Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday, presented a plan that would shift $1 billion away from the NYPD – as NYC is reeling from out of control gun violence. The announcement comes the day before mayor negotiates the final budget details with the City Council. “Hopefully we can find a way with labor to avert layoffs. It’s not a given,” the mayor said regarding the savings needed in the city budget. If implemented, layoffs would begin taking effect on October 1. The mayor said that there will be a $500 million shift in capital funding to youth recreation centers and NYCHA developments. De Blasio also announced that the city is moving to end solitary confinement in city jails.

There have been 112 victims in 83 shootings over a nine-day period ending Saturday, according to police. Most of those shot were expected to survive, but at least six people have died in the past week and others suffered serious or critical injuries. Amid calls to defund the police ahead of the June 30 deadline for the city budget, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said last week that the city’s homicide rate had hit a 5-year high and that the criminal justice system was “imploding.” The number of people shot has risen 42 percent compared to last year. The NYPD on Sunday released this info detailing the nine-day stretch of shootings. Friday, 6/19 – 8 shooting incidents with 9 victims. Saturday, 6/20 -18 shooting incidents with 24 victims. Sunday, 6/21 – 2 shooting incidents with 5 victims.

Five people died Saturday from the coronavirus in New York state, the lowest daily death toll the state has reported since March 15. Saturday’s total compared to 13 fatalities the day before as the number of fatalities caused by the virus continues to plummet in the state. During the peak of the pandemic in April, nearly 800 people were dying a day from coronavirus. “We are on the exact opposite end,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.” New York still leads the nation in COVID-19 deaths with nearly 25,000, according to the state’s official tally, which doesn’t include people who likely died of the disease. Meanwhile, fewer than 900 patients were hospitalized Saturday for COVID-19, down from a peak of over 18,000 in April.

A child was pulled from a pond in the Catskills on Sunday morning. Catskills Hatzolah was on the scene at 9:40AM at Maywood Bungalow Colony on Blanchard Road, where a two-year-old child had been pulled from a small pond. A chopper was requested to airlift the child to a hospital, but due to bad weather in the area, it was unable to fly. The child was transported to Harris Hospital in stable condition, and is expected to be transferred to Westchester Hospital for further observation. STAY UPDATED WITH BREAKING UPDATES FROM YWN VIA WHATSAPP – SIGN UP NOW Just click on this link, and you will be placed into a group. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Mrs Esther Deutsch, the 4th victim of the horrific crash in New Square two weeks ago. She leaves behind 8 children. The crash took the lives of her husband, Reb Aryeh Shmuel Deutsch Z”L her daughter, Tziporah Deutsch (20) A”H and her son-in-law Reb Shlomo Birnhak Z”L. The accident occurred on Monday June 15th, when the family was heading to a Chasunah in New York, when their van left the roadway and and slammed into a tree. Several of the occupants had to be extricated by members of the Hillcrest and New City Fire Departments. All of the occupants were transported to either Nyack Hospital or Westchester Medical Center by Hatzolah and Spring Hill Ambulance.

Chase Bank acknowledged reports of some customers seeing incorrect balances in their checking accounts and said the problem has now been resolved. The biggest U.S. bank by consolidated asset blamed a “technical issue” for what it called “delayed updates.” “We know some customers reporting seeing incorrect balances in their checking account overnight. This was caused by a technical issue that delayed updates on what displayed on Chase Mobile & Chase Online,” Chase said in a statement on Twitter. “We resolved this issue as of 9AM ET and accounts now show current balances.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Hundreds of protesters camped outside City Hall are demanding that lawmakers slash the New York City police budget. The encampment in City Hall Park in lower Manhattan began forming earlier this week following weeks of street protests sparked by the death of George Floyd and other Black Americans killed by law enforcement. The protesters are part of a national “defund the police” movement seeking more spending on other needs like housing and education. Demonstrators are demanding that the City Council cut at least $1 billion in from the police department’s current $6 billion budget when it begins considering a new city budget next week. Organizers have called it “Occupy City Hall” — a nod to the 2010 Occupy Wall Street movement a few blocks away in Zuccotti Park.

Health officials are investigating whether someone returning to the New York City area from Florida spread the coronavirus at a high school graduation in suburban Westchester County. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the investigation on Saturday after New York, New Jersey and Connecticut enacted 14-day traveler quarantines to try to check the spread of the virus. A person “who had recently traveled to Florida and attended the ceremony subsequently began showing symptoms and tested positive for COVID-19,” the governor’s office said in a statement.

At least 18 people were shot in less than 24 hours across New York City as a two week long spike in gun violence across the city continued. Police said a total of 70 people were shot this week, compared to 26 the same week last year. New York City police officers are trying to push back on a rash of shootings heating up on this summer weekend. Commissioner Dermot Shea says the city’s homicide rate has hit a five-year high and the amount of people shot so far this year has jumped 42% compared to the same period last year. He said there were 100 shootings in the city in the month of May. This is happening as city government debates whether to slash the department’s budget by up to $1 billion to reallocate funding to youth outreach and other education programs. (AP)

A federal judge on Friday issued an injunction blocking New York from enforcing restrictions on outdoor religious gatherings, and from limiting indoor religious gatherings any further than any other industry that is part of Phase 2 of the state’s reopening plan. The ruling is a major win for religious organizations that argued they were being treated unfairly by the state’s response to the coronavirus — and a win for officials in Washington who suggested the state was being easier on protesters than priests. Judge Gary Sharpe, in a 38-page ruling from Albany, enjoined Gov. Andrew Cuomo, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Attorney General Letitia James from enforcing some of the capacity and other rules put in place by executive order in the wake of COVID-19.