Biden talks climate change in Queens

President Joe Biden swooped into East Elmhurst, Queens, on Wednesday, the place he surveyed the deadly hit town took from Hurricane Ida and declared it proof that “that is code crimson” on local weather change.

“Local weather change poses an existential menace to our lives, to our financial system. And the menace is right here,” Biden mentioned from the neighborhood that suffered extreme injury after the remnants of Ida dumped file quantities of rain on town. “It’s not going to get any higher. The query: Can it worsen? We will cease it from getting worse.”

There have been two orders of enterprise on the president’s journey — to sound the alarm on local weather change, and to vow private help to the victims of the deluge, which the federal authorities has pledged after approving major disaster declarations. “That is America, the place I’m standing proper now,” Biden pronounced, in case there was any doubt on that query. He mentioned the neighborhood’s working-class residents are sometimes among the many first harm and the final helped. “That’s not going to occur this time.”

Whereas Biden stumped for his infrastructure package, how all of this rhetoric will translate into motion, and particularly concrete steps on the bottom within the 5 boroughs, stays an open query. The president was surrounded by Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Invoice de Blasio, Sen. Chuck Schumer and a who’s who of different New York pols who’re all sounding comparable notes on the necessity to cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions and increase resiliency.

On at the very least one key query raised by Ida — what to do about tens of hundreds of unlawful basement flats susceptible to flooding, the place New Yorkers drowned of their houses throughout the storm — town is basically throwing up its hands. De Blasio mentioned there could be no enforcement blitz towards house owners for concern of driving already struggling tenants out of their houses, and town has no broader plan to handle the long-standing situation. “We don’t have a direct resolution to this one,” he mentioned.

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WHERE’S KATHY? Visiting the 9/11 Memorial & Museum with former Mayor Mike Bloomberg in Manhattan, then giving a briefing from her Manhattan workplace within the afternoon. Within the night, the governor will attend the Prabal Gurung Style Present in Decrease Manhattan.

WHERE’S BILL? Holding a media availability.

“Several Queens Flood Victims Sickened From Exposure To Raw Sewage,” by WNYC’s Gwynne Hogan: “A number of Queens residents who had been uncovered to uncooked sewage when floodwaters gushed into their houses throughout Tropical Storm Ida now say they’ve suffered diarrhea and vomiting, and at the very least one individual needed to be hospitalized. Ivette Mayo’s house on sixty fourth Road close to forty eighth Avenue in Woodside took on 5 ft of water within the basement final Wednesday. As water poured in, she and her husband sloshed round downstairs, shutting down the home’s electrical energy and grabbing no matter household pictures they may salvage. Two days later, she began to really feel in poor health, and by Sunday she couldn’t maintain down water or Pedialyte, alternating between vomiting and diarrhea all day lengthy. ‘Sunday night time was only a catastrophe. I used to be getting up each quarter-hour,’ she mentioned. Her husband took her to the hospital Monday morning the place she was given fluids and dietary supplements of magnesium and potassium. She was quickly identified with norovirus and e. Coli, she mentioned, two extremely contagious waterborne illnesses.”

“Gun violence drops in August — but still at nearly double pre-pandemic levels,” by New York Put up’s Craig McCarthy: “Shootings within the Huge Apple plummeted in August in comparison with the identical time final 12 months when gunplay was raging — and officers say that proves town has ‘turned a nook’ relating to crime. However the variety of shootings final month — 167, versus 241 reported throughout August 2020 — continues to be practically double pre-pandemic ranges. ‘One capturing is simply too many, and sure, we’re preventing excessive numbers, however because the starting of the summer time, the pattern goes down,’ Chief of Division Rodney Harrison mentioned Tuesday throughout the mayor’s every day briefing.”

“How Bullying and Spying on Muslims After 9/11 Spawned a Justice-Seeking Generation,” by The Metropolis’s Claudia Irizarry Aponte: “The weeks and months after Sept. 11, 2001, had been marked by a profound sense of each loss and unity, as a lot of town banded collectively in an emotional response to the assaults on the World Commerce Heart. However for a lot of Muslim, Center Jap and South Asian New Yorkers, these feelings led to new causes to be afraid: Youngsters had been harassed on their solution to faculty and taunted as ‘terrorists;’ immigration crackdowns tore aside communities like Little Pakistan in Brooklyn; and an NYPD surveillance program spied on harmless individuals in New York and past for greater than a decade. ‘There’s loads of trauma,’ related to the Islamophobic backlash, mentioned 30-year-old Shahana Hanif of Brooklyn, a daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants who’s poised to develop into the primary Muslim girl elected to the Metropolis Council. However what shines by 20 years later is the organizing inside the metropolis’s Muslim communities that the period fostered.”

“More financial relief for New Yorkers Recovering from Ida,” by The New York Instances’ Ashley Wong: “Mayor Invoice de Blasio signed an govt order Tuesday eliminating metropolis allow charges for New Yorkers attempting to restore their houses following final week’s lethal floods. The flooding final week turned many basement flats into dying traps, notably in Queens, the place many low-income and immigrant communities reside in basement houses that aren’t as much as security codes. Getting permits from town to do main building on these houses may set individuals again wherever from $100 to $1,200 every, Mr. de Blasio mentioned throughout a information convention. ‘We don’t wish to see anybody should pay for a allow who’s simply been by a horrible catastrophe,’ Mr. de Blasio mentioned.”

“24-year-old man found dead in cell at NYC’s Rikers Island as staffing crisis continues,” by NBC New York: “Amid experiences of staffing points at Rikers Island, a 24-year-old man has develop into at the very least the ninth individual to die on the correctional facility. Authorities are investigating the dying of Esias Johnson who was discovered unresponsive in his cell on the Anna M. Kross Heart on Tuesday and pronounced lifeless at 9:45 a.m., the New York Metropolis Division of Correction mentioned. Based on DOC Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi, Johnson had lately entered custody on Aug. 7 and he was being held on a fugitive arrest warrant and charged with menacing.”

“Hochul inherits horde of entrenched Cuomo appointees,” by New York Put up’s Carl Campanile and Bernadette Hogan: “Disgraced, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo could also be gone however the lengthy shadow he forged over the New York authorities empire over a decade — full of entrenched loyalists — will stay for years. His substitute, Gov. Kathy Hochul, inherits an enormous New York forms full of key Cuomo appointees over a number of main businesses, together with SUNY and CUNY, the Port Authority, MTA, the Public Service Fee, Empire State Improvement, the Joint Fee on Public Ethics, amongst different businesses. In lots of circumstances, the Cuomo appointees serve mounted phrases and can’t be changed even when Hochul desires to do away with them. Then there are Cuomo’s quite a few constructing tasks within the works pushed by his appointees — together with what critics slam because the controversial $2.1 billion ‘flawed manner’ LaGuardia Airport air prepare undertaking.”

— ANALYSIS: On Hochul’s DFS Pick from The American Prospect’s Timi Iwayemi and Max Moran: “One among newly put in New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s first key choices was naming Adrienne Harris as the top of the state’s Division of Monetary Providers (DFS), which is liable for regulating the actions of practically 1,800 insurance coverage corporations with cumulative property of $5.5 trillion and greater than 1,400 banking and monetary establishments with property over $2.9 trillion. If confirmed, Harris could be liable for guaranteeing prudent monetary conduct, sturdy shopper safety, and anti-fraud measures inside New York. However given its function because the nation’s — and the world’s — monetary heart, her actions may have a major influence on regulation and enforcement throughout the nation and around the globe. The issue is Harris’s personal philosophy of regulation. Apparently, Harris simply doesn’t get why regulators should be so skeptical of the trade on a regular basis — which is sensible, coming from a fintech govt who’s advocated for the trade on either side of the revolving door.”

— ICYMI: Comic Maria DeCotis is again, playing both Hochul and Cuomo in a single spoof.

HEADS UP, MASKS BACK ON: “New mask rules in place for state-owned buildings,” by Spectrum’s Nick Reisman: “Common masking has returned to buildings owned by the state of New York in counties with substantial or excessive circumstances of COVID-19, a spokeswoman for the Workplace of Common Providers confirmed Tuesday. On the state Capitol in Albany, indicators requiring masking no matter vaccination standing returned to the hallways, and state officers have put comparable indicators up in different areas of the state with qualifying COVID-19 case charges. ‘OGS positioned the indicators that masks at the moment are required in all state-owned buildings, no matter vaccination standing, in case your county has a excessive transmission charges per GOER’s up to date coverage,’ mentioned OGS spokeswoman Michelle Rosales.”

“Incoming Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin Owns Insider Stock in Firm That Arranges Sky-High Interest Loans,” by The Metropolis’s Greg B. Smith and Clifford Michel: “Newly appointed Lt. Governor Brian Benjamin stands to make a hefty revenue from insider inventory he holds in an organization that arranges loans with rates of interest as much as 500% and has been sued repeatedly, THE CITY has discovered. Gov. Kathy Hochul lately tapped Benjamin for her previous job after she succeeded Andrew Cuomo, who resigned amid sexual harassment allegations and different scandals. Benjamin, a Manhattan state senator for the previous 4 years, is ready to be sworn into his new function on Thursday. The Harvard Enterprise Faculty grad acquired the within edge by way of his function as a founding board member of Subsequent Level Acquisition Corp., an funding agency that earlier this 12 months purchased the oft-sued California agency LoanMe, information present. Benjamin resigned from NextPoint’s board in March, however saved his inventory.”

“Ethics agency subpoenaed in investigation of Cuomo’s book,” by Instances Union’s Chris Bragg: “Lawyer Common Letitia James’ workplace has issued a subpoena to the state Joint Fee on Public Ethics for its information on Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s ebook chronicling his administration’s early response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Instances Union has discovered. The subpoena was issued in reference to a legal investigation that the lawyer basic is conducting into whether or not Cuomo’s use of presidency employees to help him in writing the ebook violated any legal guidelines. James’ issuance of a grand jury subpoena within the matter doesn’t affirm {that a} grand jury has begun reviewing proof within the investigation. But it surely does sign that the investigation into Cuomo’s and his workers’s potential misuse of presidency assets for personal achieve is coming into a section past interviews and gathering publicly out there information.”

#UpstateAmerica: A Rochester youth arts program is painting vibrant murals on city basketball courts.

“800,000 New Yorkers Just Lost Federal Unemployment Benefits,” by The New York Instances’ Matthew Haag and Nicole Hong: “From the start of the coronavirus pandemic, New York Metropolis has been pummeled economically in contrast to another giant American metropolis, as a sustained restoration has didn’t take root and a whole bunch of hundreds of employees have but to seek out full-time jobs. On Sunday, town, like different communities nationwide, was hit with one other blow: The package deal of pandemic-related federal unemployment advantages, which has saved households afloat for 17 months, expired. In brief order, roughly $463 million in weekly unemployment help for New York Metropolis residents is ending, threatening to upend town’s fledgling financial rebound and slashing the one supply of earnings for some to pay lease and purchase groceries in a metropolis rife with inequality. About 10 % of town’s inhabitants, or about 800,000 individuals, may have federal support eradicated, although many will proceed receiving state advantages.”

— NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman is being sentenced in federal courtroom immediately.

— Town Division of Correction hired a telemarketing firm to name latest retirees and ask them to return again to work amid a staffing disaster in jails.

— Broadway costume retailers are getting back to work.

— Yonkers-based Hughes Power says a proposed biofuel plant in Catskill Park would fight climate change. Locals aren’t enthused.

— Ontario County Sheriff Kevin Henderson is being pressured to resign however has “no intention” of doing so.

— Manhattan Fowl Alert captured an awesome blue heron devouring a rat in Central Park.

— A Brooklyn federal decide ordered that solely New Yorkers vaccinated towards Covid-19 could serve on an upcoming legal trial jury.

— The Inspector Common’s workplace is investigating the state’s oversight of Prestige Limousine, the agency concerned in a crash that killed 20 individuals in Schoharie County.

— A veteran NYPD officer killed himself at his Queens home.

— Out-of-state money is pouring into the New York Metropolis mayor’s race.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: SKDKnickerbocker’s Morgan Hook and Will Brunelle … Andrei Berman … WNYC’s Andrew Golis … WSJ’s Akane Otani … Alethea Group’s Mark Abman … BerlinRosen’s Jonathan Rosen … NBC’s Maura Barrett … Cheddar’s J.D. Durkin … Howard Lorber … Harry Liberman

“Kushner-Kloss condo leads luxury market’s busiest late-August week since 2006,” by The Actual Deal’s Erin Hudson: “Manhattan’s luxurious market simply had its busiest week-before-Labor Day in 15 years. Properly-heeled consumers signed 23 contracts for residential properties in Manhattan asking $4 million or extra final week, in response to the Olshan Report, which tracks luxurious contracts weekly. That makes final week the busiest closing week of August because the report started monitoring Manhattan’s luxurious contracts in 2006. The earlier file was 22 in 2014. ‘The numbers have been coming down,’ mentioned Donna Olshan, the report’s writer, referring to this summer time’s signings. ‘[But] the stats have to be contextualized with what’s occurred in prior years.’ Joshua Kushner and Karlie Kloss’ deal to buy a second penthouse at The Puck condominium was the priciest of the week, by asking worth. The 7,241-square-foot unit has 4 bedrooms and a library, fitness center, media room and wine cellar. Its three terraces embrace a yoga garden, placing inexperienced, scorching tub and moist bar, in response to its itemizing.”