NYC Will Require Vaccination Or Weekly Testing For All City Workers "Beginning in mid-September, New York City will require all of its 340,000 municipal workers, including police, firefighters and teachers, to either be vaccinated against COVID-19 or tested weekly. The mayor's office says the policy will be announced Monday." (Gothamist)
O! Be Joyful! The Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane Has Made It To Manhattan "Construction on the bike lane, which runs on the bridge’s Manhattan-bound roadbed, began in June, six months after plans were announced by Mayor de Blasio in his State of the City address." (Streetsblog)
Senate votes to move forward with bipartisan infrastructure bill "The proposal includes some of President Biden's top domestic priorities and provides billions of dollars in funding for bridges, roads, broadband internet, clean water, public transit and more over the next five years. It encapsulates so-called "hard" infrastructure and is separate from Democratic efforts to pass a $3.5 trillion package for so-called "soft" infrastructure, which includes policies like Medicare expansion and universal child care." (CBS News)
Billionaire Developer Mulls Closing NYC Tourist Hot Spot After 14-Year-Old Leaps to His Death "The teen who died Thursday is the fourth person to take their own life at [the Vessel sculpture in New York City’s Hudson Yards] since it opened to much fanfare in March 2019." (The Daily Beast)
Cuomo Promises Emergency Rent Payments Will Be Made By August 31st "The Emergency Rental Assistance Program went into effect at the beginning of June, and 160,000 New Yorkers across the state applied so far. But over nearly two months, the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), the state agency in charge of the program, has sent out only $117,000 in what it said were test payments designed to ensure the program was working securely." (Gothamist)
KPG signs long-term ground lease for 57K sf at 132 West 14th Street "The Soho-based firm, whose business model is to purchase aging but architecturally significant buildings and convert their Class B and C office space into Class A, signed a 99-year ground lease Wednesday for 132 West 14th Street with the Salvation Army." (The Real Deal)
