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Mayor Zohran Mamdani stands smiling at a press occasion. Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an government order extending the long-running state of emergency on Rikers Island that permits the Division of Correction to disregard guidelines dictating security circumstances and solitary confinement limitations. However in contrast to previous extensions, Mamdani is pushing officers to develop a plan to come back into compliance with these rules inside 45 days. Former Mayor Invoice de Blasio declared a state of emergency in 2021 for the sprawling jail advanced on Rikers, which former Mayor Eric Adams prolonged each 5 days all through…
Nurses from 5 personal hospitals in Brooklyn and Staten Island who had been set to strike later this month have rescinded their Jan. 2 strike discover as they neared tentative agreements with administration, in line with the union representing them. Over 16,700 nurses at seven personal NYC hospitals may nonetheless strike subsequent week after negotiations with hospital management over healthcare and office violence protections, wages and staffing stay at an deadlock. Affected hospitals embrace Montefiore Medical Heart, Mount Sinai Hospitals, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia College Medical Heart, Brooklyn Hospital Heart, BronxCare Well being System and Flushing Hospital. However on Jan. 6,…