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As First Black Speaker, Adrienne Adams Takes Helm of Majority-Women NYC Council ([link removed])
Adams stressed unity in her first speech as the City Council’s new leader, saying the legislative body—the most diverse in the city’s history—would prioritize addressing the pandemic, including the recent shortage of tests and booster appointments, as well as public safety, healthcare equity and affordable child care.
In First State of the State, Gov. Hochul Pledges ‘New Era for New York’ ([link removed])
Hochul, who became the state’s first female governor after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned in 2021, has worked hard to distance herself from her predecessor, and from what she has described as a toxic working culture in the Capitol.
Brooklyn Developer’s Rezoning Proposal Would Add 400-Foot Towers to Broadway Junction ([link removed])
The project would create about 664 housing units, two commercial towers and a new park in place of vehicle lots and low-rise buildings in an area that city officials have been eyeing for years for potential economic and real estate development.
City Watch: Should NYC Land Use Decisions Consider Hospital Capacity? ([link removed])
New Queens Councilmember Lynn Schulman wants to incorporate hospital capacity into New York City’s zoning process, following decades of medical facility closures, including several in Queens.
As NY Redistricting Forges Forward, Asian American Groups Push for ‘Unity Map’ ([link removed])
The “Unity Map” was drawn by three civil rights legal groups—the Asian American Legal Defense Fund, the Center for Law and Social Justice, and Latino Justice—and features districts drawn to preserve a community’s political power, the organizers said, particularly important given the growth of the Asian population in the city according to last year’s census.
House Flippers Continue to Target East New York. Residents Blame the 2016 Rezoning ([link removed])
Home prices in the predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood began to tick up before then-Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to rezone 190 blocks in 2014. But affordable housing advocates and local residents say the rezoning, approved in 2016, only drove more speculators to scoop up homes, jack up prices and push out existing residents.
New Year, New Mayor: The Eric Adams File ([link removed])
It’s official: Eric Adams is now the mayor of New York City. Already, our new mayor has been off to an almost dizzying start, part of a pledge to “Get Stuff Done” in his first 100 days. City Limits has been covering City Hall’s new leader for nearly two decades. Here are some highlights.
Renewed Calls for City to Reduce Jail Population as Omicron Cases Skyrocket ([link removed])
The 7-day positivity rate for those in the jail system who’ve been tested for the virus was more than 29 percent on Thursday, compared to 23 percent of city residents overall. But those in custody are much less likely to be vaccinated: just 38.4 percent have received both shots, compared to 72.3 percent of all New Yorkers.
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Opinion: At Midnight, a New Year Begins—and History Gets its Hands on Bill de Blasio ([link removed])
“From the vantage point of future decades, his many flaws and huge mistakes—all so apparent to us who have watched his day-to-day mayoralty—are unlikely to be as visible as the major decisions he made which, in many cases, were pretty sound and made the city a better place.”
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