“ ‘Another Gut Punch’: New York City Restaurants Want More Aid After Omicron Sets Back Recovery,” by Gothamist’s Danny Lewis On any given day this week, 21 percent of subway operators and conductors - about 1,300 people out of a work force of 6,300 - have been absent from work, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the city’s subways, buses and two commuter-rail lines.” “ As Omicron Infects Workers, Subway Service Suffers,” by The New York Times’ Michael Gold and Ashley Wong: “As a dizzying surge in coronavirus cases spurred by the fast-spreading Omicron variant has disrupted life in New York City and undermined its economic recovery, its subway system - the nation’s largest - has confronted a staggering worker shortage that has hampered its ability to keep trains running. They’re literally synonymous,” said City Council Member Tiffany Cabán of Queens, who sent a letter to Adams along with 28 other Council Members denouncing his stance on a practice they call “torture.” Adams maintains that he supports “punitive segregation” and not “solitary confinement." But the city’s jails board, and the plan passed last year to end the policy, use the two terms interchangeably to describe the practice of locking an inmate in a cell for most of the day as punishment for a violent offense. See Our Energy FutureĪdams' solitary confinement stance sets up fight with City Council, by POLITICO’s Erin Durkin: Mayor Eric Adams has set up his first big policy fight with the new City Council, vowing to reverse a ban on solitary confinement at Rikers Island even as the majority of the Council pushes to end the practice.
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From making it easier to install solar panels to offering electric vehicle incentives, we’re proving a clean energy future isn’t just possible-it’s present. Con Edison is already working to push that vision forward with a commitment to power New York with 100% clean energy by 2040. And the steps we take today are inspiring the generation of tomorrow. We're on the move-toward a clean energy future for our home. WHERE’S ANDREW? Scheduled to appear virtually in Albany City Court at 1:30 p.m. WHERE’S ERIC? Visiting a Sanitation garage in Manhattan. By email: and, or on Twitter: and KATHY? Holding a Covid-19 briefing in Manhattan. Got tips, suggestions or thoughts? Let us know. NYCLU head Donna Liberman said Adams and Hochul have “unabashedly emboldened the NYPD when New Yorkers have taken to the streets and the polls to fight for exactly the opposite outcome.” While transit advocates have generally cheered the absence of hostility between the mayor and governor as of late, not all reaction to the new measures has been positive.
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Adams said this will free up police to focus on crime and not act as “street sweepers,” clearing men and women off the system. For the state’s part, they’ll be sending in teams of eight to 10 social workers and medical professionals to address the needs of homeless New Yorkers.
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So we’ll have to see how much these new initiatives will move the needle on creating a better ride for straphangers, who have still not returned to the trains in full force since the pandemic set in and are also grappling with line suspensions and service delays because of Covid-driven staff shortages.Īdams says there will now be an “omnipresence” of cops in the subway, moving through train cars rather than loitering on platforms. The city has sent outreach teams into the subway to attempt to convince people to move to shelters - without a ton of success - and police presence has been increased before.
On the substance, the new plans aren’t entirely different from approaches that have been tried before. Adams even blessed Hochul with his high compliment, calling her a fellow politician with “swagger.” Andrew Cuomo was stirring up worry about crime on the subway and accusing then-Mayor Bill de Blasio of failing to rein it in, and de Blasio was in turn blasting Cuomo for “fear-mongering.”īut Hochul asserted in her first State of the State speech this week that “the days of the governor of New York and mayor of New York City wasting time on petty rivalries are over,” and yesterday she and Adams attempted to prove it with their joint event at lower Manhattan’s Fulton Street station. It was just a few short months ago that then-Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams made their first joint appearance since the new mayor took office, announcing plans for stepped up NYPD patrols on the subway and state-sponsored teams of social workers to coax people experiencing homelessness off the transit system.
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