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Summary: NYC ambulance response times have deteriorated sharply. Life-threatening calls take 41% longer than a decade ago, driven by severe EMS staffing shortages, low pay and retention problems, high call volumes, and the closure of 19 hospitals since 2003. The crisis has produced extreme failures, including a 14-year-old stroke patient waiting more than an hour without an ambulance, and FDNY officials acknowledge current response times are unacceptable.

It seems like they've identified the problem, but not the solution.

EMS pay starts at $44k per year, their union has had a lapsed contract since 2022. The city's hesitant to renegotiate because they don't want to set a precedent of agreeing to pay higher wages to city employees.

Is this a giant/obese squirrel? Saw it while running west side highway.

Hello NYC -- the rescuer that rescued my cat off the streets is trying to place this sweetie, Jimmy, into his forever home and I'm helping her out for extra reach.

Jimmy is approximately 3 years old, medium-sized, neutered, a litter box master, and a sweet boy with a lot of playful energy (he loves his toys and birdwatching). Due to his friendly temperament, he can be placed in a household as a single cat or with other cats; HOWEVER, he does get a little skittish with new people and surroundings and will require a little time and patience to get warmed up. We can start with “love at first sight” for you, prospective pawrent and then work patiently from there.

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Thanks so much for reading! 🤍

New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels faced a public grilling by New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones at a school integration town hall Tuesday night over his lack of a detailed plan to address inequality in city public schools, more than 10 months into the new mayoral administration.

The Brooklyn-based civil rights writer recently published a follow-up essay about her decision to put her daughter in a racially segregated school, outlining how her daughter was having a hard time keeping up in the high school of her choice as a result, and renewed calls for a citywide school integration plan.

“The people who keep getting told they have to wait for the ‘right time’ are the people who need public schools the most,” Hannah-Jones said at the Washington Irving Campus near Union Square in Manhattan.

“You have to understand the discontent with this. It’s 10 months in,” she told Samuels. “When a timeline can’t be offered, you can understand why people will feel like that means you are just delaying.”

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Just witnessed a bike crash around w80th. I hope the guy is ok 😭 if anyone has any updates, please post them here.