NYC Rallies For Abortion Rights | Week In Review

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06 May, 2022

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NEW YORK CITY — Here's a roundup of the top headlines from Patch from around New York City this week. Photos: NYC Rallies For Abortion Rights After Supreme Court Leak "We women, we are the majority, " said Attorney General Letitia James. "We will not go back to the days when we used wire hangers." NYC Now At 'Medium' COVID-19 Risk Alert, Officials Say A steady increase of COVID-19 cases prompted health officials to upgrade the city from "low" risk Monday. NYC Weather: 1 WTC Struck By Lightning Bolt That Shakes City Thunder shook many New Yorkers awake Monday morning as the city faces a week of wet weather, forecasters said. NYC Murders, Shootings Dropped Significantly In April: NYPD But the month still saw a high-profile mass shooting in a Brooklyn subway station — and other major crimes rose, new NYPD data shows. Only 39 NYers Accept Shelter In Six Weeks Of Encampment Sweeps: Data Only a small percentage of hundreds living in homeless encampments cleared by the city accepted a spot in a shelter, new data shows. $4M Anti-Speeding Campaign To Tackle NYC's Traffic Violence 'Crisis' An East New York billboard unveiled Monday is the first of many that will tell New Yorkers to "Slow down, " Mayor Eric Adams said. Mayor's Approval Dips As Crime Stays Top-Of-Mind For NYers, Poll Shows More than half of New Yorkers don't think Mayor Eric Adams is doing a good job tackling the city's most pressing issue — crime, polls found. De Blasio To Biden: You're Really, Really Unpopular Just Like Me "When it comes to being unpopular, I'm unfortunately somewhat of an expert, " the former mayor wrote in a new Atlantic essay. Amazon Workers Reject Union In 2nd Staten Island Warehouse Weeks after a historic win at another Staten Island warehouse, union organizers' second try failed 618 votes to 380. 175K NYers Charged For 'Free' TurboTax Service Get Settlement: AG More than 176, 000 low-income New Yorkers unfairly charged by TurboTax soon could get paid back, the New York Attorney General announced.