🌱 New York Primary: What To Know + NYC Unemployment Rate Behind US

Good morning, New York City! Here's the latest news:

• 🗳 You can head to the ballot box this weekend or next Tuesday on New York's State Senate and Congressional primary day.
• 📚 NYC just formed a task force to help an estimated 1,000 children of asylum-seekers enter the education system.
• 📈 The city's unemployment rate still lags behind the national average, according to the latest numbers.

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

1. Early voting ahead of New York's August 23 (Tuesday) primary ends Sunday. Here's a primer on the primary races for State Senate and Congress in newly-drawn districts. So far around a meager 50,000 votes have been cast early in the election, which is expected to draw low turnout. (New York City Patch)
2. The city is forming a new inter-agency task force to assist the children of asylum seekers who will be entering the education system this fall. Approximately 1,000 new students are expected in total. (AMNY)
3. New York City's unemployment rate still lags behind the United States. The country as a whole regained all jobs that were lost during the COVID-era with a 3.5 percent unemployment rate, while the city is still at 6.1 percent. (THE CITY)
4. The schedule of Frank Carone, Mayor Eric Adams's Chief of Staff, provides a glimpse into the Adams Administration's focus and priorities. His calendar, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, reveal meetings with executives in the cryptocurrency and casino industries, as well as several city council members. (Gothamist)
5. Friends and authors rallied on the steps of the NYC Public Library on Friday in solidarity with Salman Rushdie, an Iranian writer who was attacked while on stage at an event last week. Rushdie has spent years in hiding after a 1988 novel he wrote, “The Satanic Verses,” created controversy. (NBC New York)

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Today in New York City:

• National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) Sixth Annual Free Outdoor NYC Math Festival (10 a.m.)
• FAD Market on Governors Island (11 a.m.)
• (Be)Tween Time – Plant-Based Cooking with Chef Irbania Tavares - Randall's Island (1 p.m.)
• Hip Hop and R&B concert in Harlem (4 p.m.)
• "Asian American Film Thing" festival in Brooklyn (7 p.m.)
• International Contemporary Ensemble Performs at TIME:SPANS Festival (7:30 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• The man who killed a dog by beating it in Prospect Park is apparently still roaming the park, according to local dog owners. (New York City Patch)
• A group stole nearly $30,000 worth of new clothes from a Lululemon in the West Village on Tuesday. (New York City Patch)
• The MTA could place a three-year ban on a man who is accused of violently assaulting a subway cleaner in The Bronx. (AMNY)

From my notebook:

• Next week marks the beginning of a free pop-up Broadway music festival, with performances in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. (Time Out)
• In Lower Manhattan, concerned residents are protesting against a plan that would destroy and rebuild a beloved neighborhood park to account for rising sea levels and storm surges. (THE CITY)
• The Upper East Side just got its second coffee shop–on a subway platform. And there's a third one on the way. (New York City Patch)
• Hundreds of invasive spotted lanternflies have been invading this Staten Island home. (SILive.com)
• Journalists have been leaving the New York Daily News "in droves," according to a Twitter thread from the paper's union, which blames the exodus — that includes 12 reporters in the past three months — on a hedge fund that bought it last year. (New York City Patch)

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