🌱2 Students Hurt In Bk Shooting + Sanitation Worker Union To Sue City

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In today's news:

• A shooting outside a Brooklyn school leaves two students injured
• The sanitation workers union is planning to sue the city over the now-ended worker vaccine mandate
• Hurricane Ida victims are losing their emergency accommodations

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Here are the top five stories today in New York City:

1. Three people were shot outside of a charter school in Williamsburg on Wednesday, including two students. Teenagers have been increasingly involved in shootings across the city, such as a recently charged 16-year-old gunman. (New York City Patch)
2. The NYC sanitation workers union is planning to sue the city "as soon as possible" to demand backpay for workers fired for non-compliance with the city workers vaccine mandate, which the Adams administration ended this week. (Gothamist)
3. About 70 families displaced from their homes after Hurricane Ida are being kicked out of their accommodations in a Lower Manhattan hotel at the end of the month, after FEMA funds ran out at the end of last year. A nonprofit is supposed to be helping them secure housing but they say it "hasn't been much help." (THE CITY)
4. During his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass "comprehensive immigration reform" while the House is under a Republican majority. Mayor Eric Adams praised the announcement, adding "As I’ve repeatedly said, the asylum seeker crisis is a national problem that needs a national solution, in the short-, medium-, and long-term." (AMNY)
5. The photographs of late Bed-Stuy photographer Robert Cave are displayed on the city's LinkNYC kiosks this February, marking Black History Month in a collaboration with the Black Archives. One of the photos is of Cave's daughter, who is also a professional photographer, when she was seven. (New York City Patch)

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Today in New York City:

• Susan Hartman book talk "City of Refugees" (6 p.m.)
• Show & Tale: Love Letters, Lockets, & Valentines — Green-Wood Cemetery (6 p.m.)
• Galentine’s Day Party at Walker Hotel Tribeca (6 p.m.)
• Stephen Graham Jones & Paul Tremblay: In Conversation — The Strand (7 p.m.)
• Gabe Mollica's 'Solo: A Show About Friendship' — SoHo Playhouse (9 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• There's a group out in the Rockaways that takes their own "plunge" into the cold ocean every day, regardless of the weather — unless it's very, very, very cold. (The New York Times)
• A nearly 150-year-old church in the South Bronx is set to be demolished to make way for supportive housing, but the local Community Board says they weren't properly informed about it. (THE CITY)
• Full Long Island Railroad service will begin in earnest deep below Grand Central Terminal on Feb. 27, the MTA said. (AMNY)
• Nine City Council Members have recently left the Council's Progressive Caucus, after they were asked to sign a pledge to reduce "the size and scope of the NYPD and the Department of Correction." (Gothamist)
• A drunk, off-duty cop reportedly fired a bullet at a bodega owner, who dodged it, in Bed-Stuy early Saturday morning. (New York City Patch)

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