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Wednesday February 23 2022
Long Island
The Mill River on Long Island appears to be clear of gasoline contamination following a tanker truck explosion in Rockville Centre last week, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
Though the eventual reboot of the retail complex is still on the drawing board, Urban Edge executives said they are not considering any residential development.
New York City
On the heels of New York state approving a partisan redrawing of state legislative and Congressional lines earlier this month, Citizens Union is calling on Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council to avoid a similar fate later this year when the city’s independent Districting Commission re-examines Council district boundary lines.
Marani and Andrew McIntyre are the architects behind ultra luxurious and high-priced projects like some on Park Place and Central Park West.

But the latest project for the partners and senior design associates at Robert A.M. Stern is a 125-unit apartment building in Brownsville for low-income and formerly unhoused residents.

It is the first of this type they have done in the city.
New York State
Starbucks, newsrooms and farms are some of the places where organizing is beginning to take hold.
The specifics of the law are hard to parse, especially amid emotionally-charged debate from all parts of the political spectrum. Combined with the fact that much of the rollout of the law happened during the pandemic’s early days, you’re forgiven if the issue has flown over your head. Let’s break it down.
National
President Joe Biden ordered heavy U.S. financial sanctions against Russian banks and oligarchs on Tuesday, stepping up the West’s confrontation with Moscow, even as Russian lawmakers authorized President Vladimir Putin to use military force outside their country.
A jury found the three White men who killed Ahmaud Arbery guilty on all counts in the federal hate crimes trial.
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Hon. Arthur "Jerry" Kremer
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Anthony Figliola
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