{"id":153063,"date":"2021-01-13T02:47:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T23:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-council-speaker-corey-johnson-enrolls-in-college\/"},"modified":"2021-01-13T02:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T23:47:37","slug":"nyc-council-speaker-corey-johnson-enrolls-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-council-speaker-corey-johnson-enrolls-in-college\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson enrolls in college"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson enrolls in college<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Council Speaker Corey Johnson is pulling a Rodney Dangerfield \u2014 enrolling in college amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Johnson, while participating in a recent virtual meeting held by Manhattan Community Board 4, revealed that he\u2019s taking online night college classes with the Columbia University School of General<\/a> Studies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a freshman and undergraduate at 38 years old! At 38 with zero college credits I\u2019m getting a college education,\u201d Johnson gushed during the Jan. 6 meeting.<\/p>\n

In the 1986 comedy, \u201cBack to School,\u201d the late Dangerfield played wealthy businessman Thornton Melon, who registers for college to encourage his freshman son, but Johnson is going back for personal advancement after encouragement from a colleague.<\/p>\n

Johnson said Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer persuaded him to enroll in the Columbia program. Brewer earned her degree from the same Columbia program when she was 47.<\/p>\n

Johnson was actually taking part in a college freshman orientation session when he \u201cducked out\u201d to give a virtual update to the local board, which covers Manhattan\u2019s West Side neighborhoods he represents.<\/p>\n

He emphasized he\u2019s taking two online classes part-time in the evening and insisted they \u201cdo not take away from my day job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson graduated from Masconomet High School in Massachusetts in 2000. A co-captain of the football team, he made national headlines when he came out as gay to his teammates.<\/p>\n

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Corey Johnson will soon be taking online night college classes with the Columbia University School of General Studies.<\/figcaption>
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Johnson, who considered but ultimately declined to run for mayor, is term-limited and will complete his term this year.<\/p>\n

He was elected speaker of the New York City Council by his peers in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cBravo!\u201d one of the board members said of Johnson\u2019s willingness to start college as an adult.<\/p>\n

The joy quickly dissipated as Johnson agreed to take a few questions before returning to freshman orientation. The school of political hard-knocks ensued.<\/p>\n

Board member Delores Rubin, a leader of the Hells Kitchen Neighborhood Coalition, reamed out Johnson over the deteriorating conditions in the area because of the increasing number of homeless people packed into hotels there during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, you hadn\u2019t had the opportunity to join us over the past few months. We have heard incredibly sorrowful and scary stories from the folks on that block,\u201d Rubin said, referring to the homeless situation on 36th Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m asking this evening is not why we have not seen you in this conversation, what I\u2019d like to know is if you can commit for the rest of your stint as speaker to use the full weight of the speaker\u2019s office to start working on a long-term solution for the housing situation for our homeless. Because right now we are not seeing leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would have expected that our council member would be our voice. And I did not see your voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson responded, \u201cWell, your facts are wrong, Dolores. And the tone of your question I take offense at. For whatever reason you\u2019ve always been slightly confrontational with me for years. So I\u2019m not surprised that at all tonight at the tone you\u2019ve taken.\u201d<\/p>\n

CB4 chairman Lowell Kern felt compelled to defuse the spat between Johnson and. Rubin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWait a minute! Wait a minute!. Corey, hang on a second. I don\u2019t need any of this at the meeting. This is not personal \u2026.I\u2019m not going to let this degenerate into a fight between the two of you,\u201d Kern said.<\/p>\n

Johnson said he introduced a comprehensive program to address homelessness last year.<\/p><\/div>\n

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