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Just as New York case rates drop and officials roll back health requirements for schools and businesses, another coronavirus variant is showing signs of derailing the state’s recovery from the winter COVID surge. https://t.co/IPvY0OGEOn — PolitiTweet.org

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A dozen people were hospitalized with minor injuries following an MTA bus crash on Staten Island on Monday morning. https://t.co/zCzQS56iD2 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lizkimtweets: Mayor stops to make an *attempt* at skateboarding. https://t.co/R1Pyz9KHEN — PolitiTweet.org

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Speakers at the New York State Republican convention on Long Island last week rallied around a single issue they're hoping could break a 20-year streak of consecutive losses in statewide races: crime. https://t.co/vmdNUHkZqm — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lizkimtweets: Mayor Adams is undaunted by the criticism or pushback on his policies. He says protests are “part of the New York spirit.… — PolitiTweet.org

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A man is in critical condition after being shot by an NYPD officer for allegedly driving his vehicle into an officer during a traffic stop in the Bronx on Sunday, which may have violated the department’s use of force policy. The incident is being reviewed. https://t.co/rl2jS12ZYh — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lizkimtweets: Mayor Adams is now going into La Palapa, a restaurant that withstanding the initial shutdown stayed open throughout the p… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lizkimtweets: Here’s the scene with the mayor this morning in the East Village as he visits restaurants on the first day of the vax man… — PolitiTweet.org

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Because doctors aren't asking you step on the scale as much, here are your morning links: Broadway is keeping a vax and mask mandate for now; a restaurant for Giuliani, Michael Cohen, Matt Lauer and Andrew Cuomo; Trump's lack of emails helps him and more. https://t.co/gf2GvYdqNc — PolitiTweet.org

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Going into Monday morning, parents, kids and educators were split on the end of NYC's school mask mandate—many fervently supporting the change, many equally passionate against it and many in the middle who said they hope this is the right move. https://t.co/kQJGw7HGeY — PolitiTweet.org

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A Nassau County judge has ruled that Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder violated open records laws when he refused to turn over his work calendars, requested during last year’s police reform meetings. Taxpayers will have to cover $17,292 in attorney fees. https://t.co/Xdzpo1yQQR — PolitiTweet.org

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“The dissonance of budget cuts amid the reality of a robust recovery is hard to wrap our heads around and difficult for this Council to explain to our constituents,” Councilmember Brannan said about Mayor Adams' preliminary budget. https://t.co/N9EGlUiSIm — PolitiTweet.org

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Bogdan Horbal, Curator for Slavic & East European Collections at @NYPL, has offered a reading list which he says will give insight into "the circumstances that led to what is now the largest conflict to erupt in Europe since World War II." https://t.co/rhQpNMNfjD — PolitiTweet.org

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“We're hopeful that REI meets us in good faith during negotiations for our first contract, while keeping our co-op values in mind and applying them to workers, so we can all demonstrate that we really do go further," said employee Claire Chang. https://t.co/48kY1IHAiv — PolitiTweet.org

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Following a teleprompter malfunction, schools chancellor David Banks blasted the Department of Education's bureaucracy before outlining his vision, which he says is to both steer schools back towards a sense of normalcy while upending the status-quo. https://t.co/8jlL2MOV5f — PolitiTweet.org

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke at a Brooklyn church Sunday, delivering his first public remarks since sexual misconduct allegations prompted his resignation over the summer. https://t.co/Rs4my2pTBj — PolitiTweet.org

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Police are investigating the deaths of a 26-year-old woman and 6-year-old girl after finding their bodies during a wellness check Saturday night. https://t.co/HK4Cjo8ypC — PolitiTweet.org

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“I met friends here that call me during the week and check in on me to make sure I'm okay, and I call them,” Sylvia Davell Woods, who says she has schizophrenia and depression, says about Fountain House, which plans to expand to serve more New Yorkers. https://t.co/czfOAfDfbY — PolitiTweet.org

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New York City Councilmember and former teacher Rita Joseph, the council's new education chair, has promised to keep students’ needs at the forefront of her work, especially the city’s many students for whom English is not their first language. https://t.co/nn9e0H46o8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Footage of the incident shows a vehicle in flames at the corner of Prospect Park West and Prospect Park Southwest. https://t.co/WURgmBxy9w — PolitiTweet.org

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Nonprofits have argued that requiring students to attend schools in the municipalities where they live only perpetuates past injustices of exclusionary housing laws and rules that banned Black people from buying homes in certain neighborhoods. https://t.co/D904nC11oO — PolitiTweet.org

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“It will be amazing to see our teams’ smiles again,” says Danny Meyer of the Union Square Hospitality Group. “And it’s going to be a relief for our hosts to welcome guests to our restaurants without first needing to ask for official documents.” https://t.co/N49TPobwd0 — PolitiTweet.org

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“This is transformative for an industry that was literally brought to its knees during the pandemic,” Governor Hochul said at a wine bar in Bed-Stuy, promoting plans for to-go cocktails and to tackle a backlog of liquor license applications. https://t.co/Fmgpm6iStq — PolitiTweet.org

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An NYPD sergeant who attacked two people while they were in police custody plead guilty to two misdemeanor assault charges Wednesday and was sentenced to two years probation. He will also have to attend anger management or counseling classes. https://t.co/QjAAJxIOdH — PolitiTweet.org

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Elected officials are calling on Mayor Eric Adams to invest in clean, rat-free streets. https://t.co/08TRj7sJCU — PolitiTweet.org

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Public toilets — everybody needs them, but nobody can figure out how to build and maintain them. At least that is the case in New York City, which has some of the fewest public bathrooms per capita of any large city in the U.S. https://t.co/EbqLYQylCE — PolitiTweet.org

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Dr. Angel Lazo from the COVID-19 Institute of New Jersey says "most long-haulers are typically younger individuals" and that "the number-one complaint from individuals … is that they don't feel the same as before they were actually infected." https://t.co/GFI4fRqCav — PolitiTweet.org

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As unemployment remains high in New York City, rising food prices are forcing New Yorkers struggling to feed themselves and their families to rely more on food banks and pantries. https://t.co/Vv0IvsBbEr — PolitiTweet.org

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“Without that missing piece of where people will go, I do think that this plan will not be successful and we'll see more people pushed from one subway line to another, or from the subways to the streets," says Coalition for the Homeless' Jacquelyn Simone. https://t.co/HLbLTpKLrx — PolitiTweet.org

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“New York stands ready to give impacted families all the support they need." Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement on Saturday that the city is extending free meal delivery services for survivors of the Jan. 9 Bronx fire. https://t.co/FLjHBssWOo — PolitiTweet.org