Good afternoon on this rainy Friday, best of luck if you’re out there with a cheap bodega umbrella that’s practically designed to break. Here’s what’s happening:
“Ms. Sewell, the [NYPD’s] third Black commissioner, described her current focuses as ‘crime, crime, crime; violence, violence, violence'”: The Times has this look at the first turbulent month of Commissioner Keechant Sewell’s transition from being a supervisor in the Nassau County P.D. to being the head of a 50,000-person police department.Andrew Cuomo is about to start airing 30-second TV ads claiming he’s exonerated of sexual harassment allegations, though it doesn’t appear that he’s running for anything.The MTA said yesterday that after getting feedback from moms about the challenge of folding up a stroller while holding your child on a moving bus, it’ll consider scrapping the rule that requires strollers to be condensed.A federal judge in New York has barred Martin Shkreli from working for a publicly-traded company.A very possible reason the two prosecutors leading the Manhattan D.A.’s investigation into fraud at the Trump Organization just quit: Maybe they just didn’t have the goods.Rock bands are sober now.This weekend, the NAACP plans to issue its prestigious President’s Award to Prince Harry.Follow Gothamist on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you —sign up here.And finally, guess we can’t stop honoring Prince Harry — they even named this adorable baby sloth after him:
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