A luxury tower in the heart of Newark’s downtown does not have elevated lead levels in its tap water, city officials announced Sunday, two days after the building’s management urged tenants to use bottled water.

Mayor Ras Baraka said the city performed additional tests through an independent laboratory that found the tap water contained undetectable levels of lead at 1180 Raymond Blvd. He urged buildings to use state-certified labs for future testing to ensure accuracy.

The building is serviced by the Wanaque treatment plant "where the source water does not contain elevated levels of lead and the corrosion control system is effective at preventing lead from entering the water in buildings with lead service lines,” Baraka said in a statement.

WASHINGTON — Sure, Donald Trump became president after capturing three states a Republican hadn’t carried in two decades, thanks in part to white working class voters who backed Barack Obama four years earlier.

But Cory Booker says that’s not why Trump won in 2016, and for the Democrats to pick the 2020 presidential candidate they believe has the best shot to win back those voters would be a mistake.

Instead, says Booker, who trails the early frontrunners in opinion polls, Democrats need to find a nominee who can get more blacks to cast ballots. Thats what electability means, he says.

Motivated either by political malice or clay-brained negligence, the Department of Transportation snatched tens of millions in rail improvement money that Congress had intended for the Gateway Project two weeks ago, and re-allocated the funds to a passenger terminal in New Orleans and new coach cars in Wisconsin.

Such a diversion doesn’t surprise anyone anymore, and it hardly matters that members of Donald Trump’s own party tells him that Gateway is the most urgent public works project in the country. The president has an inherent hostility for projects that benefit blue states, and he isn’t above playing politics with the lives of commuters from New Jersey and New York.

Nor does Trump seem to fear the catastrophic effects of a prolonged repair or potential shutdown of the Hudson River Tunnel or the Portal Bridge, two Amtrak assets that are part of Gateway, and the most fragile segments of a Northeast Corridor region that produces 20 percent of our nation’s GDP.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka insists that he’s doing everything possible to combat the lead poisoning crisis in the state’s largest city, and that comparing it to the crisis in Flint, Mich., is a grand slander, one pushed by the environmental group that forced reforms in Flint.

“It drives me up the wall,” he says of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “They are spreading the thing that there are problems before we even have evidence. They’re saying that in court. They are hiring people in Newark. We have professional agitators who are paid to spread this message.”

This being Newark, the race card is never far from the top of the deck. Here’s how he characterized the attitude of NRDC, which has filed a federal suit against Newark seeking the same kind of reforms it won in Flint.

The ex-director of the agency that once managed Newark’s water told federal investigators in 2015 that she pressured vendors to make campaign contributions to then-mayor Cory Booker and his political friends, new court records show.

Linda Watkins-Brashear, who is currently serving an eight-year sentencefor soliciting bribes in exchange for no-show contracts, said a Booker ally at the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corp. set a donation goal for vendors who usually bought $500 fundraising tickets without question, she told the FBI. If they refused, there were repercussions, her testimony said.

Watkins-Brashear’s 2015 interviews with federal prosecutors were filed as part of an ongoing federal court case of another contractor allegedly involved in the $1 million kickback scheme that eventually toppled the NWCDC.

Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed a bill into law allocating $2 million in taxpayer money to fix a glitch with New Jersey’s mail-in ballot law — which could determine whether thousands of residents automatically receive a ballot to vote by mail in the upcoming November elections.

The Democratic-controlled state Legislature came in from summer breakthe last two days to pass the emergency legislation.

It aims to clear up the confusion around New Jersey’s year-old mail-in voter law. Murphy and fellow Democrats said the goal of the law was to make it easier for people to vote by mail when they can’t do so in person, allowing those who request mail-in ballots to receive them for life.

The state’s controversial “Aid in Dying” law won the support of the state Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon, upholding a decision from earlier in the day dismissing a restraining order that prevented patients from pursuing their own death.

The "Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act” Gov. Phil Murphysigned in April took effect Aug. 1, but the law was put on hold due to the legal challenge.

Tuesday’s rulings means the law is in effect again.