New York Today: Winter’s Pesky Visitors
By ANNIE CORREAL and ANDY NEWMAN
What you need to know for Thursday: mice in the pantry, more freezing weather, and a veggie bus roams the streets of the Bronx.
Cuomo, Up for 2nd Term, Tries to Steer G.O.P. as It Picks His Rival
By SUSANNE CRAIG and THOMAS KAPLAN
Michael Appleton for The New York Times
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is seen as taking a strikingly tactical interest in his eventual challenger.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, is involving himself in the selection
of his challenger, telling some top Republicans that they should be
leery of nominating Rob Astorino, the Westchester County executive.
Bryan Thomas for The New York Times
The police investigated the shooting of an officer in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Wednesday night.
Police Officer Is Shot in Legs in Brooklyn
By ASHLEY SOUTHALL and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
Officer James Li, 26, was injured in Crown Heights on Wednesday after
removing a man who had boarded a bus through a back door without paying,
the police said.
Christie Starts Push to Rein In State’s Labor Costs
By MICHAEL BARBARO
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, insulated from the burdens of a
re-election bid, said he would devote his remaining time in office to
the issue of skyrocketing government pension and health care expenses.
Kerry Kennedy Hits Back as Prosecutors Question Story Line at Trial
By JOSEPH BERGER
Ms. Kennedy took the stand on the third day of a trial in which she is
charged with driving under the influence of a sleeping pill.
Assault Charge for a Top New York City Council Official
By KATE TAYLOR
Charles Preston Niblack, the Council’s finance director, is accused of
hitting his partner in the face with a wooden statue and a picture frame
during an argument.
New York City Council Swiftly Passes Bill to Extend Paid Sick Days
By KATE TAYLOR
The more emphatically liberal Council expanded the law to require
businesses with five or more employees to provide up to five paid days
off a year.
Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times
The South Bronx Mobile Market takes low-cost produce to the area a few times a week.
The leader of a South Bronx nonprofit group is filling an old school bus
with a cornucopia of locally and organically grown vegetables and fruit
and taking it to the streets.
Rift at Jewish School in Manhattan Over Canceled Plan for Israeli-Palestinian Talk
By JACOB W. SOTAK
A student group at an Orthodox Jewish school extended an invitation to a
Columbia professor to give his views on the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, but the head of the school rescinded it.
A New York Observer Article Brings a Spat in Trump’s Orbit
By RAVI SOMAIYA
An article on the New York attorney general portrayed him as vindictive
and politically opportunistic. It also included a defense of Donald
Trump.
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