Mayor Eric Adams: You know, as I join here today, and I watch some of our graduates voicing their desire of peaceful protests, here’s my question that I ask all of you, a question I’ve been asking throughout the entire year. There’s a tribe in Africa called the Maasai Tribe. It doesn’t greet each other by…
On July 7, 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul announced an unprecedented $379.5 million investment over three years to bolster victim assistance programs across New York State, marking the largest funding allocation ever managed by the State Office of Victim Services (OVS). Supported by $100 million in state funds from the FY26 Enacted Budget to counter federal…
New York Attorney General Letitia James, leading a coalition of 21 attorneys general, has filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration and USDA from enforcing new SNAP guidance that would permanently cut off food assistance for tens of thousands of lawful permanent residents — including former refugees and asylees — in violation of federal…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has unveiled the “Get Offline, Get Outside Challenge,” a new statewide initiative designed to inspire youth ages 12–18 and their families to unplug from screens and engage in 50 fun outdoor activities. From hiking and fishing to journaling and nature exploration, the challenge promotes physical, mental, and social well-being while…
Linda Johnson, President and CEO, Brooklyn Public Library: Good afternoon, everyone. It’s my great pleasure to welcome Mayor Adams, Chancellor David Banks, Assemblymember Brian Cunningham, Councilmember Chi Ossé, and my friends, Tony Marx and Dennis Walcott, presidents of the New York and Queens Public Libraries. At Brooklyn Public Library, we are fortunate to have many special…
Welcome to the world of Chat GPT, an exciting and innovative technology that is changing the way we interact with machines. Chat GPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a language model developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like text. It is designed to understand the context of the text and generate a response that is…