🌱 Teen's Subway Surfing Death + Malcolm X Family To Sue NYC For $100M

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• Mayor Adams is concerned social media may have contributed to a teen's subway surfing death
• Malcolm X's family plans to sue the city for $100 million
• What's the strangest animals found in Prospect Park?

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

1. Mayor Eric Adams wants the President to investigate how social media is influencing young people, in response to a question at a press conference about a 15-year-old boy who died while subway surfing Monday evening. “I am hoping the president calls a national Blue Ribbon Commission to really analyze this thing that has really dropped into our lives," he said. (New York City Patch)
2. The family of civil rights leader Malcolm X plan to sue New York City for $100 million, claiming that city authorities conspired to murder him and then used a botched investigation to cover it up. The announcement comes on the 58th anniversary of his assassination. In 2021, two men were exonerated after being convicted for the murder in 1966. (Gothamist)
3. The city has been auctioning off for just $500,000 more than $200 million worth of COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) and other pandemic-era purchases bought with taxpayer dollars, an investigation by THE CITY found. In many cases the items up for grabs were unused and in their original packaging. (THE CITY)
4. The MTA is rolling out a pilot program for new "wide aisle" subway entrances this spring in two stations in Queens and Brooklyn, which will provide easier access for New Yorkers using wheelchairs. Transit officials have also suggested that a system-wide turnstile redesign could help combat fare evasion. (AMNY)
5. New York state lawmakers from outside the city are upset with Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposal to raise $800 million annually for the city's subway system, saying that their constituents aren't frequently straphangers. The money would be collected through a hike on the payroll mobility tax. Some subway riders themselves say they don't want to pay the tax either. (Spectrum NY 1)

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Today in New York City:

• Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, John Cheever and the Federal Writers' Project (12 p.m.)
• S'mores & Winter Crafts — Randall's Island Park Alliance (1 p.m.)
• Drag BINGO with Candy Samples and DJ Chauncey to benefit helpNYC (5:30 p.m.)
• Cinema Chats: "The Automat" — Museum at Eldridge Street (6 p.m.)
• Early Black Authors of the American Musical - Museum of Broadway (6:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• The whale found last week in Queens died after being struck by a vessel by "blunt force trauma," a preliminary investigation found. (New York City Patch)
• Three NYC Congress Members — Democrats Dan Goldman, Grace Meng and Republican Nicole Malliotakis — are working to secure a visa for the mother of the victim killed by a U-haul truck last week in Brooklyn. (Gothamist)
• "You got your elusive guinea bigs, you got your classroom duck's, you got (a Patch favorite) a big ole' bag of eels." Those are just some of the animals that have been found in Prospect Park. (New York City Patch)
• It took firefighters six hours to put out a blaze in Williamsburg, Brooklyn yesterday, which left five firefighters injured. (NBC New York)

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