POL’S JUST DUCKY

Helps fam of birds get safely across busy 5th Ave.

ALBANY — State Sen. Julia Salazar, who represents Brooklyn neighborhoods including Bushwick, has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a Thursday news release released by Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins.

“Sen. Salazar began feeling mild symptoms and immediately self-quarantined and got tested,” Stewart-Cousins said.

She said Salazar (inset), a fellow Democrat, is still experiencing mild symptoms and is still quarantining at home.

Salazar’s office did not immediately respond to request for comment Thursday. Salazar is among several progressive New York Democrats who ousted more moderate incumbents in the 2018 primary.

At least a half dozen other state lawmakers in New York have tested positive for the coronavirus.

If it looks like a lawmaker, stops Midtown traffic like a New Yorker, and helps baby ducklings cross the street as if they were constituents, it must be Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.).

The pol from Long Island was caught on camera Friday helping a mother duck and her ducklings cross a busy stretch of Fifth Ave. In the video, Rice darts in the street ahead of southbound traffic, stopping a bus, several cars and a guy on a scooter to help the ducks get over to Central Park.

The duck tale began about 45 minutes earlier when the congresswoman was running an errand for her 94year-old aunt who lives on the Upper West Side.

Rice had just returned to New York from Washington, D.C., for the holiday weekend, and was getting ready to stop in a Duane Reade pharmacy when she spotted a group of people gathered around the ducks on Third

Ave. and E. 65th St.

So, Rice did what any do-gooder, duck-loving lawmaker would do. With the help of a few volunteers, she got all her ducks in a row, and guided them to the park as if she was steering a piece of legislation

Rice said day’s work.

“I’m proud to serve every New Yorker,” Rice told the Daily News,” including those with webbed feet.” through

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