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AFTER THE SLAUGHTER CRIME
A decade of massive public policy failures came to light in the wake of the bloodbath on the Bowery. Now, City Hall is under fire for the signs it missed amid barbed questions about the steps it should take next. BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
Manhattanites don’t shock easily. They’re well aware that big-city life is often
NYC officials launch outreach initiatives to counter public anxiety over the census BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
Although the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration in June from adding a question asking the citizenship status of every
person living in each household of the United States, New York City officials fear that the question has already had its intended effect: to intimidate immigrants so that they do not fill out the census. “We still have to undue the damage that the Trump administration wrought by the mere specter of trying to unlawfully add a citizenship question,” said Julie Menin, the director in charge of the
city’s census. “The problem is that while we won this case in the Supreme Court and it was a resounding legal victory the president continued to sow fear and disinformation as they always do around so many different issues.” Much of the public is not aware that the question has been blocked, Menin said, adding that her office still receives questions about
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BETTE DEWING ON BERNIE SANDERS And his quest to reduce elder loneliness and isolation. p. 8
Mayor Bill de Blasio with NYC Census Director Julie Menin on September 25, 2019. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. WEEK OF AUGUST
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punctuated with trauma and peril and pain. But few horrors lingering in the collective consciousness can compare to the events this weekend on a Chinatown sidewalk. As they slept on makeshift cardboard bedding, four homeless men, one aged 83, were bludgeoned to death and a fifth was critically injured. The 24-year-old killer, also homeless, had bashed in their skulls with a rusty, 15-
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IS VISION ZERO WORKING? SAFETY
has seen a surge Five years in, NYC and uctuating in cyclist deaths – and motorist numbers of pedestrian fatalities BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
year that saw 299 In 2014, after a traffic-related incipeople killed in Mayor Bill de Bladents in the city, eliminate all traffic sio set out to
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THE BILLY AND GILLY SHOW
Kamala HarWarren, Cory Booker, and Bernie debates,” longris, Amy Klobuchar for the September Pete strategist George Sanders, South Bend Mayor time Democratic doesn’t have former Texas Rep. Artz says. “De Blasioare way down Buttigieg and both Beto O’Rourke. the donors, and close, but none of A few others are in the polls.” Hank Sheinde Blasio or GilliPolitical consultant that either them are named kopf says it’s “50-50” “Any- brand. returned reBY STUART MARQUES will make the next round: Neither campaign but they’re not quests for comment. thing can happen, agree that Warde Blasio faced to qualify.” Pundits generally When Mayor Bill held off the more Gillibrand – likely a minimum of Candidates need to ren and Sanderson the first night. off with Sen. Kirsten Democratic presi- 130,000 unique donors and have moderate field and eight other in four qualigot high marks on – on July 31, it Booker and Yang and hit at least 2 percent dential hopefuls the last Billy candidates have the second night, but Biden a might have marked presidential fying polls. Eight the polls. and are assured at the are still ahead in hit those marks and Gilly Show largely igon Sept. 12 Harris Gillibrand Houston and in De Blasio debates. ei- spot onstage Presiawful tough for are former Vice 18 “It’s going to be and and 13. They Senators Elizabeth CONTINUED ON PAGE get the donors dent Joe Biden, ther of them to needed to qualify polling numbers”
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