The NYPD is eliminating its anti-crime (plainclothes) unit, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea announced Monday. The 600 officers that are part of the unit will be transitioned to other departments, including the detective bureau. “Thankfully, here in New York City, angry demonstrations have turned peaceful. Thoughtful discussions about reform have emerged,” Shea said at a Monday afternoon news conference.” DEVELOPING STORY – REFRESH FOR UPDATES
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Up to 25 people can gather in parts of New York that have entered the third phase of re-opening under a revised plan the governor announced Monday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he relaxed the rules because of signs of a continued decline in hospitalizations and the percentage of new positive cases across the state. Cuomo’s administration reported 25 deaths of individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 in New York hospitals and nursing homes Sunday. Just over 1,600 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19 Sunday, and a smaller percentage of New Yorkers have been testing positive each day in recent weeks. New York is on the “right track,” said Cuomo, who has divided the state up into 10 regions that are all in different stages of re-opening.

Is the pressure campaign working? The 18th Avenue Park – used by thousands of Boro Park residents each week – was open on Monday morning following a showdown between a local community activist and the NYC parks Department, and following a protest on Sunday in Flatbush by three elected officials representing the Jewish community. Heshy Tischler of Boro Park has been a vocal critic of NYC Mayor DeBlasio, demanding that the city reopen parks following an announcement by Governor Cuomo saying that as far as he was concerned, all park could be reopened. Cuomo said it was up to local municipalities to make that decision. DeBlasio decided to keep them shut, and Tischler has been on a mission protesting the closure.

Upset by “rampant” violations of New York’s pandemic-fighting restrictions, Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened Sunday to reinstate closings in areas where local governments fail to enforce the rules. Manhattan and Long Island’s tony Hamptons were singled out as problem areas by Cuomo, who cited 25,000 complaints statewide of reopening violations. The large gatherings, social-distancing violations and lax face-covering enforcement endanger the state’s fragile progress in the fight against the coronavirus, Cuomo said, adding that many complaints involve bars and restaurants. “We are not kidding around with this. You’re talking about jeopardizing people’s lives,” Cuomo said at his daily briefing.

The NYC Parks Department was in Williamsburg on Monday morning, and were seen welding the doors of shut at the Middleton Playground (Lynch Park) – to make sure that children shouldn’t be able to play in the park. Meanwhile, besides the fact that many parks around the city are being used all day long (as documented previously by YWN), thousands of protesters were permitted to gather in Brooklyn on Sunday to support “black trans lives”. Reporters will be unable to ask the Mayor about this on Monday, as all previously scheduled events for the Mayor – including his daily press conference – have been cancelled. According to multiple reports, Mayor Deblasio is suffering from a stomach ache today and will be staying home. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A car crash that injured two men may be related to the stabbings of three other men at the same location in Brooklyn on Monday, police said. The attacks happened shortly after 1 a.m. at 336 Bleecker Street in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Police said a 32-year-old man was stabbed in the arm, a 37-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach and a 21-year-old man was stabbed in the arm. Meanwhile, a 38-year-old man and 29-year-old man were hit by a car near the same location in the Bushwick section. All the victims were taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition. Police are investigating to determine if the stabbing or car strike occurred first. (AP)

To Scott Thomson, changing the culture of policing in America is a relatively simple process. It’s just not an easy one. Thomson led a tumultuous police department makeover in Camden, New Jersey — a poor city of mostly brown and black residents just across the river from Philadelphia — in 2013. After state officials disbanded the old department and started anew, Thomson transformed policing in Camden from the law-and-order, lock-’em-up approach of the 1990s to a holistic, do-no-harm philosophy that’s put the long-maligned city in the spotlight during the national reckoning over race and police brutality.

There are THREE ways to vote this June! 1. VOTE BY MAIL You can apply for an absentee ballot until June 16th at www.nycabsentee.com 2. VOTE EARLY Early voting poll sites will be open June 13 – June 21. This is not usually your regular poll site – visit https://nyc.pollsitelocator.com/search to find yours. 3. VOTE ON ELECTION DAY Regular poll sites will be open on Election Day, June 23, from 6am to 9pm. Find yours here: https://nyc.pollsitelocator.com/search REMEMBER TO VOTE FOR CHAIM DEUTSCH FOR CONGRESS IF YOU LIVE IN MARINE PARK, SHEEPSHEAD BAY, MIDWOOD, FLATBUSH, KENSINGTON, OR CROWN HEIGHTS!!

Senator Simcha Felder, Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein and Councilman Kalman Yeger have been fighting to give NYC kids summer. Families raising children in cramped urban living spaces have responsibly heeded shelter in place orders over four long months. They need relief-NOW! This week Governor Cuomo lifted the order keeping playgrounds closed, but Mayor de Blasio has yet to open them. On Sunday, June 14th they will stand with children and parents to urge Mayor de Blasio to prioritize children and open our playgrounds and schoolyards. “Everything essential to children and healthy development is shut down. Playgrounds-not essential. Camps-not essential. Schools-not essential. It’s outrageous not to prioritize their reopening considering how essential they are.

Overnight camps will not be allowed for the summer of 2020, Cuomo announced Saturday at his Third Avenue office in Manhattan. While children’s day camps have gotten the go-ahead, overnight camps will not be permitted this summer because they have been deemed to be at a higher risk of spreading the virus, said state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, M.D. Since the beginning of the health crisis, the state has made decisions “based on science and facts,” Dr. Zucker said. “The facts are that this is a congregate setting,” Zucker said. “There are many children together in a bunk, sleeping together. They are eating in the same common area, they are sharing a bathroom, so social distancing is just not possible.