The dream of staying home and watching Netflix on a snow day just came closer to fruition for a lot of New Yorkers as the MTA announced plans to shut down service on its above-ground lines. The changes will go into effect at 4 a.m. Tuesday morning, just as the city is expected to start feeling the brunt of this March blizzard that could dump close to two feet of snow.
Category: Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo in Israel for whirlwind trip
The Governor of New York Andrew M. Cuomo lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 5, 2017. ORG XMIT: DB109 The Governor of New York Andrew M. Cuomo lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 5, 2017.
Headstones toppled in NYC Jewish cemetery; Cuomo decries attacks29 minutes ago
Visiting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that a recent rash of anti-Semitic acts in the United States was “reprehensible” and his state would have no tolerance for them. In a visit to Israel, Cuomo made his first comments following the toppling of headstones at a Jewish cemetery this weekend in Brooklyn.
Cuomo calls anti-Semitic attack in New York ‘reprehensible’
Visiting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that a recent rash of anti-Semitic acts in the United States was “reprehensible” and his state would have no tolerance for them. In a visit to Israel, Cuomo made his first comments following the toppling of headstones at a Jewish cemetery this weekend in Brooklyn.
Visiting New York governor Cuomo condemns ‘rash of antisemitism’ in US
Cuomo’s Israel visit came only hours after reports of another act of vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, on a visit to Israel’s Holocaust memorial, pledged on Sunday to take action against antisemitic acts in the US amid reports of fresh Jewish cemetery vandalism in Brooklyn.
Trump strikes new tone on anti-Semitism
President Donald Trump offered a forceful condemnation Tuesday of anti-Semitism, but Jewish clergy and lay representatives continued to question the president’s sincerity in combating a wave of incidents that followed Election Day. “I’m certainly glad he’s made a statement,” said Rabbi Scott Shpeen of Congregation Beth Emeth in Albany.
[Park Slope] Tote-al recall! Shopkeepers fed up with plastic-bag-fee uncertainty
Bag it!: Park Sloper George Olivera says the state was right to overrule the city’s five-cent fee for bags. State lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law forbidding the city’s planned five-cent fee on plastic bags until 2018, leaving the measure championed by Mayor DeBlasio and Councilman Brad Lander in the hands of the mayor’s sworn nemesis, Gov. Cuomo.
NY Attorney General Pushes Automatic Voter Enrollment and Same-Day Registration
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman expressed confidence that the legislation he introduced today to overhaul the state’s voting systems and procedures will pass both houses of the State Legislature-arguing that the purge of more than 100,000 Democratic voters in Brooklyn ahead of last year’s April primary sparked a “year of change.” The New York Votes Act includes automatic registration of eligible voters, same-day registration for new voters and online personal voter registration and absentee ballot applications.
NY bets big on aging nuke plants, balancing jobs, safety
When the Nine Mile Point reactor first went online, Richard Nixon was president, the Beatles were still a band and Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima weren’t yet bywords for the hazards of nuclear power. Almost 50 years later, New York state is betting big on the future of Nine Mile Point, one of the nation’s two oldest nuclear plants.
Nation-Now 54 mins ago 9:13 p.m.Court grants emergency stay of Trump’s immigration ban
Protesters gather at JFK International Airport’s Terminal 4 on Jan. 28, 2017, to demonstrate against President Trump’s executive order to suspend refugee arrivals. President Trump’s ban on immigration by citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries ran into at least a temporary roadblock Saturday night, after a U.S. District judge in Brooklyn granted an emergency stay sought by immigrants’ rights lawyers.
Governor Cuomo Advocates For Ride-Hailing Apps Upstate
After three years of trying to get ride hailing car services like Uber and Lyft approved in upstate New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo is putting the proposal into high gear. “Ride sharing is creating thousands of jobs.
Cuomo: NY can show the nation an alternative to Trump
” New York state must stand as an alternative to Donald Trump, showing the nation that tolerance, progressive policies like a higher minimum wage and investments in education can create an economy that works for all, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday. Without mentioning the Republican president-elect by name, Cuomo, a Democrat, said it is up to New York to find a different way to address the middle-class angst that propelled Trump to the White House.
Experts: NY can absorb closing of Indian Point nuke plant
A plan to close the aging Indian Point nuclear power plant by 2021 removes a long-held fear of an accident occurring miles from the nation’s most populous city. Although the plant provides about a quarter of the electricity in New York City and suburban Westchester County, experts agree that taking he plant offline should have a negligible long-term impact on supply.
AP source: Aging New York nuclear plant to close by 2021
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New York trains roll on new subway line envisioned in 1920s
In this Dec. 9, 2016 file photo provided by the Office of New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the escalator leading down to the platform to the Second Avenue subway station at 72nd Street in New York is shown. New Yorkers can take their first ride under Manhattan’s far Upper East Side at noon on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017.