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MTA EMPLOYEE CHARGED FOR RUNNING G’POINT BROTHEL

GREENPOINT — MTA EMPLOYEE DAVID BLAKIS WAS CHARGED ON FRIDAY for permitting and promoting prostitution in allegedly running an illegal brothel in his Greenpoint apartment, reports the Brooklyn Paper. Police discovered the operation after receiving complaints of “numerous disruptions” from neighbors in the apartment building, according to D.A. Eric Gonzalez. Undercover sting operations in February and November of 2023 resulted in the arrests of at least two sex workers, as well as Blakis, and the recovery of what prosecutors said was evidence of illegal activity, including electronic devices, surveillance footage, suggestive signage, $5,000 in cash, and the belongings of the sex workers stored in Blakis’ mother’s nearby apartment.

The trial is set to begin on May 8.

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CVS AND WALGREENS TO SELL ABORTION MEDICATION

NATIONWIDE — PHARMACY CHAINS CVS AND WALGREENS WILL BEGIN SELLING the abortion drug mifepristone in some states after obtaining permission from the FDA, reports CNN, with CVS set to offer the drug in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Walgreens in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California and Illinois. Both chains said they expect to expand sales further into states where mifepristone can be legally prescribed. The decision comes as the Supreme Court reviews a controversial April 2023 ruling by a Texas judge that sought to ban sales nationwide, which was quickly followed by a ruling by a Washington judge contradicting it; the Supreme Court has allowed sales of the drug to continue unobstructed by the federal government before it releases its final ruling, which is expected this summer.

Governor Hochul on Friday praised the expansion of mifepristone sales on X (Twitter,) calling it “hopeful news for millions.”

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GUIDEBOOK GIVES NEW YORKERS VOICE
IN DESIGNING THEIR COMMUNITIES

CITYWIDE — THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING (DCP) HAS RELEASED an illustrated guidebook that makes New York City’s urban design principles clear and accessible to the public. Titled “Principles of Good Urban Design,” the guidebook aims to help New Yorkers from all backgrounds utilize the recommendations in their own communities, whether they’re planners, developers, civic leaders, business leaders or residents. This guidebook defines urban design and explains the process of implementing it, taking into account public input, environmental needs to a neighborhood’s history and culture to craft design recommendations that enhance communities.

“New Yorkers know their neighborhoods better than anyone and it’s vital that we supply them with the planning tools to advocate for their priorities,” said Department of City Planning Director Dan Garodnick.

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GUILTY VERDICT FOR DEFENDANTS WHO TRAFFICKED
AND MURDERED VICTIM FOR INSURANCE POLICY

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A FEDERAL JURY IN BROOKLYN ON MONDAY, MARCH 4, RETURNED A GUILTY VERDICT AGAINST CORY MARTIN ON ALL COUNTS IN A GRUESOME MURDER, in which he also sought to hide evidence against law enforcement. The verdict followed a two-week trial at which United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly presided. The defendant was charged with murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, aggravated identity theft and fraudulent use of identification relating to a scheme to fraudulently obtain life insurance policies in the name of a 26-year-old victim, Brandy Odom. As proven at trial, the defendant and a co-conspirator who were engaged in commercial sex work for the defendant who operated as their pimp trafficked Odom, plotted to murder her and collect the insurance proceeds, and watched crime shows on how to evade police. After the murder, they dismembered the victim and discarded the remains.

When sentenced, Martin faces a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.

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CERT TRAINING CLASS HOLDS FIRE SAFETY DRILLS
AT BROOKLYN’S RED CROSS PLAZA

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS WILL BE CONDUCTING A FIRE SAFETY DRILL around rush hour on Monday and Tuesday evenings, March 4 And 5, near Red Cross Plaza on Cadman Plaza East. The alert, broadcast via Notify NYC text messaging, indicates the safety drill is part of a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training class, and will take place from 6:30-9:30 p.m. on both March 4 and 5.

Readers interested in volunteering with or learning more about the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program can visit online.

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SUPREME COURT RULES, 9-0, TO RESTORE
DONALD TRUMP TO 2 STATE BALLOTS 

WASHINGTON, DC —THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RULED UNANIMOUSLY ON MONDAY, MARCH 4, that Donald Trump can remain on Colorado’s presidential primary ballot, reversing an extraordinary state court ruling that had deemed him ineligible to run for the presidency on the grounds that he violated a seldom-used provision of the 14th amendment. The SCOTUS ruling also affects a Maine state court’s attempt to keep Trump off the ballot. The SCOTUS’ three liberal Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined the conservative majority in questioning whether a single state can kick a candidate off the ballot, whether Congress must act before states can invoke the 14th Amendment, and whether the president is specifically covered by the Amendment, which had originally been drafted to bar Confederates from holding office following their secession from the Union during the Civil War.

The Supreme Court, in its unsigned opinion ruling a day before the Super Tuesday primaries, indicated that the power to enforce the 14th Amendment rests with Congress.

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BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL TRUSTEES BOARD VOTES
TO ACQUIRE ADJACENT BUILDING FOR EXPANSION

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL, AN INDEPENDENT QUAKER SCHOOL IN DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN IS EXPANDING to a new building. The school announced on Monday, March 4, that its board of trustees has approved the purchase of 383-393 Pearl Street, a five-story building on the corner of Pearl Street and Willoughby Street, and directly adjacent to one of Brooklyn Friends’ primary buildings. The building’s acquisition will enable the 156-year-old school to expand upon its footprint, consolidate its operations onto a single campus, thus fostering greater collaboration, educational innovation and community. The decision, reached following thorough evaluation and planning, marks a significant commitment by the school to fulfilling the Strategic Vision developed over the past two years by a wide cross-section of the BFS community and stakeholders.

According to a Google map dated July 2022, the building at 383-93 Pearl St. shares a wall with the main school building at 375 Pearl, and once housed ASA College, an unrelated struggling technical school that closed abruptly in February 2023.

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CITY COUNCIL: NYC CAN EXPECT $3.3B MORE
IN TAX REVENUES TO RESTORE BUDGET CUTS 

CITYWIDE — NEW YORK CITY CAN EXPECT  $3.3B MORE IN REVENUE FOR UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR, SAYS A NEW REPORT FROM CITY COUNCIL, according to a story released on Sunday from 1010 WINS and WCBS-88 Radio. The City Council’s report, originally released last Thursday, Feb. 29, claims that Mayor Eric Adams’ Office of Budget and Management (OMB) underestimated tax revenues for the current and upcoming fiscal years by $3.3 billion. This new estimate, which applies to Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025, projects even more tax revenue, creating a budget surplus of $1.3 billion for the current fiscal year and $3.53 billion in FY25. City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Council Finance Chair Justin Brannan (D-47) issued a joint statement, pointing out that “…stronger than expected tax revenues allow us to restore the blunt cuts that weren’t necessary in the first place.”

The revenues could restore funding to emergency services, education and libraries.

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SEN. GILLIBRAND PUSHES FOR PASSAGE
OF BILL TO PROTECT FERTILITY TREATMENTS

NATIONWIDE — A PRESS CONFERENCE THAT U.S. SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND OF NEW YORK held on Sunday, March 3, at her New York City office pushed for the passage of the Access to Family Building Act, legislation that would protect the right to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technology. Introduced on the Senate Floor on Jan. 18 according to the Senate’s website, the bill gained wider exposure since the Alabama Supreme Court decision that declared frozen embryos as children, thus jeopardizing IVF treatment for families wishing to conceive. The bill would establish a woman’s right under federal law to access assisted reproductive technology services, protect a medical provider’s right to provide them and safeguard an insurance carrier’s right to cover them.

The Access to Family Building Act, which has 47 Senate sponsors (Democrats and Independents) would also codify the right to IVF and similar treatments by preempting state and local laws that restrict access to fertility treatments; and allow for the Department of Justice to challenge restrictive state or local laws; among other provisions.

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VIRAL TIKTOK DRIVES SURGE IN RENT HISTORY REQUESTS

CITYWIDE — ONE VIRAL TIKTOK HAS LED TO A SURGE IN RENT HISTORY REQUESTS to the state’s Division of Housing and Community Renewal, reports The City. After Manhattan resident Carla Badami shared online how she was able to recover $6,000 that her landlord had charged her in excess on her rent-stabilized apartment, using official documents showing that previous tenants had paid a far lower rate, the agency says that requests for rent history reports have more than doubled, from an average of 750 a week to more than 2,000. Tenants have the right to challenge rent increases if they believe landlords have overcharged them and can receive refunds and leases with lower rent if their complaints are upheld; while the viral video has led to a backlog with the DHCR, housing advocates told The City that the increased awareness of these rights is a positive for renters, and called for increased funding for the beleaguered agency, which also handles the investigation of these complaints.

The City also offered a guide on how to find rent history information and file complaints, but tenants should be aware that recovering excess fees beyond four years ago may be difficult without proof of fraud.

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SHEEPSHEAD BAY TEACHERS SUING DOE OVER ANTISEMITISM INCIDENTS

SHEEPSHEAD BAY — TWO STAFF MEMBERS AT ORIGINS HIGH SCHOOL ARE PREPARING TO file a civil rights lawsuit against the Department of Education, reports the New York Post, saying that hate has long been a problem at Origins but spiked after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, leading Jewish students to transfer out. Staff members told the Post students chanted “kill the Jews,” at an Oct. 27 protest, among other incidents. Teacher Danielle Kaminsky expressed fear after receiving insults and death wishes, describing a confrontation where students chased her through the school building, as well as a class trip to the Museum of Jewish Heritage canceled over comments to museum staff about desecrating corpses, while campus manager Michael Beaudry alleged that other groups have been targeted as well, describing anti-Black graffiti and a November 2023 assembly about a new LGBTQ club that descended into homophobic chanting.

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Councilmember Inna Vernikov and ex-Assemblymember Dov Hikind have offered support to Kaminsky and Beaudry, who allege acting principal Dana Kammerman has not adequately disciplined students, filed retaliatory complaints and failed to report incidents. The DOE stated that it has opened a probe and praised Kammerman’s track record.

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13 YO SHOT AND KILLED AFTER NETS GAME

CROWN HEIGHTS — A BROOKLYN MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT, TROY GILL, AGE 13, was killed in Crown Heights on Thursday night while returning home from a Nets game at the Barclays Center, reports the Daily News. Police said that the crime occurred at 10:40 p.m. at the corner of New York and Bergen avenues, when an unknown person fired multiple shots at the seventh-grader, hitting Gill in the chest and arm. According to his mother, the boy then called her to ask for help while running from the shooter, before collapsing near the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, where he was found by paramedics who were unable to revive him; the deadly shooting was one of three in the neighborhood over the last week.

“Troy was such a good kid. He wasn’t part of that gang stuff. He posted on Snapchat last night that he was coming home from the basketball game. He said ‘I’m chilling, just trying to get home.’ He said he was enjoying himself. It’s sad,” a girl in his grade told the Daily News; his family is reportedly in shock.

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LANDER: ADAMS’ BUDGET CUTS TO LIBRARIES, CUNY & MORE ‘TROUBLING’ & SHORTSIGHTED

CITYWIDE — IN AN ANALYSIS OF MAYOR ERIC ADAMS’ PRELIMINARY BUDGET, Comptroller Brad Lander found what he called “shortsighted cuts” to vital city services and programs like libraries, CUNY and other important programs. Despite the cancellation of the third round of Program to Eliminate the Gap (PEG) this year, cuts put into place last autumn have not been restored, leading to significant declines in service for very little actual savings, Lander said in a statement Friday. The 5% cut in the operating subsidy given to library systems, for example, “saves the city a meager $24 million — yet will have impacts for years to come,” he said.

Cuts to Brooklyn Public Library amount to more than $7 million in 2024, and almost $12 million each year thereafter through 2027, resulting in the loss of Sunday hours and cutbacks on book checkouts. Cuts to CUNY from 2024-2026 equal $41 annually, resulting in the loss of faculty and course offerings.

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MTA EMPLOYEE CHARGED WITH OPERATING BROTHEL OUT OF GREENPOINT APARTMENT

DOWNTOWN — AN MTA EMPLOYEE WAS CHARGED ON FRIDAY for allegedly running a bustling brothel out of his Greenpoint apartment, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced in a release. David Blakis, 46, was arraigned before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun. Evidence included surveillance video and visits by undercover agents, who paid for services but then exited. A raid found Blakis sitting on a couch in his living room with a customer, an undressed woman inside of a bedroom with a man, and a second woman trying to escape on the fire escape. Investigators also recovered approximately $5,000 cash, chica (prostitution advertising) cards, and a 2023 calendar with women’s names on various dates.

Blakis, a structural maintainer with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is currently suspended. He was ordered to return to court on May 8, 2024.

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REVAMPED JOHN J. CARTY PARK IN BAY RIDGE IS BACK, INCLUDING SPIFFED-UP WHALE

BAY RIDGE — IN 2020, NYC PARKS LAUNCHED A VIRTUAL PLANNING MEETING TO RECONSTRUCT LONG-NEGLECTED JOHN J. CARTY PARK. On Friday, the revamped park reopened, Councilmember Justin Brannan announced via a joyous email. “The new and improved and fully renovated J.J. Carty Playground (and the whale) are back TODAY! Go check it out!!” he wrote. The park —  located between 94th and 101st Streets and Fort Hamilton Parkway — includes handball, basketball, tennis and pickleball courts, fitness and playground equipment. A formerly shabby whale mascot has been spiffed up and repainted.

When John J. Carty died of a heart attack in December 1970, then-Mayor Beame said, “He would probably have been selected by his fellow professionals in government as one of the greatest urban experts and public servants in the history of this city,” according to the Parks Department.

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ADAMS SAYS ‘NO INDICATION’ HE IS FBI TARGET, DESPITE MULTIPLE RAIDS 

CITY HALL — IN AN INTERVIEW ON FOX5’S “Good Day New York” on Friday, Mayor Eric Adams told interviewer Rosanna Scotto that he has “not received any indication” that he is a target of an FBI investigation, despite three of his former aides being raided by the feds and another probe by the NYC Department of Investigation. He also said the raids and investigations would not distract him from his job. This comes a day after the Bronx home of Winnie Greco, a longtime fundraiser for Adams and his director of Asian Affairs, was raided by the FBI.

“That’s why I coined that phrase ‘stay focused, no distractions and grind.’ That’s what New Yorkers want me to do. I’m not going to pick trash off the streets or keep our city safe or build housing if I’m going to be distracted,” Adams told Scotto.

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ALBANY NAMES MEMBERS OF SLAVERY REPARATIONS COMMISSION

ALBANY – GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL, STATE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER ANDREA Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Thursday named the nine members of the state’s new commission on reparations for slavery and racial discrimination in New York state. The members will have a year to study the impact of slavery in New York, which persisted until 1827, before submitting a final report on its recommendations to the state legislature. The commission was established last year after contentious debate; many in the statehouse hailed the bill as a step towards equity, but some Republicans expressed a desire to focus on race-neutral legislation, while others believe that the responsibility for reparations rests with the federal government, not the states. 

Heastie, the first Black Assembly speaker in state history, appointed Brooklyn’s Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. of Medgar Evers College to the panel; Favors heads Medgar Evers’ Center for Law and Racial Justice, as well as hosting the Lurie Daniel Favors show on SiriusXM’s Urban View Network.

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ALLEGATIONS CITY HALL TRIED TO STEER MIGRANT CONTRACT TO BO DIETL

MARINE PARK – CITY HALL SOURCES ARE ALLEGING THAT AN AIDE TO MAYOR Adams may have improperly influenced the selection process for service providers at the controversial Floyd Bennett Field migrant tent camp, reports Politico; advisor Tim Pearson is said to have attempted to steer a lucrative contract to provide security services to celebrity ex-cop Bo Dietl, a longtime friend and fundraiser of the mayor. The Department of Citywide Administrative Services in September of last year sought authorization for a Texas-based company, Industrial Tent Systems, to manage the site after a public bidding process, but multiple people involved in the decision told Politico that Pearson refused to approve the contract while promoting Dietl’s firm instead. The contract was after weeks of delay in October ultimately awarded to a third company, Garner Environmental Services, and an unrelated security subcontractor, Arrow Security. 

Pearson in October made headlines after getting into a fight with Arrow Security staff at a Midtown shelter; his role within city government is unclear, although the mayor has described him as “one of my knights of the roundtable,” saying Pearson focuses on cutting costs. 

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COUNCIL HEARING ON ‘MANIPULATION’ OF HOMELESS STATS

CIVIC CENTER – THE CITY COUNCIL HELD AN OVERSIGHT HEARING on Friday investigating potentially manipulated data submitted to the city by the Department of Social Services on the Monthly Eligibility Rate, which tracks the number of homeless residents who qualify for shelter and other services. The hearing was called in response to a bombshell January report from the Department of Investigations alleging “evidence of efforts to downplay… the city’s homelessness crisis” that had impacted the city’s understanding of homelessness for years. Councilmember Shahana Hanif at the meeting also introduced legislation that would ban the city’s controversial time limits on shelter stays for individuals and families, established last year by Mayor Adams in response to the ongoing migrant crisis, while Councilmember Sandy Nurse introduced legislation that would compel the city to submit quarterly reports on homelessness data. 

A recording of the hearing is available online on the City Council’s website. 

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POLICE MISCONDUCT LAWSUITS COST NY TAXPAYERS $114.5M IN 2023

CITYWIDE — NYPD MISCONDUCT, AND THE LAWSUITS RESULTING FROM IT, COST TAXPAYERS NEARLY $115 MILLION IN 2023, according to an analysis that the Legal Aid Society released on Thursday, Feb. 29. The analysis discloses that the City of New York paid out $114,586,723 million in lawsuits alleging police misconduct for 2023. While one city Law Department spokesperson, Nicolas Paolucci, told the Daily News that wrongful (reversed) convictions drove the spike in payouts, civil rights attorney Joel Berger, who worked for the Law Department in the past, instead blames the increased cost on a spike in police misconduct. And some of the misconduct is violent, points out Jennvine Wong, an attorney with the Cop Accountability Project at The Legal Aid Society.

“These payouts, which now total more than half a billion dollars since 2018, are indicative of a system that both refuses and fails to hold offending officers accountable,” Wong said.

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FIREFIGHTERS TO RALLY AGAINST CONGESTION PRICING, DEMANDING EXEMPTION FOR EQUIPMENT TRANSPORT

LOWER MANHATTAN/CITYWIDE — HUNDREDS OF FDNY FIREFIGHTERS PLANNED TO CONVERGE ON MTA HEADQUARTERS Friday morning, March 1, for a major rally protesting congestion pricing. They also held a press conference before testifying at one of several MTA hearings that have been held this week. They are expected to point out that congestion pricing will negatively impact thousands of New York City firefighters and fire officers in their ability to transport required heavy lifesaving gear to and from firehouses within the zone. The firefighters also warn that the MTA’s failure to provide toll exemptions to firefighters will endanger both them and the citizens who take public transportation, adding that traffic volume immediately outside the congestion zone will increase response time in those surrounding areas.

The 60-plus pounds of emergency equipment that firefighters must transport daily between work locations would be prohibitive on mass transit, particularly in terms of space.

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DOMINIC’S OUTREACH MARKS A DECADE OF FEEDING AND CLOTHING THE NEEDY IN BROOKLYN

BENSONHURST — ST. ATHANASIUS-ST. DOMINIC’S PARISH AND ITS PASTOR, Father Michael Lynch, on Wednesday, Feb. 28, celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the St. Dominic’s Outreach Program, which held its first event on that date in 2014. Now, on the third Wednesday of every month, the parish hall turns into “Hope’s Kitchen,” founded five years ago this month, and a component of St. Dominic’s outreach that offers meals for approximately 60 people. The program, funded through donations and with the support of the parish. is dedicated to helping persons in need, including homeless men and women. During its 10 years of service, the St. Dominic’s Outreach program has provided hot meals, regular showers, clothing, coats, hats, socks and shoes, birthday and Christmas celebrations, and has purchased a van for mobile meal delivery.

“The work of St. Dominic’s Outreach is the work of Jesus; we are engaged in the Corporal Works of Mercy, 10 years of outreach is 10 years of ‘loving those in need,” said Father Michael Lynch.

 

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STATE COMPTROLLER ISSUES TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF FUNDING SALES IN MUNICIPAL BOND MARKET 

STATEWIDE — A TENTATIVE SCHEDULE HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM STATE COMPTROLLER THOMAS P. DINAPOLI FOR THE PLANNED BOND SALES for New York City, New York state and their major public authorities for March and April. The tentative schedule includes $8.86 billion of new money and refunding debt sales. The $7.81 billion is scheduled for March — $4.35 billion of which is for new money purposes and $3.46 billion of which is for refunding and reoffering purposes; and the $1.05 billion scheduled for April — $417 million of which is for new money purposes and $631 million of which is for refunding purposes. The schedule is released by the committee to assist participants in the municipal bond market, and is contingent upon execution of all project approvals required by law.

The prospective calendar includes anticipated bond sales by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, the Environmental Facilities Corporation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the New York City Housing Development Corporation, the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority, the New York State Housing Finance Agency, and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority.

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BILL WOULD FUND PROTECTION OF POLICE K-9 UNITS IN NY STATE 

ALBANY —  LEGISLATION TO SAFEGUARD POLICE DOGS, ALSO KNOWN AS K-9 OFFICERS, has been introduced to the New York State legislature, with Brooklyn Assemblymember William Colton (D-47) as the main sponsor. The bill, indexed as A01764 (with a similar bill in the State Senate), “establishes the police canine vest fund to be used for the purpose of purchasing, maintaining, repairing and replacing soft body ballistic armor vests and other protective equipment for state police and municipal department police canines utilized in the performance of police duties, as well as the purchasing and training of such police canines.” The foundation established in Colton’s bill would help both state and municipal police departments, some with limited budgets, to maintain, repair and replace the equipment to protect these K-9s, who are often dispatched into dangerous situations.

Untrained police dogs are each valued at between $3,000 and $35,000; trained ones can be worth $70,000 or more. Training a dog can take four to six months.

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ASSEMBLYMEMBER SIMON HOSTS ONE-ON-ONES WITH NYC CITY DEPT. OF BUILDINGS

CARROLL GARDENS — CONSTITUENTS OF ASSEMBLYMEMBR JO ANNE SIMON (D-52nd A.D.) WILL BE ABLE TO SPEAK WITH DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS REPRESENTATIVES at her Smith Street District office this Tuesday, March 5. Assemblymember Simon is hosting the NYC DOB staff, with the opportunity to speak one-on-one with a DOB representative regarding questions or concerns on work permits, building code violations, and other issues. Appointments are required either by phone at 718-246-4889 or by an online form. Staff from Simon’s office will reach out to confirm appointment times.

There are open slots available as of press time from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

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