Jun. 30, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller The City Council unanimously voted on Monday to pass a nearly $116 billion municipal budget deal for the upcoming fiscal year that makes many of the investments in vital city services for which lawmakers have long pushed. The spending plan, announced by Mayor Eric Adams and City Council…
Jun. 30, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Even though Zohran Mamdani — a Democratic socialist Queens lawmaker — appears to have decisively won last week’s Democratic mayoral primary, his margin of victory will not become entirely clear until Tuesday when the city Board of Elections is set to run ranked-choice voting tabulations. Mamdani was ahead…
Jun. 27, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams shook hands on a nearly $116 billion city budget agreement at City Hall early Friday evening — a spending plan that looks to be filled with goodies for both sides of City Hall. In a break from years past,…
Jun. 25, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic socialist, shocked the world on Tuesday night with his apparent defeat of Andrew Cuomo, a moderate, in the Democratic primary to replace Mayor Eric Adams, preliminary results from the city Board of Elections indicate. The outcome saw a relative political newcomer,…
Jun. 18, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday offered few condolences to city Comptroller Brad Lander following his arrest Tuesday at the hands of federal immigration authorities, instead comparing the episode to his now-dismissed federal corruption case. During a June 18 interview on the Reset Talk Show, Adams declined to join…
Jun. 18, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller, Robert Pozarycki, Christian Murray & Karmina Fonseca Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is still the frontrunner in the June 24 Democratic primary to replace Mayor Eric Adams amid early voting and with Election Day fast approaching. Cuomo, who is seeking a political revival after stepping down in 2021 following…
Jun. 10, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Tuesday that he is backing ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, despite past differences between the two when they were both in office. Bloomberg, whose 2002 to 2013 tenure overlapped with Cuomo’s, said in a Tuesday statement that the former…
Jun. 5, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Better late than never. City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is hitting the airwaves with her first TV ad in the final days leading up to the June 24 Democratic mayoral primary. In the 32-second spot, titled “Rise Above,” Speaker Adams broadcasts her campaign’s central message that she is…
Jun. 4, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller For the first time this election cycle, all of the major Democratic mayoral candidates appeared on the same stage as frontrunner Andrew Cuomo Wednesday night. What resulted was a messy two-hour brawl in which Cuomo’s rivals hit him on all sides, and the former governor launched his own…
Jun. 4, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Council Member Vickie Paladino has stood by controversial comments calling for the deportation of Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani after several Queens elected officials rebuked the Republican Council Member for “xenophobic” comments. Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and a candidate in the mayoral election, said Tuesday that Paladino’s comments were…