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Among the stumbling blocks, according to the NTA, was a late attempt to “extract more than $1 million from educators.”

“The Committee showed no interest in healing rifts or truly ending this strike — a strike that
Click Here: Cheap AFL Guernseyswould not have occurred had the School Committee settled this contract at any point during the 16 months of negotiations that preceded the strike vote,” the NTA said. “The NTA is prepared to settle a fair agreement and reasonable return-to-work agreement that fosters the rebuilding of relationships across the school community.”

The School Committee issued a statement late Friday morning saying the sides were “extremely close to settling a contract” and that it is “optimistic about the progress we’ve made toward a return to school on Monday.”

The School Committee said the $1 million the NTA referenced stemmed from “compensatory services and court fees” because of the strike.

“It is our responsibility to determine how those costs will be paid,” the School Committee said.

The state was expected to get more involved in the impasse — which has included teachers working without a contract for five months before voting to strike on Jan. 18 — on Friday with the possibility of binding arbitration should the sides not reach an agreement by Friday.

Teachers were back on the picket lines Friday morning with leadership vowing not to return to the
classrooms without what they consider to be a fair contract despite racking up more than $500,000 in fines with possible additional court penalties coming Friday for a strike that is illegal under Massachusetts state law.

All school buildings remain closed — and all school sports, arts and drama programs, after-school care and community education programs are canceled — amid the strike.

All missed school days will have to be made up this academic year before June 30.

The School Committee on Thursday unveiled a plan that would have students make up at least four of those days during the upcoming February vacation with additional days potentially made up during April vacation after the Patriots Day holiday — which includes the Boston Marathon route going through the heart of the city.

After getting emotional during a Wednesday night news conference, Brezski went on the offensive on Thursday, saying that while the cause of the strike was a “collective failure” now “the strike itself is not a collective failure. It is a unilateral decision and a willful action to close our schools while negotiations progress.”

Brezski said the NTA should send the School Committee’s latest offer to its membership for a vote and return to “the schools that we deserve, the schools that we fought for, schools that are within our reach.

“All they have to do is say: ‘Yes.'”

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But unobstructed movement between cars (and, perhaps, away from irksome fellow straphangers) isn’t the only perk offered by the R211 subway cars, officials said.

The cars come with wider doors, better wheelchair accessibility and pre-installed cameras, they said.

“Every car has at least two cameras that people know that when something’s going on, it makes them uncomfortable, there’s somebody aware of it,” Hochul said. “That’s a great deterrent, but it also gives people that sense of comfort. The police can actually see what’s going on and respond quicker.”

Roughly 1,000 subway cars across the entire MTA system now have cameras, officials said.

The new open design also eliminates gaps between cars, which Hochul said will prevent subway surfing and falls.

The cars’ inaugural ride unfolded about an hour before Mayor Eric Adams made an announcement of his own: newfangled garbage trucks.

Adams unveiled a new, automated, side-loading garbage truck designed to take containerized trash.

The trucks will service residential buildings with 31 or more units, which soon will be required to use stationary, on-street containers for their trash, officials said.

Such buildings in Manhattan Community Board 9 — which covers Morningside Heights, Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights — will be the first in the city to fall under the new requirement in spring 2025, officials said.

Adams said the trucks dovetail with other recent efforts to eliminate the mountains of black plastic bags from the city’s streets.

“This is the most significant progress toward clean streets that New Yorkers have seen in generations,” he said.

Hizzoner wasn’t alone in perhaps-hyperbolically describing the trucks’ significance.

“This was our moon landing,” NYC Sanitation tweeted, along with a video showing the truck pick up trash.

The trash hubbub was less impressive for non-New Yorkers, who unleashed a veritable heap of snarky tweets.

“I’m sorry is this some kind of elaborate prank on the rest of the world or does NYC legitimately not have garbage trucks that pick up trash cans, a technology that every town of 800 people in the country has had for 30 years now?” stated one representative tweet.

I’m sorry is this some kind of elaborate prank on the rest of the world or does NYC legitimately not have garbage trucks that pick up trash cans, a technology that every town of 800 people in the country has had for 30 years now? https://t.co/SWQMtDmfD2
— strings and sealing wax (@22_over7) February 1, 2024

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Prosecutors originally charged Esonoasue with hate crime charges for his arraignment after the attack.

Several outlets reported that Esonoasue made statements against white people, but a spokesperson said prosecutors currently had no evidence he said any bias-motivated statements during the attack.

The knifing unfolded Christmas morning in the iconic station’s Dining Concourse, where Esonoasue had been milling about, court records state.

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Esonoasue then picked up a fork and scratched a woman’s neck before pulling out a knife, prosecutors said.

He walked up to a family of tourists visiting from Peru and stabbed a 16-year-old girl in the back, deeply puncturing her lung and diaphragm, authorities said. A 14-year-old girl tried to run off, prompting Esonoasue to stab her in the leg, officials said.

Prosecutors are continuing to investigate whether additional charges are appropriate, a spokesperson said.

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Back at the courthouse, Andreano is requesting a jury trial against Reid and Roechner surrounding their conduct as Joliet police chief and deputy chief.

“Al Roechner and Marc Reid are individuals and have been sued as such. Plaintiff alleges these individuals committed legal wrongs for personal gain and private purposes, harming him in the process,” Andreano put in his Dec. 18 legal filing. “This case is no different than the patrolman who satiates his racial animus by improper blows with a baton or agrees with fellow officers to falsely arrest an ex-spouse in order to gain an advantage in a custody battle.

“In short, holding a badge or high office or both does not free a person from responsibility for their own actions and their attempt to reframe the facts is something they can attempt at trial, but not at this stage.”

According to Andreano, his client’s complaint outlines “a deliberate and concerted effort by the defendants, in their official capacities, to orchestrate a false police report, initiate criminal proceedings and release damaging information to the press. This conduct, as described in their complaint, meets the threshold of extreme and outrageous behavior …”

In November 2020, Roechner held a gathering of like-minded people at his house in Joliet and a decision was made to file a Joliet police report against Mayor Bob O’Dekirk accusing him of committing the crime of intimidation against Dickinson.

Once Reid prepared the police report, the document was furnished to Joe Hosey, to publish a story in the Joliet Herald-News, Patch has previously reported. Hosey no longer works in Illinois, and he remains one of several co-defendants in a federal RICO lawsuit filed last year by O’Dekirk. Other defendants in that case include former Joliet Councilman Jim McFarland, Reid, Roechner and current City Councilman Pat Mudron.

Last May, Patch reported that Attorney General Kwame Raoul was asked by Joliet’s inspector general Sean Connolly to file criminal charges of official misconduct against Roechner and Reid.

Samuel Thomas, a high-ranking lieutenant at the Illinois State Police, concluded that Reid and Roechner hatched a phony criminal investigation to bring false charges of intimidation against Mayor O’Dekirk, documents obtained by Joliet Patch reveal.

In November 2020, O’Dekirk was accused of blackmailing Councilman Dickinson regarding supposed photos of Dickinson’s genitals.

“As this investigation progressed, it became clear the subject of the investigation was not blackmail but police misconduct by the then-Chief of Police Alan Roechner and then Deputy Chief Marc Reid; false allegations by then Councilman Dickinson; false allegations by former Councilman (Jim) McFarland; breach of journalistic ethics by then managing editor of The Herald-News Joseph Hosey; and failure by Councilman (Pat) Mudron to stop and or report actions by Joliet government officials he knew or should have known were false,” declared Westmont attorney Sean Connolly, who serves as Joliet’s inspector general.

Related Joliet Patch coverage:

Shaw Media Dropped, 7 Defendants Remain In Mayor O’Dekirk’s Lawsuit

Ex-Joliet Mayor Files Federal Suit: Roechner, Reid Among 8 Defendants

Ex-Chief, Ex-Deputy Chief Conspired To Damage Mayor: IL State Police

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Arrestees were from western Riverside County, including Banning, Beaumont, Canyon Lake, Hemet, Lake Elsinore, Menifee, Moreno Valley, Murrieta, Perris, Riverside, Temecula, Wildomar and Winchester, as well as cities across the Coachella Valley. Some arrestees were from outside the county, according to the sheriff’s department.

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Statewide, “Operation Reclaim & Rebuild” efforts netted 539 arrests and 65 rescues, the department reported.

“Prostitution is not a ‘victimless’ crime. Those victimized by commercial sexual exploitation frequently have long histories of emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse or trauma in their backgrounds,” according to the sheriff’s department.

“The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children estimates that 1 in 6 endangered runaways reported are likely victims of sex trafficking,” the agency continued. “Sex trafficking victims are often subjected not only to severe forms of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of their trafficker but are also frequently physically and sexually assaulted by those who solicit them for prostitution.”

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“An infill station on the 7 line would shorten commute times for some customers traveling to and from emerging areas of Hell’s Kitchen and Hudson Yards,” the MTA evaluation of the proposed station reads, “but the project would have a significant construction cost and would not substantially decrease crowding or expand accessibility regionally, since it serves an area already served by other transit lines.”

The station would also not help lessen crowding and could actually add time to commuters heading to the West 34th Street station.

According to the evaluation, the project objective of the station would be to “shorten commute times to developing areas of Hudson Yards.” The MTA said the proposed station would only save riders one minute per trip.

Bottcher, who ran on pushing for the construction of the station during his campaign to replace former boss and former City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, helped pen the letter to Gov. Hochul and MTA Chairman Janno Lieber, calling on the agency to not forget about Hell’s Kitchen.

“We are disappointed by the [MTA’s] assessment of this project in its 20 Year Needs Assessment, but we are hopeful that this station will ultimately be included in the MTA’s next Capital Program,” the letter reads.

Since the “ill-advised decision was made to remove this station” from the original 7 line extension, the letter reads, the neighborhood’s population has grown by nearly 30 percent, according to the 2020 Census.

“This was a missed opportunity,” the letter said. “As elected representatives, we ask that you move forward with construction of this station that would have a positive and lasting impact on the lives of New Yorkers for generations to come.”

There might not be much room in the next capital plan according to the transit agency, citing investments needed to keep “our existing system in a state of good repair and delivering cost-effective projects are top priorities,” said MTA Spokesperson Aaron Donovan.

Any path forward for the station, according to the MTA, would have to include funding by multiple parties — a mix of private, local and federal dollars — as it was originally pitched with such a funding model originally.

Hopes of a 10th Avenue station were briefly revived in 2016, when the city said it was conducting a feasibility study for the $1 billion station as part of a new development including a headquarters for the nonprofit Covenant House.

“It was a bait-and-switch. We got one station but we didn’t get the second that we were promised,” Hoylman-Sigal said at a 2022 rally in support of the station.

“A lot of people live even further west than we are now,” Bottcher said at the same rally, where nearly all of the current letter-signers were present. “It is a very very long walk to the subway.”

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