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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where two of the last fully intact blocks of Bed-Stuy brownstones have been landmarked.
Here’s what else is happening:
- New York City has 186,000 fewer residents under the age of 20 than it did three years ago.
- Most big cities actually saw their youth populations drop during the pandemic — except in Florida.
- Since taking office a year ago, NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban has used an arcane power called “retention” to prevent misconduct cases against 54 police officers from going to trial. For context, his predecessor Keechant Sewell did this eight times in her first year.
- The Civilian Complaint Review Board, the NYPD’s watchdog group, has exonerated Chief of Patrol John Chell for telling officers to “lock up” an award-winning photojournalist while she was covering a 2023 protest.
- Doulas working through a city-funded initiative to serve moms in “marginalized neighborhoods” said they’re frustrated with delays in payment — and the fact that they’re paid the same rate no matter how long a delivery lasts.
- The Upper West Side is inching closer to getting its Wegmans.
- A new viral video appears to show a woman on a Brooklyn subway platform screaming at — and slapping — an NYPD officer who told her to stop vaping.
- Martin Scorsese and the mother of Giants quarterback Tommy Devito were among the attendees at Justin Timberlake’s world tour stop at Madison Square Garden this week.
- Editorial note: The email newsletter version of Early Addition misstated which blocks of Bed-Stuy have been landmarked — the designation applies to Willoughby Avenue and Hart Street between Nostrand and Marcy Avenues.
- And finally, potty break’s over: