🌱 What $10K Loan Forgiveness Means In NYC + More Migrants Arriving

Good morning, New York City! Here's what's going on today:

• 💵 The Biden Administration's decision to forgive $10,000 in student loans could affect up to one in six New Yorkers.
• 🏠 Some NYC homeowners are getting a one-time $150 tax rebate.
• 💉 Under two percent of toddlers and infants have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

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

1. News that the Biden administration is planning to cancel $10,000 in student loans — and $20,000 for Pell grant recipients — could affect one-in-six New Yorkers who have student loan debt, according to an analysis. In New York City, student loan holders are "more likely to be Black, younger than 45, experience material hardship and are more highly educated," while more than half owe over $20,000. (New York City Patch)
2. NYC low and mid-income homeowners with a combined household income of under $250,000 are set to receive a one-time $150 property tax rebate, due to bipartisan City Council legislation signed by Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday. (New York City Patch)
3. Less than two percent of infants and toddlers in New York City have received a full vaccine against COVID-19. That comes out to about 8,000 in total, with six percent having received at least a first shot, despite the age group being eligible for vaccination since June. (Gothamist)
4. A record number of migrants — 250 in total — arrived in New York City on Wednesday morning. About half a dozen people, one of them a three-month-old baby girl, needed to be immediately hospitalized after their journey, according to Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, who also asserted that the asylum seekers "did not give their consent in any real way to be sent here." (New York City Patch)
5. New York State's top court of appeals granted Harvey Weinstein an appeal in his 2020 rape conviction, meaning that he could potentially get a retrial. Chief Judge Janet DiFiore made the decision, announcing that the court would hear oral arguments sometime in 2023. (NBC New York)

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Today in New York City:

• Free Broadway concert at Quisqueya Plaza (3:30 p.m.)
• Apéro + Live Jazz Happy Hour at Coffee + Cocktails (4 p.m.)
• Victor Manibo + Rob Hart: The Sleepless at The Strand (7 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• Over 4,700 illegal guns have been seized off NYC's streets so far this year–making up the vast majority of the state-wide total of 6,000, according to Mayor Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul. (New York City Patch)
• A 13-year-old girl was arrested and charged with taking part in a fatal attack against a taxi driver in Queens earlier this month. (New York City Patch)
• A statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Richmond Hill, Queens, was attacked on August 16th, right before the start of Indian Independence Day. (Gothamist)

From my notebook:

• NYC's taverns, considered "the city’s oldest form of dining and drinking establishment," are experiencing a renaissance, with Eater calling them "The Hottest Restaurants." (Eater NY)
• Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is heading to Harvard this fall to become a 'teaching fellow' in the schools of government and public health. (Associated Press)
• Why are New Yorkers so dissatisfied? A new poll found that just 32 percent of New York City residents are more satisfied with their lives than they were a year before–but the number drops to 27 throughout the state. (New York City Patch)
• Congratulations to the East Village's M102 for winning the title of NYC's slowest bus in this year's Pokey Awards, with an average speed of just 5 MPH. (New York City Patch)
• Supermodel Bella Hadid wants the horse, Ryder, that collapsed in a city street earlier this month, to be rescued, writing on Instagram, "Ryder needs immediate help and to be released from his abusers." (New York Post)

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Now you're in the loop and ready to start this Thursday! I'll see you back in your inbox tomorrow morning with your next update.

— Dashiell Allen

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