Josie Stratman

@josiestratman.bsky.social

city hall reporter at the New York Daily News

I’ve spoken to 10 union members at this Cuomo carpenters union rally. Only two live in NYC — the other eight live outside the city and therefore are not eligible to vote here, obv. Jersey: 3 Long Island: 3 Westchester: 1 Hudson Valley: 1 Bronx: 1 Queens: 1

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New York City’s powerful teachers union announced Friday it won’t endorse in the Democratic mayoral primary, citing no clear consensus among United Federation of Teachers members this election cycle w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/13/u...

UFT says it won’t endorse in NYC Democratic mayoral primary

The UFT’s seal of approval had been one of the last-remaining endorsements with the potential to shake up the race.

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New: Longshot mayoral candidate Michael Blake has sued the city's Campaign Finance Board, arguing he should be allowed to participate in the 2nd mayoral debate this Thurs. Blake’s profile has risen after a fiery appearance at the 1st debate last week. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/09/l...

Longshot NYC mayoral candidate Michael Blake sues CFB to go to second debate

Michael Blake, a longshot mayoral candidate, has sued New York City’s Campaign Finance Board over not being allowed in the second mayoral debate this week, arguing the board has unfairly deni…

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Adrienne Adams is considering cross endorsing in the primary, she says. She doesn’t rule out throwing her support behind Zohran Mamdani. “We're still in talks with my team about cross endorsement, and we're going to see what happens.”

Mayor Adams talks about the need to "tone down the rhetoric" (while surrounded by firearms). He doesn't condemn CM Paladino's call to have Zohran Mamdani deported: "Everybody needs to tone down their mean spirited, hateful language. And I'm not going to point out CM Paladino"

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New: Mayor Adams today attended a “lunch with America’s bitcoin mayor” fundraiser hosted by crypto entrepreneur Brock Pierce. In a Bitcoin 2025 speech earlier in the day, Adams urged crypto moguls to "support" local electeds like himself who like crypto www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/28/m...

Mayor Adams touts the future of crypto in NYC, then hits a mayoral fundraiser

In brief remarks ahead of the lunch, at Maggiano’s Little Italy, Adams slammed Cuomo’s instatement of crypto licenses, which Adams has pushed to do away with, and praised the White Hous…

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Mayor Adams speaks at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas, following remarks from JD Vance. "Just as our flag still flies, Bitcoin is going to continue to fly in our country and NYC," he says, later reciting part of the pledge of allegiance and calling the crowd of crypto dudes the “Betsy Rosses of today”

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“Any attempt to reverse the law that requires the city to close Rikers is a useless, unproductive waste of fucking time,” Council Criminal Justice Committee Chairwoman Sandy Nurse told us after being informed of the discussions underway at City Hall.

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NEW: Mayor Adams is exploring a move to abandon the current plan to close Rikers Island, and instead turn the borough-based sites intended to replace the notorious jail complex into housing. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/02/m... w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

Now Adams is wearing a new version of this shirt, reading, “in Dio confidiamo” which is “in God we trust” in Italian. “That’s why today, in Spanish, I'm saying, God, we trust because that's the time we need to lean on the faith,” the mayor says.

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NYC City Council has sued Mayor Adams and Randy Mastro over the Rikers/ICE executive order. “Today, in NYC a corrupt bargain is taking place in plain view: NYC Mayor Eric Adams, acting through his first deputy mayor, is using his official powers to pay off the Trump Admin”

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1st Dep Mayor Randy Mastro doesn’t answer repeated Qs on any guardrails for ICE on Rikers & says it’s “disrespectful” to even ask the question of whether feds would unjustly deport people or share info ICE will target “violent transnational gangs” but didnt back that claim up, either

Alleged cop-biter/NYC CM Zhaung's charges dropped after she participated in a restorative justice program where she sat down with the cop she was charged with chomping “It made the most sense for both sides to resolve the case this way," her lawyer says www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/08/n...

NYC Councilmember Susan Zhuang, arrested for biting cop, has charges dropped

Zhuang, a first-term conservative Democrat, was charged with biting NYPD Deputy Chief Frank DiGiacomo in the arm, drawing blood, during a July 2024 protest against a planned homeless shelter in Ben…

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