New York Times – The image of children sleeping on hard plastic chairs in an office lit by fluorescent lights harkens back decades to a grittier era of New York, an image that Mr. Adams would like to erase as he seeks to attract the Democratic National Convention in 2024. That effort may already be hampered by the perception — which he sometimes propagates — that serious crime is spinning out of control in the city.

The city’s failure to build adequate amounts of affordable housing should not be blamed on “people fleeing violence from other countries,” said Shahana Hanif, a city councilwoman who is chairwoman of the Council’s Immigration Committee [Read More].