New law for curbing building emissions set to take effect in 2024

Plus: A ballet dancer's quest to make it in NYC [View this email in a browser.]( Our Gift to You! Get this T-shirt when you [donate & help fund]( our non-profit newsroom. [Donate Now]( [NYC buildings department finalizes rules before 2024 climate law goes into effect]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter is curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ⛅ Partly cloudy, with highs in the lower 40s. It's Tuesday in New York City, where the city Buildings Department has released the finalized rules for the implementation of Local Law 97, considered the city’s most impactful climate law. Under the rules, large buildings must undergo energy efficiency retrofits and take measures to reduce carbon emissions — or pay penalties if they don’t. But some environmental groups have criticized what they see as loopholes in the final plan. [Here's where things stand](. And here's what else is happening: - Migrants staying in the massive tent shelters at Floyd Bennet Field woke up in the middle of the night terrified [during Sunday's rain and wind storm]( though an official said conditions weren't "anywhere near" the threshold for evacuating the facility. - [Here are four maps]( showing which parts of New York and New Jersey saw the heaviest flooding from the storm. - Police were searching Tuesday morning for a group of armed suspects who allegedly broke into a home in Staten Island and [robbed and attacked a family]( including a young girl. - A Manhattan jury on Monday found actor Jonathan Majors [guilty on two charges]( for assaulting and harassing his ex-girlfriend. - Police said two 5-year-old twins were [found dead inside a Bronx home]( Monday morning. - Developers hoping to build the city’s first professional soccer stadium are set to break ground on "phase one" of their Willets Point complex: [1,100 units of affordable housing]( plus a K-8 school and other amenities. - New York City's population shrank by 5% between 2020 and 2022 and now [skews older and wealthier]( according to a new report from Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. - An unlicensed weed shop in Bay Ridge that kept getting shut down and then reopening is the first of its kind to be [permanently padlocked by state authorities](. - One-off tax breaks for offices and luxury buildings in Times Square and Hudson Yards, along with NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters and Bank of America's tower, have [cost the city $1.5 billion]( in missed property taxes since 2014. - Book fans held a candlelight vigil outside the Greenpoint branch of the Brooklyn Public Library to [mourn the end of Sunday service]( under the mayor's proposed budget cuts. - There's a tree covered with [pet memorial ornaments]( hidden somewhere in Central Park. - Alec {NAME} told [a pro-Palestinian protester]( to "shut the f**k up" during a fiery exchange in Chelsea last night. - More and more [kids these days]( are missing out on the cousins experience. - More and more [kids these days]( are also going to the hospital after (accidentally?) ingesting THC gummies. - People with a condition called pika syndrome [willingly ingest dirt, clay, pencil erasers and other inedible objects]( — and love it. - Have some time for a game? [Play]( our mini local news crossword. - Sign up for reminders when we publish new games [here](. “[We can’t say, ‘Hey, move me, move me,’ because we’re migrants. The fear we have is because we’re not used to this weather. And [last night] it seemed like the tent was going to fly away.]( - Michael Pena, a migrant who's staying at Floyd Bennett Field with his family, on [SUNDAY NIGHT'S STORM]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [He was discovered as a break dancer in Mumbai. Now he’s trying to make it in NYC ballet.]( "I came all the way here to pursue dance," said Manish Chauhan. "Otherwise, I would have stayed in India and done some acting or Bollywood films. And make money there. But I wanted to dance." [Was Y2K era the best for films? A new Metrograph NY series makes the case.]( “Fight Club,” “Magnolia,” “Office Space,” “Being John Malkovich” and “American Beauty” were all released in 1999 — and are all screening as part of a Y2K series at Metrograph. 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