🌱 Bk Hasidic School To Pay $8M In Fraud Case + Subway Bathrooms Open

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• 📚 A Brooklyn Hasidic school will pay $8 million in fines and restitution.
• 🚽 The MTA is planning to open public restrooms in the subway for the first time since the pandemic.
• 🐈 Some happy news to start your day: Clyde the cat was returned to the Upper West Side!

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

1. A Hasidic school in Brooklyn agreed to pay $8 million in fines and restitution in an admission of guilt for stealing millions from government programs, including one intended for needy children, federal prosecutors announced on Monday. (New York City Patch)
2. The Legal Aid Society is calling on the city to save the mansion headquarters of a historic secret society, the United Order of Tents, in Bed-Stuy, whose history dates back to the Underground Railroad. The society, which provides mutual aid to the neighborhood, should be made exempt from property taxes, the Legal Aid Society said. (New York City Patch)
3. The MTA will open public restrooms at eight subway stations starting in January, the agency announced, including 14th Street-Union Square, Yankees Stadium, and Flushing-Main Street. The city has a total of 133 bathrooms across 69 stations which have been shuttered since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. (NYC Streetsblog)
4. Very few New Yorkers have gotten an updated bivalent COVID-19 booster shot, despite the new vaccine being available for the two months. City officials say the number is close to half a million, but the city and state has not updated health portals, it only list about 12,000. Health experts say that follows a larger trend of COVID-19 taking a backseat in most New Yorker's minds. (Gothamist)
5. The NYPD's most complained about cop, who has garnered 56 substantiated allegations of misconduct, spoke out in a recent podcast appearance defending what he describes as proactive policing in high-crime areas of the city. (THE CITY)

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Today in New York City:

• Lavazza x FIELDTRIP: Free Coffee Giveaway! — Harlem (12 p.m.)
• Hudson Yards movie night — "The Goonies" (6 p.m.)
• Movie Night with Machine: "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" — Museum of Arts and Design (7 p.m.)
• Double Bill: All the Lovely Bad Ones & Phantasmagoria — Under St Marks Theater (7 p.m.)
• MasterVoices Presents: Carmen at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center (8 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• A man was dragged to death when his clothes got stuck in the door of a 1 train at 59th Street/Columbus Circle yesterday afternoon. (New York City Patch)
• A man died in what police say was a collision with an unoccupied double-parked truck in Crown Heights last Friday morning. (New York City Patch)
• Police are asking for help to find a 26-year-old man who has been missing from the Upper West Side for close to a month. (New York City Patch)

From my notebook:

• Some NYC public middle schools by choice won't be bringing back selective admissions processes that critics say fuel racial and economic inequalities, despite being allowed to. (Subscription/The New York Times)
• The MTA is using high-intensity lasers attached to trains to clear autumn debris off of Metro North tracks. (AMNY)
• A beauty salon in Forest Hills that's been open since the 1980s is closing permanently, citing a slowdown in customers throughout the pandemic. (New York City Patch)
• Clyde the cat was miraculously returned to an Upper West Side Petco after being stolen earlier in October. See an adorable picture below. (New York City Patch)
• GOP Senator Ted Cruz was met with jeers and hecklers on multiple occasions during a recent visit to New York City. (New York City Patch)

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