🌱Adams' $14M Plan To Clean NYC + Randall's Island 'Tent City' Closing

Good morning, New York City! Happy Veterans Day!

• 🧹 Mayor Eric Adams has a new plan to clean up the city.
• ⛺️ The Randall's Island 'tent city' meant for asylum seekers is closing soon.
• 🍪 "Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bakeoff" is now on display!

But first, today's weather:

Tropical Rainstorm Nicole. High: 68 Low: 65.

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

1. Mayor Eric Adams yesterday unveiled "Get Stuff Clean," a $14.5 million initiative to sweep New York City's streets clean in more than 1,000 neglected areas. The effort will consolidate citywide cleaning functions across different departments from sanitation to transportation to parks, with more than 200 new sanitation workers, officials said. (New York City Patch)
2. Meat or cheese from at least one New York City deli has been linked to a multi-state outbreak of listeria, which has so far sickened 16 people and killed one, including seven people in the city, according to the CDC. (New York City Patch)
3. The Adams administration plans to close 'tent city,' the massive complex on Randall's Island built to house asylum seekers arriving in New York, less than a month after opened in October. Instead, residents of the facility, which has a capacity of up to 1,000, will be transferred to 600 rooms in the Watson Hotel in Midtown. (City Limits)
4. The Department of Transportation is considering making Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn car-free, amid concerns from local elected officials that the major intersection is dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists. The DOT is hoping to tap into $990 million for street improvements that Mayor Adams pledged to last April. (Gothamist)
5. In a crackdown on 'cyberthieves,' the Manhattan District Attorney's office has frozen more than $1.3 million in cryptocurrency. Three New Yorkers were targeted by cryptocurrency scammers between November last year and April this year, according to DA Alvin Bragg, who said in a statement, "While many of these cyberthieves are overseas and currently out of our reach, the cryptocurrency they stole is not." (Spectrum News NY1)

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Today in New York City:

• Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bakeoff (10 a.m.) (P.S. check out these photos from Time Out of stunning NYC gingerbread creations!)
• New York Historical Society Museum & Library show: "I'll Have What She's Having: The Jewish Deli" (11 a.m.)
• The New York City Veterans Day Parade will march down Fifth Avenue (12 p.m.)
• Alt Singer-Songwriter/Harpist Kristy Chmura LIVE at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 (7 p.m.)
• Alias Smith & Jones and The Button Men To Perform @ STITCH Bar and Blues (7 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• A man from Jackson Heights has been indicted of drug sale and possession after selling cocaine to an undercover cop, according to Queens DA Melinda Katz. (New York City Patch)
• An author from Connecticut who wrote about President John. F. Kennedy's assassination was shot dead after a car crash in Flushing, Queens Wednesday, according to police and news outlets. (New York City Patch)
• An MTA worker was hit in the face with a metal pipe while cleaning a Lower Manhattan subway platform, police said Thursday. (New York City Patch)

From my notebook:

• Many New York City's political leaders are back in Puerto Rico for the annual Somos Conference. (City & State)
• Fear not! Patch has a selection of restaurants across the city — from high-end to budget —serving up a feast on Thanksgiving. (New York City Patch)
• New York City's first hard kombucha taproom is set to open this winter in Williamsburg. (Secret NYC)
• Three Rikers Island officers have been charged with faking at least part of more than a year of sick leave they took out during a staffing shortage, according to prosecutors. (Spectrum News NY1)
• A lot on the low-rise block across from the Apollo Theater on 125th Street in Harlem could soon be home to a new apartment tower, as it goes on sale for $13,275,000. (New York City Patch)

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