This week, New York City faced another unprecedented event in the form of smoke from wildfires in Canada that blanketed the city and deteriorated air quality rather alarmingly. The smoke gave the city the worst air quality rating in the world, and New York’s worst since the 1960s. Some critics say Mayor Eric Adams and city health and emergency management officials should have briefed the public earlier as to what was happening. NY1’s Zack Fink, Juan Manuel Benítez and Courtney Gross weigh in on the city’s response and also look at the larger significance of the air quality event.
After that, in Albany, the legislative session is due to wrap up this week, and it looks to be ending with a whimper rather than a roar. Once lawmakers leave town this week, they are not expected back until January. The “Off Topic/On Politics” team looks at the reason so little was accomplished, the status of the Clean Slate Act, and what all of these say about Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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