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For months, the international medical residents who make up a significant number of the Brookdale Hospital physician staff have been caught up in a whirlwind of restrictions and regulations regarding their visa and travel status.
In May, the Trump administration paused interviews for J-1 and J-2 student visas, which many international medical residents work under in the U.S. Less than a month later, they resumed. On top of that, travel bans affecting at least 19 countries mean the many international residents of Brookdale find themselves in a kind of limbo.
“They’re terrified,” said Dr. Conrad Fischer, a physician at Brookdale who has helped get international residents on staff. “All those people on visas are daily scared that there could be a change in legality.”
The doctors-in-training rely on the hospital for their legal status to be here, and the hospital very much depends on those health workers to operate.
“We are feeling that we are not valued,” said Dr. Anastasiia Tsyunchyk, who fled the war in Ukraine to work at Brookdale. “We are feeling partially in fear, too, for ourselves.”
Fischer’s internal medicine department employs 135 international medical graduates.
“If we didn't have international graduates, we would close,” he said. “We could not stay open — because what do you do if you miss 80 to 90% of your doctors? You're done. We couldn't go a year.”
Read more here about the federal threats to the immigrants powering our local hospitals.
Weather ⛈️
Hopefully not as intense as last night, but scattered thunderstorms throughout the day, with temperatures in the mid-80s.
MTA 🚇
In The Bronx, there’s no overnight D train service at Norwood-205 Street, with the option of a free shuttle bus instead. Find all of the MTA’s planned changes and latest delays here.
Alternate side parking 🚙
It’s in effect today, August 14.
By the way…
The city feels quieter in August, right? Here’s our data report from last year on just how much emptier New York can get during the hot summer months.
Our Other Top Stories
There was a full house at the Caesars Palace Community Advisory Committee hearing on Wednesday, as locals, celebs and union members lined up to drop their two cents on a potential casino in Times Square.
“Art on the Ave,” a movement that provides artists with opportunities to showcase their work in vacant storefronts across the city, is opening its first exhibit in an abandoned New York City Housing Authority property.
Our friends at Chalkbeat spent more than six months visiting ELLIS Preparatory Academy in The Bronx to understand the far-reaching effects of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies on city students.
Reporter’s Notebook
Mayor Vetoes Grocery Delivery Minimum-Wage Bills
Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday vetoed two bills that would force app-based grocery delivery companies such as Instacart to abide by the same minimum wage requirements as prepared-food delivery companies.
One of the bills, Intro. 1135, closes the so-called “Instacart loophole” that keeps grocery delivery workers from enjoying the same hourly pay requirements as workers toiling for DoorDash or Grubhub, even though their jobs are similar.
In a statement, the mayor said it is “not the right time” to pass the new wage requirements, warning the legislation risked raising grocery prices at a time of growing inflation. It’s an argument also made by industry groups who opposed the bill, including one backed by Instacart.
Administration officials, however, championed the bills at a December hearing, and the City Council approved them with a veto-proof majority last month. Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said lawmakers are “considering our next steps.”
“This veto demonstrates that the mayor’s claims to care about working-class New Yorkers and a sustainable delivery industry for New York City are hollow,” she said in a statement.
— Claudia Irizarry Aponte
Things To Do
Here are some free and low-cost things to do around the city this week.
Thursday, August 14: Prospect Park hosts its free weekly sexual health clinic in collaboration with New York-Presbyterian Hospital at Grand Army Plaza, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Thursday, August 14: The Battery Dance Festival at Rockefeller Park continues, with performances from Romanian, Spanish, South Korean, and American dancers. Starts at 7 p.m.
Thursday, August 14: Alfreda’s Cinemas hosts a free screening of the 1987 Malian film Yeelen, a landmark of African cinema that explores cosmology, myth, nature, and generational conflict. Film starts at 8 p.m.
THE KICKER: This building is now de-stable-ized: The final ride of one of the last “horse elevators” in New York.
Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Thursday.
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