The Queens County Clerk’s office, nestled in the bottom floor of the magisterial Queens Supreme Courthouse in Jamaica, feels more like a public library than a courtroom. Long counters lined with computer monitors allow visitors to search the clerk’s archive at their own pace. Some of the cold fluorescent overhead lights have been swapped…
Feb. 20, 2025 By Colum Motherway The New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB) has voted to approve public matching funds payments totaling $11,100,281 for 39 candidates running in the 2025 elections. This marks the third payment of the 2025 election cycle, and it reflects the CFB’s ongoing efforts to provide crucial financial support…
Feb. 18, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Gov. Kathy Hochul met with a litany of New York City officials on Tuesday to consider removing Mayor Eric Adams from office as concerns over President Trump’s Justice Department’s decision to drop his corruption case — and whether that may have compromised the mayor — reached a fever pitch.…
Feb. 18, 2025 By Robert Pozarycki Gov. Kathy Hochul is meeting with key city officials on Tuesday at her Midtown office to discuss Mayor Eric Adams and his future at City Hall. The embattled mayor’s tenuous hold on power frayed even further Monday after four deputy mayors submitted their resignations over his cooperation with…
Feb. 17, 2025 By Robert Pozarycki Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Monday night she would meet with “key leaders” of the city Tuesday to discuss a “path forward” that may lead to the ouster of embattled Mayor Eric Adams. The news came on a day when four of Adams’ deputy mayors announced their resignation.…
Feb. 17, 2025 By Colum Motherway Council Member Robert Holden has praised Mayor Eric Adams for reopening the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office at the Rikers Island jail complex. Holden, who represents the District 30 neighborhoods of Ridgewood, Maspeth, Middle Village, Glendale, Elmhurst, and Rego Park, has consistently pushed for this action to be taken. “This is a…
Feb. 16, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell and Robert Pozarycki Mayor Eric Adams went to church Sunday in Queens amid mounting pressure to resign or be removed from office and made one thing clear to congregants: “I am going nowhere.” Adams paid a visit to the Sunday service at Maranatha Baptist Church in Queens Village…
Feb. 15, 2025 By Robert Pozarycki, Barbara Russo-Lennon, Ethan Stark-Miller and Emily Swanson Mayor Eric Adams proclaimed vindication earlier this week when President Trump’s Justice Department moved to dismiss the five-count criminal indictment against him — but if anything, the situation only seemed to heighten calls for the mayor’s ouster from office. Adams has…
Feb. 14, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller The swift fallout continues from Thursday’s wave of federal prosecutor resignations over President Trump’s Justice Department moving to drop Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption charges — with a number of city pols freshly calling for Hizzoner’s ouster and Gov. Kathy Hochul not ruling out taking steps to remove him…
Feb. 13, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Following his second meeting with President Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan on Thursday, Mayor Eric Adams announced the city would once again allow federal immigration authorities to operate inside the Rikers Island jail complex. In an emailed statement on Feb. 13, hours after his roughly 90-minute meeting with…