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Mayor Eric Adams defends his use of the term Negro, apparently referring to Black leaders who have called for him to resign, saying he’s the victim of a “lynch mob mentality” My story on Black leaders turning against the mayor: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/n...

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The response to Cuomo's official entry into the mayor's race was acute. Comptroller Brad Lander sent a fundraising email titled "Stop Cuomo NOW" & state Sen. Zellnor Myrie said "Cuomo is no friend to NYC" The W.F.P. said NYC doesn't "need one disgraced elected official vying to replace another."

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NEW: A majority of NYC's Commission on Gender Equity called on Friday for Mayor Eric Adams to resign if he does not lay out a strategy for defending transgender New Yorkers, women and immigrants against the Trump administration’s threats to those groups’ rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/n...

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Adrienne Adams, the Council speaker, says the administration of Mayor Eric Adams has not spoken out for New Yorkers against harmful Trump policies. “What I don’t agree with is being silent,” Ms. Adams said. “You’ve got to say something.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/n...

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“The stakes are too high for us to have a diminished mayoral administration,” said City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams as she speaks against federal budget cuts of transit, healthcare and medical funding. Ms. Adams, has filed a committee to run for mayor and will make a final decision next week.

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NEW: With the turmoil surrounding Mayor Eric Adams casting uncertainty onto this year’s mayoral race, Adrienne Adams, the first Black woman to lead the Council, filed paperwork on Wednesday establishing a citywide campaign committee to run for mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/n...

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Mr. Cuomo & allies believe they have a clear path to City Hall. Elected officials, labor & business leaders said he framed a potential candidacy as an opportunity to “save” NYC from 4 years of scandal, unease about public safety and an emboldened Trump. w/ Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/n...

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Read my story from Dec. about @delgadoforny.bsky.social stepping out on his own: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/n...

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Despite the Trump administration's best efforts, the mayor's corruption case remains not quite dead: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/n...

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Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to announce that she won’t remove Mayor Eric Adams at this time, but intends to impose guardrails on his administration.

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"When people say Eric, you are losing control of City Hall, they said that after the indictment came down," NYC Mayor says on NY1 in dismissing concerns about the resignation of four top Deputy Mayors over concerns of his charges being dismissed. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...

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Mayor Eric Adams claims on NY1 that Border Czar Tom Homan apologized for saying that he would be "up his butt" if he didn't follow through on promises to help the Trump Administration's mass deportation efforts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

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Speaking on NY1, Mayor Eric Adams said the most important part of his court appearance was that he had to swear under oath that there was no quid pro quo in exchange for his federal corruption charges being dismissed. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...

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City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Mayor Eric Adams’ principal partner in city government, calls on him to resign. @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...

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Four top New York City officials are expected to resign in the coming days, after the outgoing U.S. attorney for Manhattan accused the mayor of trading cooperation with President Trump’s mass deportation agenda for a dismissal of his criminal indictment. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...

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"You indicated that the prosecution team is aware of your communications with the Justice Department, is supportive of your approach, and is unwilling to comply with the order to dismiss ... the AUSAs principally responsible for this case are being placed on off-duty, administrative leave"

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City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams strongly criticizes Trump DOJ dismissal of Mayor Eric Adams' criminal case. She says the Trump Admin is "blackmailing" Adams with the goal that he "serve as an arm of the Trump Administration." “This leaves the mayor of our city compromised," Ms. Adams adds.

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“He just wanted to speak about pleasantries,” Bronx Republican Party chairman Mike Rendino said about a call w/ Democratic Mayor Eric Adams on running in GOP primary. “I said let’s not beat around the bush, you’re obviously calling for more than that” Via Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/n...

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In a sign that his electoral coalition might be weakening, a group of Black pastors urged Eric Adams to not seek re-election after the Trump DOJ calls for the mayor’s corruption charges to be dismissed: “NYC needs and deserves a mayor whose priority is the people he serves,” wrote the four pastors.

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“All I can say is I bless the Lord all the time,” NYC Mayor Adams says at an older adult town hall in Sunnyside, Queens, his first public appearance since the Trump DOJ moved to dismiss his corruption charges on Monday.

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Mayor Eric Adams speaks for less than 6 minutes. No questions from reporters. No mention of the concerns around whether he is now beholden to the Trump Administration to help in their immigration crackdown as the DOJ referenced in calling for the dismissal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/n...

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"This has been the most difficult 15 months of my life but my inspiration has been knowing I'm fighting for the people of this city," Mr. Adams said.

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Mayor Adams calls the experience of being charged "humbling" and says he must work to regain trust of those who question his character. And then jumps into a campaign style list of his accomplishments around school, housing and crime. Says he and his staff "delivered" for New Yorkers.

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"As I said from the outset, I never broke the law and I never would," Mayor Eric Adams says in the opening lines of his address to the city after the Trump DOJ calls for the federal corruption charges against him to be dismissed

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“I’m not anti-Adams, but I’m anti-Trump, and a lot of people in the Black community will have the same feelings,” Rev. Al Sharpton on Mayor Adams’ reelection odds after Trump DOJ calls for dismissal of criminal case: @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/n...

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This footnote in Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s memo to Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, directing her to dismiss charges against Mayor Eric Adams, is … something:

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The Justice Department told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams, claiming his indictment came too near the 2025 mayoral primary and limited his ability to cooperate in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/n...

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"Zellnor is a true visionary, who is really poised to lead the next generation of Democrats," Rep. Dan Goldman says endorsing Zellnor Myrie on MSNBC. Goldman himself isn't going to move many votes, but Myrie's campaign needed a boost and this, plus the national TV appearance helps.

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Asked about congestion pricing on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social @zellnor.bsky.social says he voted for it and supports it and that it’s working. NYC needs a mayor that’s not going to “bend the knee” when dealing with President Trump and threats to cancel the program. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/n...

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“I don’t think that’s any person’s view of justice,” @zellnor.bsky.social says on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social in response to a question from Rev. Al Sharpton about whether a pardon from President Trump would hurt Eric Adams. Says the city is “ruderless” in terms of leadership.

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Letitia James of New York, joined by 18 other Democratic state attorneys general, said in a lawsuit that when President Trump gave Elon Musk the run of government computer systems, he breached protections enshrined in the Constitution and “failed to faithfully execute the laws enacted by Congress.”

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"The secrecy and confusion over the mayor’s health only added to the bizarre turn that Mr. Adams’s first term in office has taken." by @jeffcmays.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/n...

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For Mayor Eric Adams, a routine medical procedure is anything but routine: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/n...

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Following Mayor Eric Adams' disclosure that he went under anesthesia during medical tests last week, the public advocate, @jumaane.bsky.social , next in the line of succession, says the mayor's decision to designate power to the First Deputy Mayor was a "clear...."violation of the charter."

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