🌱 Unexpected COVID Bills + Adams ‘Not Concerned’ By Yeshivas Report

By Corruption Buzz On Jan 21, 2023

Good morning, New York City!

Mayor Adams isn’t concerned by a New York Times investigation into education standards at yeshiva religious schools.
Elected officials visited Rikers after a report showed how inmates were deprived of mental and physical healthcare.
New Yorkers are upset about receiving unexpected hundred-dollar medical bills from CityMD for long-ago COVID tests.

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Humid with a few showers. High: 81 Low: 63.

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Here are the top five stories today in New York City:

An investigation by The New York Times published over the weekend found that New York City’s private yeshivas deprived students of a basic education, while taking $1 billion in state money. The report’s release comes right before a critical vote that could potentially regulate the religious schools more stringently. Mayor Eric Adams waved off the report on Monday, saying the city would conduct its own independent investigation. (New York City Patch)
Elected officials visited Rikers Island unannounced on Monday following the release of a report analyzing six suicides and four drug-related deaths. The report found that a lack of communication between correctional officers led incarcerated individuals to receive inadequate mental and physical healthcare. (AMNY)
Some New Yorkers have been receiving surprise bills from CityMD for COVID tests they took there up to more than two years ago. They thought the tests would be free, but in some cases the bills have been as much as $300 which CityMD says insurance companies refuse to pay. The New York-based company began sending out the bills over the summer. (Gothamist)
Supermodels joined New York State Senator Brad Hoylman to protest the lack of regulations in the fashion industry in the midst of New York Fashion Week. Despite the industry employing 4.6 percent of NYC’s workforce pre-pandemic, predatory management agencies operate without oversight, they said. (AMNY)
Employees — many of them immigrants — hired to clean NYC’s subways throughout the pandemic have an uncertain future ahead of them as the MTA prepares to phase out their jobs. They’re hoping for more permanent and unionized positions with the agency. (THE CITY)

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9/11 tribute “Tower of Light as seen from Jersey City.” Photo courtesy of Shelley Ganzer

Today in New York City:

“Dive bar” ice cream at Tipsy Scoop (all day)
White Collar Week Tuesday Speaker Series – Tom Hardin, Tipper X (7 p.m.)
“Tuesday Music Night Out” at NINO’s with Karen Kay Freid, host vocalist and friends. (7 p.m.)
Band of Sisters: You Should Smile More at The Strand bookstore (7 p.m.)
Grunge & Alt-Rock Singalong at Sid Gold’s (8 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

A 46-year-old construction worker was killed at a job site in Greenpoint, Brooklyn after equipment fell on him on Monday morning. (Gothamist)
Three young children were found dead on the beach at Coney Island on Monday. Police were trying to determine whether their mother had drowned them earlier in the morning. (New York City Patch)
A “cloudy future” could await New York City’s first legal cannabis businesses, expected to open early next year, after a spate of robberies recently targeted smoke shops. (THE CITY)

From my notebook:

Thirty-five colleges and universities in New York City made it to the top of U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings, including Columbia, NYU and a number of CUNY colleges. (New York City Patch)
NYC just launched a new vaccination campaign–for the city’s raccoons. (NBC New York)
A $14 million penthouse formerly occupied by jazz legend Billie Holiday is now on the market. (New York City Patch)
The new design for the maze at the Queens County Farm Museum is based on Georgia O’Keefe’s “Ram’s Head, Blue Morning Glory” painting. (New York City Patch)
For NYC’s “nightlife,” Mayor Adams joined Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour to host a fashion week cocktail hour last week at Gracie Mansion. (The Cut)

The Queens County Farm debuts new maze as it celebrates 325th anniversary. (Matthew Borowick/Queens County Farm)

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