Published Oct. 19, 2024, 12:45 p.m. ET
By Rich Calder and Tina Moore
With shelter arrests on pace to soar 64% this year, a bipartisan group of pols is demanding Mayor Adams immediately boot migrant gang members “as a matter of urgent public safety.”
The push comes as the city grapples with a baby-faced pack of violent migrant gang-bangers targeting locals and tourists in armed heists in Midtown.
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Published Oct. 19, 2024, 7:43 a.m. ET
By Georgia Worrell
It costs an arm and a leg to live in the land of the free.
The price of the American Dream now stands at $4.4 million — a mind-boggling $1 million more than what it cost just a year ago and $1 million more than what most individuals earn in a lifetime, according to Investopedia.
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Published Oct. 18, 2024, 3:53 p.m. ET
By Vaughn Golden and Aneeta Bhole
A Republican-led House committee is demanding Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams cough up records on the controversial lease extension of a troublesome migrant encampment at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field.
The House Natural Resources Committee asked Hochul and Adams to explain why they “proactively sought an extension” despite opposition to the site, which has been a hotbed of unrest and violence.
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Published Oct. 12, 2024, 12:24 p.m. ET
By Rich Calder
A Brooklyn Democrat who is a frontrunner in next year’s comptroller race has been booted off the City Council’s Italian Caucus for refusing to pledge his devotion to Christopher Columbus.
Councilman Justin Brannan violated the group’s bylaws by saying he is “open” to renaming Columbus Day as Italian-American Heritage Day – doubling down on comments he made a year ago, caucus members said.
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Published Sep. 26, 2024, 3:58 a.m. ET
By Vaughn Golden, Aneeta Bhole and Craig McCarthy
Mayor Eric Adams already has several Democratic challengers in the 2025 race — and more contenders may seize his bombshell indictment as an opportunity to throw their hat in the ring.
Adams vowed to keep leading the Big Apple once news of the indictment broke Wednesday night, but whether he drops his reelection bid remains to be seen.
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Updated: Sep. 26, 2024, 9:12 p.m. | Published: Sep. 26, 2024, 1:21 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
CITY HALL — City Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) said he’d consider a mayoral run if Mayor Eric Adams leaves or is removed from office and a nonpartisan special election is called.
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams announced five charges against Adams in relation to his Turkish connections before and after he became mayor.
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Published Sep. 25, 2024, 11:14 p.m. ET
By Aneeta Bhole, Vaughn Golden, Craig McCarthy and Patrick Reilly
Embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams is facing mounting calls to resign by local politicians after he was indicted by a grand jury on Wednesday night amid a federal investigation into his mayoral campaign and administration.
Several top members of Adams’ campaign have already resigned amid the City Hall chaos following a number of federal raids at officials’ homes earlier this month, sparking concerns of Adams’ ability to lead the Big Apple moving forward as he deals with legal troubles.
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Published Sep. 25, 2024, 4:34 p.m. ET
By Craig McCarthy, Reuven Fenton and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
It’s looking more like the City of Maybe.
Mayor Eric Adams’ ambitious “City of Yes” citywide rezoning initiative is getting serious pushback from city lawmakers, who are looking to stall the plan while a federal corruption probe of City Hall plays out.
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Updated: Sep. 25, 2024, 6:08 p.m. | Published: Sep. 24, 2024, 5:50 a.m.
By Kristin F. Dalton | kdalton@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A portion of NYC’s City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal was developed due to multiple requests from faith-based organizations and campuses throughout the city to loosen current regulations that make it difficult for them to build homes on their property, according to a spokesman for the Department of City Planning.
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Published Sep. 21, 2024, 4:02 p.m. ET
By Joe Borelli
Hypocrite, thy name is Varma.
Believe it or not, it takes a lot for the blue-state diehards of the Big Apple to start paying attention to a conservative commentator.
But when Steven Crowder published a secretly recorded video, it cut right through the jugular of our political divides, exposing the open hatred we seem to all share for one type of villain.
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