which she amended after <\/a>input from NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and to address free speech concerns.<\/p>\nThe veto-proof passage likely forestalls any drama from Mamdani, a critic of Israel who avoided taking a direct stand on the bill.<\/p>\n
He notably did not clap when Hochul announced her own buffer zone bill during her \u201cState of the State\u201d address in Albany.<\/p>\n
Menin said Mamdani hadn\u2019t raised particular concerns about the bill, beyond saying the city\u2019s Law Department should take a look.<\/p>\n
But the mayor has signaled more skepticism over a similar \u201csafe access\u201d measure pushed by Councilman Eric Dinowitz (D-Bronx) that applies to schools \u2014 which passed short of a veto-proof majority by a 30-19 margin.<\/p>\n
City Hall did not answer when The Post asked if Mamdani would veto either or both of the bills.<\/p>\n
Lefty council members, along with civil liberties groups, fought tough-and-nail to kill Menin\u2019s bill down to the wire.<\/p>\n
Councilwoman Shahana Hanif (D-Brooklyn), a DSA member, evoked the Black Lives Matter protests as she argued both bills give the NYPD too much power as she cast a \u201cno\u201d vote.<\/p>\n
Anti-Israel protests targeting synagogues prompted Menin to introduce the bill. Yoav Ginsburg\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n
\u201cThey undermine the 2020 summer protest settlement agreement, which requires the NYPD to minimize policing at protests and comply with the First Amendment by a tiered response informed by best practices,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew York City must model a different path, one that protects both safety and fundamental rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
Councilwoman Alexa Avil\u00e9s (D-Brooklyn), also a DSA diehard who voted no, argued the legislation actually does very little to address hate and violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love our diversity, we must fight hate with truly effective and evidence based tools that reduce violence. The package of bills does not do that,\u201d she railed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt relies on police interventions that have not decreased rates of anti violence. It ignores the mistrust of the NYPD within communities of color. It makes no effort to advance community-led interventions that actually protect New Yorkers\u2019 health and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jewish advocates hailed the house of worship bill\u2019s passage.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, the City Council made clear that in New York, faith and freedom go hand in hand,\u201d said Mark Treyger, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo one of any faith should have to run a gauntlet of intimidation to enter or leave their house of worship. What happened outside Park East Synagogue was a wake-up call, and Speaker Menin showed real courage in turning that moment into action.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, warned Mamdani not to try to some Johnny-come-lately show of opposition.<\/p>\n
Schneier\u2019s father heads the Park East Synagogue where protesters ran amok.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he vetoes the bill, it is a betrayal of what he expressed to me in November while on his way to meet with President Trump,\u201d he said. \u201cI recall his enthusiastic and ecstatic response to my suggestion at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many Jewish New Yorkers have felt threatened by anti-Israel protests. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s Democratic Socialists of America group had launched a phone bank campaign earlier this week urging members to voice their opposition to the bill and another similar one that applies to schools, which they falsely claimed would expand the NYPD\u2019s capacity to surveil students.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0two bills, intros 001 and 0175, would \u201cseverely limit the ability to protest by permitting the NYPD to establish and maintain security perimeters around educational institutions and places of worship,\u201d the NYC-DSA claimed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese bills expand the capacity of the NYPD to police and surveil Black, brown, and immigrant New Yorkers, jeopardizing the safety of protestors exercising their First Amendment rights and students attending school,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n
Hanif and her fellow progressive Councilman Shekar Krishnan also stirred up drama before the City Council meeting by hosting a surprise briefing on Islamophobia Thursday morning with anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil. <\/p>\n
The briefing also invited Badar Suri Khan, a Georgetown scholar who is reportedly married to the daughter of former Hamas adviser-turned-critic<\/a> Ahmed Yousef.<\/p>\n\u201cShe was outraged they would do this on day of the vote to combat antisemitism,\u201d one source said of Menin, adding she wasn\u2019t notified ahead of time.<\/p>\n
Other sources told The Post that the Council Committee to Combat Hate moved their meeting on buffer zone bill to Council Chambers from a hearing room at 250 Broadway to avoid having to deal with folks at the Islamophobia forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019re in the zone. The NYPD will be allowed to set up buffer zones around synagogues and other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,301,1091,41781,19077,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,4648,58,82],"class_list":["post-176589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-antisemitism","tag-city-council","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-free-speech","tag-julie-menin","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-protests","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}