Exiting city hall just now, a tourist asked me what building it is and I told her, and then she pointed and said “Mayor Adams”

The first round of migrants to have their shelter notices expire under a settlement between the Legal Aid Society and the city last month will be booted from NYC shelters starting next Wednesday, amNewYork Metro has learned. amny.com/news/agreement…

AM Harvey Epstein is launching his 2025 council campaign tomorrow with support from former CMs Rosie Mendez and Margarita Lopez …who a local activist notes was oddly caught up in Scientology in her ‘05 run, on top of endorsing Bloomberg. “There will be pushback on this.”

The Adams administration has nearly finalized its $4 billion contract to build Queens' borough-based jail. But questions about why the project will take up to 7 years to complete remain unanswered.

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Exclusive: NYC’s Small Business Services Commissioner Kevin Kim announces his departure, talks future of NYC business
“It’s the best job I’ve ever had in my life. We are a city of yes for small businesses.” Watch at 5:45 and 5:55
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City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams on Thursday said rank-and-file police officers have told her they are 'embarrassed' by a few NYPD honchos' recent aggressive use of social media to hit back at perceived critics of the department. amny.com/news/speaker-a…

Advocates, City Council members and hundreds of seniors rallied outside of City Hall on Thursday against Mayor Eric Adams' $80 million in proposed cuts to the city's Department of the Aging. amny.com/politics/city-…

“It was not a warm and fuzzy conversation,” CM Lincoln Restler says of his five-ish minute chat with Chief Counsel Lisa Zornberg just now on the City Hall steps.
She authored the letter harshly criticizing his questioning at a hearing earlier this month: politico.com/news/2024/05/0…

'I am an authentic, urban mayor.' -- Mayor Eric Adams defending his comments that migrants are excellent swimmers.

He says to the word police: 'Get your ass down here and solve these problems,' continuing a theme of putting the onus on non-gov ppl to solve some of the city's problems

Independent Budget Office projects additional $2B budget surplus for this year and next over Mayor's forecast amny.com/news/independe…

Sen. Kevin Parker was accused of shoving an activist in Albany today during an allegedly heated exchange, via Jason Beeferman politico.com/newsletters/ne…

NEW: City Council members are being forced to strip their desks of political signs -- including Israeli hostage posters and flyers calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East – in a move by Speaker Adams that is already drawing outrage, The Post has learned.nypost.com/2024/05/15/us-…

Mayor Eric Adams said he reached out to the family of Win Rozario, the 19-year-old who was killed by police in March. But the Queens family says they have yet to hear from the mayor – and they don't really want to anyway.

By Ryan Schwach
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.Mayor Eric Adams⁩ says he knows asylum seekers can swim because he asks when he visits shelters, and hopes they can get work approval and training to fill needed employment gaps here in the city

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday said he hopes the city Department of Investigation (DOI) probe launched last week into the NYPD's use of social media will also look at what he characterized as some City Council members' 'brutal' treatment of city employees.
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Charlemagne Tha God confirms here that Mayor Adams didn’t know Olayemi Olurin was going to interview him on The Breakfast Club, says the recent appearance made him like the mayor more and liked the fact that he didn’t run away from her questions open.spotify.com/episode/4QYVT2…

Exclusive:
Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Ed., a new report from NYU Metro Learning Communities found Mayor Eric Adams has largely abandoned school integration measures begun under his predecessor.

My latest via City & State NY
cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/05…

'Eric Adams’ mayoralty is a mayoralty on steroids,' Mayor Eric Adams said in response to a q about José Bayona, the former head of his office of community and ethnic media, leaving his admin last week. Suggesting some staffers are leaving after a 2 years of his fast paced admin.