Apr. 27, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams officially named Republican former Staten Island Borough President Jimmy Oddo on Thursday as the city’s new buildings commissioner, while also removing the word “acting” from the title of new Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park. “Our administration has always been laser-focused on finding the right…
Apr. 24, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller SUNY Stony Brook University has been tapped to operate a new $700 million climate change-focused research, education and jobs center slated for an undeveloped section of Governors Island, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday. As part of the city’s efforts to combat climate change, the 400,000-square-foot hub, which…
Apr. 20, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller
New York City will begin taking its carbon emissions targets into account as part of the budget process and launch a program to subsidize solar panel installations for up to 3,000 low-income homes as part of a new long term climate plan Mayor Eric Adams’ office released on Thursday.
Apr. 19, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller With Mayor Eric Adams’ calls for the White House to assist the city with the migrant crisis falling on deaf ears, he declared on Wednesday that “the national government has turned its back on New York City.” Adams made the pronouncement — perhaps his sharpest rebuke of President…
Apr. 17, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller The city plans to reduce carbon emissions in its food purchases across government agencies by 33% by 2030, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday, while releasing a report showing household food consumption makes up 20% of the Big Apple’s greenhouse gas emissions. The annual report, called the “Inventory of…
Apr. 11, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller A cadre of City Council members on Tuesday introduced several measures aimed at reducing the Rikers Island jail population from where it currently stands at just below 6,000 to 3,300 in order to close the troubled facility by the mandated 2027 deadline. The city must reduce the island’s…
Apr. 11, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller
President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have made their pick for where the party’s 2024 national convention will be hosted — and it’s not the Big Apple.
Apr. 7, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller In a bid to protect some of the city’s oldest structures, Mayor Eric Adams on Friday unveiled a plan to bolster enforcement for buildings designated as historic landmarks that are at risk because of unknown structural flaws, neglectful owners or unauthorized contractor work. The plan calls for better…
Apr. 5, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller The city has reached a tentative $5.5 billion contract agreement with the Police Benevolent Association (PBA), Mayor Eric Adams announced on Wednesday, marking the second major labor deal his administration has negotiated with the city’s public sector unions and the first with one of its uniformed unions. The…
Apr. 4, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller City Council leadership quickly pushed back on Mayor Eric Adams’ latest fiscal belt-tightening measure on Tuesday, where he requested city agencies trim their budgets by an additional 4% in Fiscal Year 2024 and the outyears, saying the measure would “paralyze” city agencies and “harm” New Yorkers. “Cutting city…