“I just lost my brother,” @nycmayor says during his speech at the World Meeting of Human Fraternity. Says the last time his family was together was 2021 when his mother died and families only come together in “times of pain and death” but cities must take a “proactive approach.”

Adams only restored *some* of the cuts to top cultural institutions and they’re pushing for $53 million more in the city budget. First in Playbook: politico.com/newsletters/ne…

Friday sightings #NYC

In Rome w former @nycmayor COS frank v carone is Msgr. Gigantiello, per Instagram. The diocese is currently conducting an administrative review of Gigantiello after he allowed Sabrina Carpenter to film a music video in a BK church. He's FDNY chaplain. thetablet.org/msgr-jamie-gig…

AOC's Republican opponent Tina Forte continues to have one of the wildest campaign finance disclosure forms I've seen.

One checking account with between $25 million and $50 million, and no income reported other than her husband's $65,000/year salary as a beverage distributor.

SUNDAY: wide-ranging interview with Adrienne Adams. Plus, Jeff Coltin , Gwynne Hogan and Chris Sommerfeldt at the reporter round table:

Marcia Kramer Almost immediately, the NYPD opened an internal investigation, and in early 2006, levied three charges against him, for disseminating misinformation, divulging NYPD information, and speaking as an NYPD official without permission

hellgatenyc.com/nypd-eric-adam…

Why does Mayor Eric Adams fully back the NYPD officials who are saying wild stuff on the news/on social media?

Perhaps because Adams himself used to be an NYPD official who said dubious stuff on TV—and in 2006 he was disciplined for it

hellgatenyc.com/nypd-eric-adam…

Friday's NY Playbook!

- 'I’m going to pray for the entire media'
- Nick Reisman end-of-session odds
- A bad Cuomo poll Jeff Coltin
- NYPD flap Emily Ngo
- Parsing Myrie's bid Sally Goldenberg
- NY's ethics is in trouble
- Suozzi's border push
- Miranda's book
politico.com/newsletters/ne…

Eric Adams’s Brother Has a New Gig: Black-Tie Philanthropy with William K. Rashbaum nytimes.com/2024/05/09/nyr…

Hui Qin, who pleaded guilty to making straw donations to Eric Adams - though nobody in the mayor's circle was accused of knowing about it - was just sentenced.

Cuomo wins in appellate court against New York’s new ethics commission

Sources tell PIX11 News that these three were instructed not to attend by the Mayor’s office, citing that this is a budget hearing and did not want it to become “a circus.”