The man had doused himself with hand sanitizer before the confrontation at the Catskill Police Department.
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After New York City taxi taxi drivers staged a hunger strike demanding the city gaurantee their loans, officials announced an expanded deal Wednesday to help drivers crippled by debt.The deal involved the Taxi Work…
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Monique Beals
Macy’s announced the lineup of its annual Thanksgiving Day Parade as it returns to hosting the event as normal, complete with giant balloon floats, live performances – and the addition of Baby Yoda.”For more than n…
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New York and New Jersey both issued a state of emergency on Monday ahead of a nor’easter that descended on the region Tuesday morning.”I am proactively declaring a State of Emergency to ensure we can provide the ne…
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The sculpture was unveiled Thursday, along with a statue of Rep. John Lewis and Breonna Taylor.
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Ben Kesslen and The Associated Press
New York’s mandate for health workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has boosted the industry’s vaccination rate, and has not resulted in widespread facility closures and mass resignations like some state offici…
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Nathaniel Weixel
New York City police said seven vans being used as Airbnb rentals in Manhattan were impounded Thursday and Friday in what was dubbed “Operation Room Service”, …
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Olafimihan Oshin
NEW YORK — New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect.
The worker mandate for the the nation’s largest school system was set to go into effect Monday. But late Friday, a judge for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary injunction and referred the case to a three-judge panel an an expedited basis.
Department of Education spokesperson Danielle Filson said officials seeking a speedy resolution by the circuit court next week.
“We’re confident our vaccine mandate will continue to be upheld once all the facts have been presented, because that is the level of protection our students and staff deserve,” Filson said in an email.
She said more than 82% of department employees have been vaccinated.
While most school workers have been vaccinated, unions representing New York City principals and teachers warned that could still leave the 1 million-student school system short of as many as 10,000 teachers, along with other staffers, such as cafeteria workers and school police officers.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has resisted calls to delay the mandate.
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A senior official announced on Monday that New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will extend a policy granting death benefits to vaccinated employees who die from COVID-19 through the end of the year….
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Cameron Jenkins
President Biden spoke with Kathy Hochul on Monday before she was sworn in as governor of New York and expressed a desire to host her at the White House sometime in the future.”He congratulated her on her new job an…
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Morgan Chalfant
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Monday pushed back on a local news report saying that he asked staffers if anyone would like to keep his dog after moving out of the governor’s mansion. …
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When Kathy Hochul (D) took her oath of office to succeed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) shortly after midnight Tuesday, she became the 57th person – and the first woman – in New York’s nearly 250-year history to…
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Reid Wilson
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) was sworn in as the state’s 57th governor Tuesday, following former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
Why it matters: Hochul is the first woman to serve as governor of New York and will serve out the remainder of Cuomo’s term until 2022.
Background: Hochul received national attention after winning a special election in 2011 for a New York congressional seat that had not gone to a Democrat in 40 years.
What they’re saying: “I’ll tell New Yorkers I’m up to the task,” Hochul told WGRZ after being sworn in. “And I’m really proud to be able to serve as their governor and I won’t let them down.”
Editor’s note: This article has been updated with new comment from Hochul and to include details of the governors record.
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Tropical Storm Henri, with maximum sustained winds down only slightly from hurricane intensity, is walloping southern New England with damaging winds, storm surge flooding, and torrential rainfall.
The big picture: The storm has slowed down slightly and taken a well-advertised turn towards the Northwest as it approaches eastern Long Island, southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island, taking a north-northwesterly path toward the coast.
The latest: At 9 a.m. ET, Tropical Storm Henri was located about 35 miles south-southeast of Montauk Point, New York, or 70 miles south of Providence. It is moving north-northwest at 16 mph. It had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph, with higher gusts.
A storm surge of 3 to 5 feet above normally dry ground is anticipated along the south coast, including Long Island’s south and north shores, coastal Connecticut, Rhode Island and Cape Cod and the Islands. Nearly twenty-foot waves have been observed just off the coast.
The storm’s other biggest risk is heavy inland rains, with a widespread 3 to 6 inches of rain likely to fall from northeast Pennsylvania to New England. Some spots may pick up 10 inches or more, and Henri-related flash flooding is already underway in northern New Jersey.
The bottom line: Typically, inland flooding, rather than strong winds, is the greatest threat to lives and property out of a tropical storm or hurricane’s arsenal.
Good morning! The rising sun is giving us a view of now Tropical Storm Henri. Henri is expected to make landfall around lunchtime. Don’t sleep on this storm just because it was downgraded to a TS; the expected impacts remain the same! #mawx #riwx #ctwx pic.twitter.com/NcVke9zWf2
— NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) August 22, 2021
Storm surge building in Buzzards Bay this morning. Here’s Woods Hole. Fortunately timing still looks good (coming in at low tide early afternoon) pic.twitter.com/45J0LVHuki
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Tropical storm Henri has developed into a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said Saturday morning, with the storm expected to make landfall in the northeast U.S. as soon as Saturday night.The ce…
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Caroline Vakil
ALBANY — New York’s Democratic Party for much of the past decade has been one of the many tools Andrew Cuomo wielded to exert his dominance over the state.
Now, his planned exit from the political stage opens a power vacuum, and the New York State Democratic Committee faces an uncertain future with barely a year to go until the next major election.
On taking office Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul will become the face and likely the unofficial leader of the party. But she might have a difficult job keeping the party apparatus united behind her in advance of a 2022 primary. For one, there’s a decent chance that a competitive race could lead to factionalizing between her and someone like state Attorney General Tish James.
And even if Hochul — who recently declared her intentions to run for a full term — manages to clear the field in the coming months, she will likely have to deal with a more serious limitation to her dominance over the Democratic Committee: Cuomo’s departure has created an expectation with some that the traditionally top-heavy party will take steps toward one that’s more representative of the different forces within it.
“Whereas Gov. Cuomo, his style was very matter of fact, ‘Do this, because I said so.’ I think you’re going to have a different relationship with future Gov. Hochul where she will be more of a cooperative, collaborative leader,” said Erie County Democratic Committee Chair Jeremy Zellner.
Cuomo’s control of the party was obvious as early as 2013. That year, the Democrats’ “housekeeping” account — a fund theoretically designed for activities like increasing party enrollment — raised $5.9 million. A total of $5.3 million of that was spent on television ads praising Cuomo’s legislative agenda.
The following year, Cuomo promised to raise $10 million for state Senate Democrats as a condition of his being endorsed by the Working Families Party. He never came close to following through on that pledge and Republicans, after enjoying spending advantages in most of that year’s competitive contests, emerged from the election with a slim majority.
When the governor faced a primary challenge from Cynthia Nixon in 2018, he won more than 95 percent of the party’s vote at its convention, officially letting it spend money to help his campaign. The committee’s support was so ardent that it sent out mailers suggesting Nixon, whose children are Jewish, was anti-Semitic.
Once the governor lost the support of most high-ranking Democrats after allegations against him began to surface this spring, progressives introduced a resolution within the party to censure him. The issue didn’t even come up for a debate.
“Mind you, it was out of bounds at a time the third-most powerful Democrat in the country and the senior member of our delegation, Chuck Schumer, had already called on the governor to resign,” said Patrick Nelson, a committeeperson from Saratoga County. “And mind you, censureship is less that removal from office — it’s ‘governor, you did a bad thing and we’re just telling you you did a bad thing.’ And we couldn’t even do that.”
But reformers are urging caution to those hoping for wholesale change to the culture of the party overnight.
“I don’t think that just because Cuomo is gone, now someone like myself is going to be the chair,” said progressive Émilia Decaudin of Queens. “The people who tend to go along with the role tend to go along with the whims of someone like Cuomo, who goes in with a heavy hand.”
But she did predict some issues that members have been “vaguely upset about” in the past might be the subject of contentious debate in the future. And many are hopeful that Democrats can at least move toward being focused on electing candidates up and down the ballot.
“I think the state party moves into more of a support role for county committees and elected officials across the state, instead of just being laser-focused just on the governor,” Zellner said.
Former Cayuga County Chair Ian Phillips said he’d like to see the party focused more on winning local elections.
“Hiring and elevating people … with a history of winning in tough races rather than based on personal loyalty,” he said when asked what direction he’d like the party to take.
Even though the party has remained loyal to the governor, his micromanagement had diminished a little in recent years. Some attribute that to the 2016 arrest and subsequent conviction of Joe Percoco, a top aide to Cuomo who acted as his enforcer.
“I don’t think Kathy will have a henchman going around saying ‘you do this, you do that, or else,’” said Jay Bellanca, a progressive committeeperson from Washington County.
Jay Jacobs, the chair of the party and a longtime Cuomo loyalist, says he’s supportive of a continued decentralization.
“I’m hopeful that Kathy Hochul would agree with that. I know that as a lieutenant governor and our many conversations, she did believe in that as well,” he said.
How far down that path the party goes will be determined by Hochul’s ability to remain the state’s top Democrat and how heavy a hand she wields.
But even for some of the progressives who are skeptical about how much things might change, there’s hope that the future can’t be much worse than the past.
“There’s a genuine sense of relief, a genuine sense of progress and a genuine sense of hope that this will lead to some positive changes,” Nelson said. “It has to, especially after the last 10 years of what we suffered through.”
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Enlarge / Henri satellite appearance as of 10:30 am ET (14:30 UTC) on Friday. (credit: NOAA)
After several days of uncertainty and wild swings in forecast models, confidence is increasing in a large tropical system making landfall in the northeastern United States this weekend. In addition to causing surges along the coastline, Henri could bring gusty winds and widespread heavy rainfall from late Saturday through Monday to a region from New Jersey to Maine.
The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center, issued at 11 am ET on Friday, shows Henri holding at sustained winds of 65 mph, just below hurricane strength. However, the wind shear hampering Henri’s organization should relax some later today, and as the storm passes over the Gulf Stream, forecasters anticipate Henri will become a Category 1 or 2 hurricane. It may weaken some before landfall, however, as it passes over the cooler waters off the coast of New England.
Official track forecast for TS Henri at 11 am ET Friday. (credit: National Hurricane Center)
Over the next 48 hours, the storm should now move more or less due north and will likely make landfall somewhere along Long Island, Connecticut, or Rhode Island on Sunday.
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Eric Berger
NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio spent eight years in office being tormented by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. New York’s next mayor, likely Eric Adams, will be spared that ordeal.
An embattled Cuomo may not have gone as hard against Adams as he did de Blasio, for fear of alienating crucial Black voters in New York City. But Adams stands to have a much easier time navigating Albany with Gov. Kathy Hochul than he would have with her predecessor.
“She’s not going to want a war with the mayor of New York City,” said political consultant Chris Coffey, who has advised Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Yang and other leading Democrats. “Hochul’s biggest liability will be a perceived or real lack of support among people of color, so I would think the last thing she would want would be to be at war with Eric Adams.”
Adams, should he win in November, will be the first former state lawmaker to helm City Hall since Mayor David Dinkins. He knows the rhythms of Albany and the perennial conflicts between city and state, giving him an advantage as he pushes an agenda to curb the influx of handguns into the city, tamp down a surge in crime and get the city economy back on its feet.
But the biggest thing working in Adams’ favor may be Hochul’s promise of a collaborative government — a sharp turn from Cuomo, whom fellow Democrats have dubbed a “tyrant, a “bully” and a “sociopath.”
“She is the kind of woman who will be open to other people’s ideas and recommendations and thoughts,” said Karen Hinton, a former press secretary to de Blasio who also worked for Cuomo, and accused him of hugging her inappropriately two decades ago.
“More estrogen and less testosterone will go a long way,” she added.
Facing impeachment, Cuomo announced his resignation on Tuesday after an investigation by the state attorney general’s office found he sexually harassed 11 women. Hochul, who hails from Buffalo, will become the state’s first woman governor.
Adams and Hochul spoke on Tuesday after Cuomo announced his departure. And on Wednesday, Adams said he was hopeful for a positive working relationship.
“When you turn over the state to an individual, you need someone with a steady hand. She has a steady hand. And I believe that she’s going to be able to navigate the challenges we’re having, and then voters will decide what’s going to happen in the future,” he told reporters.
Adams said he’s developed a rapport with Hochul — who announced she’d run for governor Thursday — since she took over her current role.
“When she became lieutenant governor, we really developed a great relationship during her time,” he said.
Adams had called for Cuomo to resign over sexual harassment allegations — but also appeared alongside him in Brooklyn last month. The embattled governor for his part lavished praise on Adams — not missing an opportunity even as he was engulfed in scandal to needle his old rival de Blasio.
“It’s hard for me to work with an administration that is hyper-political and is not competent,” Cuomo said in June. “I need a competent partner in local government.”
Adams, his backers argue, might have been better positioned to navigate the relationship with Albany even if Cuomo had remained in office. He served as a state Senator before being elected to his current post as Brooklyn borough president.
“He has a different understanding of the way things operate,” said state Sen. Diane Savino (D-Staten Island). “It’s always a shock to a mayor when he realizes he has to negotiate with us. Eric already knew that, so it puts him in a better position. He wouldn’t make those mistakes.”
But Cuomo’s fall means that instead of a third-term incumbent colleagues are now openly describing as a vengeful bully, the next mayor will work with a newly-minted governor likely eager to make friends as she seeks her own term. Hochul’s preferred style is to “listen first,” she said Wednesday.
The relationship between Cuomo and de Blasio, who had described themselves as friends eight years ago, turned sour early in de Blasio’s first term as the mayor pushed for taxes on the rich to fund pre-kindergarten and the governor resisted. The feud has marred New York’s pandemic response, efforts to fix its mass transit system, and ongoing attempts to improve struggling schools.
The mayor and governor even disagreed on how to count the dead at the height of the pandemic. (Cuomo still faces allegations of covering up Covid-related nursing home deaths.)
But Hochul, Savino said, “does not carry that baggage, and neither does Eric Adams.”
“There’s always going to be tension between Albany and New York City for a bunch of reasons,” Savino said, but added, “It will certainly be a different dynamic.”
Alicia Glen, the former deputy mayor for economic development under de Blasio, said Cuomo’s exit would offer the chance for a “do-over” in city- state relations. Hochul, she said, doesn’t have the same relationships in New York City, nor does she have the “deep ties” with business and civil leaders that Cuomo did.
“I think she’s going to be somebody who, in order to get her agenda advanced, is going to have to reach out,” she said. “I generally think women are more rational leaders and maybe can put away some of the petty crap and get things done.”
Yet, despite the rancor, the threats and the bullying, de Blasio didn’t make out too poorly under Cuomo. He ultimately won an early victory with funding for pre-K. He won an extended term controlling schools. Many of Cuomo’s threatened cuts to city funding never materialized. And, in the recent budget, New York City got essentially everything it wanted, though by then, Cuomo was already fighting for his political life and billions in federal aid helped loosen the purse strings.
And while Cuomo had a habit of publicly knocking down the mayor’s suggestions during the pandemic, he also had a habit of adopting them several days or weeks later. But the specter of the governor’s wrath hindered how the city operated even during the height of the pandemic.
“We always had to factor in how Cuomo would f— with us,” said one de Blasio administration official who requested anonymity to speak freely. “That was especially true in all things Covid.”
Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee for mayor, said that if he pulls off an upset and defeats Adams, he too would have an easier time with a Hochul administration.
“From everything I’ve heard, she’s not a control freak like Andrew Cuomo, who would wake up and count his enemies list every morning and check it twice,” he said. “She would defer more to the mayor, not being from New York City.”
The power structure between the city and Albany makes some tension between the mayor and governor inevitable. But the dynamic between Cuomo and de Blasio in charge was uniquely toxic.
“There’s a difference between some tension or conflict and outright rooting for failure,” said Rebecca Katz, a political consultant and former City Hall aide.
Téa Kvetenadze contributed to this report.
Source: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2021/08/13/cuomos-collapse-smooths-path-for-next-new-york-mayor-1389885
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ALBANY, N.Y. — It was their best chance in a decade to claw back control of Albany: An incumbent governor crippled by scandal, under state and federal investigation and haunted by the same “Cuomo fatigue” his father faced a quarter century earlier.
Instead, New York Republicans might face a history-making woman with a moderate record, upstate birth certificate and thick Rolodex built up over six years working politicians, business owners and local leaders all over the state. Even the party says its new opponent is formidable.
The implosion of Andrew Cuomo — the three-term governor who went from national stardom to unemployed and possibly homeless in less than a year — further damaged an already-fractured Democratic Party in New York. It could be equally jarring for the state’s Republicans, who had an unlikely but conceivable path to victory with Cuomo facing a bruising primary in 2022.
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, set to become governor on Aug. 24, announced on Thursday she intends to run for reelection next year. Many think she can win. And even the GOP state party chair, Nick Langworthy, thinks Hochul should be taken seriously. He says she has a knack for on the ground campaigning that others — Cuomo included — lack.
“She shouldn’t be underestimated in terms of her skills as a politician,” Langworthy said in an interview Thursday. “She’s one of the best retail politicians I’ve ever seen. She will go places that other elected leaders will not.”
Republicans already have a presumed nominee in Rep. Lee Zeldin, the four-term member of Congress from Long Island. Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, is also running an insurgent campaign, alongside a handful of others who are hoping for a competitive primary despite the party’s open preference for Zeldin.
The state GOP, which hasn’t won a statewide election in nearly two decades, is a shadow of what it once was in New York. About 6.7 million registered Democrats hold a heavy advantage over about 2.9 million Republicans. And more New Yorkers — about 3 million — have now chosen to register with no affiliated party.
“The events of the past few days have clearly changed the dynamic,” Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg said. “Andrew Cuomo, for the Republicans, was the boogeyman. You don’t have to go back years, just go back in the last 30-60 days. How many of their statements have been about anything other than Andrew Cuomo?“
But Langworthy — who, like Hochul, is from the Buffalo area — sees a path. Hochul, he notes, has been evolving since her stint in Congress more than a decade ago and, prior to that, as a local official in Western New York. He pointed to the fact that she was endorsed by the NRA during her congressional campaign but now backs New York’s strict gun control laws. Her policies are hard to nail down, he says, because she will “ebb and flow and twist and turn to be a chameleon, whatever her surroundings are.“
Hochul on Wednesday said she was “not aware of any of the allegations whatsoever” in Attorney General Tish James’s report detailing 11 accusations of sexual harassment against Cuomo. She also said anyone who was implicated in that report will not be a part of her new administration.
Langworthy and other Republicans say they plan to use the lieutenant governor’s political fluidity to imply, with no evidence, that she was aware of the allegations — or at least the culture that kept them secret — before they became public.
“Typically, when I’m home in Buffalo, I hear how powerful she is. But then, yesterday, it’s, ‘I had nothing to do with this,’” Langworthy said. “’I was out cutting ribbons and going to pizza parties.’ Which is it? Are you prepared to lead the state? Were you making governmental decisions, or were you just a mascot for the administration?”
That’s the messaging that Republican consultant William F. B. O’Reilly said he expects from contenders looking to repurpose their Cuomo attacks and use them on Hochul.
“Andrew Cuomo’s departure takes a lot of issues off the table, but it can still be argued that a change in direction is needed,” O’Reilly, who has advised a number of statewide candidates, said. “To pull that off, Gov. Hochul will have to be painted as an extension of Cuomo’s 11-year reign, not someone new and fresh. That’s an effort likely to begin sooner rather than later.”
That had begun even before James released her report. Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino in March raised the question of Hochul’s knowledge of the allegations or the administration’s toxic culture and the state’s Covid-19 response, which remains under investigation. Astorino, who lost to Cuomo in 2014 but has continued his campaign despite the party’s support for Zeldin, said there is little difference in campaigning against Hochul or Cuomo because it’s a singular system, he said.
“The stain of Albany is on all of them and the stain of Cuomo is on all of them,” he said. Cuomo’s reputation “is not something that is a shocker to anybody in New York State.”
Zeldin says he remains confident that his own name recognition rivals that of Hochul, who was relatively unknown among the general public until Cuomo’s resignation announcement on Tuesday.
The prospect of facing an opponent — Hochul or not — who does not have an $18 million warchest like Cuomo comes as a bit of a relief. As far as GOP gubernatorial candidates go, Zeldin’s been the most accomplished fundraiser in years, but with a little more than $3 million on hand, he would have struggled to compete.
“There likely will be a competitive Democratic primary and we’re going to continue to be able to develop a massive fundraising advantage over our opponent as opposed to what has so far been us having to play catch up,” he said.
Hochul’s aides declined to comment for this story.
The younger Giuliani, famous for delivering the mayoral oath of office along with his father when he was 7, has been doing a fair bit of old-fashioned retail campaigning himself. He said it’s still too early to be concerned about having to face Hochul or having to share potential voters with more a centrist Democrat.
“It’s an unknown,” he said. “It might be Hochul who’s the nominee, it might be James. I’ve even heard Bill de Blasio is thinking about it.“
And if it is Hochul, Giuliani said, he remains skeptical she stays a moderate. It wouldn’t “surprise me if she ended up pushing some more Democratic socialist policies to ingratiate herself to the Democratic base.”
If Hochul doesn’t shift to the left, and manages to win a Democratic primary while holding on to more moderate positions, she would indeed be a troublesome opponent for Republicans next fall, O’Reilly said. Much more troublesome, he added, than a Democratic candidate “from the hard political left who’s more city-centric.”
“That would make any general race a heck of a lot easier,” O’Reilly said.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/14/new-york-republicans-cuomo-504447
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More than 9,000 lawsuits in New York were filed after the state temporarily set aside the usual time limits on civil lawsuits for two years to allow victims of childhood sex abuse to sue their abusers, …
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