🌱 NYC Salary Transparency Law + NY Voting Law Challenge Overturned

Good morning, New York City! Today you'll read about:

• 💵 New York City's salary transparency law is now in effect.
• 🗳 An appeals court overturned a Republican challenge to New York's absentee voting laws.
• 📞 The NYC Department of Buildings commissioner's phone was seized as part of a gambling investigation, according to reports.

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Mostly sunny and warm. High: 70 Low: 51.

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

1. A law went into effect yesterday in New York City requiring employers to disclose minimum and maximum pay ranges in online job postings. The Salary Transparency Law is part of a greater effort to combat pay inequity, city records show. Some businesses, however, have created what appear to be deliberately large ranges, potentially subverting the law's goal. (New York City Patch)
2. The Brotherhood of Oddly Enough Workers, made up of the nine workers at the queer Bed-Stuy bar Oddly Enough, took further steps towards forming a union this week, filing papers that would allow them to hold an election with the National Labor Relations Board. (New York City Patch)
3. An appeals court has reversed a Republican challenge to New York State's absentee-voting laws, which allow New Yorkers to request and submit a ballot by mail if they are afraid of catching an infectious disease such as COVID-19. The law will remain in effect for the 2022 voting cycle. (Gothamist)
4. New York City Department of Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich had his cellphone seized by investigators for the Manhattan District Attorney's office on Tuesday morning as part of an illegal gambling investigation, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. Ulrich previously served as a Queens City Councilman. (Subscription/The New York Times) (Free/AMNY)
5. A new lawsuit filed by the family of a Rikers detainee who took his life in 2021 alleges that corrections officers failed to check up on him leading up to his death, and that at least one officer falsified paperwork. (THE CITY)

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Today in New York City:

• FREE! National Stress Awareness Day at 92NY May Center for Health, Fitness and Sport (8:45 a.m.)
• Celebrate Día de Muertos with Flatiron NoMad Partnership (12 p.m.)
• The Seaport Food Lab presented by Chase Sapphire (6 p.m.)
• Ambush Comedy at Two Boots Pizza in Williamsburg (7:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• A fire broke out in the Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side Tuesday morning in a first-floor office space, according to an FDNY spokesperson. (New York City Patch)
• New York City is using $81.5 million in federal funds to purchase 51 new electric school buses, Mayor Eric Adams announced. (Politics NY)
• Tens of thousands of runners will once again take to the streets on Sunday for the 51st New York City marathon. (New York City Patch)
• There's a long list of restaurants participating in Harlem's restaurant week which runs through Nov. 15. (New York City Patch)
• Meet New York City's last umbrella repair man, whose family used to own an umbrella manufacturing shop on the Lower East Side. (Hell Gate)

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— Dashiell Allen

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