Mayor Adams signs Int. 209-A into law. Image Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.
On May 26, 2023, Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation that prohibits discrimination due to a person’s weight or height in employment, housing and public accommodations. Int. 209-A-2022 was sponsored by Council Member Shaun Abreu.
Coney Island, along with the City’s other public beaches, opens for Memorial Day weekend. Image Credit: NYC Parks/ Malcolm Pinckney
This past weekend, City beaches opened for swimming for the summer. From May 27 to September 10, 2023, swimming is permitted when lifeguards are on duty from 10 AM to 6 PM, and prohibited when lifeguards are off duty. All beaches are free and open to the public.
Lyons Pool. Image Credit: Google Maps.
Parents of deceased son win damages against the City. On July 13, 2011, Bohdan Vitenko drowned in Lyons Pool in the Tompkinsville section of Staten Island. Lyons pool is owned and operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Vitenko, then 21-years old, was exercising in the pool with his friend Jonathan Proce for an extended period of time. The Olympic-sized pool measured 165 feet by 100 feet. It was 3.5 feet deep around its edges and 5 feet deep in the center. Both young men succumbed to shallow water blackout, a loss of consciousness followed by low oxygen to the brain. The phenomenon is typically caused by hyperventilating just before a long-breath dive. There were two lifeguards on duty, one of whom was 40 meters away at the time Vitenko drowned.
Mayor Adams tours the former Colored School No. 4. The building was designated as the city’s newest landmark. Image Credit: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
On May 23, 2023, Mayor Eric Adams announced a $6 million investment to rehabilitate the former Colored School No. 4, the city’s newest landmark which was designated earlier that day. The school building, located at 128 West 17th Street in Chelsea, is the last remaining school building that exclusively served African American students. For CityLand’s coverage of the Landmarks vote and to learn more about the building’s history, click here.
The former Colored School No. 4 retains its original form and configuration, and windows on the second and third floor. Image Credit: LPC.
On May 23, 2023, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate the former Colored School No. 4 as an individual landmark. The former school, located at 128 West 17th Street in Chelsea, is the city’s sole surviving school building that exclusively served African American students in the second half of the 19th century.
The NYC Ferry. Image Credit: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.
On March 16, 2023, the NYC Council approved Council Member Amanda Farías’s bill, Int. 0236-2022, that will reduce NYC Ferry’s fares for NYC high school students by including them in the NYC Ferry Discount Program.
