Jul. 24, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller President Trump’s administration is taking New York City to court over its sanctuary laws in the wake of a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent getting shot, allegedly by undocumented migrants with long rap sheets, earlier this week. The gambit — an apparent effort to strike down the…
Apr. 9, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller A top Adams administration official signed an executive order Tuesday night allowing federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to operate within the Rikers Island jail complex for the first time in over a decade. The move drew swift backlash from elected officials and advocates charging it is…
Mar. 31, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller The progressive New York Working Families Party (WFP) endorsed a slate of four candidates over the weekend in the 2025 NYC mayor’s race, hoping that voters would rank all of them while shutting out Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams. But can the party’s strategy, which seeks to take advantage…
Jun. 23, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams on Friday vetoed four City Council bills aimed at expanding city housing vouchers to a broader swath of people amid Gotham’s ongoing homeless and migrant crises. The move comes a week after the mayor issued an executive action to eliminate a rule that individuals and…
May. 11, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller Joining a growing chorus of critics of Mayor Eric Adams’ Wednesday night executive order to suspend parts of the city’s right-to-shelter law in anticipation of a potential migrant surge with the end of Title 42, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams on Thursday called the action an “arbitrary and capricious…
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