Early Addition: NIMBYism delays plan for Bronx's first overdose prevention center

Also, takeaways from Tuesday's primary elections. [View this email in a browser.]( [Get a T-Shirt When You Donate!]( Gothamist relies on your support to make news available to all. This month only: You'll get a t-shirt when you become a member. [Donate Now]( [NIMBYism delays plan for Bronx's first overdose prevention center amid crisis]( [first image]( [by Emily Nadal]( It’s Wednesday in New York City and some Bronx residents and elected officials are [pushing back on plans for the borough’s first overdose prevention center]( over worries that a safe injection site may attract more drug users to the area, even though the South Bronx has the highest rates of drug overdose deaths in the city. Here’s what else is happening: - Primary election day [delivered two surprises]( Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated Central Park Five, is poised to win a Harlem City Council seat and Brooklyn Councilmember Charles Barron is set for defeat. - Salaam [earned 50% of the vote]( in Harlem’s 9th City Council district election, likely defeating two sitting lawmakers: Inez Dickens and Al Taylor. - A controversial plan for [office towers to be included in the design of a new Penn Station]( has been nixed, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday, amid protests from local residents and a declining need for more office space. - A New Jersey man who wanted a better view of NYC from his house [illegally cut down 32 trees on his neighbor’s property]( and now a court will determine how much he has to pay for doing so, with estimates coming in at over $1 million. - It [cost roughly $837 million to build a new subway station on 96th Street and Second Avenue]( which is pretty expensive compared to what other countries are spending on public transit construction costs. Planet Money looks into why that is. - With the city’s budget due this week ahead of a new fiscal year, [here are five things to watch in the proposed spending plan]( that has been the source of a heated debate between Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council. - An appellate court overturned a lower-court ruling Tuesday that stopped a project to [turn Elizabeth Street Garden in SoHo into affordable housing]( for seniors. - A former college dorm building on the Upper East Side will be [the site of NYC’s 12th migrant relief center]( which will serve more than 500 families. - An elusive NYC pool guy [works only a few months a year]( and then goes home to Omaha, Nebraska. - NYC public schools will [have to offer two to five minutes of mindful breathing exercises]( to students every day under new guidance from Mayor Eric Adams. - A rare Risso’s dolphin who [was found stranded in New Jersey waters]( was euthanized for examination. The dolphin was the third to be found stranded in NJ since Thursday. - Lifeguard unions have been [absent from task force meetings]( happening amid a dire shortage of lifeguards for the summer. Union leaders say the NYC Parks Department is better suited for the meetings as they are in charge of recruitment, hiring and firing. - A cleaner at a Troy, New York college unplugged a freezer to stop an “annoying alarm” sound and [inadvertently destroyed decades of research doing so.]( - In preparation for longer missions, NASA says astronauts aboard the International Space Station have been [recovering 98% of their water by recycling urine and sweat.]( “I've grown really impatient. 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