Heard Around Town
Policy
Upcoming city, state budgets turn eyes to asylum-seeker dollars
Both Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams are releasing their respective budget proposals for the coming fiscal year Tuesday.
Education
Policy
Eric Adams again reverses some planned budget cuts
The mayor’s restoration of education funding followed reversals of some planned cuts to police and fire departments, as well as to sanitation and parks initiatives.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Latinos make up 22% of new hires within Adams administration, 2% more than de Blasio, but it’s not enough
City Hall’s latest workforce report filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shows how a historical hiring bias has been slow to reverse.
Albany Agenda
Policy
Hochul’s State of the State: What’s in it for New York City?
The governor’s annual address on Tuesday included 204 proposals for the future of New York. Here’s what’s in it for New York City.
Immigration
Politics
Can NYC make bus companies pay $700 million for transporting migrants?
New York City is targeting bus companies transporting migrants from Texas with a novel legal argument, but the path to legal victory is unclear.
Eric Adams
Policy
Adams threatens ‘all viable’ legal actions against Abbott over migrants
New York City’s mayor accuses the Texas governor of bypassing an executive order to limit the arrival of buses carrying asylum-seekers.
Opinion
Politics
Opinion: David Paterson feels Eric Adams’ pain
New York’s 55th governor writes that the New York City mayor is the target of a “well-organized defamation of character campaign” that he knows all too well.
Labor
Politics
NYC teachers sue Eric Adams over school budget cuts
The United Federation of Teachers filed a lawsuit Thursday to block planned spending reductions.
Eric Adams
Politics
Eric Adams says unnamed ‘political opportunists’ want to see him crash
The mayor insisted he’s not getting distracted by investigations and rumors.
Budget
Policy
NYC Council grills Adams admin budget director on proposed cuts
The council held a hearing to push back on City Hall’s budget projections.
Heard Around Town
Politics
“Cold reality:” Help is not on the way from feds, Adams says
“We did not walk out from D.C. with any level of optimism that anything is going to drastically change,” Adams said on Friday.
New York City Council
Policy
City Council members balk at $4.5 million in cuts to supportive housing rental subsidies
The Adams administration defended the proposed reduction as “right-sizing.”
Heard Around Town
Politics
Adams beats a familiar drum on D.C. trip
A last-minute meeting with White House officials was added to the mayor’s schedule on Thursday, giving him another chance to ask for federal help to deal with the migrant crisis.
Immigration
Politics
Mayor Adams: Requiring pre-approval of migrant contracts ‘defies logic’
The Adams administration lashed out at Brad Lander after the city comptroller stripped City Hall of its power to enter into emergency contracts.
Heard Around Town
Politics
Phil Banks quiet on rumored exit from Adams administration
The deputy mayor for public safety declined to comment on whether he would continue to serve in the role after this year.
Adams probes
Politics
Brianna Suggs no longer fundraising for Eric Adams campaign
Suggs, whose home was raided as part of a federal investigation into Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign, will stay on the 2025 campaign in another role.
Labor
Policy
Thousands more vacant positions eliminated in latest New York City budget cuts
“Without the significant and timely support we need from Washington, D.C., today’s budget will be only the beginning,” Mayor Eric Adams said of a plan that cuts 2,100 vacancies.
Adams probes
Politics
Adams admin won’t say whether other officials’ devices were seized
The mayor said Tuesday he’s “fully cooperating” with the federal probe, but declined to say whether other members of his administration or campaign have been contacted as part of the investigation.
Eric Adams
Opinion
Opinion: The mayoral primary challenge we need
It’s not about finding a leftist challenger to Eric Adams. It’s about finding a competent one.
Eric Adams
Politics