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Old January 25th, 2015 #821
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Staffers ‘not informed’ after gun attack at NYC high school
By Susan Edelman and Kirstan Conley
January 25, 2015 | 9:35am


Hours before a shooting near Progress High School for Professional Careers in Williamsburg on January 20, a student used a loaded gun to hit a classmate.
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A student used a loaded gun to strike a classmate inside Progress HS for Professional Careers in Brooklyn — just hours before two other students were shot in a gang-related fight, The Post has learned.

News of the hallway assault shocked and angered staffers in the Grand Street Campus, a building that houses three Williamsburg high schools, because many were not informed about the incident at the time, sources say.

“Why weren’t we told? We want to be on the alert. We want to have a heads up,” an insider said.

Some blamed Progress Principal William Jusino, who lobbied hard to have metal detectors removed from the building in 1996.

In the school last Tuesday at about 1:30 p.m., a 17-year-old boy was walking to class when Traevon Stokes, 18, pulled the loaded pistol from his pants and struck him in the head, cops said.

A school safety agent spotted the attack and seized the gun. Stokes was arrested and charged with assault and criminal weapon possession. The victim was treated at the scene.

At about 2:50 p.m., shortly after dismissal, shots rang out less than a block away. A 17-year-old boy was shot in the arm and a 14-year-old girl was struck in the leg. The boy was the intended target, police said.

The shooter jumped on a bus and fled. Cops later found a .25 caliber handgun believed to have been used in the shooting, but have not yet made any arrests.

The shooting was apparently gang-related, cops said. Whether the shooting and earlier gun attack are related is under investigation.

The NYPD has since stationed mobile metal detectors at the school.

Jusino did not return a call or e-mail, but told The Post in 2011 that he opposed permanent scanners.

“We greet students at the door with respect,” he said.
 
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Assemblywoman uses nonprofit to turn taxpayer-bought land into private parking lot
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein
January 25, 2015 | 9:29am


Assemblywoman Vivian Cook
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Assemblywoman Vivian Cook has resurrected her defunct nonprofit in order to turn an empty plot— purchased by the shady group with taxpayer money — into a private parking lot.

The Queens Democrat said the Rockaway Boulevard Local Development Corp. is renting the parcel to a New Jersey contractor who has stashed trucks and construction equipment behind a locked chain-link gate.

Cook said she can’t remember how much rent the group is charging the contractor, what his name is, or when exactly he signed the lease.

“We’re renting it to the gentleman,” Cook said.

Whatever money they do collect, she said, would go to the back property taxes the nonprofit owes on the Rockaway Boulevard land. But the group hasn’t even started incremental payments. It will pay “as soon as we can pay,” Cook said.

Records show the nonprofit owes the city $58,044, dating to 2012, when it lost a property-tax exemption of the land.

Cook is best known for sending taxpayer money to another nonprofit — an education concern run by her pal, former state Sen. Shirley Huntley. Huntley pleaded guilty in 2013 to taking $87,000 from the group, admitting that she and a fellow lawmaker — later identified as Cook — would use the taxpayer cash to go on shopping trips.

The Rockaway Boulevard nonprofit folded in 2010 after The Post revealed how it misspent its money, most of which came from the Port Authority. It lost its tax-exempt status with the IRS in 2012 after failing to file tax returns for three years.

Cook founded the organization in 1979 and lobbied the PA for cash in the 1990s as it began planning for the AirTrain from Jamaica to Kennedy Airport.

The PA agreed to give $8 million to Rockaway Boulevard LDC and had handed over $2.5 million by 2010.

The organization used $560,500 to buy the empty lot in 2006 although the land was valued by the city at $287,000.

The land was to be the site of a business resource center, but was never developed.

Cook told The Post in 2010 that there was a delay because the PA wanted to put the project out to bid, but the organization wanted to “hire our own people.”

The nonprofit, which had two paid employees, also had a street-sweeping project, but contracted out the work to another organization, the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce.

After the Post exposé, the PA cut off the cash and launched an investigation into the charity. Federal investigators also started a probe, and the group shut its storefront office on Rockaway Boulevard.

It hasn’t filed required paperwork with the state since 2008. Cook, who was listed as the group’s president on its 2008 tax filing, said some of the charity’s former board members came together to rent the property.

She insisted the group was still going to develop the land.
 
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Chief of Staff rallies Democrats behind Sheldon Silver
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein
January 25, 2015 | 8:26am


Sheldon Silver's long time Chief of Staff Judy Rapfogel has been instrumental in rallying Democratic support for the embattled Assembly speaker.
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As Sheldon Silver faced criminal charges in Manhattan last week, other Assembly Democrats gathered in a closed-door session in Albany to mull his future — but his eyes and ears were still in the room.

The Thursday meeting was supposed to be lawmakers-only, but Silver’s longtime chief of staff Judy Rapfogel was allowed to stay, a source told The Post, calling her presence inappropriate.

And when lawmakers emerged from the 90-minute powwow, they announced their support for Silver.

“She is extremely powerful. People are afraid to mess with her,” a political insider said of Rapfogel, who earned $172,211 in 2013, more than double the salary of an Assembly member.

On Monday, Assembly Dems will hear from Silver himself — at a closed-door conference.

Even candidates who wish to succeed him will grant him the courtesy, an Assembly Democratic insider said.

Rapfogel’s husband, William, is a close pal of Silver’s who himself landed in hot water. He was sentenced to 3¹/₃ to 10 years in prison in July after pleading guilty to running a $9 million kickback scam at the non-profit he headed, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, which gets millions in taxpayer money from the state.
 
Old February 18th, 2015 #824
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Angry De blasio to illegal immigrants after court ruling: ‘we have your back’

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city will continue to prepare for executive amnesty and encourage illegal immigrants to get ready to sign up, despite a court ruling temporarily blocking the executive actions.

“New York City will continue to prepare for implementation of the President’s executive action, and encourage immigrant communities to step forward and sign up when programs go live—these programs are lawful and secure,” he said in a statement, adding “and we have your back.”
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In his State of the City last week, Mayor de Blasio bragged of having provided seats for 50,000 kids in his “universal pre-k” program. Well, not quite “universal”: It bars nine out of 10 kids at Jewish day schools.

A group of these schools, led by the Orthodox Union, says de Blasio’s pre-k plan left them “out in the cold,” because it requires six hours and 20 minutes of “secular instruction” a day, which leaves no time for privately funded religious instruction.
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jewsign Mayor de Blasio Seeks Stronger Ties With Jewish Voters

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Two weeks ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio stood shoulder to shoulder with France’s chief rabbi at the Park East Synagogue and challenged European leaders to break their “atmosphere of indifference” toward anti-Semitism. A few days later, he slipped out of New York City to attend the wedding of a Hasidic leader’s grandson. Last week, he loosened city regulations on a medically questionable ultra-Orthodox circumcision ritual.

Amid rising anti-Semitic violence abroad and his own political travails at home, Mr. de Blasio has embarked on a furious campaign to define himself as an international spokesman for Jewish concerns, and to deepen his relationship with New York’s often fractious Jewish community.
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Old March 10th, 2015 #827
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jewsign NYC Delays Decision to Repeal Mandatory Parental Consent for Jewish Ritual

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Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has delayed plans to repeal a city regulation requiring parental consent before a Jewish circumcision ritual is performed.

The ritual can cause herpes infection in infants.
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