| | | | |  | | By Erin Durkin, Anna Gronewold and Georgia Rosenberg | Presented by Equinor | New York leaders were quick to condemn a Supreme Court ruling striking down the state's law strictly limiting who can carry a gun in public. Gov. Kathy Hochul called it "reckless," "reprehensible" and "frightful in its scope." New York City Mayor Eric Adams warned: "This decision has made every single one of us less safe from gun violence." But what are they going to do about it? The state and city will have their work cut out for them as they seek to impose the tightest rules they can get away with, after the high court ruled a law requiring New Yorkers to show a specific justification to get a permit to carry a gun unconstitutional. Hochul will call the Legislature back for a special session, where she'll seek to designate "sensitive" locations where guns may be banned — adding spots like the city subway system. Lawmakers will also look to create new requirements for getting a carry permit to replace the ones that were stricken, such as mandating that applicants go through firearms training. One proposal, from the City Council, would prohibit carrying a firearm anywhere there are more than 10,000 people per square mile as well as near bars, parks, churches, transit systems, banks, libraries, homeless shelters, and more — effectively covering the entire city. But it's unclear if that would pass legal muster since the majority of the Supreme Court already rejected the argument that the entire island of Manhattan could qualify as a sensitive location. While calling the decision a huge setback to efforts to combat gun violence, officials are also quick to stress what the ruling doesn't mean: It doesn't mean anyone who has a legal gun will now be able to carry it on the streets without a permit. "If you carry a gun illegally in New York City you will be arrested," NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. "Nothing changes today." IT'S FRIDAY. Got tips, suggestions or thoughts? Let us know ... By email: EDurkin@politico.com and agronewold@politico.com, or on Twitter: @erinmdurkin and @annagronewold WHERE'S KATHY? Appearing on CBS Mornings and NY1, signing speed camera legislation, and speaking at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center. WHERE'S ERIC? Appearing on WNBC, WCBS 880, Pix 11, MSNBC's Morning Joe, Fox 5's Good Day New York, and WNYC's Morning Edition, joining Hochul for the speed camera bill signing, speaking at a ceremony for the NYC Junior Ambassadors program, appearing on The View, making a social services announcement, speaking to the graduating class of the District Council of Carpenters, an NAACP dinner, and a Gay Officers Action League gala.
| | | | A message from Equinor: Can a wind turbine generate more than electricity? We believe it can. At Equinor, we're working to power about 2,000,000 New York homes with homegrown, renewable energy while boosting the economy, generating jobs, and launching tomorrow's clean energy infrastructure. Equinor is a broad energy company, committed to become net-zero by 2050. We're advancing the Empire Wind and Beacon Wind offshore wind projects and quickly becoming a leader in this growing industry. | | | |  | What City Hall's reading | | "A Monkeypox Vaccine Is Now Available for New Yorkers Who May Be at Risk," by The New York Times' Sharon Otterman: "Facing a growing outbreak of the monkeypox virus, New York City health officials expanded access to a monkeypox vaccine on Thursday, offering it to a new group of people who may be at higher risk: men who have had multiple or anonymous male sexual partners over the last two weeks. New York City is the first American jurisdiction to broaden access to the vaccine beyond close contacts of people infected, following similar moves in the United Kingdom and Canada. Public health officials globally have been scrambling to craft an effective response to the outbreak, which has been spreading in dozens of countries since mid-May, particularly among networks of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men." "NYC rolling out 2 virtual learning programs with aim to turn them into fully remote schools by 2023," by New York Post's Cayla Bamberger: "Remote learning could be here to stay. New York City is rolling out two virtual learning programs for high schoolers — with the aim to turn them into full-blown remote schools by 2023. The new initiative, called 'A School Without Walls,' will offer hybrid and virtual learning for 200 rising ninth graders this fall. 'As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is abundantly clear that our education system needs to work for our young people in a way that it never has before,' said Mayor Eric Adams in a statement." " Working-Class Subway Stations Driving MTA's Ridership Recovery," by The City's Jose Martinez and Suhail Bhat: "The sight of a No. 7 train pulling into the Junction Boulevard stop in Queens during the weekday morning rush offers something of a ridership rarity in the subway system: a glimpse of 2019. Commuters line the length of the elevated platform during the early morning hours, crowding onto local and express trains at a station in heavily immigrant and working-class Corona, where weekly ridership is at nearly 70% of pre-pandemic levels, according to THE CITY'S 'How's New York City Doing?' Recovery Tracker. 'You can feel things picking back up again,' said Claudio Rivas, who commutes by subway to his job at a Manhattan restaurant. 'The people here need to go to work, they need to go to school and the subway is their way to go.' THE CITY's analysis of turnstile records showed a sparse recovery in ridership at Midtown and Lower Manhattan stations, handsomely outpaced by the recovery at stops in other boroughs." "NYC Mayor Adams belatedly (but finally) registers his Brooklyn apartment building with the city ," by New York Daily News' Chris Sommerfeldt: "Mayor Adams forgot to register an apartment building he owns in Brooklyn this year, according to the city's housing database, but quickly resolved the issue as soon as it was brought to his attention on Thursday. The building on Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant — which Adams has owned for nearly two decades and rents out as three separate apartments — was cited by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development on Feb. 25 for not being registered with the agency as required by law, city records show." "As school year ends, many NYC principals forced to cut staff because of reduced budgets," by WNYC's Jessica Gould: "In a week that is usually marked with celebratory 'stepping-up' ceremonies and the excitement of summer break approaching, many principals at New York City's public schools have also begun to announce painful staffing decisions after Mayor Eric Adams enacted cuts to many local school budgets for next year. Teachers across the city have been notified they are being 'excessed,' or are at risk of being excessed, after principals received their preliminary budgets in early June. Excessed teachers will lose their positions at their current schools but remain on the education department's payroll and enter a pool of potential hires for schools seeking staff."
| | WHAT ALBANY'S READING | | The Bowery boy behind the New York gun law SCOTUS just eviscerated, by POLITICO's Terry Golway: New York's conceal-carry law, which the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional on Thursday more than a century after its passage, was once considered a national model of Progressive Era policymaking. It was called the Sullivan Law, named after its author, Timothy D. Sullivan, a state senator and congressman from lower Manhattan better known as "Big Tim." Sullivan was to the Bowery what Sydney Greenstreet's Signor Ferrari was to Casablanca — the leader of all illegal activities and, therefore, an influential and respected man. Large, avuncular and not a little intimidating, Big Tim surely was a cinematic figure who would not have been out of place in "The Gangs of New York" — mix in a little of Bill the Butcher, a dash of Boss Tweed and a pinch of P.T. Barnum and you get the picture. He ran the rackets on the Bowery, operated theaters, owned a handful of saloons and promoted boxing and horse racing. And he had blarney to spare: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, said Sullivan "talked a blue streak in the voice and phraseology of the New York Irish of the East Side." "'We're at a Crisis Point': NY Attorney General Hearing Spotlights Child Mental Health Care Failures," by THE CITY's Abigail Kramer and Gabriel Poblete: "Our investigation found that state officials have closed nearly one-third of the beds for children in state-run psychiatric hospitals since 2014, under a 'Transformation Plan' rolled out by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. During the same period, nonprofit groups shut down more than half of the beds in New York's residential treatment facilities for kids, in large part because state payments were too low to keep the programs running. 'We're at a crisis point, and we certainly need action,' James said at the hearing." " NY Assemblyman Tom Abinanti accused of air-quoting 'date rape,'" by New York Post's Zach Williams: "With just days to go before next week's primary election, a former constituent of Westchester Assemblyman Tom Abinanti is accusing him of diminishing the notion of date rape at a 2018 meeting of local Democrats. The six-term legislator faces a tough challenge from county legislator MaryJane Shimsky, whose campaign insists she has nothing to do with a June 16 Medium post where Liv Bespolka makes the allegation while urging voters to toss Abinanti from office. 'You went on a long tangent denigrating date rape, saying it targeted men, that it was all college aged girls who just regretted their sexual activity and accused their partners of rape. I vividly remember those dismissive air quotes you used while describing "date rape,"' Bespolka — who uses they as a personal pronoun — said in the post." Rudy Giuliani's pitch to New York: Hire my son, by POLITICO's Bill Mahoney: Far away from the hearings into the January 6 insurrection, Rudy Giuliani walked out to the front steps of the New York State Capitol wearing a suit featuring an American flag liner and a Yankees World Series ring to talk about something else: his son. 'Give Andrew Giuliani a chance,' the former New York mayor pleaded to a small group of reporters. 'When we do that, we almost always succeed. We gave Ronald Reagan a chance — wow. We gave Donald Trump a chance — made America better than it's been in 50 years. We gave me a chance.' The 36-year-old Andrew Giuliani, running an underdog campaign to become the next governor, has in recent weeks deployed his famous father to far-flung corners of upstate New York with a message for Republican primary voters: My kid is the next big thing. #UpstateAmerica: "Meet giant hogweed, a horrifying invasive plant in Upstate NY that causes 3rd degree burns"
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| | AROUND NEW YORK | | — The city will be sending additional aid to Ukraine. — DiCarlo's Gentlemen's Club, one of the Capital Region's "most venerable strip bars," will close temporarily after losing a lawsuit filed by former "Baywatch" cast member Carmen Electra. — NYCLU says the Albany City School District may have violated the U.S. Constitution when it disciplined students who wore sports bras at a track practice. — Raccoons aren't casual pets. — The nation's last Howard Johnson's restaurant in Lake George closed in May, but HoJo's superfans can't let go. — The New York Racing Association suspended trainer Bob Baffert for one year. — The city is expanding support for transgender students as other states pull back. — Hochul signed a law urging schools to consider installing panic buttons. — A teenager is in critical condition after he struck his head while surfing atop a Queens subway.
| | SOCIAL DATA BY DANIEL LIPPMAN | | HAPPY BIRTHDAY: U.S. Chamber's Suzanne Clark … MSNBC's Omnika Thompson … NYT's Adrienne Hurst … Quartz's Zach Seward … Robert Reich … former New York Gov. George Pataki … USTR's Heather Hurlburt … Edelman's Kevin Goldman … Greg Scruggs … Amelia Makin ... Allie Bradford … Tyler Somes … Katherine Marie Kulik MAKING MOVES — Jamie Cheney's New York congressional campaign has added Rebecca Tjahja Harvey as campaign manager and Sam Silverman as comms director. Tjahja Harvey previously ran Robin Lois' campaign for Dutchess County comptroller and is a Pete for America alum. Silverman previously worked for Rep. Conor Lamb's Pennsylvania Senate campaign. Ben Chao is now legislative director for Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.). He most recently was special assistant to the deputy comptroller for budget and appropriations affairs at DoD.
| | Real Estate | | "NYC office leasing deals are heating up as landlords consider fresh uses," by New York Post's Lois Weiss: "The city's office market is all about hospitality and the flight to quality as building owners are sprucing up their products to woo the companies that are trying to entice their workers back to the office. 'It's product not price,' said Howard Hersch, vice chairman of JLL, as some firms are forking over upwards of $100, $200 and even $300 per foot to get perched at the priciest properties. That's because tenants are 'picky' and spending on quality spaces even if they are smaller than prior offices. 'It would have been 20,000 square-feet before and now it's 10,000 or 12,000 square feet,' said Peter Braus, managing principal of Lee & Associates NYC. 'They spend the same but the quality level is higher and the dollars per foot are higher.'" "Hochul admin negotiating Penn Station deal in secret, watchdog charges," by New York Post's David Meyer: "The state's economic development corporation has refused to reveal how it plans to pay for the proposed renovation of Penn Station, advocates charged Thursday. Empire State Development argued that sharing details about financing would 'impair' future negotiations with Vornado Realty Trust, the developer that stands to make big money from the project."
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