Jul. 16, 2025 By Adam Daly Former interim Police Commissioner Tom Donlon filed a bombshell, 251-page federal lawsuit Wednesday, accusing Mayor Eric Adams and senior NYPD leadership of using the department as a racketeering enterprise that allegedly engaged in corruption, obstruction of justice, and retaliation against whistleblowers. In the July 16 lawsuit, Donlon, a former senior…
Jul. 15, 2025 By Adam Daly After Monday night’s torrential downpour overwhelmed New York City’s streets and subways, officials warned that adapting the city’s aging infrastructure to a rapidly changing climate will take decades and cost billions of dollars. “This was one of the most intense rainstorms the [sewer] system has dealt with,” said…
Jul. 14, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who got pummeled in the Democratic primary last month, announced Monday that he will actively run in the mayoral general election as an independent against Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams. Cuomo made the revelation in a one-and-a-half-minute video posted online Monday afternoon. The…
Jul. 14, 2025 By Dean Moses Police in Queens are looking for answers after finding a heavily decomposed body rotting inside a parked van on Sunday afternoon. Officers from the 110th Precinct made the grim discovery after responding to a 911 call at 59-21 Calloway St. in Corona at around 3:30 p.m. on July…
Jul. 11, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller As Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani charges into the general election, allies and opponents are mobilizing behind new super PACs—one to propel him to City Hall, the other to stop him from getting there—amid growing unease in the city’s business circles. A pro-Mamdani PAC named “OneNYC” was filed…
Jul. 10, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani received the support of US Rep. Adriano Espaillat on Thursday, a sign that the socialist Democratic nominee is beginning to win over the party establishment that has so far been hesitant to embrace him. Espaillat, who represents Upper Manhattan and a swath of the…
Jul. 9, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller & Lloyd Mitchell Nearly all of the city’s most powerful unions have now consolidated behind Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani as he vies to topple Mayor Eric Adams in the November general election, with the latest nod of support coming from the United Federation of Teachers on Tuesday…
Jun. 27, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo will not withdraw his independent ballot line in the mayoral general election by the Friday deadline following his sizable Democratic primary defeat at the hands of democratic socialist Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani earlier this week, a source close to his campaign confirmed to amNewYork.…
Jun. 26, 2025 By Bob Helbig, Energage, and amNewYork Staff If you want to really know what’s happening at work, ask the people on the front lines. That’s the foundation of the Top Workplaces award. For the fifth year, employee survey company Energage has partnered with Schneps Media to honor the best places to…
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,…