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☆ Help wanted: New York City seeks 'badass' rat czar
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Rat sightings on the streets, in subways and even homes have jumped 71% over in the past two years, according to the city's sanitation department. "There’s NOTHING I hate more than rats," Mayor Eric Adams said in a tweet on Thursday in announcing the job posting. "If you have the drive, determination, and killer instinct needed to fight New York City’s relentless rat population - then your dream job awaits." The trash has encouraged the explosive growth of the city's rat population. Urban legend says there is one rat for each of New York City's 8.8 million residents.

☆ New York City wants to hire a ‘rat czar’—and could pay them $170,000 per year
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

New York City is hiring a leader to fight against residents' common enemy: rats. New York is the country's "second-rattiest" city, according to pest control company Orkin's most recent annual rankings. One performance actor, Jonothon Lyons, patrols the city's subway stations and park trash cans wearing a latex rat head. On Thursday, he tweeted an article about the position, writing: "If you have the drive, determination, and killer instinct needed to fight New York City's relentless rat population — then your dream job awaits." In October, the New York Sanitation Department announced that New Yorkers will be fined for putting trash on the curb before 8 p.m. starting in April 2023.

The move was criticized by some mental health professionals who said the city should focus on long-term solutions and avoid treating people who refuse. New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman also condemned the plan. New York City continues to contend with crime on public transit. Instead, he said, the city needs sustained engagement, housing, health care support and financial assistance for those in need. “In an ideal situation, you want mental health crisis teams to be the front line.

☆ New York City to Hospitalize Some Mentally Ill Homeless, Involuntarily If Necessary
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Talal Ansari | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a new initiative to address mental-health problems among the city’s homeless people. New York City will begin hospitalizing homeless people who are severely mentally ill in an effort to move individuals off the streets to get the care they need. Mayor Eric Adams said the effort was designed to address what he called a “mental health crisis” among the city’s homeless population. The move comes amid concerns about safety and disorder in the city.

☆ New York City Mayor Announces New Effort to Tackle Homeless ‘Mental Health Crisis’
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Talal Ansari | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a new initiative to address mental-health problems among the city’s homeless people. New York City will begin hospitalizing homeless people who are severely mentally ill in an effort to move individuals off the streets to get the care they need. Mayor Eric Adams announced the new initiative Tuesday to address what he called a “mental health crisis” among the city’s homeless population.

☆ Amid homeless crisis, New York to step up forced hospitalization of mentally ill
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A man sleeps on a cardboard box along 34th street near Pennsylvania Station in New York City, U.S., April 26, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File PhotoNov 29 (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams rolled out a plan on Tuesday to allow more homeless and mentally ill people to be hospitalized against their will in order to tackle "a crisis we see all around us." The Democratic mayor has made addressing the city's homelessness crisis a priority for his administration since taking office earlier this year. New York law allows for involuntary hospitalization when a person's mental illness prevents them from providing for their own basic needs, as well as when they present a danger to themselves or others. He said there would be a telephone line for police officers to get in touch directly with clinicians for consultation while dealing with cases of mental illness.

☆ New York to Close Migrant Tent City Less Than a Month After Opening It
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Jimmy Vielkind | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The temporary facility on Randalls Island had room to house up to 1,000 single men. New York City officials will close the tent city they built to shelter an influx of migrants less than a month after opening it, Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday. The temporary facility, with room for up to 1,000 single men in a stadium parking lot on Randalls Island, had been a screening point for the busloads of migrants who have arrived from the southern border since the spring. As many as eight buses a day were arriving in Manhattan in September, officials and nonprofit workers said.

☆ Live updates: Election Day approaches as voters cast early ballots in races that could determine House and Senate control
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Dawn Kopecki | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Voters are casting early ballots in the midterm elections that will determine control of the House and Senate, as candidates try to muster last-minute support. Kathy Hochul, who is facing an unexpectedly tight race against Republican U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin. Another former president, Bill Clinton, campaigned with Hochul in Brooklyn on Saturday, along with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Voters have already cast more than 42 million ballots in the midterm elections as of Monday morning. Election officials and U.S. prosecutors will be keeping a close watch on the polls for any signs of voter intimidation on Tuesday.

Migrants who have been bused to New York City in the thousands are finding themselves in a fruitless hunt for work while they try to build lives in the United States. It’s already been about a month, a month and a half in New York and we need to find work,” Yorvin Mateus, 24, said. Yet, with work hard to come by, the trio planned to try their luck in Chicago, another city that has been taking in migrants. The dormitory at the Randall's Island relief center in New York City on Oct. 18. Jan Rojas, a migrant from Venezuela, with his wife and four children in New York City.

A tent complex that New York City opened last week for up to 1,000 migrants is housing fewer than 50 people as the flow of publicly funded buses from border states to the north has slowed. Mayor Eric Adams ordered the relief center on Randalls Island to be built at a cost of $325,000 soon after he declared a state of emergency earlier this month. Mr. Adams said thousands of migrants arriving on buses chartered by the state of Texas and the city of El Paso were overwhelming New York’s social services.

☆ New York Post website hacked, with racist and sexist headlines targeting politicians
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The New York Post's website and Twitter account were hacked Thursday, as racist and sexually explicit headlines about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden were published. A New York Post spokesperson confirmed in an email to CNBC that the posts resulted from a hack. Representatives for the president, Ocasio-Cortez and Adams didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. Content management system Wordpress, which enables publishing to the New York Post site, didn't immediately respond to comment, either. The company, which also uses WordPress, suspended its website immediately.

☆ New York City's pay-transparency law is coming. Wall Street's big paydays will stay secret, but other changes could shake up finance.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Danielle Walker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

With so much Wall Street pay linked to bonuses, the law has less bite for financial-services firms. A new salary-transparency law is about to take effect in New York City, the nation's financial capital. Will law firms take advantage of the ambiguities of the law?" "I think banks have unique problems because they have so many administrative employees. 'No way to post bonuses up front'In April, the group and chambers of commerce for the city's five boroughs sent a joint letter to the New York City Council.

☆ Judge orders NYC to rehire group of workers fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccines and give them back pay
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

New York City ordered a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all city workers last year. A judge said Tuesday that a group of workers fired for refusing a vaccine must be rehired and paid. The New York City Law Department did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. New York City ordered a vaccine mandate for all of its city workers last year. Mayor Eric Adams announced last month that he would be dropping a vaccine mandate specifically for private sector employees as of November 1.

☆ New York gubernatorial debate expected to focus on crime as race tightens
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Julia Harte | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

FILE PHOTO: New York Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a news conference at the New York State Capitol, in Albany, New York, U.S., August 11, 2021. REUTERS/Cindy Schultz/File PhotoNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Kathy Hochul will square off on Tuesday night in her only debate against Republican challenger Lee Zeldin, who has hammered the Democratic incumbent over crime in a race that public opinion polls show is tightening. The state’s majority Democratic electorate has not chosen a Republican governor since 2002. But recent polling suggests Zeldin is gaining on Hochul, prompting the governor to put new focus on public safety in the final weeks of her campaign. She released an ad on Friday that pledged “a safer New York for every child” and touted legislation she backed that toughened gun laws and bail restrictions.

☆ New York City man dragged and killed after clothes catch in subway train
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A 20-year-old man was killed on Monday after his clothes caught in a New York City subway car, which dragged him onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train, police said, the latest grim episode in the nation’s largest transit system. The violence in New York City’s subways has left residents on edge amid a surge in crime. In January, 40-year-old Michelle Go was killed after she was pushed in front of a train at the Times Square Station. Her murder was seen as part of a surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans in New York and other major cities. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has said it would install cameras in all New York City subway cars at a cost of some $3.5 million.

☆ Diwali will be a holiday for NYC public schools starting next year
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Sakshi Venkatraman | Sakshi Venkatraman Is A Reporter For Nbc Asian America. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

New York City public schools will now observe the Diwali holiday, Mayor Eric Adams announced at a news conference Thursday. Diwali, also called the festival of lights, is typically celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs, and will be commemorated starting the next academic year. “For over two decades, South Asians and Indo-Caribbeans in New York have been fighting for the Diwali school holiday,” she said. “I stand on the shoulders of those advocates.”In making space for the holiday, Adams says he hopes non-South Asian students will start to learn about it too. “When we acknowledge Diwali, we are going to encourage children to learn about what is Diwali,” he said.

☆ NYC Mayor Eric Adams: We must deal with 'actual crimes' and residents' anxiety
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNYC Mayor Eric Adams: We must deal with 'actual crimes' and residents' anxietyNew York City Mayor Eric Adams joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss how New York City's economy is recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic and addresses how he is trying to fix the city's crime problem.

☆ New York City opens tent city to deal with migrant influx
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNew York City opens tent city to deal with migrant influxNew York just opened a new migrant camp. The camp comes after Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency over the sudden influx of migrants sent here by southern governors. The facility is on New York City's Randalls Island, and is made up of three giant tents. So far 20,000 migrants have been bused to the city, and that has crowded an already-stressed shelter system.

☆ 19-year-old N.Y.C. school staffer in critical condition after being shot in the head
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | Chantal Da Silva Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A 19-year-old New York City school worker is in critical condition after he was shot in the head Tuesday afternoon while leaving the elementary school he was working at. As of early Wednesday morning, the NYPD said the victim remained in critical condition. The victim's union told NBC New York that he worked as a school paraprofessional for the Department of Education. He also said he would be working with the NYPD to increase security around the school. "This is a tragedy," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a tweet, responding to the deadly incident.

These rappers are part of a string of artists who have died by gun violence, with at least one rapper being fatally shot every year since 2018. But experts say the problem is much more complex than that. Elaine Richardson, a professor at Ohio State University who specializes in African American cultures, literacy and hip-hop, said it’s important to prioritize systemic issues when we discuss the killings of rappers. La Rock, who was part of the influential hip-hop group Boogie Down Productions, was fatally shot outside a Bronx apartment complex that summer. “There’s this prevailing notion that rap artists have the most dangerous job, but I don’t subscribe to that.”

☆ Private sector to pledge $8 bln to combat U.S. hunger-White House
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday plans to unveil $8 billion in new private sector spending to combat hunger, including hundreds of millions of dollars for meals after lawmakers failed to further extend pandemic-era nutrition supports like universal school meals and increased aid to food banks. Biden aims to end U.S. hunger and reduce diet-related diseases in a majority of Americans by 2030, but is turning to the private sector to underwrite some of the spending, after Congress failed to further extend school lunch aid. Key contributions to be announced Wednesday include a pledge by nonprofit FoodCorps to invest $250 million for free, healthy school meals and to expand nutrition education in schools. The private sector commitments also come after recent revelations of hundreds of millions of stolen federal dollars that were supposed to be spent on food aid during the coronavirus pandemic. "We are exploring what our next steps look like in terms of accountability," the officials said, speaking to reporters on condition of anonomity.

Rolling Loud New York is scheduled to take place at Citi Field in Queens, New York this weekend, but three drill rappers initially expected to perform have been axed from the lineup. The NYPD’s actions mirror what happened at Rolling Loud New York in 2019, when the department banned 22Gz and fellow drill rapper Pop Smoke from hitting the stage. Neither the NYPD, Mayor Adams or Rolling Loud have released an official statement. However, the organizers of the festival graciously agreed to pay Sha Ek for the canceled performance. If Rolling Loud wants to put you guys on, then they won’t have a permit.’But Rolling Loud was like, ‘We’re still going to honor the payment.

Hurricane Fiona moved toward Bermuda on Thursday after leaving a devastating path of destruction in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, authorities said. The Category 4 storm, traveling north, was expected to deliver a glancing blow to the western edge of Bermuda on Thursday night or Friday morning. After passing Bermuda, Fiona will target the Atlantic edges of Canada and likely make landfall near eastern Nova Scotia on Saturday morning. Much of Puerto Rico was still without power Thursday, as temperatures neared 100 degrees, triggering an excessive heat warning. "We’ll be with the Puerto Rico folks ... until this is done, until we recover," Biden told reporters in New York City, following a meeting with Gov.

The arrival of thousands of migrants in New York, Washington, Chicago and beyond has sent officials in those cities scrambling to establish a system of support services, with mixed success. The Office of Migrant Services in Washington, D.C., will offer urgent medical care and connection to resettlement services. Phillips said migrants have been calling volunteer groups in the city “constantly” with problems, leaving volunteers in rapid-response mode. Mental health services are lackingStill, Enriquez said, there is a major hole in that care: mental health services. Mental health screenings are also part of the initial medical checkups at city health centers, Jochum said.

REUTERS/Eduardo MunozNEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) - New York City will open two emergency centers to house migrants arriving on buses sent by the Republican governor of Texas in a political dispute over border security, Mayor Eric Adams said on Thursday. The centers will provide shelter, food and medical care while working to connect migrants with family and friends inside and outside New York City, according to the mayor's office. The emergency relief centers are part of efforts by Democratic mayors to deal with thousands of migrants being bused from the Republican-led border states of Texas and Arizona. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican seeking reelection in November, has bused more than 11,000 migrants to Washington, D.C., New York City and Chicago since April. "While other leaders have abdicated their moral duty to support arriving asylum seekers, New York City refuses to do so,” Adams said in a statement.

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