🌱'Working People's Agenda': Adams' State Of The City + NYC Composting

Good morning, New York City!

• Patch breaks down Mayor Eric Adams' "State of the City" address.
• A jury is deciding whether or not to give the death penalty to a man convicted of a terrorist-motivated 2017 bike path killing.
• Curbside composting is expanding citywide in the coming months and years.

But first, today's weather:

Times of clouds and sun. High: 42 Low: 35.

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

1. Mayor Eric Adams gave his 2023 "State of the City" speech on Thursday, with a focus on creating what he called a "working people's agenda" built around creating and maintaining "jobs, safety, housing, and care." Here's some top takeaways and what to expect over the course of the next year: a plan to rezone Midtown, a focus on crime and electrifying for-hire vehicles. (New York City Patch)
2. Embattled Republican Congressman George Santos from Long Island and Queens posted what has been described as a "deeply offensive" comment about Hitler and the Jewish community, according to Facebook screenshots obtained by Patch from several former friends, despite his recent claims of Jewish heritage. (Long Island Patch)
3. A man was convicted of 28 federal crimes for killing eight people on a New York City bike path in 2017, in what prosecutors said was an attack "inspired by his reverence for the Islamic State militant group." A jury will now deliberate on whether or not he should receive the death penalty — which is rare in New York — or life in prison. (Associated Press)
4. The Department of Corrections is failing to swiftly move inmates on Rikers Island out of intake within 24 hours of being detained, "risking harm to the human beings warehoused in the truly inhumane conditions there," according to the Prisoner's Rights Project and other advocates. A 2021 court order required quick and reliable intake, they said. (New York City Patch)
5. Curbside composting is coming to a borough near you. The city program, which is currently on pause in Queens, will expand to all five boroughs by March 2024, with Manhattan the last to join, according to NYC officials. Residents won't need to sign up and it won't be mandatory. (Gothamist)

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Today in New York City:

• The Morgan Library and Museum presents American Contemporary Music Ensemble (6:30 p.m.)
• Feminist Giant & The Strand Present: Noor Hindi + Kamelya Omayma Youssef — The Strand Bookstore (7 p.m.)
• SCREEN QUEENS: RuPaul's Drag Race Viewing Party (8 p.m.)
• Experiential Orchestra and Trinity Wall Street co-present program (8 p.m.)
• Live Music Fridays — Kerry Kearney & Friends - Bar Marsaille Rockaway (8:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• The recent shootings and killings of New York City school children, including two last week, have led Chancellor David Banks to declare youth violence is in "a state of emergency." According to police "last year, 157 victims under the age of 18 were either killed or wounded by gunfire." (New York Daily News)
• A closed-off skatepark under the Brooklyn Bridge could soon reopen, with the advocacy of Tony Hawk. (Subscription/The New York Times)
• There may have been plenty of rain on Wednesday but NYC's "snow drought" continues and is on the verge of becoming historical. (New York City Patch)
• In an interview on Fox 5, Madison Square Garden CEO James Dolan defiantly vowed to continue the venue's facial recognition practice, and threatened to withhold alcohol. (Gothamist)
• NYC public schools have struggled to meet the mental health needs of thousands of students whose parents died in the COVID-19 pandemic, a year-long investigation from City Limits and THE CITY found. (City Limits)

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