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The Archdiocese of New York's $800 million abuse settlement

The Archdiocese of New York agreed to pay about $800 million to roughly 1,300 people who say clergy and church leaders abused them, with signing set for the week of Nov. 6.

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The Kips Bay AMC could go dark Jan. 3

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The Archdiocese of New York's $800 million abuse settlement

The Archdiocese of New York agreed to pay about $800 million to roughly 1,300 people who say clergy and church leaders abused them, with signing set for the week of Nov. 6.

Archbishop Ronald Hicks confirmed the deal in an email to priests Saturday, after the survivors' lawyers announced it [12][15]. Each plaintiff can take a quick payment now or ask a judge to review the case for a larger award, and the archdiocese must publish and keep current a list of accused priests [12]. The Post reports lawyers warned clients that if they balk, the archdiocese will declare bankruptcy, as the dioceses of Albany, Rockville Centre and Rochester already have [10]. The archdiocese covers Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island and seven counties to the north [15].

“We are on the verge of being able to, please God, bring some measure of healing and reconciliation to all victim-survivors,”

“This settlement will help survivors get some justice without waiting for years in a prolonged bankruptcy process.”

By the numbers

• $250,000the minimum quick-pay sum per plaintiff [10]
• $20 millionset aside, split evenly, for holdouts who reject the deal [10]
• $880 millionthe Archdiocese of Los Angeles's 2024 settlement, the only larger U.S. abuse deal [15]

The thread

1. 2019A state law let child sex abuse survivors sue until age 55 and opened a window to August 2021 for older claims [15]
2. May 2026The parties agreed to a framework requiring every claimant to sign off [15]
3. TodaySurvivors agreed unanimously; signing is scheduled for the week of Nov. 6 [15]

WatchThe signing the week of Nov. 6, and whether the promised internal files on accused priests ever come out [15][12].

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The Kips Bay AMC could go dark Jan. 3

AMC says its Kips Bay 15 theater at 570 Second Avenue will close Jan. 3 unless NYU Langone, which appears to be buying the building, makes room for it.

AMC CEO Adam Aron wrote an open letter saying the building's owner terminated the theater's lease in anticipation of a sale to NYU Langone Health, which plans to expand nearby [41]. AMC has proposed keeping a smaller theater on the site or expanding the building around it [41]. Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal says he pushed Aron to go public, and ties the theater to any rezoning of the site [41]. NYU Langone's side does not appear in the coverage.

“AMC Theatres does not want to go. Not one little bit. AMC Theatres wants to stay in Kips Bay.”

“Any proposed rezoning must deliver what this neighborhood needs: a movie theater, a supermarket, and housing.”

By the numbers

• 1999the year AMC opened on Second Avenue, more than 25 years of continuous operation [41]
• Jan. 3the date AMC says the theater could shut [41]

WatchWhether NYU Langone answers Aron's call for a shared-site plan before Jan. 3 [41].

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Around the Boroughs

• Queens (Elmhurst): Two dozen unmarked ICE vehicles circled Elmhurst Hospital for more than 10 hours Thursday; Hands Off NYC observers saw no arrests, and the NYPD says no crashes were reported in the 110th Precinct [3].
• Citywide: Bruce Blakeman hit New Dorp, Dyker Heights and Flushing in one day, trailing Gov. Hochul by 14 points in Wednesday's Quinnipiac poll [2].
• Manhattan (Central Park): A man with a knife sexually assaulted a woman near East 67th Street and Fifth Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Saturday; she is stable and no arrest has been made [6].
• Manhattan (Washington Heights): The widow of Con Edison worker Koran Irvine, shot on the George Washington Bridge upper level, is questioning why retired detective Victor Romero walked out on $1 million bail on a manslaughter charge [19].
• Manhattan (Flatiron): A basement fire at 1123 Broadway climbed a shaft to the third floor and pulled 141 firefighters and EMS workers; two people had minor injuries [23].
• Brooklyn (Red Hook): The City Club of New York proposed zero homes at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, against the 6,000 in the city plan, which a Real Deal columnist calls "the Nothing Plan" [29].
• Queens (College Point): Four affordable apartments at 6-05 129th Street are in the Housing Connect lottery at $2,200 to $2,500 a month; applications close Nov. 11 [27].
• Brooklyn (Gowanus): Permits are in for a six-story, seven-unit building at 2nd and Bond streets, near the F and G at Carroll Street [28].
• Manhattan (Midtown): AmTrustRE is giving 260 Madison Avenue, the 1952 tower it bought for $211 million, a glass-cube entrance and ground-floor retail by 2027 [26].
• Citywide (Education): The Post reports Chancellor Kamar Samuels met with Jamaal Bowman after being booed at a school-integration forum; the DOE says the meeting was booked a month earlier [34].
• Manhattan (Sports): The Knicks are the first defending champions to start 0-2 since the 2011-12 Mavericks, with Mikal Bridges 2-of-16 through two games [77].
• Citywide (Sports): The Giants put leading tackler Tremaine Edmunds on IR with a torn chest muscle before J.J. McCarthy's first start, at Houston as 10.5-point underdogs [48][51].
• Bronx (Sports): The Yankees reportedly gave pitching coach Matt Blake a three-year extension after the majors' best staff ERA, 3.23 [72].
• Citywide (Sports): Drake Batherson's hat trick sank the Rangers 7-4 in Ottawa, the second straight five-plus-goal night against Dylan Garand [54].
• Upstate (Snyder): The Marble + Rye team is opening Bar Ruthe at 4519 Main St., a drinks-first spot with Spanish and Portuguese snacks and a deep nonalcoholic list [44].

Worth Doing

• Pumpkin lattes in actual pumpkins: The Coffee Lab on 31st Avenue in Astoria pours $15 lattes into hollowed gourds Friday through Sunday, for at least another two weeks [37].
• Knicks vs. Magic: The winless champs host an Orlando team missing Paolo Banchero, Sunday at 7 p.m. at Madison Square Garden [77].
• Marathon Kids Kickoff: New York Road Runners expects 3,000 kids in Central Park Sunday for races and dashes, a week before the Nov. 1 marathon [79].
• Leaf-peeping by train: Metro-North added Hudson Valley trains; in Beacon, one set of falls on Fishkill Creek sits right along Main Street, with restaurants beside it [38].
• Good to know: Early voting polls reopen Sunday at 9 a.m., and Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3 [4][5].

Only in New York

Debbie Shields, who owns Confessions Bar in Bed-Stuy, spotted Conan O'Brien filming "SubwayTakes" on the F train, told someone to save her seat, and sat down to improvise a marriage with him: two sons, one in medical school and one in jail [36]. The clip has 1.3 million views, the bar picked up more than 7,000 Instagram followers, and the menu now has a drink called "The Baby Daddy O'Brien," with an orange garnish [36]. "It used to be them pulling up saying, 'Get out of the way, old lady,'" Shields said. "Now it's, 'I seen you on TV. We love you.'" [36]