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Just days after taking office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani moved to tackle one of New York City’s most chronic quality-of-life complaints: the lack of public bathrooms.
He announced a $4 million commitment to expand restroom access and directing the New York City Economic Development Corporation to begin soliciting bids within his first 100 days for modular, high-quality public toilets.
The plan, he said, would deliver bathrooms faster and cheaper than traditional city construction projects.
“Everyone knows the feeling of needing a bathroom and not being able to find one,” Mamdani said. “With this new commitment to public toilets, we’re ensuring New Yorkers can travel through our city with a little less anxiety.”
But even as the administration pushes to build new bathrooms in busy neighborhoods and high-need areas, roughly 50 Parks Department bathrooms are currently closed for repairs or renovations, some of which have dragged on for years, according to city budget records. Many others are in rough condition.
And while Mamdani promised as a candidate to boost funding for the Parks Department to 1% of the city budget, his preliminary budget proposal keeps it flat, as only half that level.
The Supreme Court announced Monday it would keep in place the congressional map for the one district in New York City currently represented by a Republican, Nicole Malliatokis — overruling a judge who’d found it had unconstitutionally diluted the voting power of Black and Latino voters.
The emergency decision, keeping intact the district covering all of Staten Island and part of Southern Brooklyn, was unsigned. Justice Samuel Alito Jr. wrote a concurrence, while the court’s three liberals joined in a dissent written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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New York has been falling behind on its legally-mandated climate goals, and Gov. Kathy Hochul is gearing up to try and revise the law . But critics say a new memo from the state with an eye-popping estimate of what the goals would cost households in the years ahead is wildly “misleading.” Read more here.
On the FAQ NYC podcast, the hosts discuss the messaging from Zohran Mamdani about America’s new war, the mayor’s meeting with the president days earlier and much more. Plus, New York Working Families Party Jasmine Gripper joins to discuss the party’s agenda, “how the left ecosystem in New York is evolving in a beautiful way” and the split between the WFP and Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America in the race to replace Rep. Nydia Velazquez.
Over half a century and across outlets ranging from City Limits to the Village Voice to the Daily News, he had more than established himself as one of New York’s preeminent muckraking journalists. He exposed corrupt politicians, predatory landlords and criminal bosses. His fearless work improved the lives of countless New Yorkers.
But that doesn’t really get at what made Tom so special. For that, you’d need to see the heart he brought to his reporting, a singular and extraordinary gift. As his CITY colleagues put it in an obituary for him: “He had a profound love for New York City and a deep humanity — menschy, intelligent, sometimes sad and often bemused — that touched his interactions and reporting.”
That’s why everyone at THE CITY was so excited when he joined our newsroom in 2023, where he worked for about a year. We were the last publication gifted with his extraordinary presence, his kindness and his wisdom.
His colleagues at CUNY, where Tom mentored hundreds of great journalists, have set up the Tom Robbins Investigative Reporting Fund to honor his legacy. One of its goals is to establish investigative internships, including at THE CITY.
If you could see your way to contribute, it would mean so much to all his colleagues here.
— Richard Kim
Things To Do
Here’s what’s going on around the city this week.
Tuesday, March 3: Artist Raven Halfmoon and Cecilia Alemani discuss Halfmoon’s commission for the High Line, West Side Warrior, a nod to the artist’s heritage, which also references the High Line’s history. Free, at 12:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 3: Attend a New York Groove Live! show in the East Village, featuring THE CITY’s own Rachel Holliday Smith, about how to be a better New Yorker and help shape the city’s future, even if you feel like you do not have any free time. $10 live stream, $20 at the door at 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 4: Attend the opening reception of NYU’s Orwell & Truth: The Legacy of Author George Orwell, a biographical exhibition featuring rare archival materials from University College London's George Orwell Archive. Free, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
THE KICKER: Look up! Early risers can catch a glimpse of the “blood moon” — the last total lunar eclipse visible until 2028.
Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Tuesday.
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