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Digital divide: Streetlights can help the city bring affordable broadband service to underserved communities, Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday. The city will make 7,500 streetlights available for telecom companies to install connections. With a $157 million price tag, the city hopes to bridge the digital divide with contracts with the telecommunications companies to bring service to up to 600,000 New Yorkers, including 200,000 who live in public housing. The latest 5G technology will be part of the broadband bump up, de Blasio said.
Doctor duty: Famous physician Dr. Memhet Oz doesn’t just play a doctor on TV. A New Jersey man learned that the hard way when the talk show host gave him CPR at Newark Airport on Monday night. Port Authority Police Officer Jeffrey Croissant saw the 60-yearold man collapse at the Terminal A baggage claim at 11 p.m. and sprung into action. As Croissant began CPR, a man rushed over, said he was a doctor and started chest compressions, Croissant told The News on Tuesday. Because everyone was wearing masks, Croissant had no idea he was performing CPR with a celebrity until another cop recognized Dr. Oz. “What better help to have than a cardiac surgeon?” Croissant joked.
Transparency: Decades worth of NYPD misconduct allegations became available with the click of a mouse Thursday. The Civilian Complaint Review Board posted the disciplinary histories of 83,000 active and retired cops nearly nine months after state
legislators repealed a shield law that protected police records from prying eyes. The city police unions’ last effort to shield the records was rejected by an appeals court two weeks ago. Next, an “online dashboard” from the NYPD will go up, listing every active cop’s rank, assignment history and commendations, plus any disciplinary history.
Shot at hope: Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the city Thursday. The FDNY began immediately began distributing the one shot dose to homebound seniors in Co-op City in the Bronx and working with the city’s Department for the Aging to get to the elderly in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.