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New: Following the lead of several other mayoral candidates, Andrew Cuomo is pledging he would if elected kill the Adams admin’s effort to move NYC's 250,000 municipal retirees into a privatized Medicare plan many fear would dilute their health insurance. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/28/c...

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Mayor Adams is declaring this week "Budget Week" because his office says he's going to release the "Best Budget Ever" Thursday. This comes as many local stakeholders have raised serious alarm about the state of NYC's budget this year due to Trump's various federal funding cuts.

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A raw sewage leak at the Gun Hill Bus Depot in the Bronx is worse than first thought, and may be leaking into the ground water in Baychester. My latest for the Daily News.

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Inbox: Mayor Adams is heading back to D.C. tomorrow to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner. In keeping with his first term, Trump won't be there as he is boycotting the dinner, which is traditionally held to roast the president.

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New: Mayor Adams accepted as much as $6,000 in gifts from the Madison Square Garden business empire last year — freebies he got as the entertainment giant continued to hold significant financial interests before his admin. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/25/a...

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A Manhattan judge is blocking Mayor Adams’ plan to let federal immigration agents operate on Rikers Island for at least another month, extending a temporary restraining order barring the controversial effort from moving forward. w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/25/j...

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New: Frank Carone, Mayor Adams' longtime political confidant, has for at least a year helped a group of celebs, including Robert De Niro, try to block the Adams admin's plan to build housing in the Elizabeth St. Garden. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/25/d...

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Inbox: 1199SEIU, a major union representing health care workers, has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for mayor, following the lead of many other powerful labor groups (with DC 37, the city's largest municipal union, being a big exception in backing Adrienne Adams instead).

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In the front row at the Queens Theatre for BP Donovan Richards' state of the borough speech this morning: Mayor Adams and First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro. Right behind them: Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.

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“It’s total chaos,” he said, with clients calling up unsure of how to access the program’s services. “We don’t know what’s going to happen.” Barasch told @katiehonan.bsky.social that one man called asking, “Will the government keep paying for my chemo?” www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/21/9...

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In endorsing Adrienne Adams for mayor today, AG Tish James said she will stump for her in NYC's Black churches, where Andrew Cuomo has been a dominant campaigner. James, without naming him, suggested Cuomo's church campaign stops have been a "disgrace." www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/23/n...

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On PIX11, Mayor Adams doubles down on claiming Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadorian migrant wrongly deported from the U.S. by Trump's admin, is "a gang member." Adams also claims Abrego Garcia "beat" his wife.

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INBOX: DC 37, the city's largest municipal union, endorses Adrienne Adams, Zohran Mamdani and Zellnor Myrie for mayor in a ranked listing. This makes DC 37 stand out from many other influential unions in the city that have endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

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Randy Mastro, Mayor Adams' powerful new top aide, is spearheading the drafting of the memo City Hall hopes will let ICE back on Rikers, per sources. The memo's currently on ice as a judge ruled today no work can be done on it until Friday at the earliest. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/21/j...

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Today would have been the first day of Mayor Adams' criminal trial in Manhattan Federal Court had the Trump Department of Justice not secured a dismissal of his indictment.

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First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro got the Sanitation Department this week to pause fines against most landlords who fail to comply with NYC's new mandatory composting rules. But Mastro initially wanted to freeze fines against all landlords, per sources. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/18/a...

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Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.

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At the African American Mayors Association's conference in DC, Mayor Adams starts off by lamenting he has had to deal with those "who have long relationships with the media" who can "leak and slip information and make calls on you." He's speaking on a "business council" panel.

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Mayor Adams insisted today his massive debt to Alex Spiro, his criminal defense lawyer, isn't of public concern. Ex-COIB Chair Richard Briffault disagreed, telling us: "There’s the danger or the possibility that the debt can be repaid in other ways." www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/17/m...

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In his weekly "off topic" news conference, Mayor Adams claims it's nobody's business that his legal defense trust is more than $3 million in debt. "How I pay off my legal fees is between Eric Adams and his attorney," he says. More on that debt here: www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/16/n...

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It hasn't been announced by City Hall yet, but Mayor Adams is heading back to Washington, D.C. tomorrow to deliver remarks at the African American Mayors Association's annual conference. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will also be there delivering remarks.

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New: Ydanis Rodriguez, Mayor Adams' DOT head, has agreed to pay a $1,750 fine for misusing his post by urging people to back Kamala Harris' presidential run. A top NYPD official, meantime, has agreed to pay a $5K fine for illicitly soliciting donations to Adams' reelection bid.

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Inbox: The first 2025 Democratic mayoral primary debate will take place June 4, per schedule just released by the city's Campaign Finance Board. There'll then be a second Democratic mayoral primary debate on June 10 where the requirements for participating are stricter.

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Mayor Adams will be traveling to DC at some point this week for African American Mayors Association conference, per press release

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Both Mayor Adams and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo have filed for extensions on their 2024 tax returns, meaning the public likely won’t get to see either of their filings until October at the earliest. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/16/a...

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Bill de Blasio was just on CNN with Mayor Adams and was asked whether he'll back Adams for reelection. De Blasio (who backed Adams in 2021) declined to immediately offer an endorsement, saying it's "early still." De Blasio did slam Cuomo, tho, saying he has "real concerns about him."

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Council members Justin Brannan and Lincoln Restler are telling reporters at City Hall that First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro told the Council last night Mayor Adams' admin isn't sending anyone to their hearing today analyzing the admin's plans to prepare / fight against Trump cuts.

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Mayor Adams' legal defense trust is already $3M+ in the red after receiving no donations in the latest period. But in a sign his legal bills could pile up even more, the latest filing doesn't reflect any payments to his attorney Alex Spiro from 2025. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/16/n...

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Mayor Adams, joined by Bill de Blasio, will announce today he's putting $167M back into early childhood education budgets that his January prelim plan eliminated. This falls short of the Council's $197M ask. Per a source, the Council wasn't even told of today's presser.

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New: Socialist mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is proposing to jack up the income tax rate for NYC millionaires by 2% and use revenue generated from that and other tax hikes to fund some of his most ambitious policy proposals, like free bus service. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/16/m...

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