Bus driver Yasmin Rowe honks in support, says she was we thankful to the
@TWULocal100
refused to transport protesters last night. “We don’t work for the NYPD,” she said.
I was denied entry at both gates after showing press credentials, begged with guards about the merits of 1st amendment , called a bunch of numbers which nobody answered, had my boss do the same, but ended up having to find my own way in, hopefully that won't happen again!
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As city officials urged New Yorkers to stay home in pummeling rains, migrants whose 60-days had run out were still forced out of a Bushwick shelter, just the same.
"Give us until the morning. But no...We were here for 2 months, why not one more night?”
it’s calm for a bit, then police press up onto sidewalk, seems like to get a kid who is flying a drone, but hard to say; the drone is circling overhead.
Asked what he would say to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Smalls says, “We wanna thank Jeff Bezos, cause while he was up in space we was signing people up.”
"This is not the ebola virus," Cuomo says, adding the panic is unwarranted, "only 8 of the 142 were hospitalized...the others are at home like they have the flu."
Protesters gathered in Tompkins Square calling for an end to Mayor Eric Adams’s homeless encampment sweeps. One activist says he went into the shelters for a few nights to understand why no one in the park will go in one - “I wouldn’t wish that shit on my worst enemy,” he said.
Got muted immediately after asking why
@NYGovCuomo
leaked Boylan's personnel records and reportedly circulated a letter saying she was backed by Trump supporters,
@JonCampbellGAN
did you get muted? Governors office had said they would start allowing us follow up questions...
Outside the Sheraton in Midtown where homeless men are being moved out after a year, some got notice last night, “I’m trying not to cry,” one man tells me.
It's my last week at WNYC and Gothamist. For 6+ years, I had a front row seat watching New Yorkers in some of their darkest and brightest moments, through fires, floods, outbreaks, and uprisings. So grateful I got to witness, and to share your stories with listeners all over.
It’s official, Amazon has its first unionized warehouse in the company’s history. “Today the people have spoken, and the people wanted a union,” Chris Smalls says.
Dep. Commissioner of Public Information for NYPD Tarik Sheppard says, "there has been no credible threats to any particular group, or individual coming from this protest or any other."
Sanitation workers arrived to clear an East Village encampment, now police have arrived and the street has been blocked off. Activists and NYCLU here keeping watch.
“What would it take to get you off the streets, an outreach worker ahead of a line of police officers attempting to clear the encampment, “housing!” She shouts “we need housing.”
NYPD confirms they gave the man seen getting jumped by the Guardian Angels on live camera a summons for dis con.... for trying to disrupt a live broadcast. No shoplifting charge, as Sliwa claims.
.
@NYPDnews
commissioner Dermot Shea now describing the officer who broke a young woman’s arm who was cursing him off. “Boy, that was an amazing amount of restraint.”
Happens again around the corner, some try to pull the boards of a store, another intervenes with a fire extinguisher, and they put their bodies in front of the store to protect it. “This is not the fight,” one chants.
Two groups of pro and anti Trump demonstrators, there’s name calling in both sides like, “we say guilty,” “go to Venezuela, leave” “he’s your president bitch,”
Police and sanitation clearing an encampment under BQE in Williamsburg, CO of the 9th Kathleen Fahey tells me it’s part of mayors new initiative, announced over the weekend.
At Barclays,
@mayawiley
has taken the mic, pledging to take a billion dollars out of the NYPD budget. She’s shouted down by someone in an ACAB t-shirt: “George Floyd did not die so you could be elected. That’s fucking shameful. Abolition and nothing less.”
Very humbled to be named
@NYNewswomen
journo of the year, feeling immensely grateful to all the hundreds of people who've shared their stories with me over the course of the year, often in the most difficult of circumstances, and also that the work found a home at
@THECITYNY
.
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Lenny, the first voter of the day walking out of this polling place on the Lower East Side, says he voted for
@yuhline
bc he likes how she represented him in the assembly. Second voter of the day went with
@MondaireJones
. Anything could happen folks!
Kosciusko Pool, in heart of Bed-Stuy closed at 7, despite pledges the
@NYCParks
would keep it opened till 8 pm due to the heat wave. Parks worker tells me the police officers assigned to cover the pool left at 7 so they had to close.
Outside the Watson Hotel, a group of asylum seekers spent the night outdoors after returning from Brooklyn Marine terminal where they say there was no heat, privacy, or blankets to keep them warm.
At asylum seeker oversight hearing, Ted Long w/
@NYCHealthSystem
says there's only so many types of food that both Venezuelan and Senegalese migrants will both eat: "And the answer is Italian food," which is very really truly New York.
Protesters splashed red paint on the Washington Square Arch last night following the clash with police where marchers were pepper sprayed during the Queer Liberation March nearby. Pics not mine.
For
@THECITYNY
, NYPD confirms 108 arrests thus far, Columbia says anyone who participated is suspended, though they haven't confirmed #'s. By 2pm police had cleared the lawn of protesters, though hundreds more have since set up in another portion of lawn.