Jun. 3, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams will not be at the first Democratic primary debate in the 2025 NYC mayor’s race on Wednesday night because he is running as an independent in the general election. But if he were attending, Hizzoner told reporters at City Hall Tuesday, he would ask frontrunner…
May. 30, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller In the first debate for this year’s city Comptroller Democratic primary, Brooklyn City Council Member Justin Brannan sought to close the polling gap between himself and front-runner Mark Levine by launching broadsides against the Manhattan borough president over his stance on Mayor Eric Adams, but the two candidates…
May. 29, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell & Ethan Stark-Miller Democratic mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani blasted Mayor Eric Adams for his willingness to collaborate on President Trump’s immigration crackdown following federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arresting a couple of dozen people at Manhattan courts on Wednesday — an operation City Hall says it was not involved…
May. 28, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Queens Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani appears to be gaining ground on former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the crowded Democratic primary to replace Mayor Eric Adams, a new Emerson College/Pix11/The Hill poll revealed on Wednesday. The survey of 606 Democratic primary voters, conducted during May 23-26, has Cuomo nabbing…
May. 27, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams declined on Tuesday to jump into the fray regarding the fate of a New York City public school student who was arrested by federal immigration authorities at a court hearing last week. Hizzoner argued during his weekly media availability on May 27 that the incident…
May. 23, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Two leading candidates in the 2025 NYC mayor’s race — former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and city Comptroller Brad Lander — both say they have reached the city’s $8.3 million spending cap when including public matching funds with a little over four weeks until the Democratic primary. Cuomo’s campaign…
May. 22, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller New York Democratic leaders issued dire warnings over dramatic cuts to social safety net programs included in Congressional Republicans’ massive spending plan — which sponsors have dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill” to honor President Trump — that passed the House of Representatives early on Thursday morning. The multi-trillion-dollar…
May. 22, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller The ad wars in the Democratic primary for New York City comptroller are heating up with City Council Member Justin Brannan on Thursday releasing his first pair of ads in the competitive contest. Brannan released his TV spots a little over a week after his rival, Manhattan Borough…
May. 21, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s rivals in this year’s Democratic mayoral primary wasted no time in lambasting the frontrunner over reports that President Trump’s Justice Department opened a new investigation into him following Congressional Republicans’ accusations that he lied to them last year. The contours of the investigation, revealed…
May. 20, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams insisted on Tuesday that his friendlier approach to President Trump is what persuaded the commander-in-chief to lift a federal pause on a major wind farm project off the coast of Brooklyn on May 19. His remarks came a day after Gov. Kathy Hochul suggested that…