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MAKING EDUCATION COUNT SCHOOLS
The city plans to engage schools in the 2020 Census to ensure that they and other government agencies get their fair share of funding BY JADEN SATENSTEIN
they punched, kicked and stomped the supposed Antifa members following the group’s meeting on Oct. 12 at the Metropolitan Republican Club on East 83rd Street, where the founder of the Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes, had made an appearance. Hare, 27, was found guilty on all three counts of attempted assault. His co-defendant, Kinsman, 39, was found guilty on two counts of attempted assault and “justified” in his actions on the lowest counts of attempted assault. The verdict came after a separate and much larger clash between the two groups in Portland, Oregon over the weekend. The groups have become common foes, engaging in
Although a citizenship question will not appear on next year’s census, officials are concerned that the fear and misinformation spread during the national debate over the issue could have serious consequences in New York City, which is home to historically undercounted populations, such as people of color, immigrants and members of low-income households. While the final national mail participation rate in the 2010 Census was 74 percent, it was just 70 percent in Manhattan and as low as 61 percent in Queens and 58 percent in Brooklyn, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition to two congressional seats, billions of dollars in federal funding are at risk if New York is dramatically undercounted again in 2020. And since the amount of federal funding the state receives for public education is largely determined by the census population count, city schools could take a serious hit. “If there were to be an undercount overall in the State of New York, the State of New York would not receive its fair
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Police circulated video of street violence on 82nd Street that occurred after the Oct. 12, 2018 event at the Metropolitan Republican Club. Image: NYPD
PROUD BOYS FOUND GUILTY COURTS
Jury convicts two members of farright group on attempted assault charges at UES Republican club last October BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
After a two-week trial and a day and a half of deliberations, a 12member jury in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Monday found two members of the far-right Proud Boys guilty of attempted assault charges connected to a street brawl with leftist protesters that took place last October on the Upper East Side. Maxwell Hare, who prosecutors said instigated the street fight, and
“They romanticize violence. Their attack was vicious, disproportionate and most important, unnecessary.” Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass John Kinsman were convicted on charges of attempted gang assault, attempted assault and riot for their part in beating up the four people who police described as anti-fascists belonging to a left wing group known as Antifa. The jury rejected that the pair were acting in self-defense when
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SPOTLIGHT ON GHISLAINE MAXWELL Jeffrey Epstein’s close friend is now a likely target for prosecutors. p. 7
COPS AND 'COMPASSION FATIGUE' Amid NYPD suicides, a John Jay professor on stress factors. p. 5
LITTLE ITALY: ‘THREE BLOCKS STRONG’ The neighborhood has endured many changes, but restaurant owners insist they’re still here and thriving. p. 16
SUMMERTIME AND SLEEP Hot weather can disrupt normal sleep patterns. How to get the rest you need. p. 2
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In Brief MORE HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESS
The effort to help small seems to businesses in the city be gathering steam. Two city councilmembers, Robert Margaret Chin and Cornegy, have introduced create legislation that wouldSmall a new “Office of the within Business Advocate” of Small the city’s Department Business Services. Chin The new post, which have up told us she’d like to would and running this year, for serve as an ombudsman city small businesses within them clear government, helping to get through the bureaucracy things done. Perhaps even more also importantly, the ombudsman and number will tally the type small business by of complaints taken in owners, the actions policy response, and somefor ways to recommendations If done well, begin to fix things. report would the ombudsman’s give us the first quantitative with taste of what’s wrong the city, an small businesses in towards important first step fixing the problem. of formality for deTo really make a difference, process is a mere complete their will have to to are the work course, the advocaterising rents, precinct, but chances-- thanks to a velopers looking find a way to tackle business’ hours,” is being done legally of after-hours projects quickly. own many their which remain “They pick out boom in the number throughout While Chin who lives on most vexing problem. said Mildred Angelo,of the Ruppert construction permits gauge what Buildings one said it’s too early tocould have the 19th floor in The Department of the city. number three years, the Houses on 92nd Street between role the advocate She on the Over the past is handing out a record work perThird avenues. permits, there, more information of Second and an ongoing all-hours number of after-hours bad thing. of after-hours work the city’s Dept. problem can’t be a said there’s with the mits granted by nearby where according to new data jumped 30 percent, This step, combinedBorough construction project noise Buildings has data provided in workers constantly make efforts by Manhattan to mediate BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS according to DOB of Informacement from trucks. President Gale Brewer offer response to a Freedom classifies transferring they want. They knows the the rent renewal process, request. The city They 6 “They do whatever signs Every New Yorker clang, tion Act go as they please. work between some early, tangible small any construction on the weekend, can come and sound: the metal-on-metal or the piercing of progress. For many have no respect.” can’t come p.m. and 7 a.m., the hollow boom, issuance of these business owners, that moving in reverse. as after-hours. The increased beeps of a truck has generto a correspond and you soon enough. variances has led at the alarm clock The surge in permits
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