#NYC finally makes right call on Trump-run ice rinks

#NYC finally makes right call on Trump-run ice rinks

“#NYC finally makes right call on Trump-run ice rinks” Late Sunday, the de Blasio administration wisely changed course and let kids enjoy some ice skating in this endless lockdown winter. To spite Donald Trump, the city had decided to cancel his contracts to run ice rinks in Central Park — not at the beginning of…

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#Here’s what NYC needs to do to start its economic comeback

#Here’s what NYC needs to do to start its economic comeback

“#Here’s what NYC needs to do to start its economic comeback” The ghost-storefront blight represents an existential threat to New York City’s future. Left unaddressed, it will crush the Big Apple’s normally indomitable spirit. Who wants to live or work where blocks of empty storefronts shout “failure” and provide sidewalk loitering grounds for drug dealers…

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#Maskless partiers busted at underground Queens club

#Maskless partiers busted at underground Queens club

“#Maskless partiers busted at underground Queens club” Hundreds of people partied at an underground Queens bar early Sunday while completely flouting coronavirus safety measures, officials said. About 300 revelers were found in the basement of Corona’s Sueno Americano restaurant at around 2:25 a.m., with an unlicensed bar and a DJ booth, according to the New…

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#Houston mayor says Texas fallout was ‘preventable’

#Houston mayor says Texas fallout was ‘preventable’

“#Houston mayor says Texas fallout was ‘preventable’” More than 14 million Texans remained without safe drinking water and 20,200 still had no power Sunday evening, as the state continued to battle the devastating fallout from last week’s historic storm.  Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner ripped state officials over the disaster, saying Texas’ power crisis was “foreseeable…

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#There shouldn’t be a double standard for law & order: Devine

#There shouldn’t be a double standard for law & order: Devine

“#There shouldn’t be a double standard for law & order: Devine” In his confirmation hearing Monday, attorney general nominee Merrick Garland plans to tell the Senate his priority is domestic terrorism, and that he personally will supervise the prosecution of what he calls “white supremacists” who stormed the Capitol. It is disturbing that Garland is…

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#’Nobody tried to help me’

#’Nobody tried to help me’

“#’Nobody tried to help me’” A woman whose 2-year-old son was pummeled by a panhandler on a Manhattan subway train described on Sunday how she pleaded for help during the attack — but “no one did nothing.” The 21-year-old mom — who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of the on-the-loose attacker — said…

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