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One New Yorker is taking matters into his own hands, one basketball net at a time.

Craig Campanella has spent the past year traveling across the five boroughs with a stepladder, replacing missing nets on city-owned hoops at his own expense. Last month, the Jackson Heights resident installed his 100th net.

"There are more important problems in the world than putting nets on hoops," Campanella said. "But it's something I can do and something I like doing. So I do it."

For the first time in its 129-year history, Newtown High School in Elmhurst, Queens, has a football team.

@StefManisero caught up with Coach Wayne Crawford and the players about making history - from practicing on a field without lines and taking a packed bus to games to scoring the first touchdown in school history.

The incoming freshmen class is one of the largest since 1974, with House Democrats set to hold the largest majority either party has had this century, according to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

"These are extraordinary Americans. We have pastors and combat veterans, drill instructors. We have police officers, firefighters, smoke jumpers, doctors, nurses, union leaders, teachers and even a Tejano music superstar," Jeffries told NY1's @errollouis.

In a one-on-one interview, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries weighed in on his bid for speaker of the House. While he does not currently have any challengers, some of his newly-elected Democratic colleagues have not said whether they'll back him for the role.

"I'm going to continue to make the case in my conversations with every single member," Jeffries told NY1's @errollouis.

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, New York City's sole Republican representing Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn, told NY1's @errollouis that "we need to get out of" the Iran war.

When asked if Democrats' sweeping victory last week was a repudiation of the war and its effect on costs of gas and everyday essentials, Malliotakis said, "None of us expected this war to linger."