Civil liberties groups are warning that possible changes to the city’s laws regulating protests, including a measure that would create a 100-foot buffer zone outside of schools and religious sites, could infringe on New Yorkers’ First Amendment rights.
...and NYC Ferry service was just getting back to normal.
Update on the racist remarks during an Upper West Side school district Zoom: A Hunter College professor said she made the comments on a hot mic while "trying to explain the concept of systemic racism," presumably to her child in the room with her.
A woman might be squatting in a late mattress mogul's Upper East Side townhouse, and the man's estranged widow would like her to get out and pay her back rent at a rate of $49,000 a month.
In other sports news, "The guy scoring goal for 1st USA Gold Medal in hockey since 1980 is a Jew? Oh my. I’m sure the Jew-haters will say Mossad was behind it!" posted U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee yesterday.
Hospitals received a directive from the state last week forbidding them from discriminating against any patient based on gender or sexual identity, but multiple families have said Mount Sinai stopped gender-affirming care for their children last month.
Boston’s notorious project to tear down an elevated highway downtown and build a new one underground took two decades and nearly $15 billion to complete. Fixing the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn Heights could eclipse that project in transit lore.
