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The mayor addresses the subpoenas that went out to migrant shelter hotels: “The workers should not be getting caught up in the politics of it,” Adams says. “And that is who my heart goes out to. And I say to them, ‘I'm sorry you're going through all of that we’re seeing.’”

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The mayor breezes past reporters asking him to talk about Hazel Dukes and her legacy, not saying a word Adams is the last high profile official to arrive at Dukes’ funeral (after Hillary, Hochul, Cuomo and Jumaane Williams — who all stopped to remember her).

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Mayor Adams — who has said he'll take issues to Trump directly rather than criticize publicly — refused to state his opinion on Trump’s tariffs, fed. funding cuts & their impact on NYers and said he had not brought concerns about them to the president. www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/11/a...

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“If he has a gun, he needs to go,” Mayor Adams said of Mahmoud Khalil today. A spox said Adams had possibly not clearly heard the reporter’s question, that he wasn’t talking specifically about Khalil and that the mayor wasn’t suggesting he had a gun. www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/10/m...

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Cuomo paused to listen to my question about Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist arrested by ICE this weekend — but he didn’t answer, just saying “I’m sorry” He was absolutely surrounded by aides fighting to keep reporters away as he left the union endorsement event.

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New: Local-3 IBEW electrical workers union to endorse ex-Gov. Cuomo this afternoon. The 29k-member union threw their weight behind Adams last time around. www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/10/e...

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Mayor Adams takes a shot at Cuomo (who has run on a “city in crisis” platform) at a gun violence presser: “Those who have not read the memo: Stop saying our city is in chaos and crisis. It is not. The numbers don’t lie — your noise lies.”

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New: Allies of socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani have launched a super PAC "NYers for Lower Costs" in his support. “I thought DSA was against dark money" says a political operative. "... I guess if you can’t beat them, join them?" w @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/07/a...

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New: The commish of Mayor’s office of immigrant affairs said his office is in dark on Adams’ promised EO bringing back ICE on Rikers: “MOIA has not been part of any of these conversations to change these laws,” he said at a Council budget hearing today. www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/06/m...

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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) just confronted Mayor Adams on his accused corrupt deal with the Trump admin in exchange for his fed case being dropped. Q: "Are you selling out New Yorkers to save yourself from prosecution?" A: “There’s no deal, there's no quid pro quo."

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At the GOP oversight hearing, Mayor Adams already getting diff treatment than other mayors. Comer cuts off mayors of Chi, Boston but says this to Adams: “You have publicly stated that you were willing to work with ICE on detaining the most criminal illegals and I will publicly thank you for that.”

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“Nothing is more sacrilegious than what he has done. I am appalled by it,” Harlem pastor Johnnie Green tells me about Mayor Adams comparing himself to Jesus and saying "negroes" calling on him to resign need God's forgiveness. w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/26/m...

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New: Gov. Hochul will not remove Mayor Adams from office, but is proposing strict guardrails that would impose greater oversight and control over the operations of NYC government. with @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/20/g...

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Earlier today, Mayor Adams appeared in federal court for a hearing on the DOJ’s motion to dismiss. He walked into court to massive boos from protesters. The judge did not immediately rule on the motion.

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Comptroller Brad Lander, who is slated to meet with Gov. Hochul to discuss whether to remove Mayor Adams, is speaking from his office today. “There has never been a leadership vacuum like this at NYC City Hall,” he says.

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“It certainly sounds like President Trump is holding the Mayor hostage,” Al Sharpton says in a new statement. Sharpton says he is convening elected officials between now and the weekend “to decide where we will go.” “Because we have clearly crossed the Rubicon.”

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“I encourage the mayor to examine all of his actions and know that he's going to be under a spotlight,” Gov. Hochul says of what she’s looking for from Adams rn. “…He has to demonstrate to NYers that he's putting them first above all, and that includes in his relationships at the White House.”

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Pub. Advocate Jumaane Williams was legally acting mayor last week while Mayor Adams went under anesthesia for an undisclosed medical issue — and Williams is now accusing the mayor of violating the City Charter by not informing him. w @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/05/p...

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Rep. Yvette Clark (D-NY) has strong words for Trump’s blame of the Potomac plane crash on DEI initiatives. “President Donald Trump chose to address a nation in mourning with only fiction and white supremacist ideologies,” she says, calling him a “bully” and a “bigot”.

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Mayor Adams makes his first public appearance at Cipriani NYPD breakfast since stepping back from the limelight this week due to an undisclosed illness. “Alex Spiro is my attorney” is all he says walking in.

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New: Former FDNY chief Chief Anthony Saccavino pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to accept thousands of $$$ in bribes in exchange for speeding up inspections for businesses. His lawyer called him “an American hero” outside court. www.nydailynews.com/2025/01/29/f...

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Mayor Adams is making "shifting attempts to suggest that he was indicted for any reason other than his crimes," prosecutors write in new filing. They note that while Adams has over n over said his charges were politically motivated, his lawyers have not disputed that the claim is false.

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Mayor Adams to Tucker Carlson says that he wants to deport immigrants who commit crimes after they serve their time. “We’re on the same page with that,” the mayor says of himself and border czar Tom Homan.

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“He was constantly being criticized for doing the right thing,” Mayor Adams says of MLK Jr. , later seemingly drawing comparison between himself and the civil rights icon. Adams attended Trump’s inauguration instead of city MLK Day events.

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Mayor Adams announces Camille Joseph Varlack is being elevated to Deputy Mayor of Administration (in addition to keeping her chief of staff role) and Tiffany Raspberry is promoted to Deputy Mayor of Intergovernmental Affairs. Both DM roles are new

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New: The city is planning to open a 2,200 bed migrant shelter in the Bronx — a sign the city is still dealing with a migrant crisis as the admin continues to tout shelter closures, including 13 more by June (including controversial Hall Street shelter). www.nydailynews.com/2025/01/10/n...

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Suit: Jesse Hamilton pressured Cushman & Wakefield, the city gov's top broker, to put his friend, Diana Boutross, in charge of its DCAS account. Boutross then used that role to sideline a competitor and maximize her own $$. With @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/01/07/a...

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Maria Torres Springer and Meera Joshi are conducting a 30-day review of the city’s DOB in light of the charges on former chief advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Adams says. He does not say whether the job duties of a DOB official mentioned in the indictment have been modified.

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Erden Arkan, ID’d in Mayor Adams’ corruption indictment as funneling thousands of dollars in illegal straw donations to Adams’ 2021 campaign on behalf of the Turkish government, has indicated he will plead guilty. With @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/23/a...

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Ingrid Lewis-Martín enters the courtroom in handcuffs for her arraignment. She pleaded not guilty, as did her son and two other co-defendants

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Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Adams' recently resigned chief adviser, is expected to be arraigned tomorrow afternoon, sources tell us. Per NYT, she'll be charged with helping resolve a DOB issue for 2 men who then gave her son a $100K loan to buy a Porsche. www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/18/i...

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Ingrid Lewis-Martin may be charged with intervening in a city a DOB process in exchange for securing DJ work for her son, her attorney Arthur Aidala said Tuesday on Sid & Friends in the Morning. www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/18/i...

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News: Manhattan Judge Dale Ho has DENIED Mayor Adams’ motion to dismiss the bribery count in his federal corruption case, finding “the indictment is sufficiently pleaded, and dismissal is not warranted.”

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“I am here falsely accused of something; I don’t know exactly what it is, but I know that I was told that it's something that's illegal, in my capacity in government,” Ingrid Lewis-Martin says from her lawyer Arthur Aidala’s Midtown office.

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New: Top Adams adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin's indictment is at least in part expected to be related to her role in DCAS’ real estate deals. w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social, @mollycranenewman.bsky.social, @simko-bednarski.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/15/i...

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Ingrid Lewis-Martin's departure comes after tensions emerged between her and the mayor when she went on her attorney's radio show in the wake of the raid at her home, two sources familiar with the matter told The News. With @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/15/i...

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“I am here to make clear the deceptive narrative and the misdirection narrative from the mayor is very harmful,” Public Advocate Jumaane Williams says outside City Hall, ahead of Mayor Adams’ meeting with border czar Tom Homan.

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“I’m doing this one step at a time,” Anthony Weiner said in a phone interview with the Daily News that was interrupted multiple times as he tried to usher his dog into his apartment after returning from a walk. with @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/10/a...

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Mayor Adams refused to rule out joining the GOP in a series of tv hits this morning. Observers say he could be reading the pulse of a shifting electorate (or seeking Trump's help with his five-count indictment). "Cancel me," Adams challenges critics. Story: www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/06/a...

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Mayor Adams on @NPR corrects himself on migrants/Constitution claim: "We need to ensure that they don't remain in our city in doing so, and our constitution is for all of us," Adams says. "Even for undocumented immigrants?" "Even for undocumented immigrants." gothamist.com/news/mayor-a...

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We don't have an Albany reporter, we don't have a metro editor -- but the brain trust at Alden Global Capital saw fit to spend money on a "content intelligence program" whose artificial intelligence might be in the running for the worst editor we've ever had.

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The City of Yes housing reforms passed the City Council today with a vote of 31 yes votes, 20 no. More here: www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/05/a...

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Story here: www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/05/m...

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Mayor Adams says on MSNBC he has a meeting with Trump’s new border czar, Tom Homan, set for Dec. 12. "I want to hear the actual plan, how we're going to actually operationalize this plan," he said in response to a question about Trump's plan for mass deportations.

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