RUNNING PS 234 FROM BROOKLYN
The Trib talked to the principal of PS 234 — Dana Rappaport — from her kitchen table about remote learning: Zoom v Google Meet, sleep cycles, virtual classrooms for kindergartners and other challenges. “There’s no way that remote learning and learning in school can be the same. You can’t equate the two. I don’t even think you should try, although we are trying,” she told The Trib.

WHAT AREAS ARE TESTING THE MOST?
The Post did an analysis of where the most testing for coronavirus has taken place (Staten Island at two times the rate of BK and Manhattan) and 10280 gets the prize for the LEAST testing. “Additionally, the paper’s analysis found that more than two-thirds of the 30 ZIP codes with the highest per-capita rates of testing were either whiter or wealthier — and frequently both — than the city average population.”

RENT OVERCHARGE SUIT STRUCK DOWN BY COURT
The Real Deal reports that the highest court in the state has struck down a portion of New York’s new rent law, concluding that it violates due process. “The court ruled in landlords’ favor that the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 should not apply retroactively to cases involving rent overcharges. It also limits the rent used to calculate damages to four years prior to a complaint.” This is bad news for the residents of 50 Murray, who argued for rent stabilization since the landlord took a J-51 tax break.

“For the first time in its history, our Court has struck down, as violative of substantive due process, a remedial statute duly enacted by the legislature,” Court of Appeals Judge Wilson wrote in a dissenting opinion. The ruling applies to all rent overcharge cases preceding the new rent law, not just those concerning the J-51 tax break.