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The Rainbow Flag stands tall on the Stonewall Nationwide Monument. Donna Aceto The Trump administration aggressively criticized activists and elected officers who raised a Rainbow Flag on the Stonewall Nationwide Monument three days after the Nationwide Park Service eliminated the flag from the flagpole on federal land. The assertion got here after elected officers convened a 4 p.m. flag-raising ceremony on Feb. 12 on the Stonewall Nationwide Monument, the place a big crowd gathered across the flagpole. Earlier within the day, elected officers rallied on the website, blasting the federal authorities and vowing to revive the flag later within the…
Steven Banks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s nominee for New York Metropolis Company Counsel, tesitfied earlier than Metropolis Council on Feb. 4. Picture by John McCarten/NYC Council Media Unit Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decide to move town’s Regulation Division was confirmed by the New York Metropolis Council after promising to be a lawyer for all the metropolis, not simply the mayor, at his affirmation listening to final week. Steven Banks, who served as town’s “homelessness czar” on the metropolis’s Division of Homeless Providers underneath former Mayor Invoice de Blasio, is about to return to Metropolis Corridor after being confirmed Thursday through a 42-6…