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☆ Opinion | Eerie Days: Smoke and Haze, All Around
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

SilverSan FranciscoTo the Editor:The smoke that is making the air so hazardous originated from wildfires exacerbated by climate change. A little less than a year ago, in June 2022, the Roberts Supreme Court gutted the Clean Air Act. Think about that decision as we are told to wear high-quality masks outside and not to exercise too strenuously, and see our familiar landscapes enshrouded in a thick yellow haze. To the Editor:“What the hell is this?” Mayor Eric Adams of New York asked on Wednesday. It’s called climate change, and those of us in the West have been suffering variants of this smoky, drought-induced nightmare for many years.

Persons: Stephen A, Silver, Roberts, Meredith G, Cochran, Eric Adams Organizations: Francisco, New York Locations: Cochran Williamstown, Mass, It’s, New York, Denver, Colorado

☆ Air quality in NYC could gradually improve Friday as U.S. chips in to fight Canada wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - JUNE 7: People wear facial masks on June 7, 2023 because of bad air quality brought in by smoke of Canadian wildfires. Authorities urge people to wear masks, all outdoor activities for school children were canceled as well as regular baseball game at Yankee stadium between Yankees and White Sox. New York City continues to have the worst air pollution in the world as of Thursday afternoon. However, smoke models do not currently indicate another large plume over the city and better air quality is expected Friday, according to Mayor Eric Adams. The Washington and Baltimore regions have also been hit with the worst air quality in years.

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☆ New Yorkers are getting a taste of what it's like to live in the pollution of Delhi, Doha, and Shanghai
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The US didn't always have the clean air many of us are used to. This week I didn't expect my texts to be about air quality. New Yorkers and others are getting a taste of what it can be like to live in Doha, Qatar, and Shanghai, where at least air pollution appears to be improving. When the first Earth Day took place in April 1970, air pollution was a major problem in most US cities. Those actions have since made such a difference that many of us are now shocked by what poor air quality looks like.

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☆ US schools cancel recess, skylines vanish behind Canada wildfire smoke
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Tyler Clifford | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The U.S. National Weather Service issued quality air alerts from New England to South Carolina. In Bethesda, Maryland, a high school moved its graduation ceremony indoors, while a Brooklyn, New York, elementary school postponed its "Spring Fling" dance party. The smoke is crossing the U.S. northern border from Canada, where wildfire season got off to an unusually early and intense start due to persistent warm and dry conditions. Rochester, New York, near the Canadian border, had the worst air quality in the country, according to IQAir, while six towns along Maryland's Eastern Shore and Delaware were ranked in the bottom 10 for air quality. "This is an unprecedented event in our city and New Yorkers must take precaution," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said.

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☆ New York City residents urged to stay indoors as unhealthy air quality from Canadian wildfires persists
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Aya Elamroussi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York City public schools canceled all outdoor activities Wednesday, but will remain open. At least 10 school districts in central New York state canceled outdoor activities and events Tuesday. By 7 a.m. Wednesday, New York City’s air quality index was just below 180, a designation of “unhealthy,” according to IQair. New York City tallied to the worst air quality of any major metropolitan area Tuesday at 10 p.m., IQair’s data showed. Cities including New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, are expected to see their air quality improve throughout the day.

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☆ Google tells employees in New York and along the East Coast to work from home as smoke fills the air
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

People ride bicycles at 6th Avenue as haze and smoke caused by wildfires in Canada blanket New York City, New York, June 7, 2023. Google is telling its East Coast employees to stay home as wildfire smoke fills the air in New York and other major cities. Company site leads in New York wrote in a memo to workers in the area that air quality in many parts of the region had reached "unhealthy" levels, citing the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation. In New York, most employees have been expected to work from physical offices at least three days a week. Google has set up a so-called "go" link that directs employees to internal documents and information about wildfires and air filtering.

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☆ New York City tops world's worst air pollution list from Canada wildfire smoke
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Smoke from the Canadian wildfires blankets New York City affecting air quality on June 7th, 2023. A man sits at the bus stop with a mask on his face in New York City, June 6, 2023. Selcuk Acar | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesMillions of people in the Midwest are experiencing dangerous air quality conditions, with air quality advisories in effect in southeastern Minnesota, parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and areas in Wisconsin. Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of global wildfires and air pollution from wildfire smoke is also growing worse. Last year, Stanford researchers found millions of Americans are routinely exposed to wildfire smoke pollution at levels rarely seen only a decade ago.

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In Ontario, a layer of haze blanketed parts of Ottawa and Toronto, where Canadian officials warned residents about the poor air quality, as smoke floated over portions of New York State and Vermont. All of New York City was under an air quality alert on Tuesday because of the smoke; by the afternoon, the Manhattan skyline was obscured by hazy skies. In eastern Canada, Quebec was most affected by wildfires as of early Tuesday afternoon, with more than 150 active blazes across the area, according to the fire agency. Weather officials warned that people more sensitive to poor air quality, such as people with lung disease and heart disease, children and older adults, should limit certain activities outdoors. Air quality alerts were also in place in New York City and in multiple counties in upstate New York through midnight.

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☆ DeSantis administration takes credit for sending migrants to California, sharing video of them dancing and saying 'Thank you'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Paul Squire | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ron DeSantis' administration admitted it was behind the migrant relocation flights to California. Ron DeSantis' administration confirmed it's behind the recent flights sending migrants from Texas to California — and insisted that the trips were all voluntary and the immigrants were treated well. The Florida Division of Emergency Management shared a 2-minute-20-second-long video with Insider of migrants the agency said boarded the flights. Florida's emergency management agency provided Insider with a table that listed other government officials who had relocated migrants, including Republican Gov. DeSantis acknowledged in September that his administration orchestrated another plane carrying 49 migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

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☆ N.Y.P.D. Anti-Crime Units Returning to Illegal Tactics, Report Shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The monitor, Mylan L. Denerstein, filed a report in federal court in Manhattan on Monday detailing what she described as unlawful policing. Earlier versions of the units were responsible for a disproportionate number of police shootings, and they were disbanded in 2020. Mr. Adams reinstated and renamed them after he took office last year, but critics were skeptical that they could be run without racially profiling young men of color, as previous units had. Almost all of the stops made by the rebranded “neighborhood safety teams” analyzed in the report — 97 percent — were of Black or Hispanic people, and 24 percent of the stops were unconstitutional. Of 230 car stops included in the sample, only two appear to have turned up weapons, the report said.

Persons: Eric Adams, Denerstein, frisk, Adams Organizations: New York Police, Police Locations: Manhattan

☆ Even People With Good Jobs Get Exploited - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Simone Stolzoff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Indeed, creative, mission-driven and prestigious jobs often take advantage of employees’ love for what they do. This stems from bosses’ tacit assumptions that their employees would do the work even if they weren’t paid. The idea that employees work for something other than money is also pervasive in industries that are geared toward helping people, such as education. “Teaching is a calling,” tweeted Mayor Eric Adams of New York City a few weeks ago. When a workplace is seen as virtuous, she claimed, it’s easier for workers to be exploited.

Persons: ”, Charles Rogers, Eric Adams, Adams, Ettarh Organizations: ” Employers, New, New York Locations: Los Angeles, New York City

☆ NYC's subway is testing platform gates in a few stations to prevent people from being pushed onto tracks
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Al Yoon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The New York City MTA is installing barriers to stop commuters from being pushed onto tracks. Some riders have been on edge about subway pushings since the death of a woman in January 2022. The new barriers, part of a test, will be at just three stations and cost $100 million. The city will start installing barriers on three platforms in the months ahead, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority told The New York Post. "While platform screen doors might have prevented [Go's] killing in the way that it happened, It happened on the same subway platform where there were police officers," Pearlstein told the Post.

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☆ Airbnb is suing New York City over short-term rental rules. The outcome could disrupt your next vacation in cities across the US.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In 2022, New York City passed a law that imposed restrictions on short-term rentals. On Thursday, Airbnb, along with a trio of local hosts, sued New York City, filing two separate lawsuits in Manhattan's state court. The more properties are turned into short-term rentals, the fewer housing options are available for actual residents. This isn't the first time Airbnb has battled short-term rental rules, and the court's ruling may affect how lawmakers approach the issue. In 2020, the company agreed to settle a dispute with New York City over a 2018 law that attempted to curb the practice.

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☆ NYC Mayor Eric Adams, a Critic of Remote Work, Cedes Some Ground
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Jimmy Vielkind | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ A Movement to Make Workplaces ‘Menopause Friendly’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Sharon Otterman | Yana Paskova | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A new movement to create “menopause-friendly workplaces” is catching on, beginning in Britain, where menopausal women are believed to be the fastest growing work force demographic. More than 50 British organizations, including HSBC UK, Unilever UK, and the soccer club West Ham United, are now are certified as “menopause-friendly” though an accreditation developed by Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace, a British professional training firm. One recent poll estimated that three in 10 workplaces in Britain now have some kind of menopause policy in place. There is even an awards ceremony, held in London, for the most menopause-friendly companies. New York City Mayor Eric Adams promised earlier this year “to change the stigma around menopause in this city,” and to “create more menopause-friendly workplaces for our city workers through improving policies and our buildings.”

☆ Mayor Adams Improvises His Way Through an Impossible Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Last weekend, several Brooklyn principals were told that their schools would immediately be sheltering hundreds of asylum seekers, by way of mayoral fiat. The schools themselves were not in affluent neighborhoods but rather served working-class families of color, who were now livid. Parents, many immigrants themselves, were concerned about safety and felt cheated that their children would be denied gym in schools that were hardly abundant with amenities. They began lining up as early as 3 in the morning on Tuesday in protest; some brought their children, others refused to send them to school at all. By the next day, after frantic meetings between administrators and parents, Mayor Eric Adams seemed to have reversed course, removing asylum seekers from a school gym in Coney Island and sending them to a vacant office in Midtown.

☆ Opinion | The Wrong Way to Cut New York City’s Budget
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Mara Gay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a decade-long spending spree and a devastating pandemic, New York City is now staring at three years of huge budget deficits, beginning with at least $4.2 billion in the year that starts in July of next year. Mayor Eric Adams, rightly, is trying to wring some savings from the city’s $106 billion budget. But rather than cut, New York City should increase its outreach and pay providers what they are owed. Frank Dwyer, a spokesman for the Department of Correction, said in a statement that the agency would provide the social services previously performed by contractors. But that could be difficult at the city’s jail complexes, which continue to suffer from violence and inmate deaths.

☆ Prince Harry and Meghan: Photo agency says it denied Harry and Meghan request to turn over photos from chase
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Lauren Said-Moorhouse Niamh Kennedy Jessie Gretener | Lauren Said-Moorhouse | Niamh Kennedy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The NYPD simply said “numerous photographers” had “made their transport challenging” following their departure from the Ziegfeld Ballroom. “We stand by our founding fathers.”The Sussexes declined to comment on the matter when approached by CNN. The Princess of Wales died in 1997 after suffering internal injuries resulting from a high-speed car crash in Paris. Once the photographs are out and the stories then put next to it, then comes the social media harassment. To see another woman in my life, who I love, go through this feeding frenzy – that’s hard.

London CNN —There’s no denying the echoes to the late Princess Diana’s 1997 death in a car crash in Paris. As their first public appearance since Prince Harry returned from King Charles’ coronation in London, it had initially seemed a pretty routine affair. Chris Sanchez, who was part of the royal security detail, told us they were immediately followed from the event by a dozen vehicles. It is important to note that these photographers have a professional responsibility to cover newsworthy events and personalities, including public figures such as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle,” the statement outlined. However, those images appear to show Prince Harry documenting the moment on his phone, so we may yet learn more about what exactly happened from their perspective in the future.

☆ As Crisis Grows, All of New York’s Migrant Plans Are Met With Outrage
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Liam Stack | Jeffery C. Mays | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Now, the daily stream of migrants feeding the crisis has doubled in size in recent weeks, city officials say. With no clear solutions at hand, the city turned to shelter some migrants in public school gyms starting last week. That plan, like many others before it, was almost immediately met with outrage — not only from activists and human right groups, but also from public school parents and the ranks of everyday New Yorkers. On Wednesday, the city began to distance itself from that proposal, too. More than 67,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since the crisis began.

☆ Outdoor Dining in New York City Is Here to Stay. (Just Not in Winter.)
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Emma G. Fitzsimmons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

New York City’s outdoor dining program, a popular pandemic-era measure designed to be a temporary salve for a devastated restaurant industry, is about to become a permanent part of the city’s landscape. A City Council bill, released on Thursday evening, called for creating a licensing structure that would allow outdoor dining structures to exist in roadways, but only from April through November. The bill, which is supported by Mayor Eric Adams and still requires the approval of the full Council, aims to strike a balance between retaining a mostly popular program while taking steps to control its outgrowth. The bill would set forth basic design guidelines that are still to be determined. Some elements of the plan drew immediate criticism, including a provision requiring restaurants in a historic district or at a landmark site to receive approval by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission for an outdoor dining site — a policy that could affect restaurant-heavy neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Park Slope, Brooklyn.

[1/4] Migrants, without a place to stay upon arrival in the city, seek safe shelter at the District 12 station of the Chicago Police Department in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. May 17, 2023. Some migrants seeking a safe place to sleep have turned to police stations. Earlier this month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, resumed a campaign of busing migrants to Democratic strongholds further north, including Chicago and New York City. The busing aims to alleviate pressure on border cities and call attention to what Abbott says were overly lenient policies by Biden's Democratic administration. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has called on the Biden administration to provide more funding to cities receiving recently arrived migrants.

☆ Cherelle Parker Wins Democratic Mayoral Primary in Philadelphia
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Campbell Robertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a crowded primary, Cherelle Parker, a former state representative and City Council member who campaigned on hiring more police, won the Democratic nomination for Philadelphia mayor on Tuesday night, emerging decisively from a field of contenders who had vied to be seen as the rescuer of a struggling and disheartened city. If she wins in November, which is all but assured in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans more than seven to one, Ms. Parker will become the city’s 100th mayor, and the first woman to hold the job. Of the five mayoral hopefuls who led the polls in the final stretch, Ms. Parker, 50, was the only Black candidate, in a city that is over 40 percent Black. She drew support from prominent Democratic politicians and trade unions, and throughout the majority Black neighborhoods of north and west Philadelphia. But she said that many of her proposed solutions had roots in Philadelphia’s “middle neighborhoods” — working and middle-class areas that have been struggling in recent years to hold off decline.

☆ Eric Adams Says He’s a Progressive. Democrats Beg to Differ.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Emma G. Fitzsimmons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When a homeless man was choked to death on the New York City subway earlier this month by another passenger, Mayor Eric Adams had an uncharacteristically guarded response. For more than a week, he did not denounce the killing, as many of his Democratic colleagues immediately had, or express much sympathy for the victim, Jordan Neely. Instead, the mayor chose a more detached view, noting that there were “serious mental issues in play here.”“I was a former transit police officer, and I responded to many jobs where you had a passenger assisting someone,” he said on CNN. “And so we cannot just blatantly say what a passenger should or should not do in a situation like that.”The mayor’s response was the most recent example of him tacking away from the city’s left, creating a wedge with some of his Democratic colleagues. Mr. Adams has been pushing more moderate, sometimes even conservative, views on issues like rent, religion and his signature theme, improving public safety — a sharp turn from his Democratic predecessor, Bill de Blasio, and from progressive leaders who have recently won mayoral elections in cities like Chicago and Los Angeles.

☆ Jordan Neely Was on New York’s ‘Top 50’ List of Homeless People at Risk
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Andy Newman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For years before Jordan Neely, a mentally ill homeless man, was killed in the subway, the city had its eye on him. He was on a list informally known as the Top 50, a roster of people in a city of eight million who stand out for the severity of their troubles and their resistance to accepting help. The list is overseen by a task force of city agency workers and social-service nonprofits; when homeless-outreach workers see someone in the subway who is on the list, they are supposed to notify the city and try to get that person to a shelter. Despite that, and an open arrest warrant, Mr. Neely was out on his own on May 1, when he began ranting at passengers. A Marine veteran, Daniel Penny, grabbed him and choked him to death; Mr. Penny has now been charged with manslaughter.

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