Outside PS 17 in Williamsburg, kids chant, “we support asylum seekers but not on school grounds.” There’s a lot of parents talking about how afraid they are, some have pulled their kids out of school. There are a few moms from the local Communtiy Education Council who disagree with the protest but they get heckled by the crowd.

Attorney @GloriaAllred with Sherry Vill, who says NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, "suddenly grabbed her face and kissed her in front of her home," in 2017. Allred says after the press conference they plan to contact @TishJames office with the allegations. Members of her family who saw the kiss, Allred who found it, "very surprising" and "not appropriate."

Do you dispute anything in the @hrw report that found NYPD violated international human rights law on June 4 when they trapped protesters and violently attacked them with batons and pepper spray, @BrianLehrer asks @NYCMayor who predictably replies, "I have not not read it yet... "We've got to get the objective facts and that why a full investigation has to be done," @NYCMayor continues..@BrianLehrer pushes back, "it's October have you figured out whether the NYPD misbehaved or not..."

.@NYGovCuomo calls this the “largest cluster” is that we’ve seen before speaking about Rockland, Orange Counties and Brooklyn. Gov Cuomo says the state must “stamp out all these embers” immediately,” he says local governments are the first line of defense. “Attack these clusters, that’s what it is, testing and compliance.”

“We need solutions for this new time,” @NYCMayor says outside the new COVID testing laboratory at the Alexandria Center for Life Science, where city aims to process 20,000 tests a day. “Public health is economic health,” @NYCMayor says, he says he will outline the pillars of the city’s recovery today.

Riding around Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s old haunts today. Someone left sunflowers outside her childhood home in midwood. Diana and William Brenneisen have lived here for nearly 40 years, they learned RBG grew up here shortly after that. “She did so much for us, Diana says, “she’s really going to be missed.”

Looking forward to see how @NYCMayor defends his treating nearly 900 homeless people like "luggage, furniture, musical chairs," as described by one shelter res... She has not been able to bathe since last Thursday bc her new room has bath not shower and she uses a walker. gothamist.com/news/midtown-s…

“This is going to be a problem,” says @NYGovCuomo, pointing to a list of New York colleges that have already seen COVID-19 outbreaks. Cuomo says as of today, colleges will be required to notify the state when they have 100 cases and could be told to switch to remote learning.

Car just raced through people hit Protesters hit people screaming for medics

Black lives matter marchers gathering now in Times Square to mourn killing of Daniel Prude in Rochester, they’re met by counter protesters... Juliet germanotta, Avid Trump booster and regular counter protesters, who’s been arrested for pouring paint on the black lives matter mural outside Trump Tower is here. She says, Take off your mask stop being a sheep there is no pandemic.

In DC this morning, trailing a crew of New Yorkers who made the trip bright and early for the 57th anniversary of the march on Washington. NYC crew marching closer towards Lincoln a memorial.

In June, Governor Andrew Cuomo's Corrections Department hastily transferred around 100 older incarcerated men from downstate prisons to the Adirondack Correctional Facility, just south of the Canadian border, as COVID-19 spread in several downstate prisons. Now some of the men incarcerated there who have severe chronic conditions say they can't access critical medical care: gothamist.com/news/men-incar…

ICYMI: Our @WNYC interns beat the odds of totally remote internships and STILL cranked out beautiful radio and reporting. Here's belated but much deserved shout out to... .@bodega_autumn who spoke to a mother whose daughter is incarcerated upstate, on how she's supporting her and "bonus daughters," with shipments of soap, food etc: wnyc.org/story/buffalo-…

Trump’s Postmaster General Postpones Cuts Until After Election gothamist.com/news/trumps-po… via @Gothamist Brooklyn’s processing center, which takes in mail from Brooklyn and Staten Island, had been slated to lose 8 of 42 delivery bar code sorters, while Manhattan’s processing facility, which also fields mail from the Bronx, was expected to lose 7 of 42 machines.

Eviction Pause Extended To October 1st For NY Tenants Facing Pre-COVID Evictions via @sydneyp1234 gothamist.com/news/eviction-… via @Gothamist No evictions can be carried out until October 1st, according this new order: legalaidnyc.org/wp-content/upl…

“My name is Queen Jean and I believe in Black Trans Liberation.” Weekly Black Trans Liberation march arrives at Foley Square joining another small crowd of protesters. Organzier @CarleneNYC says she wants to make sure the message is clear, “we want the commissioner to resign,” referring to @NYPDShea

At Times Square where protesters are trying to regain composure after what they described as a targeted arrest of one of the lead activists... .. a young woman named Nikki. Here’s link to her arrest, she was shoved in an unmarked minivan by plain clothes officers. instagram.com/stories/l_m_no…

Back at @NYGovCuomo’s midtown offices where the jabba-the-covid-curve has been removed because I guess: “We do not want to climb anymore mountains.” “We have police in airports,” Cuomo says of enforcement of 2 week quarantine for people arriving from 31 states where the number of COVID cases is surging.

Rocky Rollout For NY’s Emergency Rent Assistance Program: “It’s Just An Endless Pit Of Despair” gothamist.com/news/rocky-rol… via @Gothamist “I’m going to keep applying online, until the last day, because I don’t have money to go print it,” said one desperate renter who’d tried to apply a dozen times...

A very empty Abolition Plaza this morning. Sanitation trucks here beginnging to power was the paint from the ground.

Frank Denbow kneels in front of mural of Eric Garner on Bay Street in Staten Island. Garner was killed by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo six years ago today. Street vendor named Doug commissed this mural at the spot where Pantaleo put Garner in a fatal chokehold.