🌱 FDNY Laws Aim To Improve Diversity + Cotton Candy Rainbow

Good morning, New York City! I'm back from a Thanksgiving break over the past few days and more excited than ever to bring you the latest local headlines from across the five boroughs.

• 🔥 New laws signed by Mayor Eric Adams aim to promote diversity within the FDNY.
• 🚊 The Long Island Railroad is coming to Grand Central as soon as the end of this year.
• 🌈 New Yorkers were greeted by a cotton candy rainbow to start off their week.

But first, today's weather:

Sunny to partly cloudy. High: 46 Low: 41.

(Watch out! There's a major storm brewing on Wednesday with wind gusts of up to 60 mph. 💨🌨)

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

1. Mayor Eric Adams signed a series of bills on Monday aimed at diversifying the ranks of the New York City Fire Department, including new diversity hiring measures and looking into adding gender-specific facilities such as locker rooms. (New York City Patch)
2. Two police officers are being honored for rescuing a man who fell into the tracks in the 116th Street 6 subway station on Thanksgiving Day. After a good Samaritan screamed for help, they sprinted from the Uptown to Downtown side of the platform and sprang into action, the NYPD says. (New York City Patch)
3. The "East Side Access" project to bring Long Island Railroad trains into Grand Central will now be allowed to open by the end of the year, after a federal agency temporarily waived a requirement that had threatened to hold it up. (Gothamist)
4. Long COVID-19 symptoms are most prevalent in Latino communities across New York City and in The Bronx, an analysis of a Department of Health survey finds. Experts say that could likely be due to a higher prevalence of underlying conditions in those communities, including Type 2 diabetes and HIV. (THE CITY)
5. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg moved to dismiss charges against a nurse who was accused of killing her husband, which she alleges was in self-defense. She was first arrested in 2020. (AMNY)

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Today in New York City:

• Manhattan West Community Day (2 p.m.)
• Opera Star Michael Fabiano Sings to Benefit ArtSmart — The Rubin Museum of Art (7 p.m.)
• Sarah Polley: "Run Towards the Danger" — The Strand Bookstore (7 p.m.)
• Netflix’s Hustle: Screening and Adam Sandler in Conversation with Josh Horowitz — 92nd Street Y (8 p.m.)
• Bill Frisell FIVE — Blue Note Jazz Club (8 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• A giant, "magical," and cotton candy-colored rainbow greeted New Yorkers yesterday morning as they began their days, possibly still working off the last of their Thanksgiving turkeys. Here's a selection of the photos New Yorkers took. (New York City Patch)
• Agatha Christie's 'The Moustrap' has been playing in London's West End for the past 70 years. Now, it's finally coming to Broadway. (Time Out)
• Vintage NYC subway trains are running along a large portion of the 1 line in Manhattan on the next three Sundays this month as part of the New York Transit Museum's "Holiday Nostalgia Rides." (New York City Patch)
• A construction worker fell to his death from the scaffolding of an Upper West Side building Monday morning, an FDNY spokesperson told Patch. (New York City Patch)
• Fresh off winning her election, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is beginning to veto some pieces of legislation passed by the state legislature earlier this year. Some notable bills that have met the chopping block: an act to establish a gambling advisory council, and another to "establish a cryptocurrency and blockchain study task force." (City & State NY)

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