Eric Adams, the winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, vowed Wednesday to guide the city to a new era of safety and prosperity. “New York is going to show America how to run cities,” Adams said on “CBS This Morning.” “Because I know how to run this city. I know how to lead.” Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, bested a large Democratic field in New York’s first major race to use ranked choice voting. Results from the latest tabulations showed him leading former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,426 votes, or a little more than 1 percentage point. The Associated Press called the race for Adams based on mail-in ballot results in the June 22 primary that were added to the vote count Tuesday.

Essential workers who helped New York City through the COVID-19 pandemic were honored Wednesday with a parade up Broadway — nurses, doctors, first responders, teachers, bus drivers and more riding on floats through a canyon of tall buildings and falling confetti. The parade stretched from Battery Park to City Hall, led up Broadway in lower Manhattan by grand marshal Sandra Lindsay, a health care worker who was the first person in the country to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot. “What a difference a year makes,” said Lindsay.

The Associated Press declared Eric Adams the winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City Tuesday after nearly all absentee ballots were counted, leaving no path for his closest competitors to catch him. The Brooklyn Borough president led Kathryn Garcia by a little more than 8,400 votes, or about 1 percentage point, after election officials finished tallying the results under the city’s ranked choice voting system. Election officials were still scrutinizing a few thousand absentee ballots to determine if they are valid. But there weren’t enough to alter the outcome. Under the system, voters ranked up to five candidates for mayor in order of preference.

New York can try to sue gun manufacturers over harm caused by their products under legislation that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed Tuesday. The new law comes at a time when New York City in particular is facing a rise in shootings. Overall, violence is well short of the historic highs of the 1990s, or even in the New York of the early 2000s. But the Democratic-led Legislature has pushed to pass several gun control measures this year, including legislation that would prohibit the sale, purchase or transfer of firearms to anyone with an outstanding warrant for a felony or serious offense. The federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005 gave gun manufacturers immunity from lawsuits related to the criminal misuse of their products.

rooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City after appealing to the political center and promising to strike the right balance between fighting crime and ending racial injustice in policing. A former police captain, Adams would be the city’s second Black mayor if elected. He triumphed over a large Democratic field in New York’s first major race to use ranked choice voting. Results from the latest tabulations released Tuesday showed him leading former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,426 votes, or a little more than 1 percentage point.

A 21-year-old driver and his passenger were critically injured when their speeding BMW crashed into a city a bus on Staten Island, police said Tuesday. The crash happened shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Richmond Avenue, a police spokesperson said. The BMW was traveling “at a high rate of speed” when it hit the rear of the bus, the spokesperson said. The driver and his 19-year-old passenger suffered traumatic injuries and were taken to a hospital, police said. The driver’s injuries were life-threatening, while his passenger was in critical but stable condition, they said. The driver and two passengers from the bus were treated for minor injuries, police said. Photos from the scene show the front of the red BMW crumpled from the impact with the bus. The crash is under investigation. (AP)

On a sun-soaked morning last month, a dozen mourners gathered by a freshly dug grave to bury four people who were cast into limbo as New York City contended with COVID-19. Each was among hundreds of people whose bodies have lingered in a temporary morgue that was set up at the height of the city’s coronavirus crisis last year and where about 200 bodies remain, not all of them virus victims. The fenced-off temporary morgue on a pier in an industrial part of Brooklyn is out of sight and mind for many as the city celebrates its pandemic progress by dropping restrictions and even setting off fireworks. But the facility — which the city plans to close by the end of the summer — stands as a reminder of the loss, upheaval and wrenching choices the virus inflicted in one of its deadliest U.S.

At least 150 people were killed by gun violence in more than 400 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend as major cities nationwide confront a surge in violent crime, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive. The data, which includes the number of shooting incidents and gun violence victims nationally over a 72-hour period from Friday through Sunday, is still evolving and will be updated. In New York, where gun violence has been rising to levels not seen in years, there were 26 victims from 21 shootings from Friday to Sunday, a decrease from the same period last year when 30 people were shot in 25 shootings, the New York Police Department said. (Source: CNN)

A young man from Williamsburg is fighting for his life after he was involved in a serious crash overnight. Sources tell YWN that the accident happened on the Interstate 287 in New Jersey. The 30-year-old man was the only occupant in the vehicle. He was airlifted to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Patterson, NJ, where he is listed in critical condition. Please say Tehillim for Shlomo ben Rochel. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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The NYPD and Williamsburg Shomrim are investigating a disturbing incident, where multiple vehicles were found vandalized on Sunday. The vehicles were parked in a lot on Division Avenue and Kent Avenue. All the vehicle had their windows smashed, and graffiti sprayed on the inside and outside of the vehicles. Many of the vehicle are buses owned by local Yeshivas. Security camera footage captured some of the perps on one of the buses.
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