[New York City’s Executive Budget FY21]
At the inception of New York City’s COVID-19 crisis, Mayor de Blasio instructed City agencies to spend was necessary to protect City residents. To date, the City has spent more than $700 million to fight COVID-19.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio
NEW YORK CITY HALL COVID-19 UPDATE: DE BLASIO TOURS NEW MASK PRODUCTION SITES
[COVID-19\Mask Production\Brooklyn Navy Yard]
The mayor visited a production line run by Crye Precision, a design and manufacturing company based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that is producing gowns with the help of women’s wear brand Lafayette 148 and other sewing shops at the Yard.
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NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE: MINORITY NEW YORKERS FACE HIGH COVID-19 RISK
[COVID-19\ New Yorkers of Color]
Williams: “I have a number of questions concerning the safety and wellbeing of front-line workers and communities of more color and higher poverty rates.”
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BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT TO DE BLASIO: EXTEND PROPERTY TAX DEADLINE
[COVID-19\Property Tax Deadline]
Brooklyn Borough President Adams. “Every day we are waking up faced with hard decisions to make – but this is not one of them. This is simple: extend the city’s quarterly property tax deadline to June 1st.”
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NYC MAYOR CALLS FOR 2020 CENSUS EXTENSIONS DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK
[COVID-19\NYC 2020 Census]
Mayor Bill de Blasio: “I am calling on the Census Bureau to extend the census period so that all Americans can get counted without risking their health and safety.”
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NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES: PRICE GOUGING DURING CORONAVIRUS CRISIS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED
[Price Gouging\Coronavirus]
Attorney General James: “On my watch, we will not tolerate schemes or frauds designed to turn large profits by exploiting people’s health concerns.”
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NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE ON MAYOR’S STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS: LET’S TURN WORDS INTO ACTION
[State of the City\Public Advocate Response]
Public Advocate Williams: “Our children should not be over-policed…Law enforcement should not be responding to mental health crises- that approach has led to tragedy, and it’s neither appropriate for those in need who are making the call, nor fair to the officers answering it.”
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NEW YORK CITY OFFICIALS AND TRANSIT ADVOCATES CELEBRATE EXPANSION OF “FAIR FARES” PROGRAM
[“Fair Fares” Program Expansion]
Mayor Bill de Blasio: “Access to public transportation is a basic right—not a luxury for the wealthy. With Fair Fares, we are making our city fairer for low-income New Yorkers whose lives depend on mass transportation.”
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‘I WILL GRADUATE 2020’ TO BE HELD AT BROOKLYN’S KINGS THEATRE ON JANUARY 9TH
[I WILL GRADUATE Youth Development Program]
More than a one-day event, I WILL GRADUATE DAY is a citywide school initiative to increase graduation rates amongst at risk students. Engages students in college and career curriculums, activities, workshops and pep rallies to encourage students to become part of the solution, to stay in school and graduate, while considering career and college options.
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RACIST NYPD OFFICER WHO BROKE INTO BLACK WOMAN’S HOME THREATENING HER WITH ASSAULT HAS RESIGNED
[Police Brutality\NYPD]
In July 2018, Officer Michael Reynolds, 26, unlawfully broke into the home of Conese Halliburton and terrorized her and her family in an apparent booze-fueled racist rant repeatedly calling her the N-word. Reynolds was captured on a neighbor’s Ring security camera threatening her saying, “I’ll [expletive] break every bone in your [expletive] neck.”He then reportedly said, “fucking niggers”
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