Good morning. Today is Wednesday. We will meet who Governor Kathy Hochul has chosen as the new governor. We’ll also examine how a federal rule on light bulbs would make New York look a little different.
Representative Antonio Delgado, above, who grew up in Schenectady, NY, and now lives in Rhinebeck, NY, said, “Up above, below, it doesn’t matter,” said many people in the five counties would consider support. “We all want the same things: security, family and opportunity.”
The immediate opportunity for him is a new job, as a lieutenant governor. It means leaving Congress, a prospect that adds to anxiety for Democrats already worried about losing control of the House after the midterm elections this fall. He is facing an uphill battle for re-election in a more competitive area than the one on a map drawn by Democrats by the state’s highest court last week.
My colleagues Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Nicholas Fandos wrote Delgado, 45, has proven he can win contested elections, raise large sums of money and attract voters. On Tuesday, a special state committee moved his name to the primaries as the favored Democratic candidate in the June primaries, replacing former Lieutenant Colonel Governor Brian Benjaminwho resigned last month after federal prosecutors in Manhattan The crime of bribery has not been sealed.
Hochul selected Benjamin, a former Black state senator from Harlem, last summer when she took over as governor following the resignation of former Governor Andrew Cuomo. A native of Buffalo, she served as lieutenant colonel governor for more than six and a half years. Like Delgado, she has served in Congress.
Before settling on the Delgado issue, Hochul and her team also considered Eric Gonzalez, the Brooklyn district attorney, and Vincent Alvarez, president of the New York City Central Labor Council, as well as other Latino candidates. , according to two people familiar with the process.
Delgado, a former black corporate attorney, said Tuesday that he’s well-positioned to represent the city along with the rest of the state. And as a potential companion, he has endowed Hochul with considerable political attributes, including two wins in one of the most competitive vibrant regions in the country and fend off Republican opponents, who have called him the “big city rapper.”
He also proved to be a prolific fundraiser. He had nearly $6 million in his House campaign account, money he could have spent on a lieutenant colonel governor’s campaign.
In Congress, Delgado has largely avoid the partisan infighting that dominates cable news; He rarely talks to reporters. In the primaries for governor, he will face two opponents, both Latina women: Diana Reyna, a former New York City Council member, and Ana María Archila, an activist improvement. His central credentials, coupled with institutional party support, could allow him to push Reyna off the dovish path she is looking to occupy.
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Parking next door
Suspended today (Eid al-Fitr).
State legislators promise to protect access to abortion
Reacting to leaked draft of Supreme Court comments that upset Roe v. Wade, Democratic leaders in Albany say they are working to make New York a safe haven for women seeking fertility care.
The majority leader in the state Senate, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, said it was “outraged that the Supreme Court is willing to overturn women’s rights in this country” and that she expects legislation to pass. to reaffirm the right to abortion before the end of the session.
If the court overturns the 49-year-old decision, New York and other states that strongly support abortion rights could see large numbers of people from other states. abortion was banned. State Senator Liz Krueger of Manhattan introduced an invoice to protect New York doctors who treat those patients by barring law enforcement from cooperating with out-of-state investigations into abortion cases.
The lights have always been shining brightly in New York, and a lot of them are old-fashioned incandescent — those round bulbs with a filament in the middle that Thomas Edison would recognise.
Some New Yorkers don’t want to give them up.
“The government is trying to keep us from selling them,” said David Brooks, owner of Just Bulbs, a store on Manhattan’s East Side. “There’s really no good reason why you shouldn’t switch to LED lights, but a lot of customers are dinosaur lovers.”
Selling incandescent light bulbs, which are less energy efficient than LEDs, is just “give them what they ask for,” says Brooks, adding that he has been “scouring every corner of the earth. to find the old light bulbs that people want.”
His mobility may have become more difficult not long ago. Last week Biden administration has adopted energy efficiency standards that will phase out most incandescent bulbs – the familiar household bulbs – by next year. There are exceptions to the many so-called specialty bulbs that Brooks keeps in stock.
LEDs lighted much of New York, just as they lighted much of the country. The Citywide Department of Administrative Services does not use incandescent light bulbs in 55 city-owned buildings – City Hall among them. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is converting the fluorescent bulbs on the platforms to LEDs. A spokesman said it is also preparing to “convert” light banks for workers to monitor in the tunnel to LEDs.
The transition away from incandescents has been going on for years – a decade ago, The New York Times said the decorators were “putting them in light bulbs like canned goods,” buy in bulk because they are not satisfied with the light from the LED.
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“They were pretty tough when they first debuted,” said Catherine ZuberCostume designer for products like “Mrs. Doubtfire” on Broadway and The Metropolitan Opera’s current “Rigoletto”.
Now, she says, “They’re so much better than they were before.” She recalls working on the musical “Bridges of Madison County” in 2014 and having difficulty correcting wigs. “You think you have a nice mid-tone,” she recalls, “and it looks much darker on stage.”
Stage lighting designer Philip Rosenberg said the challenge was to “recreate the look of what we used to do.”
“In the cinema, what matters is how the skin reacts to the light,” he says. “LEDs often push red in a way that isn’t too flattering on actors. You have to keep an eye on your gear and make sure you’ve blended your colors to match your skin tone. With incandescent, you would place the gel in front of the light to find tones that are more suitable for a given actor. Now you mix it on the computer”.
LED lights have also given museum curators a fresh look at paintings they know well. Amy Nelson, director of lighting design design at the Metropolitan Museum, said she revisited the painting “Gulf Currents” after lighting it for Current program “Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents”
From lighting it up in the past, she counted two or three sharks in the water. Seeing it under the LED, she wondered if there might be two or three more.
What we are reading
METROPOLITAN . Diary
Usually, a play in a short act
Dear Diary:
A convenience store at a gas station, Staten Island. Summer. Present.
TOM, a man in his 50s, approached the counter, where ATTENDANT, a man in his 30s, was behind the counter, staring at his mobile phone. TOM took out his wallet.
TOM
Thirty dollars, unleaded.
ATTEND
Formal?
TOM
It says “lead free”, but I guess, yes… often.
ATTENDANT stared at TOM, who put him in his twenties. ATTENDANT rings the discount.
TOM
You know, there used to be regular and unleaded. Now, when you say regular, you mean unleaded. Regularly lead-free. As opposed to plus or premium. Even though it was marked “lead-free” on the pump… Frequently, in the past, I assumed, was leaded, even when it didn’t say so.
(Beat)
You’re too young to remember that.
TOM started towards the door.
ATTEND
Change.
TOM in turn. ATTENDANT gives a 10 dollar bill. TOM takes it.
TOM
Thanks.
(The light fades out.)
– Tom Diriwachter
Illustrated by Agnes Lee. Send submissions here and Read more Metropolitan Diary here.
So glad we can get together here. See you tomorrow. – JB
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Melissa GuerreroJeff Boda and Ed Shanahan contributed to New York Today. You can reach the team at nytoday@nytimes.com.
