It's Friday in New York City, where the owner of a Brooklyn daycare that shuttered this year amid child abuse allegations tried to relaunch her business across the Hudson.
Shareece Dukes — who's facing financial penalties after videos surfaced of employees at Eva Crèche, her Prospect Lefferts Gardens daycare, forcibly grabbing and dragging toddlers — has tried twice to start over after previous problems prompted closures, records show.
In the most recent case, New Jersey officials suspended her registration after Gothamist inquired about it.
“"This is going to be a very long game of Whac-a-Mole because she is going to just keep trying to do this, and we're going to keep trying to stop her," said one parent whose daughter attended Eva Crèche.
Here's what else is happening:
NJ Transit said rail service between Newark Penn station and Penn Station New York remained suspended Friday morning after an Amtrak track car fire in a Hudson River tunnel.
Advocates and family members of detainees at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark accused guards of beating people and using tear gas, as a detainee hunger strike continued.
The Mamdani administration said it plans to convert 42nd Street into a bus-only corridor and block traffic on streets around Penn Station during World Cup match days.
An advocacy group wants the mayor to commit to his campaign pledge of allocating 0.5% of the city budget to the public library system — an idea modeled after the 25-year-old “1% for parks” campaign.
