Erin Durkin
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@AOC
Thanksgiving plan: She and her family will all cook from the same recipe, then eat over Zoom.
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Lost my job at the Daily News today along with too many others. Being a City Hall reporter has been a dream come true, and I owe thanks to too many to list here. To those covering NYC, keep on keeping on - the city needs you. Onward.
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Six months ago tomorrow I tested positive for Covid. I’m still sick. I’m going to be taking some leave from
@politicony
to focus on my recovery.
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Today 13% of the NYPD is out sick, 4,651 officers. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said he expects 900 to have tested positive for coronavirus by tomorrow morning.
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One example: Trump falsely claimed his own triplex apartment in Trump tower was worth $327m, three times what it was actually worth. "To this date no apartment in New York City has ever sold for close to that amount." He claimed apartment was 30k square feet - it was actually 11k
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The American Museum of Natural History will become a vaccine site. You can get vaccinated directly below the big whale.
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71 migrants arriving at the Port Authority bus terminal were in such dire shape they had to be taken directly to emergency rooms.
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US Attorney Donoghue says Attorney General William Barr made the final decision himself not to charge Pantaleo.
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It’s a long story, but let’s start with Anthony Weiner... (1/247)
Remind me how Bill de Blasio was elected mayor of the greatest city in the world?
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Plot twist! Billionaire John Catsimatidis — who Republicans have viewed as their best hope in the 2021 mayoral race — now says he’s considering switching parties and jumping into the Democratic race instead.
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NYC will begin fining social distancing violators $250-500,
@BilldeBlasio
says. Police will still start with warnings, but will escalate to fines if people fail to disperse.
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"The results show that this district is demanding change,"
@JamaalBowmanNY
says. "I cannot wait to get to Congress and cause problems for the people in there who have been maintaining a status quo that is literally killing our children."
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All NYC test sites will now be open 7 days a week. If there's a line, home tests will be available so you opt to can take one and go, per Test & Trace director Ted Long.
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The subway and the bus are also an existing technology.
I need to admit something to you all. Frankly, I don’t know how my environmental reputation can recover.
Today...
I wrote in a book...
made out of PAPER. 😱
Apparently using present technology means I can’t fight for new jobs, investing in infrastructure, & renewable energy. 😉
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@BilldeBlasio
has argued NYPD officers can't have a city residency requirement because of housing costs, but as
@GershKuntzman
notes NYPD civilian employees, who are often paid less, are required to live in NYC and 94% of them do.
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@BilldeBlasio
says the Jersey City shooting was a “pre-mediated, violent, anti-Semitic hate crime.”
“In other words, you can say it was an act of terror.”
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Wow. The women who sued
@ny1
for discrimination will be leaving the station as part of a settlement. Big loss for NYC journalism.
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@AndrewYang
in Times Square responding to yesterday’s triple shooting. “The truth is that New York City cannot afford to defund the police,” he says.
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9/11 trutherism doesn’t play on Staten Island
The Nicole Malliotakis "yes" is the most interesting to me. She's been making noises about being part of an "anti-socialism Squad." Where's the sisterhood, Nicole?!?!
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@NYCMayor
says his office reached out to
@GregAbbott_TX
’s office and asked them to coordinate on sending buses of migrant to NYC, and they said they would. “They did not.” Six more buses arrived early this morning without notice.
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"We can no longer count on the Justice Department to dispense justice," says
@BilldeBlasio
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The NYPD is refusing to release disciplinary records for
@ericadamsfornyc
— despite a state law meant to lift the veil of secrecy around such documents.
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"You should have no question in your mind that if you walk down the street and you're not wearing a mask and a police officer sees you, you will be ticketed." -
@NYGovCuomo
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“I’m gonna ban that shit when I’m mayor,”
@AndrewYang
says as a guy revs engine loudly as he kicks off campaign event. Also says his kids gave him crappy Father’s Day cards
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“My sister died fighting for justice. She died. She’s dead. She’s gone. My father is gone. Nobody gives a fuck. They don’t give a fuck. They came in that room and they extended condolences. Five years later...I don’t want no condolences. I want my father and I want my sister.”
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The most relatable story published this decade
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@BilldeBlasio
predicts
@NYGovCuomo
will be impeached, and will only resign on the cusp of impeachment if at all. "He's used to getting things his way, and it's been almost an imperial governorship."
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I’m sure he knows the A doesn’t go to the Bronx and is planning to transfer to the D but I also think he might be deliberately trolling.
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Periodic reminder the City Council decided to make this illegal starting next year. It’s 58 degrees.
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Periodic reminder the City Council decided to make this illegal starting next year.
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The Department of Investigation is about to start a press conference on its report sharply criticizing the NYPD's response to George Floyd protests. Highlights here:
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“Putting your hand up a woman’s shirt and touching her breast is not generational,”
@BilldeBlasio
says of
@NYGovCuomo
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"Transparency is going to be our hallmark,"
@NYCMayor
said while walking away and ducking reporters' questions about tests that found arsenic in NYCHA water
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OK guys I finally figured out how to read the Power Broker, nobody judge me this is happening.
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The headline: “chaos in the streets.” The photos:
Fed-up NYC businesses sound off as migrant crisis causes chaos in the streets, hits shops' wallets: ‘Enough is enough’
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Adams banked his mayoralty on public safety. Crime skyrocketed during his first 100 days in office.
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Some news about me: I’m heading to
@politicony
to cover New York politics and government and write Playbook. Thrilled to be back on the beat and joining such a great team.
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“That’s classic Andrew Cuomo. A lot of people in New York have received that phone call,”
@BilldeBlasio
says of
@NYGovCuomo
threatening
@rontkim
. “The bullying is nothing new.”
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De Blasio says he is "not familiar with the specifics" of precincts barricading off their blocks and will find out more about it...weeks after having been asked about it before and saying he would find out more about it.
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Maine Sen. Susan Collins says on "This Week" that a nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade "would not be acceptable to me" because it would indicate an activist agenda and lack of respect for precedent.
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Awful. An MTA worker couldn't get treatment for coronavirus and died in her home. Then her body was left for 24 hours, while her scared family slept in a van. via
@nypmetro
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@NYCMayor
says Covid positive immigrants were put on buses and others were severely dehydrated. They were tagged like “animals.” “Many wanted to go to other destinations and they were not allowed to do so.”
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Please note: “Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence” is the longtime motto of the New York City Board of Elections.
New York Mail-In voting is in a disastrous state of condition. Votes from many weeks ago are missing - a total mess. They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election. I told you so. Same thing would happen, but on massive scale, with USA. Fake News refuses to report!
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NYC will name/paint "Black Lives Matter" on one street in each borough, ala DC outside the White House,
@BilldeBlasio
says.
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A study showed that children who were all-remote had the same chance of contracting Covid-19 as students attending school in person, says Dr. Ted Long.
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Starting today in Co-Op City and Brighton Beach, city will be going door to door to vaccinate homebound seniors with Johnson & Johnson shot.
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@ericadamsfornyc
says yes Omicron is bad but, "There's only three words I can tell you: We got this, New York."
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Schumer rips Trump's proposed cuts to gun background check system
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Indoor dining is OFF in NYC for Monday. "We cannot go ahead at this point in time with indoor dining in New York City," says
@BilldeBlasio
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“This was part of a political ploy,” Adams says of actions by Govs. Abbott and DeSantis. “Inhumane, anti-American.”
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New Yorkers who break social distancing rules will now face fines up to $500
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NYC sending 120 emergency workers to Texas in wake of Harvey
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“Every time you make a joke about Andrew not being a New Yorker, you are telling Asian Americans that they don’t belong,”
@EvelynYang
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Inbox: 83% of restaurants and bars could not pay their full rent for July, per a NYC Hospitality Alliance survey. 37% paid no rent at all.
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NYC has 17,856 positive cases of COVID-19 and 199 fatalities as of 10am. Last night, there were at least 2,850 people hospitalized.
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"I can't help but to believe that if Matthew, Mark, Luke and John was here today, he would be on the streets with me helping people get out of encamptments" -
@ericadamsfornyc
to gathering of clergy, saying disciples of Christ would support his policy of homeless encampment sweeps
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New York City’s two supervised drug injection sites have reversed 114 overdoses since they opened less than two months ago.
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@ericadamsfornyc
says the next phase of transit safety plan will include a campaign on “how to be a safe passenger,” including telling women riders not to stand alone in isolated areas.
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From the agency that just banned outdoor dining four months a year.
OUTDOOR DINING TAKES UP LESS THAN .5% OF STREET PARKING IN NEW YORK CITY. PUBLIC SPACE IS FOR EVERYONE, NOT JUST CARS.
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This makes sense only if you think the purpose of covering a campaign is to predict the winner. It’s not.
Hot take: The media should have paid more attention to polls in the NYGOV race and less attention to Cynthia Nixon's campaign. Other races, including others with progressive challengers, were a lot more deserving of that bandwidth.
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@GovKathyHochul
refers to
@MaxRose4NY
as “former congressman, soon to be future congressman.”
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Brooklyn man says he was bitten by the "unusually aggressive" squirrel of Prospect Park
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Current vaccination levels: NYPD 74%, EMS 74%, Sanitation 67%, FDNY 64%. Deadline is 5 pm tomorrow; unvaxxed workers will be barred from working and put on unpaid leave as of Monday morning.
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@AndrewYang
says
@ericadamsfornyc
old union is endorsing him: “This to me should tell New Yorkers all that they need to know about Eric Adams.”
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Pro-tip: Go to one of these sites, avoid CityMD and urgent cares.
Long lines outside urgent care centers are back, amid a resurgence of
#COVID19
in New York.
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@MaxRose4NY
comes out in support of impeachment proceedings against President Trump. "I intend to fully support this impeachment inquiry and follow the facts," he says at Staten Island town hall.
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NYPD has continued to claim they don't use kettling. "I don't think that's accurate," says Garnett. They're making a semantic claim because they don't use the term "kettling" - they use "encirclement," which is substantively the same thing.
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Just a reminder that a Brooklyn Assemblyman wore blackface ~in 2013~, while in elected office, then followed it up with a bizarre joke about dressing as a gay person next year. He was re-elected.
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Rather than use his question to dig an opponent,
@AndrewYang
asks
@Dianne4NYC
to say nice things about his basic income idea
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The NYPD will also join the MTA in doing spot checks of subway cars and clearing cars that are crowded, de Blasio said. Unclear where people kicked off the train will go other than waiting on the platform for the next one.
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@BilldeBlasio
says it's an "interesting idea" not to have sidewalks covered in piles of garbage.
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@EvelynYang
says when people imply “that we should go back where we came from, it is exactly what it sounds like: it is racism.”
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I don't even have kids but it's striking to me how arguments like this just pretend children don't exist.
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Governor Kathy Hochul is moving to strip away the paid sick days that New Yorkers infected with COVID-19 have been guaranteed since the beginning of the pandemic. My story for
@HellGateNY
:
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NYC needs 400 more ventilators by Sunday and 2500-3000 over the course of next week,
@BilldeBlasio
says.
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The bill to ban solitary confinement has sponsorship from 36 council members, a veto-proof majority.
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There’s always a local angle.
I am ecstatic that
@JoeBiden
has chosen my good friend and cousin's college roommate
@KamalaHarris
to be our country's next Vice President!
#BidenHarris2020
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"This is my challenge to all of you in the media: Go talk to everyday officers,"
@BilldeBlasio
says. To facilitate this, he could remove the prohibition on police officers speaking to the media.
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On his critics,
@ericadamsfornyc
says, "Lions don't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep."
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Calling elected officials to ask them to comment on a story is an extremely standard and normal journalistic practice.
48 hours after publishing an activist hit-job story on the Orthodox Jewish community,
@nytimes
is now phone banking legislators, trying to force officials to comment and validate their tale.
Is this an objective outlet reporting the news or an advocacy group pushing an agenda?
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"Everyone on this stage should be livid about it unless you don't expect to be mayor," says
@AndrewYang
about de Blasio spending the stimulus money. "We're going to be left holding the bag."
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To this day
@NYCMayor
won’t say whether it was the right decision to fire the officer who killed Eric Garner.
This nation has devalued the lives of Black men for centuries. It has to end. And it will only end when there are consequences for those who do wrong.
These officers need to be charged immediately.
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I say this with no snark - if this is your approach, and it is for plenty of people, NYC is not the best place for you to live. The city is too expensive and annoying to be worth it if you’re not going to experience more of it.
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@NYPDONeill
says in the same situation, he may have made the same mistakes as Pantaleo. But "None of us can take back our decisions, most especially when they elad to the death of another human being."
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NYC residents who have received vaccines so far: 48% white, 15% Asian, 15% Latino, 11% Black. NYC population: 32% white, 14% Asian, 29% Latino, 24% Black.
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Bill proposed to ban plastic drinking straws in New York
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The Captains Endowment Association is endorsing
@AndrewYang
today - snubbing
@ericadamsfornyc
who was a member of the union. First NYPD union to endorse in the mayor’s race.
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De Blasio says he will order the NYPD to account for every video in this
@nytimes
story, and whether there will or will not be discipline for the officer
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We should anticipate that half of New York City residents will be infected with coronavirus,
@BilldeBlasio
says.
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@BilldeBlasio
says it's "tragic irony" that Trump proposed massive cuts to homeland security same day as big terror attack in Manchester.
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The president says he is meeting wounded soldiers while Covid positive and plans to visit supporters outside the hospital while Covid positive.
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De Blasio says the NYPD "uses as light a touch as possible" and not the "very heavy handed overreach strategy" used in other cities.
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New York will get about $100b from the bill between aid to government agencies and individual NYers and businesses, per
@SenSchumer
. Says
@NYGovCuomo
and
@NYCMayor
are getting more than they asked for.
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