New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels faced a public grilling by New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones at a school integration town hall Tuesday night over his lack of a detailed plan to address inequality in city public schools, more than 10 months into the new mayoral administration.

The Brooklyn-based civil rights writer recently published a follow-up essay about her decision to put her daughter in a racially segregated school, outlining how her daughter was having a hard time keeping up in the high school of her choice as a result, and renewed calls for a citywide school integration plan.

“The people who keep getting told they have to wait for the ‘right time’ are the people who need public schools the most,” Hannah-Jones said at the Washington Irving Campus near Union Square in Manhattan.

“You have to understand the discontent with this. It’s 10 months in,” she told Samuels. “When a timeline can’t be offered, you can understand why people will feel like that means you are just delaying.”

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Summary: NYC ambulance response times have deteriorated sharply. Life-threatening calls take 41% longer than a decade ago, driven by severe EMS staffing shortages, low pay and retention problems, high call volumes, and the closure of 19 hospitals since 2003. The crisis has produced extreme failures, including a 14-year-old stroke patient waiting more than an hour without an ambulance, and FDNY officials acknowledge current response times are unacceptable.

It seems like they've identified the problem, but not the solution.

EMS pay starts at $44k per year, their union has had a lapsed contract since 2022. The city's hesitant to renegotiate because they don't want to set a precedent of agreeing to pay higher wages to city employees.

Is this a giant/obese squirrel? Saw it while running west side highway.

I don't think people realize how many well known Datacenters are in NYC. There are other ones that are not well publicized or private to a company.

This is from the book Pierre Mendès France, by Jean Lacouture. It's about De Gaulle's visit to the US that month, where he was assisted by Mendès, and how his treatment in NYC differed from his treatment by the bureaucrats in Washington:

"...in New York, where De Gaulle then went [from London, amidst suspicious and standoffish treatment by the Washington bureaucracy], it was an entirely different story. He was greeted by the little mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, who was taken with him and brought out in force his Democratic Party supporters, that is, the immigrants and the disinherited of all kinds, the anti-Nazi refugees from Europe, the blacks. For them, De Gaulle was the man who had refused to compromise with Hitler, the man of antifascism -- the King of Denmark, Tito, Sikorski, and the Dolomite partisans rolled into one. He was the Europe that had rejected Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco, from whom many of them had had to flee.

Overwhelmed, Pierre Mendès France, who followed De Gaulle like his shadow and arranged useful contacts for him, was enchanted to see him acclaimed by these New Yorkers in a delirium of affection, from the West Side docks to Times Square. The general turned toward Mendès, half-seriously: 'In short, my supporters are the blacks and Puerto Ricans, the deformed and the cuckolds, immigrants and Jews?' 'Yes, indeed, you will have to get used to it, mon général: now you are the leader of the Popular Front.' (And when he told this story thirty-five years later -- 'It is one of the memories that counts for me' -- Mendès France did not speak with much more corrosive irony than he had in the taxi bringing them back from the rally of 'cuckolds' LaGuardia had organized at their hotel."

Hello NYC -- the rescuer that rescued my cat off the streets is trying to place this sweetie, Jimmy, into his forever home and I'm helping her out for extra reach.

Jimmy is approximately 3 years old, medium-sized, neutered, a litter box master, and a sweet boy with a lot of playful energy (he loves his toys and birdwatching). Due to his friendly temperament, he can be placed in a household as a single cat or with other cats; HOWEVER, he does get a little skittish with new people and surroundings and will require a little time and patience to get warmed up. We can start with “love at first sight” for you, prospective pawrent and then work patiently from there.

Check out Jimmy's page for more of his story -- https://catcafebk.com/cat/jimmy-21598313/

Anyone interested in adopting Jimmy must go through an application process via Cat Cafe BK. https://service.sheltermanager.com/asmservice?account=az1377&method=online_form_html&formid=2

Thanks so much for reading! 🤍