🌱 $300M For NYC-To-NJ Gateway Tunnel + Santos Leaves House Committees

Good morning, New York City!

• 🚇 Plans are moving forward to build a train tunnel under the Hudson River
• 🏨 Asylum seekers have a standoff with city officials outside a Manhattan hotel
• 🥶 Get ready for the bitter cold this weekend

But first, today's weather:

Clouds giving way to sun. High: 38 Low: 29.

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

1. President Joe Biden visited the city on Tuesday to announce a $300 million "mega" grant for a new train tunnel under the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, calling it "the most significant investment in rail since we created Amtrak over 50 years ago." Work had first started on the project in 2013, but was left due to a lack of funding. (New York City Patch)
2. Embattled Republican Congressman George Santos has stepped down from committee assignments to the House Committee on Small Business and the House Committee on Science, Space & Technology — at least for the time being. A new poll meanwhile found that only 13 percent of his district's residents wanted him to stay in office. (New York City Patch)
3. Some asylum seekers that had been staging a protest outside of the Watson Hotel in Manhattan agreed to tour the site in Brooklyn that the city is attempting to move them to, after hours of negotiation with city officials. (Gothamist)
   • Meanwhile, some asylum seekers in the same situation suggested the move to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal could prove a detriment to their ability to obtain and keep jobs. (THE CITY)
4. Mount Sinai Hospital is conducting an "internal review" of the circumstances surrounding the death of a 4-month-old baby during a nurses' strike in January. According to sources the death could be due to "untrained fill-in nurses, overwhelmed doctors and executives who failed to prepare for the walkout." (Gothamist)
5. Gov. Kathy Hochul has vetoed the "Grieving Families Act," a bill that would have allowed loss and grief to be considered by courts when considering how much families should be compensated by insurance companies. The bill was supported by some of the relatives of the 10 people killed in a mass-shooting in Buffalo last year. Hochul said the bill was too hastily passed in a New York Daily News op-ed. (ABC News)

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Today in New York City:

• MoMA Presents Modern Matinees: Documentary Visions (10:30 a.m.)
• Schmaltzy: Live Podcast Taping with the Jewish Food Society (7 p.m.)
• BLK & Bold x Drip Coffee Present A Cup of Impact Pop-Up | The Black History Month Charitable Giveback (7 p.m)
• We Have Fun: A Free Comedy Show (7:30 p.m.)
• Doctors Without Boundaries (9:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• The latest developer proposal for a casino would be a massive hotel and residential complex next to the United Nations. It would also include a Ferris wheel and a museum dedicated to Democracy. (Subscription/The New York Times)
• After a 10-month pilot study, New York City Housing Authority apartments in The Bronx with electric stoves proved to have significantly improved air quality, with lower levels of carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide, compared to ones with gas stoves. (THE CITY)
• There's a "dangerous cold" front coming to New York this weekend, but still no major snow in the forecast. The low on Friday night is predicted to be around six degrees. (New York City Patch)
• Mayor Eric Adams has a new podcast, that he said will allow him to speak "directly" with constituents while averting the New York City press corps. (AMNY)
• A pink domesticated pigeon was found in Madison Square Park yesterday. Volunteers at the wildlife rehabilitation center The Wild Bird Fund said they believe it was dyed pink intentionally. (NBC New York)

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