By Brian Figeroux, Esq. | Editorial credit: Ron Adar / shutterstock.com In the lead-up to the 2025 New York City mayoral election, candidates Scott Stringer and Brad Lander are intensifying their outreach to non-white communities, aiming to build broad-based support across the city’s diverse population. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who has historically garnered significant backing […]
By Katie Honan, THE CITY | Editorial credit: Ron Adar / shutterstock.com The mayor is expected to focus on his old standbys: crime and housing. Mayor Eric Adams will present his fourth State of the City speech Thursday at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem, attempting to highlight his administration’s wins even as he faces […]
By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY | Editorial credit: a katz / shutterstock.com Jesse Hamilton forced Cushman & Wakefield to assign Diana Boutross to city lease deals, according to a court complaint — before the duo jetted off to Japan with Adams’ soon-to-be-indicted chief advisor. A longtime associate of Mayor Eric Adams who oversees city […]
By Katie Honan and Greg B. Smith , THE CITY | Editorial Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY The chief advisor who stepped down earlier this week and her 38-year-old son are charged in what prosecutors described as a series of illegal favors and payments. “She is so fired up to fight these charges,” he said. “If it were up […]
By Gwynne Hogan, THE CITY| Editorial credit: Alex Krales/THE CITY All residents of the Brooklyn tent shelter complex are slated to depart by Jan. 15. Some have been reassigned in recent days, with others still eager to leave the tent encampment. Migrant parents and children on a recent morning lugged suitcases across the wind-swept tarmac to […]
By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY New York City’s Campaign Finance Board has warned Mayor Eric Adams he may be found to have breached the rules for receiving public matching funds. If the board sticks to its findings, Adams would have to return the $10 million in taxpayer funds he got during his 2021 campaign. […]
By Yoav Gonen, Greg B. Smith and George Joseph, THECITY | Editorial Credit: Ron Adar / shutterstock.com Federal and city law enforcers executed a search warrant earlier this month at the Queens home of a pastor who led a political action committee for Mayor Eric Adams — on the same day authorities raided a hotel owned by a developer and Adams […]
By Gwynne Hogan, THE CITY | Editorial Credit: yuriyt / shutterstock.com The 2,000-person tent residence for migrant families is the only emergency shelter on federal land. Critics across the political spectrum are renewing efforts to pressure the city to close it in the wake of the election. The Floyd Bennett Field migrant shelter for families […]
By Jeanmarie Evelly, citylimits.org | Editorial Credit: a katz/shutterstock.com With Donald Trump expected to return to the White House in January, City Limits takes a closer look at the former and future president’s platform and promises around key policy issues, and what that could mean in New York. More than 2.5 million New York City residents voted in […]
By James Fanelli, msn.com | Editorial Credit: Lev Radin / shutterstock.com New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, the elected official who would replace Mayor Eric Adams if he resigns, accepted political contributions from a businessman who is accused of orchestrating illegal donations to Adams. Earlier this year, Williams’s re-election campaign received a total of […]