🌱 NYC Subway Safety Improving: Adams, Hochul + High Childcare Costs

Good morning, New York City!

• Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul tout NYC subway safety numbers
• Childcare costs are high and only growing higher in the city, labor stats show
• There's a new proposal out to improve New York City's local elections turnout

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Partly sunny. High: 50 Low: 40.

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

1. The subways are almost as safe now as they were before the COVDI-19 pandemic, at least according to statistics shared by Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday. Here's the numbers: there were an average of 2.3 incidents per one million riders over the past two years, compared to a decrease to 1.7 in the first weeks of 2023 and 1.5 pre-pandemic. (New York City Patch)
2. Childcare costs in all NYC boroughs rank amongst the top 100 most expensive counties across the country, U.S. Department of Labor data shows, and the price has only increased from 2018 t0 2022, to over $23,000 per year in some cases. Mayor Adams has listed expanding childcare options as one of his priorities this year. (New York City Patch)
3. Artistic renderings give New Yorkers a first look at what the city's waterfronts might look like with concrete sea walls on the edges of parks along the Hudson and East rivers. They're part of a $52 billion potential federal plan to protect the New York and New Jersey region from coastal storm surges. (THE CITY)
4. New York City officials and police are expecting protests could follow the release of footage showing the Tyre Nichols' beating at the hands of Memphis, Tennessee police officers, which led to his death. (NBC New York)
5. NYC has seen low voter turnout in municipal elections in the past several years — just 23 percent of registered voters turned out in the 2021 Mayor's race. One proposed solution for increasing turnout is to change the schedule to match with federal elections, when it tends to be much higher — 55 percent turnout in 2020. (Gothamist)

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Today in New York City:

• Polar Bear Half & 5K — NYC Parks Winter Series #4 Prospect Park (10 a.m.)
• Lunar New Year At City Point, Downtown Brooklyn (12 p.m.)
• Big 2-Day Used Book Sale at Revolution Books in Harlem — Saturday & Sunday (12 p.m.)
• Hope and Healing: a “Lifeline Song Cycles” Fundraising Concert — Inwood Art Works (7:30 p.m.)
• Comic Nicky Sunshine Hosts Ladies Night Showcase @ Comedy In Harlem (8 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• A Bronx community board and Council Member are opposing the placement of a new safe-haven homeless shelter in their district, which is already home to 24 Department of Homeless Services facilities. (Bronx Times)
• An NYPD judge has ruled than an officer who pepper-sprayed a Brooklyn state senator during racial justice protests in 2020 is cleared of wrongdoing, much to the dismay of the local politician. (New York City Patch)
• A new terminal at JFK will be covered in solar panels–perhaps making it the "largest rooftop solar array in New York City." (Gothamist)
• There's finally more apartments on the market in New York City, a new study found, but it said there might not be enough to lower the rent significantly. (New York City Patch)

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