🌱 NY Declares Monkeypox Emergency + $4.2B For NYC Nonprofits

Happy weekend New York City! Monkeypox is now a health emergency in New York, there's a lot of new funding for NYC's nonprofits contracted with the city, and a judge tossed out a lawsuit filed by corrections officers against COVID vaccine mandates.

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Sunny to partly cloudy. High: 86 Low: 70.

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

1. New York State's top health official declared monkeypox an 'emergency' on Friday, following a similar designation in San Francisco. NYC is set to receive 80,000 additional vaccine doses. (New York City Patch)
   • Meanwhile, only half of New York City's eight sexual health clinics, which could prove crucial to containing the virus, are currently open–partially due to staffing shortages. (Gothamist)
2. NYC Mayor Eric Adams and the city comptroller have found $4.2 billion that can be used to fund the city's nonprofits, which have been underfunded for the past year. Contracted work makes up 20 percent of the city's budget, most of it accounting for social services. (Politics NY)
3. A Manhattan judge tossed out a case filed by the Corrections Officers Union in opposition to vaccine mandates, ruling that the risk of a potential COVID-19 outbreak on Rikers Island outweighs the concerns of city workers. "It would be unconscionable and would cause great harm to the inmates and great harm to others if that was allowed to occur," he said. (New York Post)
4. After a judge temporarily prevented Department of Education budget cuts from going forward, the DOE is baring principals from reviewing their individual budgets, making it difficult for them to plan for the school year starting on September 8. (Gothamist)
5. Bishop Lamor Whitehead, the pastor who was robbed of a large amount of valuable jewelry during a live-streamed sermon, held a press conference on Friday criticizing his portrayal in the media as unfair. He didn't address an allegation that he swindled a former congregant out of $90,000 last year. (New York City Patch)

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Today in New York City:

• Annual Waterfront Festival on Randall's Island (noon)
• Block Party & Community Resource Fair in Morningside Heights (noon)
• Nord-New Old Rock Deli Presents....World Sol Music Featuring "Lady Jae" (7 p.m.)
• Comic Nicky Sunshine Hosts "Ladies Night Showcase” At Comedy In Harlem (7 p.m.)
• "Taken by Artificial Surprise" – Magic meets machine learning (7:30 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• The founder of a network of Harlem charter schools was sentenced to one year in prison after he admitted to stealing $200,000. (New York City Patch)
• A shootout between cops and robbers took place outside of a Flatiron nightclub early Friday morning. Nobody was injured. (New York City Patch)
• A 14-year-old has ben missing from Crown Heights since Wednesday morning. (New York City Patch)

From my notebook:

• The food delivery company DoorDash is teaming up with an immigrant nonprofit, NICE, to provide resources and empowerment sessions to immigrant delivery workers, including bike and road safety education, tax support and financial empowerment, and town halls in both English and Spanish. (New York City Patch)
• Roller skating is experiencing a "renaissance" in NYC–here's where you can get in on the action. (Gothamist)
• Here's the rundown on subway travel over the weekend. (New York City Patch)
• The MegaMillion lottery reached some pretty impressive heights–$1.3 billion–this week. That's so high in fact that neon signs couldn't display it. (New York Post)
• A new study shows that tourists in NYC are spending more time in Brooklyn and less in Manhattan than before, meaning they might be taking the advice "skip Times Square and go to the Brooklyn Bridge instead." (New York City Patch)
• A new train service from Burlington, Vermont to New York City that's been out of commission for almost 70 years ran its inaugural route on Friday. (Associated Press)

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