May. 7, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller City Comptroller Brad Lander on Wednesday became the latest Democratic mayoral candidate to hit the airwaves with a TV ad portraying himself as a “crusher” of corruption, he says, epitomized by leading rival Andrew Cuomo and President Trump. With the release of Lander’s 30-second spot, the race has fully…
May. 6, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is launching a third party to run in the November general election even as he leads the Democratic primary field by double digits—a move that Mayor Eric Adams interpreted as mimicking his own third-party bid. Cuomo, in a lengthy statement released by his campaign on Tuesday,…
May. 6, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Eric Adams won the Democratic mayoral primary in 2021 on a promise to combat crime rates that spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, nearly four years later, a crowded field of candidates in the 2025 NYC Mayor’s Race seeking to replace Adams argue he has not delivered on…
May. 6, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller With roughly seven weeks to go in this year’s Democratic mayoral primary, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to lead the field by a wide margin, while Queens Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani is the only other candidate who has gained significant momentum. But will candidates’ expected big spending on…
May. 2, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams on Friday accused the city Campaign Finance Board of “poisoning the atmosphere” by releasing a letter via Freedom of Information Law this week notifying him that it has reason to believe his 2021 mayoral campaign broke the law. Adams made the remarks over a series…
May. 1, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Two top City Hall officials said on Thursday that Mayor Eric Adams’ newly released executive budget does not put additional funds into reserves ahead of President Trump’s tariffs and broad funding cuts because they do not anticipate that it would spark a “doomsday scenario” for the city’s economy. First Deputy…
May. 1, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams unveiled his $115 billion Executive Budget for the coming fiscal year on Thursday, a plan is flush with new spending as he faces a steep uphill re-election battle this year. Hizzoner rolled out his balanced Fiscal Year 2026 executive budget during a May 1 press…
Apr. 30, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Making it easier to build affordable housing in New York City and opening local partisan primaries to voters of any party are just two of the ideas being floated by a local panel that voters may get to decide on this November. The panel — known as a…
Apr. 29, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Taking a page from his mayoral challengers’ playbooks, Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced an expansion of the city’s after-school program for elementary school students as a step toward making it free for all students who want a seat. Adams, during a Tuesday afternoon press conference at P.S.…
Apr. 29, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams scored two major policy wins in the month-late $254 billion state budget deal between Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York legislative leaders that she announced on Monday night. Hochul, during an April 28 news conference in Albany, revealed that the not-yet-finalized agreement on a spending…