Former Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to come away with a major endorsement victory over the weekend after a slate of Black elected officials from Southeast Queens encouraged their supporters to rank the Queens-raised Cuomo first on their Democratic mayoral primary ballots.
Read MoreConflicting stories told by the Department of Transportation and the mayor’s office have left a long-delayed plan to open separate bike and pedestrian paths along the dangerous Queensboro Bridge in limbo.
Read MoreTwo days after a city-appointed commission unveiled a new plan to close Rikers Island, Mayor Eric Adams began to chart his own path regarding the dangerous jail complex’s future.
Read MoreIn a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 deadline to shutter the deadly jail complex has become impossible for the city to meet.
Read MoreA 21-year-old being held on Rikers Island died over the weekend, marking the third detainee death seen at the troubled jail complex in less than a month.
Read MoreIt has been half a decade since the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread in New York City, and on Friday two mayors and a number of health officials recognized the life-saving work of doctors and nurses at the “epicenter of the epicenter”
Read MoreFor about two hours over the weekend Southeast Queens was the center of the city’s political galaxy –– a place Queens as a whole has been increasingly finding itself in.
Read MoreCongressional Democrats blasted Mayor Eric Adams over allegations that he agreed to help the Trump administration with its deportation efforts in New York City in exchange for the dismissal of the corruption charges federal authorities brought against him last year during an oversight hearing Wednesday.
Read MoreCity Council Speaker Adrienne Adams may have called her State of the City address her “grand finale” on Tuesday, but what is an end if not a new beginning?
Read MoreAfter months of flirting with a return to public office, Andrew Cuomo officially announced his bid for New York City mayor on Saturday.
Read MoreQueens candidates – both those who have declared their candidacy and those who are expected to – are likely to loom large over the race for New York City mayor.
Read MoreAfter a tumultuous two weeks and general silence from the mayor on the chaos, Eric Adams faced reporters on Monday and largely deflected an onslaught of questions about his ongoing legal and political troubles.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump’s Department of Justice and Mayor Eric Adams agree – the federal bribery and corruption charges brought against the mayor last year should be dismissed. But despite their consensus, the judge overseeing the case is not so convinced.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul proposed on Thursday reigning in New York City Mayor Eric Adams with a set of “political sanctions,” stopping short of removing him from office – for now.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams effectively denied entering into a quid pro quo with the Trump administration in an effort to get the criminal case against him dropped on Wednesday before a federal judge, who will soon decide whether or not to dismiss the case against Adams at least for the time being.
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