Federal prosecutors investigating Mayor Eric Adams of New York and his 2021 campaign have served a new round of grand jury subpoenas in their long-running corruption inquiry, issuing them to Mr. Adams himself, to City Hall and to his election committee, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. The three subpoenas were served […]
Read MoreWith Mayor Eric Adams facing several potential primary challengers next year, the political playing field in New York City may soon be gashed wide open — extending beyond the mayoral race. A former city comptroller and a current state senator have already formed exploratory committees for mayoral campaigns, hoping to capitalize on Mr. Adams’s perceived […]
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A man attacked with a machete. A young woman killed after the police said a 22-year-old woman stabbed her in an unprovoked attack near the Port Authority bus terminal. A carpenter waiting for a co-worker in the bus station stabbed nine times as he sat and read. Times Square, the gaudy icon of Manhattan, and […]
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When Mayor Eric Adams of New York declared that he would shut off water service to nonpaying customers, he cast the effort as a fight against big landlords bilking city taxpayers. The biggest “delinquent” customer of all, however, went unnamed: New York State, according to an internal city list of the top 20 water delinquents […]
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After months of tense and protracted negotiations, Mayor Eric Adams and City Council leaders announced on Friday that they had reached agreement on a $112.4 billion budget for New York City that restored many of the mayor’s proposed cuts, including to libraries and cultural institutions. But other key programs were not made whole, including a […]
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A major second wave of cuts to the New York City library system has been averted in an 11th-hour deal announced on Thursday by the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams. The restoration of $58 million in proposed cuts to the city’s three major library systems, part of a broader city budget agreement expected to […]
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Brianna Villafane was in Lower Manhattan protesting police violence in the summer of 2020, when officers charged into the crowd. One of them gripped her hair and yanked her to the ground. “I felt someone on top of me and it was hard to breathe,” she said. “I felt like I was being crushed.” The […]
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Earlier this spring, I went to see Mark Morris’s “The Look of Love,” a joyous performance — modern dancers offering themselves in service to the music of Burt Bacharach. It was one of those nights that made you realize what your life in New York could be if you didn’t spend the hours between dinner […]
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Lamor Whitehead, the flamboyant Brooklyn preacher who was convicted of defrauding a parishioner’s mother and attempting to commit extortion, was sentenced to nine years in prison by a federal judge in Manhattan on Monday. Mr. Whitehead, known as “the bling bishop,” was already in custody after Judge Lorna G. Schofield revoked his bail last month, […]
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Gold balloons announcing the “GRAND OPENING” of Zaza City Convenience in southeast Queens were still floating in the shop last month when the authorities cleared its shelves of cannabis and tobacco products that were illegal to sell in New York. After the police officers had bagged and weighed the contraband and sent it off in […]
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When a young journalist tried recently to ask Mayor Eric Adams a question about pro-Palestinian demonstrations, Mr. Adams took the exchange in an unusual direction. “You look like you’ve been working out, man,” the mayor said at his news conference on Tuesday. “You’ve got that summer body going.” One of the mayor’s top female advisers […]
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Just before 11 p.m. on a recent Saturday, a young woman was buzzed into Flame Zone Convenience, an unlicensed weed store on Delancey Street in the Lower East Side displaying bags of potent gummies and multiple strains of marijuana, including one called Gunpowder. It was four days after Mayor Eric Adams had announced a crackdown […]
Read MoreThe New York City Council is expected to approve one of Mayor Eric Adams’s signature policy proposals on Thursday — part of a three-part plan to update the city’s zoning rules known as “City of Yes.” The latest measure aims to boost the economy by creating new manufacturing districts and encouraging businesses to fill vacant […]
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In late 2022, as thousands of migrants began to arrive in New York City, city officials scrambled to find places to house them. They quickly found takers: hotels that were still struggling to recover from the pandemic-driven downturn in tourism. Dozens of hotels, from once-grand facilities to more modest establishments, closed to tourists and began […]
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Mayor Eric Adams has long valued loyalty, keeping his allies close as he rose through New York City’s political ranks to become mayor, and rewarding them with top administration jobs. So this week, as the mayor quickly sought to fill out a powerful commission that could reshape city government, possibly for generations to come, he […]
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Amid growing public dissatisfaction with Mayor Eric Adams’s job performance, the New York City Council speaker, Adrienne Adams, was about to make a power play. Ms. Adams was preparing to introduce legislation on Thursday that would require the mayor to obtain Council approval on 21 commissioner-level appointments, according to a draft of the bill that […]
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Last September, the New York Police Department signed a sweeping agreement in federal court that was meant to end overwhelming responses to protests that often led to violent clashes, large-scale arrests and expensive civil rights lawsuits. The sight of hundreds of officers in tactical gear moving in on pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on […]
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An aide to Mayor Eric Adams who served as his longtime liaison to the Turkish community and whose home was searched by the F.B.I. has been cooperating with the corruption investigation into the mayor and his 2021 campaign, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The cooperation of the aide, Rana Abbasova, could […]
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For the nearly two and a half years since Eric Adams took office as mayor of New York City, many of his fellow Democrats have kept their criticism over his management of the city relatively muted or private in deference to the mayor. That period of harmony is over. On Sunday, former Gov. Andrew M. […]
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New York City once sold a promise of free prekindergarten for all as an unusual benefit designed to make it far easier to raise children in this expensive city. So as families worried over whether their 3-year-olds would have spots this fall, Mayor Eric Adams pledged last month that everyone would have “access” to a […]
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It didn’t take long for Mayor Eric Adams of New York to articulate what he liked about a welcome center for migrants and asylum seekers that he visited on Sunday in Rocca di Papa, a town about 15 miles outside Rome. “In two months they’re going from migrant to participating in society,” Mr. Adams said […]
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Mayor Eric Adams, who talks often about his faith, acknowledged on Saturday that he had felt some uncertainty — if not anxiety — about meeting Pope Francis. But at the Vatican, as Mr. Adams stooped before the pope, he felt any disquiet he had wash away. Pope Francis placed his hand on the mayor’s right […]
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Charlamagne Tha God calls himself an entertainer. He’s a comedian, a media personality and an author. (He has written two best sellers about his life and struggles with anxiety. This month he is publishing a new book, “Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks.”) But it’s as the co-host of the wildly popular […]
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Ronn Torossian, a New York City public relations executive and an associate of Mayor Eric Adams, was arrested last weekend at a pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus of Syracuse University, where he and other parents were protesting what he described as the school’s inaction toward student safety issues, including violence and antisemitism. Mr. Torossian, who […]
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With New York City at the center of global issues such as the influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants and the college protests about the Israel-Hamas war, Mayor Eric Adams arrived in Rome on Friday ready to discuss peace. During a three-day trip, the mayor is expected to meet with Pope Francis and attend […]
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More than two years ago, Mayor Eric Adams’s brother Bernard uprooted his life as a Virginia parking administrator and came to New York City to work in his older brother’s nascent administration. But that job, as a deputy police commissioner, did not work out as planned. Now, Bernard is leveraging his relationship with the mayor […]
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Zellnor Myrie, an Afro-Latino state senator from Brooklyn known for backing progressive causes, will announce on Wednesday that he is moving to challenge Mayor Eric Adams in next year’s Democratic primary in New York City. Mr. Myrie’s announcement is further indication that Mr. Adams’s path to re-election is expected to be more challenging than is […]
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One of the people arrested at Columbia University this week was a middle-aged saxophonist who headed up to the campus from his Hell’s Kitchen apartment after learning about the protests on social media. Another was tending his sidewalk pepper patch a few blocks from the student demonstrations when he learned the police were moving in […]
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It is a problem bedeviling local governments nationwide: How can they pay for city services at a time of limited funds and rising costs? In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has found an answer: resurrect a funding mechanism that has been called a hidden tax on New Yorkers. The city plans to charge its […]
Read MoreThe protesters occupying Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University seemed ready to stay a while. They had a microwave, an electric teakettle and sleeping bags, images distributed by the police show. On a blackboard in a classroom turned canteen, next to the words “Free Palestine” in bubble letters, they had written a chart […]
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Exactly 56 years to the day after the 1968 student occupation at Columbia University was violently cleared by the New York Police Department, hundreds of police officers moved into the Manhattan campus on Tuesday night to quell a different kind of antiwar protest. Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested as police officers entered Columbia’s main […]
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