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Lawmakers Want To Decriminalize Turnstile Jumping

At a press conference held yesterday in Crown Heights, State Sen. Jesse Hamilton and Assemblywoman Tremaine Wright unveiled a bill they will introduce in Albany that will decriminalize turnstile-jumping, making arrests for the offense a thing of the past. Violators will instead be hit with a $100 fine.

Video: Success Through Failure

When we’re working on something and it doesn’t work out, sometimes we not only think to ourselves, “I failed this time,” we think, “I’m a failure.” Rabbi Pinchas Taylor reminds us that we sometimes tend to see successful people in their final state. We forget that the most accomplished people in history, also had their own share of failures and bumps along the way.