As Mayor Adams moved to skip the primary and run for re-election as an independent, he hired RFK's petition fixer, Trent Pool, to get on the ballot. Pool faces charges of assaulting his girlfriend in an upscale Manhattan hotel. Adams says he had no idea. gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…

Spotted at Eric Adams re-election campaign launch: Winnie Greco

Ex-NYPD chief lawsuits ---> gothamist.com/news/former-ny…

City attorneys set to face off against the PBA in court next week over planned firings of 31 officers —> gothamist.com/news/nypd-unio…

Southern Brooklyn: where Nino’s Pizza delivers in a Caddy

Inside the well-funded, likely doomed plan to stop Zohran Mamdani. A lot of donors are not behaving rationally, one operative said. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Monday night’s one hour rainfall in NYC ranked 2nd…Only behind Ida. That this happened without a tropical system is significant and shows our new reality. The top 3 wettest one hour rainfalls for NYC in the past 156 years have all happened in the past four years.

Manhattan judge skeptical of NYPD attempt to fire 30 officers without letting them appeal —> gothamist.com/news/manhattan…

Conspicuously missing from this list of law enforcement unions who will endorse Adams today: the Police Benevolent Association

Some opera by the grocery store

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch identifies the police officer killed in the Midtown today as Didarul Islam, a father of two whose wife was pregnant with their third child.

On paid details in Midtown office buildings, cops have described shooing away hotdog vendors, chasing off pot-smoking skateboarders and moving loitering vehicles. On Monday, the threat was a gunman armed with a rifle: gothamist.com/news/nypd-offi…

Islam, an immigrant from Bangladesh, also embodied a larger narrative: Bangladeshi New Yorkers who in recent years have joined the NYPD in substantial numbers, transforming their community and the department. gothamist.com/news/in-the-br…

Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign submitted faked and fraudulently obtained petition signatures in his effort to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent candidate, a Gothamist investigation has found. w David Brand and Brigid Bergin gothamist.com/news/forged-si…

Legionnaires' inspections sank to near-record low ahead of NYC outbreak gothamist.com/news/legionnai…

New -- Amy Litwin, who was in charge of recommending discipline at the NYPD, claims in lawsuit she was fired after finding Jeff Maddrey abused his authority by voiding the arrest of an ex-cop gothamist.com/news/former-to…