🌱Times Square Hotel Next Migrant Center + Polio Found In NYC's Sewage

Good morning, New York City!

• A Times Square Hotel will soon be home to 200 asylum seeker families.
• The poliovirus has been detected in NYC's sewage.
• Why are all the celebrities moving to Brooklyn Heights?

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Windy; heavy p.m. showers. High: 69 Low: 57.

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

1. A Times Square hotel will soon be home to 200 asylum seeker families that have recently arrived from Texas, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Wednesday. It joins Randalls Island's 'tent city' as the second emergency migrant shelter. Adams' announcement came one day after he told New Yorkers can expect migrant facilities to come to "every community." (New York City Patch)
2. The same strain of poliovirus that left a teenager in suburban New York paralyzed has been detected in NYC's sewage. The city's overall polio vaccination rate stands at 86.2 percent, although several Brooklyn and Manhattan neighborhoods are further behind. (New York City Patch)
3. In more positive medical news, NYC's Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan believes the city's 'turned a corner' in combatting monkeypox, which has declined from a peak in August of 70 cases per day to fewer than 10 last week. (Gothamist)
4. The City Council just voted to approve a series of bills that will bring NYC closer to creating universal child care, by setting up a three-year child care grant program for providers at risk of closure, creates a comprehensive child care directory and establishing an advisory board to craft policies that will move the city toward universal care in five years. (New York City Patch)
5. Meet The Big Apple's new cannabis boss, Brooklyn born and raised Dasheeda Dawson, who will lead the city's new Cannabis NYC initiative, which will assist entrepreneurs hoping to enter the industry, "absorbing the illicit market with persuasion and incentives instead of punishment." (Subscription/The New York Times)

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Today in New York City:

• Night Market: Japanese food & Autumn Festival (4 p.m.)
• International Film Festival Manhattan Awards Opening Night Ceremony 2022 (6:30 p.m.)
• The Workers Circle Celebrates Sukkot with Virtual Cooking Workshop (7 p.m.)
• Movie Night with Machine: "Clash of the Titans" (7 p.m.)
• Amendments in the News: The Fourth with Artificial Intelligence Policy Advisor Mutale Nkonde (7 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• The man accused of a mass shooting on a Brooklyn subway last spring refused to show up to court on Wednesday, leading a federal judge to instruct marshals to use "any necessary force" to bring him in. (New York City Patch)
• A 25-year-old woman was killed when a truck ran her over on Wednesday morning outside of Prospect Park. (New York City Patch)
• A Lower East Side man has been charged with building untraceable 'ghost guns' out of his apartment. He's pleaded not guilty on multiple charges. (Gothamist)

From my notebook:

• A Park Slope real estate group will pay a $100,000 penalty and dole out rent credits to tenants in their worst buildings after leaving residents living in hazardous conditions, according to the New York Attorney General's office. (New York City Patch)
• New York City's pumpkins are taking a spooky hit from inflation this Halloween season. (New York City Patch)
• Brooklyn Heights is the place to move to if you're a celebrity, putting on track to become "the next West Village." (Subscription/The New York Times)
• The NY Department of Education has ruled that a large Brooklyn yeshiva has failed to provide legally sufficient education to students. (Subscription/New York Daily News)
• The Adams administration has yet to make good on a promise to make Diwali — which is celebrated by Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains — an official public school holiday. (THE CITY)

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