It's divorce season in NYC, so here are your morning stories: 12 Catholic schools in the city are closing, Brooklyn's eruvim—spaces designated by wire to mark an area as 'home' for Orthodox Jews—are expanding, get ready for electric 'air taxis' and more.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.is underway. Here's what else is happening:around New York City and consolidating several others due to declining enrollment.
Brooklyn's eruvim — the spaces often designated by fishing wire strung from lampposts, marking an area as "home" for Orthodox Jews — are expanding to include most of the borough, which will make it easier for observant families toThe NYPD's clearance rate for homicide cases — meaning, the percentage of cases where police
— has dropped consistently since 2017, even as the NYPD's budget has grown by hundreds of millions of dollars.
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