Thrilled to share this historic new plan from @GovKathyHochul to reduce administrative burden, improve access to benefits programs, and make customer experience an official priority of New York State government.
Highlights include:
https://t.co/IsbCq9NFIR
@jiratickets Ah yes, Cobble Hill Fort, from which General George Washington is believed to have overseen the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776. Now a Trader Joe’s.
@JustinBrannan This got me wondering: what other NYC shops have been open for this long, run by the same family, and have never expanded beyond one location? It’s a very very short list.
@ByEricPratt As a Boston fan in NYC, my inability to watch Red Sox-Yankees games on TV despite my paying for *both* https://t.co/YG4suH5rGj and @YouTubeTV is the single most infuriating experience I have as a consumer
The day after Mamdani's election, 25,000 people signed up to work for NYC government.
Many of them are headed straight for the brick wall that is the New York civil service system.
Thanks to @VitalCityNYC for running this piece.
If Mamdani really wants to make New York City government work well, he'll have to reckon with the arcane civil service system that makes hiring a massive and crazily complex endeavor, write @robertmgordon and @GabePaley.
https://t.co/0W4fuCEPCy
In all the coverage of Ohtani's great night, I have seen mentions of Babe Ruth (of course), Tony Cloninger, and Rick Wise, maybe Jim Tobin ... but not Guy Hecker, the pitcher who in 1886 led his league in batting average while winning 26 games (two years earlier, he had won 52).