Eric Adams’ Long Shot Bid Is Still Scoring Support From These Megadonors

Developers seeking City Hall approvals are delivering as much as $250K each to the Empower NYC spending group.

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‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza

An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people have packed into locked rooms and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.

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As Rikers Population Surges, Correction Department Bid to Add Beds Stalls

Despite a growing number of detainees, the city’s jail oversight board rejected a request to expand dorm capacity — leaving officials scrambling for alternatives.

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Can Zohran Mamdani’s Free Bus Promise Get Out of the Parking Lot?

The plan has a high cost — and he’ll need Albany to get it done.

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Union Group Backing Adrienne Adams Is Secretly Funded by DoorDash

Competent New York, founded by municipal union DC 37, has spent nearly $300,000 on ads boosting the City Council speaker’s campaign for mayor, but its only recorded contribution comes from the food de...

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E-Bike ExChange: City Offering New Rides and Batteries for Bad Ones

Transportation and fire officials were on hand for the launch of the program in Washington Heights Thursday. The FDNY commissioner said it was “like trading in a Kia for a Mercedes.”

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Operators of ‘Grabba’ Tobacco Sweatshop Charged With Wage Theft, Reckless Endangerment

In a 74-count indictment, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez charged HotHead Grabba, its owner and top managers in connection with alleged wage theft and health hazards in a tobacco sweatshop empire.

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Almost Every NYPD Cop Charged with Excessive Force During the George Floyd Protests Escaped Serious Punishment

A review by THE CITY reveals that only five cops cited in the most extreme cases substantiated by the CCRB received significant discipline, and that 10 disciplinary cases still haven’t been resolved a...

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Adrienne Adams Wins Mayoral Matching Dollars, Cuomo Again Docked For Alleged Coordination

With the primary weeks away, the Council speaker secures $2 million in her first public funds, while the former governor had $675,000 clawed back over a big-money group's ads that allegedly echoed his...

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MTA Approves Millions More for OMNY Chatbot in Buggy System

As complaints mount about the new tap-and-go cards for buses and subways, transit officials have approved $13 million extra for AI help services — on top of a nearly $600 million original contract.

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Remembering Tom Robbins, Journalist Who Crusaded for New Yorkers in Need

A stint on THE CITY’s investigations team capped a career exposing the corrupt and the criminal on behalf of tenants, workers and incarcerated people.

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De Blasio Sued City Hall and Lost. Here’s How Much It’s Costing Us

The former mayor apologized to New Yorkers and agreed to pay for his past NYPD protection on the presidential campaign trail. But taxpayers still paid to defend a "meritless" lawsuit he filed to avoid...

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Feds’ Files on Eric Adams Reveal Uzbek Influence Campaign That Yielded Election Cash

FBI agents probing the mayor surface text exchanges with a proxy of the central Asian government — with Adams demanding contributions while boosting a repressive regime’s image.

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NYCHA Paid Out Millions to Bribe-Paying Contractors Implicated in Corruption Takedown

An investigation by THE CITY finds contractors who publicly confessed to paying thousands of bribes to Housing Authority staff were subsequently awarded hundreds of no-bid contracts. NYCHA says it had...

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Wheelchair User Trapped at Rehab Sues NYCHA for Accessible Apartment

Susan Bourne was disabled by a stroke in 2013. Instead of making her apartment accessible, NYCHA has waged a yearslong campaign to evict her.

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Judge Dismisses Eric Adams Corruption Case

Judge Dale Ho’s decision to dismiss the charges “with prejudice” means the Trump administration cannot bring them again — removing leverage it sought over the mayor.

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Eric Adams Has Made Zero Effort to Challenge His Campaign Matching Funds Denial

The mayor claims he’s “fighting” to get $4 million in public dollars the city Campaign Finance Board declined to provide in light of his corruption indictment. But three months in, his campaign has ye...

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City Contracts Commissioner Resigns Suddenly, Latest Adams Appointee to Bow Out

Lisa Flores was one of Eric Adams’ first appointments, in charge of tens of billions of dollars of business with nonprofits and private vendors.

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Trump Organization’s Criminal Record Clouds Its Bid to Reclaim Wollman Rink

A board controlled by Mayor Eric Adams has ultimate say on the Central Park concession — and must find a “satisfactory record of business integrity” for whichever firm operates it next.

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City Jail Population Surpasses 7,000, Headed in Wrong Direction for Close-Rikers Plan

By law, the city will be legally barred from using Rikers jails after 2027, but the move-out can happen only if there are less than 5,000 people behind bars.

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Trump Org Presses Eric Adams for Wollman Rink Rights After City Hall Spurned $120M Nonprofit Gift

The Central Park Conservancy offered $120 million to run the skating oasis. City Hall instead solicited bids just days after the election — handing the president a prized opportunity while Adams’ lawy...

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Jesse Hamilton Forced Real Estate Firm to Assign Broker Pal to City Account, Suit Alleges

The Adams ally, his real estate buddy Diana Boutross and former Adams advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin all vacationed together in Japan — and had their phones seized by law enforcement when they returned.

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Tech Startup Gets on Fast Track to Install Sidewalk EV Charging Towers After Hiring Eric Adams’ Power Broker

Gravity Technologies is preparing to plant “trees” to juice up city agency vehicles, with help from the lobbying firm founded by the mayor’s former chief of staff, Frank Carone.

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Board of Elections Docked Director 15 Days Instead of Recommended Termination for Harassment

Michael Ryan remains in his job after getting a break from the board, whose chair was officially responsible for tackling gender discrimination at CUNY.

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Thousands of New Apartments on Brooklyn’s Waterfront? Not So Fast, Say Some Local Leaders

Some members of a task force weighing the Brooklyn Marine Terminal’s future question whether scaling back one of the borough’s last remaining industrial areas is necessary or wise.

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Board of Elections Director Made Racial and Sexual Remarks to Female Employees, City Probe Found

The Department of Investigation recommended in November that Michael Ryan resign, but months later, he’s still there.

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Bill Banning Off-Brand E-Bike Battery Sales Passes Congress, Spurred by New York Tragedies

Federal budget package includes long-delayed measure to prevent fires that have killed and injured hundreds, steered by Schumer, Gillibrand and Torres.

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Adams Campaign Declines to Answer Key Auditor Queries as Criminal Case Looms

Even as they asked for public matching funds, the mayor’s team ignored pressing questions from the Campaign Finance Board on who paid for what, newly released records show.

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