Legislative Police Reform Plan

Today New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie held a press conference in Albany and announced the Assembly’s plan to pass a legislative package this week that would “Protect New Yorkers, improve police and community relations, and bring transparency and accountability to the criminal justice system”

Governor Cuomo indicated today during his daily press conference that the legislative package that the Assembly has announced was put together in conjunction with the Senate as well as his own administration. He followed this by stating that “if they pass the bills that we’ve discussed then I will sign the bills, and I will sign them as soon as they’re passed.”

New York City Begins Reopening

Today Governor Cuomo announced that the State will be focusing on New York City with a goal of 35,000 additional tests per day to keep an eye on any possible infection rate spikes due to recent gatherings during protests.

Mayor de Blasio announced that to assist with the ease of reopening of the City as it begins Phase One, that all Alternate Side Parking is canceled across the City until June 21^st.   

Property Tax Abatement

Governor Cuomo announced today that to assist with small business relief the State would again authorize local governments to extend the deadline for filing property tax abatement by an additional 30 days, they will now be due on July 15.

New York State COVID-19 Numbers – New Lows Reached

Thankfully, we are now firmly on the far side of the COVID-19 plateau in New York State. This is shown by recent State infection testing data collected over a four-day period from Thursday through Sunday of last week of which 262,864 tests were performed across the state with only 3,666, or 1.39%, being returned as positive over this time period.