Opinion: Mayor Needs to Step up Investment in Parks and Public Spaces
“As a city, when we seem incapable of caring for basic things — public spaces, sanitation, safe streets — it’s hard to feel confident that we can handle bigger challenges and achieve greater goals," Friends of Cooper Park in Williamsburg say, urging Mayor to speed up park investments.
A New Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic
New Yorkers should take greater caution now, especially those most at risk for serious disease.
At Least 20 People Were Listed As Brooklyn Democratic Primary Candidates Without Their Knowledge
A 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, an immigration advocate and a financial tech worker all learned of their candidacies when contacted by THE CITY. Party reformers charge they were caught up in a scheme for power brokers to retain control.
NYC’s COVID risk rises, but mask mandates haven’t returned to K-12 schools
According to previously issued health department guidance, once the city reaches the medium-risk COVID level, officials may consider reinstating mask mandates in “high-risk settings where it is crowded and distance cannot be maintained,” which includes schools, Chalkbeat reports.
‘Donald Trump in Brooklyn’: Democratic Politician Charges County Chair With Manipulating Election
Park Slope Assemblymember Robert Carroll calls the decision to keep judicial delegates on the ballot despite dubious petition signatures “politically influenced” — while party leader Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn says he’s “xenophobic” for trying to block Pakistani representation, THE CITY reports.
New Brooklyn Spots To Try
With so many great cafes, restaurants and bars opening or reopening this spring,
it is hard for one to keep
NYC schools to give students weekly at-home COVID tests as cases rise
This Tuesday saw 844 positive COVID cases reported among students and staff, significantly higher than the Tuesday before masking became optional in schools when there were 229 cases reported across the city’s schools. In both snapshots, 70% of the cases were among students, Chalkbeat reports.
Top Court Rejects New York’s Congressional and State Senate Lines
The court’s decision kept state Assembly lines drawn by the Democrat-controlled legislature intact, but gave a win to a Republican-backed legal challenge on the Senate and congressional lines, THE CITY reports.
More Brooklyn Residents Claim Forgeries in Democratic Party-Linked Push to Oust Primary Rivals
Two more voters say they never signed petition objections filed in their names to the Board of Elections. It’s part of a troubling pattern political reformers in Brooklyn say is part of a bid by the borough’s Democratic party to keep hold of power, THE CITY reports.
