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Early Addition: Gov. Hochul is trying to end paid sick leave for COVID-19
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Published Feb 6, 2024
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where these fireball explosions in Queens are just for a movie shoot.
Here's what else is happening:
- Left-leaning Democrats in Albany are introducing a bill to create affordable housing in New York City that would be funded, in part, with money raised in the bond market.
- Come July 31, Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to scrap New York's guaranteed paid sick leave for people with COVID-19.
- Weeks after someone died from eating a Stew Leonard's cookie with undeclared peanuts, the grocery chain is recalling a bunch of chicken products because they may contain undeclared milk.
- Atlantic Avenue got three new mid-block traffic lights and pedestrian crosswalks, which officials hope will make the so-called "Boulevard of Death" safer.
- A sheep briefly ran free in Sunset Park over the weekend.
- The monster truck rally in Newark seems like it was a good time.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson reportedly got his request for Rangers tickets denied after he criticized Madison Square Garden's board for its lack of diversity.
- Country music legend Toby Keith has died at the age of 62.
- And finally, the footwork:
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