Here's what you need to know about what's happening in New York City.
Jeffrey Epstein found injured in NYC jail cell: report
Jeffrey Epstein was found injured in his jail cell in New York City, NBC News reported Wednesday night, citing sources close to the investigation.
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Our infrastructure emergency is here: It’s all hands on deck to fix New York City
Wouldn’t it be great if we could go one day without a catastrophic infrastructure meltdown? After the past couple weeks of blackouts, subway shutdowns, heatwaves and flooding, our city’s vulnerability is on full display — and the famous toughness of New Yorkers is being pushed to the limit.
Read the full story on New York Daily News.
In a bid to help small businesses, New York City will start tracking retail vacancies
Three of the bills passed by the City Council on Tuesday require annual reporting on storefront vacancies, the business environment, and specific tracking of mom-and-pop shops.
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Astoria testimony against Con Edison’s rate hike argues that New York City needs a public utilities provider
Members of the Democratic Socialists of America had been working for months with Councilman Costa Constantinides to organize a forum to give public testimony on Con Edison’s 2020 rate hike that would rake in $695 million for utility company, but the stakes significantly increased with the blackouts in Manhattan last week.
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3 arrested in New York City police-drenching incidents
NEW YORK — Three people have been arrested in two separate incidents of on-duty New York police officers being doused with buckets of water in Harlem and Brooklyn, law enforcement sources told WPIX. Cortney Thompson, Chad Bowden and Isiah Scott were booked Wednesday in connection to the Brooklyn water-dousing incident, sources said. Police later arrested two other men, Isiah Scott and Chad Boden, in connection to the incident in Harlem.
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