🌱 NYC Gas Prices Dip 10% + Supreme Court Lets School Block LGBTQ Club

Good morning, New York City!

• ⛽️ The price at the pump in NYC went down 10 percent last month, but is still higher than last year.
• 🏳️‍🌈 The Supreme Court issued an initial ruling in favor of Upper Manhattan's Yeshiva University's right to stop students from founding an LGBTQ club.
• 🛏 At least 60 men weren't provided beds overnight in NYC on Monday, the Legal Aid Society says.

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

1. Gas prices in the NYC area dipped 10 percent in August, recently released data shows – but they were still more than 30 percent higher than the same time one year ago. Overall prices increased just 0.2 percent in the region, but were still more than 6 percent higher than last year. (New York City Patch)
2. In an initial ruling the US Supreme Court found that Yeshiva University in Washington Heights had the authority to block an LGBTQ club from forming on its campus due to religious beliefs. School administrators had reportedly argued that the club's founding would be an infringement on the institution's First Amendment rights. (New York City Patch)
3. At least sixty men were not provided beds at a New York City homeless shelter on Monday night – potentially in violation of the city's "Right to Shelter" law – the Legal Aid Society said. This comes at the same time as thousands of migrants are arriving in the city. The city also failed to shelter individuals on two separate nights in July. (NBC New York)
4. Education policymakers voted unanimously on Tuesday to adopt new rules which would require greater regulations at close two thousand New York private schools. The vote comes following a New York Times investigation which questioned whether Jewish yeshiva schools provide basic education, such as math, English and history, to their students. (Gothamist)
5. New Yorkers whose homes were damaged last year during Hurricane Ida woke up to flooding on Tuesday morning after heavy overnight rain. The city's Department of Environmental Protection says it's identified 18,000 homes at-risk for flooding, but it's unclear how many of them have received protections in the past year. (Gothamist)

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Today in New York City:

• Hall des Lumières show grand opening (10 a.m.)
• James Beard Foundation: Taste America NYC Event (6 p.m.)
• The Gavel Heard Around the World: Reproductive Rights After Roe - New York Society for Ethical Culture (6:30 p.m.)
• Ten Homakase x El Condor Coffee Roasters Pop-Up (6:30 p.m.)
• Ambush Comedy at Two Boots Pizza - Williamsburg (7:30 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• Twenty New Yorkers filed lawsuits against pharmaceutical company Pfizer on Monday for allegedly turning a blind-eye to the presence of a cancer-causing compound in the now-banned heartburn medication Zantac. The suits contend the company turned a blind eye to the connection between cancer and the drug since the 1980s. (New York City Patch)
• The man who shot John Lennon was denied parole for the 12th time. He's been denied every two years since first becoming eligible in 2000, while serving a 20–years–to–life sentence. (New York City Patch)

From my notebook:

• Cardi B donated $100,000 to her old middle school in Morris Heights, The Bronx, on Tuesday. (Bronx Times)
• NYC's off-Broadway week will kick off on September 26 with two-for-one ticket deals at 28 shows. (PIX11 New York News)
• The owner of a well-known hot dog eatery, Feltman's of Coney Island, is rallying together a "cash mob" that he hopes can save the Upper East Side's Papaya King. (Brooklyn Paper)
• Columbia fell from number two to 18 in US News & World Report's ranking of the top colleges and universities in the country, after admitting it had submitted inaccurate data to the paper. (New York City Patch)
• A massive three-tower and 1,340-unit development in Astoria just got the green light from local Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán. (New York City Patch)
• Meanwhile, a 500-foot, 34-floor tower in the Upper East Side will contain just 55 units – fewer than the total in the buildings that previously occupied the same block. (New York City Patch)

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