In Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Sunday, onlookers gawked at a charred hilltop, where newly fallen leaves had already obscured the scorched earth of Friday’s 2-acre brushfire. Scapegoating misses the point: “At the end of the day, what is really causing these fires is the dry conditions,” New York City Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol told me later when I asked …
“This is not good,” he said, according to the recording obtained by The Associated Press. “There’s a lot going on in the city and the thing that I’m most concerned about is city leadership being distracted.“ When asked whether he plans to resign, Iscol did not directly answer the question. Between hurricane season and the upcoming election and everything else …
CNN — New York City opened a sprawling tent camp Wednesday on an isolated East River island to temporarily house hundreds of single, adult male migrants whose arrival has prompted the mayor to declare a state of emergency. Greg Abbott and other southern border officials started busing thousands of migrants to New York, the 84,400-square-foot tent facility in Randall’s Island …
