New York had already fallen about thr
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Hochul Says Congestion Pricing to Start Jan. 5 — Before Trump Takes Office

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  The tolling scheme is back on track with a lower price point, and the governor says she’s “looking for support from the federal government to support our shared goals of making this a world-class system.”  This article originally appeared in The City. By  Jose Martinez NEW YORK - Five months after suspending the vehicle-tolling initiative aimed at funding transit upgrades, Gov. Kathy Hochul put congestion pricing back on track Thursday — and squarely in the sights of President-elect Donald Trump. At a Midtown news conference as packed as a rush-hour train, Hochul announced that motorists driving south of 60th Street in Manhattan will begin paying a once-daily $9 toll on Jan. 5. The tolls would kick in just over two weeks before the White House return of Trump, who has vowed to “ TERMINATE Congestion Pricing in my FIRST WEEK back in office.” The governor’s latest reversal on the first-in-the-nation plan came after Hochul in June put an indefinite pause on cong
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