May. 30, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller The city Campaign Finance Board voted during a Friday meeting to award City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams’ mayoral campaign with $2.4 million in public matching funds — money that will give her bid the ability to air TV ads in the final weeks before the June 24 primary.…
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. 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 Barbara Russo-Lennon Mayor Eric Adams spoke to New Yorkers after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC were fatally shot on Wednesday, calling the incident an act of violence that is “unacceptable and not tolerated.” During a press conference on May 22, while flanked by leaders of…
May. 21, 2025 By Emily Swanson Amid New York City’s housing crisis, many small landlords are feeling the pinch of rising maintenance costs, uncooperative tenants and what they view as a lack of support from city and state agencies. While the city’s rental market is often associated with high-rise towers and corporate landlords, small landlords still…
May. 12, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo learned Monday that the city’s Campaign Finance Board (CFB) would give his campaign $1.5 million in public matching funds — but chose to withhold another $622,000 over a super PAC supporting his mayoral campaign. The CFB awarded the 2025 mayoral frontrunner Cuomo public matching…
May. 12, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon NYC’s Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (also known as the RFK or Triborough Bridge) now has more bike and pedestrian access under an ongoing plan from the MTA to overhaul accessibility on its bridges, the agency announced on Monday during a press conference on Randall’s Island. The upgrades are…
May. 9, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams took a last-minute trip to Washington, D.C. to meet with President Trump on Friday to discuss “infrastructure” and “other funding items,” his office announced. Adams met with Trump in the White House late Friday afternoon, a confab his team only updated to his public schedule…
May. 8, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon Mayor Eric Adams doubled down on the importance of addressing help for mentally ill and homeless New Yorkers by supporting involuntary commitment laws during a Lower Manhattan press conference on Thursday. Adams said that a crucial part of the NYS budget, which focuses on involuntary commitment of mentally…