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It’s Monday.
Weather: Mostly sunny. High around 80.
Alternate-side parking: Suspended through June 21.
No curfew, but no major clashes of protesters and police.
The 11th day of protests in New York City began with sunny skies and two significant accomplishments already achieved.
Mayor Bill de Blasio lifted the citywide curfew he ordered last week after a spree of looting and other violence. And he pledged for the first time to cut the city’s police funding and redirect some of the money to social services, a major concession to the protesters’ demands.
On the eve of New York City’s first phase of reopening after more than two months of lockdown because of the coronavirus, the marches were largely jubilant, with the police taking a more passive role with protesters.
There were no reports of major confrontations or mass arrests.
[Get the latest news and updates on the protests in the New York region.]
The mayor said he would divert police funding to social services.
Mr. de Blasio on Sunday pledged for the first time to cut funding for the city’s police, after successive protests against police violence and mounting demands that he overhaul a department whose tactics have caused widespread consternation.
The mayor declined to say precisely how much funding he planned to divert to social services from the New York Police Department, which has an annual budget of $6 billion, representing more than 6 percent of Mr. de Blasio’s proposed $90 billion budget.
He said the details would be worked out with the City Council in advance of the July 1 budget deadline.
“We’re committed to seeing a shift of funding to youth services, to social services, that will happen literally in the course of the next three weeks,” Mr. de Blasio said, “but I’m not going to go into detail because it is subject to negotiation and we want to figure out what makes sense.”
[The George Floyd protests have added a new front line for coronavirus doctors.]
Why do some police officers go unmasked at demonstrations?
A confounding scene has played out again and again during 11 days of largely peaceful protests in New York City. The protesters marching across bridges and down avenues are mostly wearing masks. But many of the police officers are not, according to numerous reports from journalists on the ground — and even the mayor.
Mask compliance has “not been happening consistently,” Mr. de Blasio said during a radio interview on Friday. “I have had this conversation with Commissioner Shea multiple times,” he added, referring to Dermot Shea, the leader of the New York Police Department. “It has to be fixed, and that bothers me.”
The lack of face covering among police officers has created yet another urgent problem for Mr. de Blasio, who has been sharply criticized for his handling of both the local coronavirus crisis and the police response to protests over police brutality.
Mr. de Blasio has warned that the coronavirus could easily spread at the protests, which have swelled to tens of thousands of demonstrators, and he encouraged protesters to wear masks and practice social distancing. And Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has required every New Yorker to wear a mask when they cannot maintain six feet of separation.
[The two lawyers, the anti-police protests and the Molotov cocktail attack.]
From The Times
New York City Begins Reopening After 3 Months of Outbreak and Hardship
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What we’re reading
A Brooklyn man appeared to make a threat on live television. Later, he was arrested and charged with aggravated harassment. [Daily News]
Two pedestrians died in separate vehicle crashes on consecutive days last week. [Streetsblog]
Lists of black-owned restaurants in the city are circulating on social media. Some of those businesses said they had seen an uptick in sales. [Eater]
And finally: Pete Davidson’s borough
Dave Itzkoff of The Times reports:
To view Pete Davidson through a Zoom window at his home on Staten Island is to gaze into one of the most famous basements in show business. The sleek subterranean space, with its shiny modern appliances, is where Davidson has spent the last several weeks sheltering in place and where audiences have watched him, in recent at-home episodes of “Saturday Night Live,” perform catchy pop songs about his monotonous quarantine experience.
“I’m very proud of my man cave,” Davidson, 26, the happily shambolic stand-up comedian and “S.N.L.” cast member, said in a recent interview. “It’s all I got.”
At “S.N.L.,” where Davidson completed his sixth season, his tenure has been productive but intense and tumultuous. He has spoken candidly about his efforts to maintain his mental health and sobriety, and his relationship with the pop singer Ariana Grande and its collapse. In stand-up comedy specials, he is unsparingly candid.
Now, he is starring in “The King of Staten Island,” a fictional comedy-drama based on his life.
Davidson plays Scott, a shiftless Staten Islander living with his widowed mother, striving to find purpose, butting heads with his mother’s new boyfriend and coping with mental health issues while mourning the loss of his firefighter father. (Davidson’s own father, Scott, a member of Ladder Company 118 in Brooklyn Heights, died responding to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.)
Davidson said his own views of the borough deepened while making the film. “Even while we were shooting, we were like, wow, this is here?” he said. “The ballpark” — Richmond County Bank Ballpark — “you can see the entire Manhattan skyline over it. I’ve grown to love Staten Island again.”
It’s Monday — find some wow in your borough.
Metropolitan Diary: The move
Dear Diary:
I was relocating from Michigan to be with my girlfriend. Moving in together meant packing her things and moving them a block east.
Naturally, I balked at hiring movers.
I learned that day that a block is actually pretty long, east to west, and our short move quickly descended into five grueling hours of hauling, hoisting and cursing my Midwestern naïveté.
When the time came for our last trip, I hastily overloaded our rented dolly. I was eager to be done. Too eager.
We had almost made it across Eighth Avenue when one of the dolly wheels caught hold of the moving blanket dangling over its front edge.
With a sudden jerk, half the blanket disappeared and became a hopeless, tangled mess. In an instant, we were stuck in the bike lane with the light about to change.
My girlfriend paced nervous circles around the dolly while my head spun. For a moment, I felt ready to let angry cyclists run me down and take the Ikea drawers with me.
Just then, a woman with sandy, close-cropped hair and a kind face appeared. She looked me in the eye, bent down low and put a hand on the dolly.
“You and I are going to lift this straight into the air,” she said, then gestured toward my girlfriend. “And she’s going to pull that blanket out. Are you ready? We can do this.”
With fresh fire in my heart, I helped her lift, and the bike lane was quickly cleared.
I stood on the sidewalk, breathing hard with my hands on my hips, struggling to find words.
“Have a nice day,” the woman said. And then she was gone.
— Danny McAlindon
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