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Thursday February 4 2021
Long Island
The company has been at the forefront of this technology, building the nation’s first 3D printed home in 2019 — a 500-square-feet structure that took 12 hours to print.

SQ4D’s massive printer, which uses its Autonomous Robotic Construction System technology, recently spit out another historical feat — printing a 1,900 square-foot home in Calverton in under 48 hours.
Citizens for the Preservation of Wainscott filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the East Hampton Town Board, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, and South Fork Wind in an effort to block the town board’s Jan. 21 approval of an easement that would permit the developers of the proposed South Fork Wind farm to land an export cable at the Beach Lane beach and to bury it under town-owned roads on its way to a Long Island Power Authority substation in East Hampton.
New York City
New York City restaurant-industry workers are now eligible for vaccination, Councilmember Mark D. Levine confirmed this morning. That pool of people includes not just porters, servers, and cooks, but also delivery workers, whom Mayor Bill de Blasio had previously urged Governor Andrew Cuomo to make eligible. Delivery workers employed by third-party platforms are particularly vulnerable as independent contractors without guaranteed income or benefits, and many are undocumented immigrants.
Revel, the company best known for electric-moped sharing, says it is about to embark in a new direction by launching one of the largest hubs for quickly charging electric vehicles in New York City this spring.
New York State
There’s more fallout from the New York Attorney General’s report alleging the state undercounted nursing home coronavirus deaths by as much as 50%.

A New York Supreme Court judge has ruled the state’s health department must release more information within days.
The new protections and rights were part of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's fiscal year 2021 enacted budget which legalized gestational surrogacy in NYS.
National
New data from several vaccine trials offer positive signs, but many public health experts say emerging variants mean the next few months will be a race against the virus.
Gutted by the Trump administration, the refugee resettlement system is unable to quickly process tens of thousands of the world’s neediest people.
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Hon. Arthur "Jerry" Kremer
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Executive Vice President
Anthony Figliola
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