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      N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates on Pandemic Recovery

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      We interviewed the eight leading Democratic candidates for mayor about the biggest issues facing the city. Here’s what they said.The next mayor will inherit an economy devastated by the pandemic. Here’s how eight of the leading candidates for mayor of New York say they would help the city recover:Eric AdamsWe will focus on our small businesses to get our small businesses up and operating again. We will look after those over a million New Yorkers who are rent-insecure so that we can stabilize them. And then we will also assist those small-property landlords so that they won’t lose their homes in the process.Shaun DonovanI would make sure everyone can walk into a restaurant, everyone can walk into a theater, with an app on their phone that lets them know that it’s a safe place and that the restaurant or the theater knows that that person has been vaccinated.Kathryn GarciaArt, culture, restaurants. When they’re strong, that means offices are strong, and that means that tourism comes back. That’s how we come out of this.Raymond J. McGuireThe first thing I would do is my economic plan, the largest, most inclusive economic comeback in the history of this city. Five hundred thousand jobs — go big, go small, go forward, focusing on the small businesses who are the lifeblood of this city.Dianne MoralesThis is an opportunity for us to transform how we operate and move away from an overreliance on large corporations that come into our communities, exploit our labor and extract our wealth, and rebuild by focusing on those who own businesses locally.Scott M. StringerWe can’t open our city the same way we closed it. We have to recognize that in our hardest-hit communities, where there was tremendous loss of life, we have to reinvest in these neighborhoods to repair the damage that Covid brought.How 8 Mayoral Hopefuls Plan to Fix the EconomyNew York City is facing a financial crisis, largely because of the pandemic. Here’s how some candidates plan to address the city’s budget shortfall..Maya WileyI have a plan called New Deal New York, which I can start executing on Day 1, because as mayor, I will have the power to increase our capital construction budget to $10 billion. That just means money that helps us build things we need built and fixing things we need fixed.Andrew YangWe have to get back some of the 66 million tourists who helped support 300,000 of the 600,000 jobs that are missing, as well as all the commuters who are missing from Midtown and other parts of the city. More

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      How New Yorkers Are Shaping the Trump Impeachment Trial

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      #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }The Trump ImpeachmentliveTrial HighlightsDay 2: Key TakeawaysVideo of Jan. 6 RiotWhat to Expect TodayWhat Is Incitement?Trump’s LawyersAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyNew York TodayHow New Yorkers Are Shaping the Trump Impeachment TrialFeb. 11, 2021, 5:19 a.m. ET [Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.]It’s Thursday. [embedded content]Weather: Snow tapers off in the morning, and there may be a little sun later. High in the mid-30s. Alternate-side parking: Suspended today for Lunar New Year’s Eve. Credit…Anna Moneymaker for The New York TimesAs the second impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump unfolds, New Yorkers in Congress are playing key roles.Last month, 20 New York representatives voted for impeachment, while six were against. Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, helped set the structure of the trial.Convicting Mr. Trump would require a two-thirds majority in the Senate. If that happened, the Senate could then vote on whether to bar Mr. Trump from ever holding office again.[A complete timeline of Trump’s second impeachment.]Here’s what senators and representatives from New York are saying about the impeachment trial:Senator Chuck SchumerFor weeks, Mr. Schumer worked with Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, to set the rules and procedures governing the trial. On Monday, the two Senate leaders reached a deal.“A president cannot simply resign to avoid accountability for an impeachable offense,” Mr. Schumer said on the Senate floor that day. “This trial will confirm that fact.”Aside from the trial, Mr. Schumer is working to pass a huge coronavirus relief bill and pushing a plan to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt for each borrower.House DemocratsAs the trial began, many New York Democrats continued to voice their support for impeachment.On Tuesday, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat who serves parts of Brooklyn and Queens, and was an impeachment manager at the first trial last year, wrote on Twitter that the country needs to “defeat authoritarianism” and that “today we take another important step in that journey.”A television interview from 2018 with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents parts of the Bronx and Queens, was used in a video montage by Mr. Trump’s defense team to argue that some Democrats have called for Mr. Trump’s impeachment since the outset of his presidency.House RepublicansRepresentative John Katko, who represents Syracuse, was the only Republican from New York to vote in favor of the impeachment. In explaining his vote, Mr. Katko revealed that a former intern of his was beaten during the Capitol riot last month that led to the impeachment charge against Mr. Trump.“To allow the president of the United States to incite this attack without consequences is a direct threat to the future of this democracy,” Mr. Katko said on the House floor.Staunch supporters of the president continued to stand their ground, including Representative Nicole Malliotakis, who represents Staten Island and part of South Brooklyn. “For the second time,” she wrote Tuesday on Twitter, “Democrats have engaged in an unfounded, partisan impeachment process that cheapens the pillars of our democracy.”From The TimesTrump Justice Department Sought to Block Search of Giuliani RecordsEric Garner’s Mother Backs McGuire for Mayor Over Progressive RivalsSpringsteen Faces Drunken Driving Charges in New JerseyNew York to Let Fans in Sports Stadiums and ArenasIs the Mayor of an Exclusive Hamptons Enclave a Squatter? It’s ComplicatedWant more news? Check out our full coverage.The Mini Crossword: Here is today’s puzzle.What we’re readingThe Christopher Street PATH station has the filthiest air of all Northeast transit hubs, according to a New York University study. [New York Post]The New York Police Department removed the last of the barricades surrounding Trump Tower. [Gothamist]Five current and former Long Island Rail Road employees pleaded not guilty to charges of falsely claiming more than $1 million of overtime. [Daily News]And finally: Remembering Joe AllenThe Times’s Peter Khoury writes:The coolest bar stool in Midtown just may be on the second floor of a townhouse on West 46th Street. There — before the pandemic — you could slip onto a zebra-print stool near a window, take in the theater crowd milling about outside on Restaurant Row and enjoy a cocktail among Broadway luminaries, in a bar that is perhaps Manhattan’s best homage to the buzzy New York nightclubs of yesteryear.That place, Bar Centrale, opened in 2005 and was a last hurrah of sorts for Joe Allen, the storied theater district restaurateur who died on Sunday, less than two weeks shy of his 88th birthday.If you didn’t know Joe Allen, you might not have realized that he was, at times, sitting at the same bar as you, drinking Stella Artois or red wine. Largely reserved and comfortably dressed, he did not advertise himself. He didn’t need to.He opened the restaurant Joe Allen, next door to Bar Centrale, in 1965, and later created Orso, which is directly below Bar Centrale.I’ve been going to Joe Allen for more than two decades, but I didn’t really get to meet the man until he opened Bar Centrale. We’d chat at the bar, and he’d invariably ask about something in the news. His interest in The Times was such that even the placement of the crossword puzzle interested him.[Read the full appreciation by Mr. Khoury.]Joe was not morbid about death. He told me a few years ago that when you die doesn’t matter — “it’s how.” He had been in declining health and died peacefully in New Hampshire.His quiet end belies the indelible mark Joe left on the restaurant world, particularly in the theater district, where his three restaurants have temporarily closed during the pandemic. There, he remains as classic as the old black-and-white movies that continuously play without sound on a screen at Bar Centrale that you can see from the coolest bar stool in Midtown.It’s Thursday — raise a glass.Metropolitan Diary: Her mum’s hand Dear Diary:I was brushing my teeth one morning, and I looked down at my hand resting on the counter. It was my mum’s hand.I grew up in College Point, Queens. My mother never drove a car here in America, although she had driven a farm tractor back in Scotland as a teenager. So, my mother and father walked, and, as children, so did we. (If we needed to go to Flushing, we took the bus.)My predominant memory of walking with my mum when I was little is how fast she walked. I quickly learned to look both ways and to run across the street.Walking with my mother, I always hung on tightly to her hand. I was afraid to let go. I remember feeling like my feet left the ground when her skirts whipped around my legs as we walked. Block after block, my hand hung on to hers; it was my job not to get lost.I never liked my mother’s hands, who knows why? I have always grown my fingernails long to make sure our hands looked different (though not so long now that I am nearing my late 60s).When I was young, I was told I had pretty hands. Now I see she must have had pretty hands when she was young, too. I used to ask her to pet my head. I remember her hands were gentle.Yes, I have my mum’s hands. I’d say they are identical.— Nancy Hope FischerNew York Today is published weekdays around 6 a.m. Sign up here to get it by email. You can also find it at nytoday.com.What would you like to see more (or less) of? Email us: nytoday@nytimes.com.AdvertisementContinue reading the main story More

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      In Minnesota, a G.O.P. Lawmaker’s Death Brings Home the Reality of Covid

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      #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }The Coronavirus OutbreakliveLatest UpdatesMaps and CasesVaccine InformationF.A.Q.TimelineAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyIn Minnesota, a G.O.P. Lawmaker’s Death Brings Home the Reality of CovidMinnesota Republicans celebrated election victories with a gala party. A state senator’s death from Covid-19 underlined the consequences of the G.O.P.’s rejection of health experts’ guidance.Dana Relph’s father, State Senator Jerry Relph of Minnesota, died from Covid-19 after attending a celebratory dinner with other Republicans following Election Day. Credit…Caroline Yang for The New York TimesJan. 18, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ETRepublicans in the Minnesota State Senate were feeling jubilant after the November election. They had held onto a slim majority following an onslaught by Democrats trying to win control. Now, it was time to party.More than 100 senators, their spouses and their staff members gathered for a celebratory dinner at a catering hall outside the Twin Cities on Nov. 5, two days after Election Day. Masks were offered to guests on arrival, but there was little mask wearing over hours of dining and drinking, at a moment when a long-predicted surge in coronavirus infections was gripping the state.At least four senators in attendance tested positive for Covid-19 in the days that followed. One was the Republican majority leader, Paul Gazelka, the state’s most outspoken opponent of mask mandates and shutdown orders during the pandemic. He compared his symptoms to a “moderate flu” and recovered. So did two other senators who had tested positive after the dinner.“Our future cannot be prolonged isolation, face coverings and limited activities,” Mr. Gazelka said defiantly in announcing his positive test.The fourth was Senator Jerry Relph, a Vietnam veteran and grandfather from St. Cloud, Minn. Struggling to breathe after testing positive for the coronavirus, he was admitted to a hospital in mid-November. He died on Dec. 18, at age 76.His daughter Dana Relph, who watched her father fight the disease as well as the cruel isolation it forces on patients and families, is still furious at Republican leaders for holding the dinner and the refusal of Mr. Gazelka to take responsibility.Mr. Relph died on Dec. 18 after being admitted to a hospital in mid-November.Credit…Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune, via Associated Press“Why are you throwing a party with 100-plus people in the middle of a pandemic?” said Ms. Relph, 44, who was not allowed to visit her father until the day he died. “Why would you choose to do that when we know people are going to be eating and drinking and taking their masks off, where their inhibitions will be lowered? Why would you even consider that responsible behavior?”Mr. Gazelka declined an interview request, and a spokeswoman said he would not respond to Ms. Relph “out of respect for privacy requested from the family.”Ten months into the coronavirus crisis, the ongoing Republican resistance to mask wearing and social distancing is a striking political phenomenon: G.O.P. officials have abetted the spread of the virus to friends and colleagues, even fatally so, because they don’t take the science seriously.Four Democratic members of Congress tested positive this month after being in lockdown at the Capitol on Jan. 6 with Republicans who refused to wear masks. Luke Letlow, just elected to Congress as a freshman Republican from Louisiana, died of Covid-19 in December, days before he was to be sworn in. According to the election data site Ballotpedia, six state lawmakers have died from Covid-19, including the speaker of the New Hampshire State House and a Virginia state senator who succumbed on New Year’s Day. All six were Republicans.G.O.P. officials and voters have amplified President Trump’s misinformation about risk factors. After two packed campaign rallies in Minnesota for the president over the summer, defying state orders and federal guidelines, coronavirus cases spiked in the surrounding counties.And while Republicans insist that their freedom was at issue in refusing to wear masks or enforce mandates, such events and the death of Mr. Relph raise urgent questions as to where individual “freedom” ends and where responsibility to others begins in a pandemic during which breathing shared air can be fatal.“It’s ironic that Senator Gazelka, as majority leader, was always the person most outspoken in opposing the governor’s emergency order and would state to us over and over again that Minnesotans would do the responsible thing,” said Richard Cohen, a Democrat who retired from the Legislature last month. “And now it is alleged that because of a caucus event, where apparently many people were not wearing masks, a caucus member became ill and then passed away.”An owner of the catering hall, John Schiltz, said that his servers had worn masks and gloves throughout that evening, and that none had later tested positive. Although masks were offered to guests, state guidelines at the time allowed them to be removed at tables.Mr. Schiltz said the dinner was the only event any group had booked at his venue in November before he had to close on Nov. 20. As of that date, Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, restricted bars and restaurants to takeout and delivery service only amid a surge in virus cases, hospitalizations and deaths.Paul Gazelka, the leader of the Republican majority in the Minnesota State Senate, spoke outside the State Capitol in October.Credit…Leila Navidi/Star Tribune, via Associated PressPressed about the dinner in a radio interview in late November, Mr. Gazelka, 61, who is reported to be considering a run for governor, said he had no regrets.The Coronavirus Outbreak More