The judge considering the Trump Justice Department’s highly unusual motion to dismiss Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Friday appointed an outside counsel to help him decide what to do. Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho assigned the task to Paul Clement, a former Solicitor General under President George W. Bush, to advise on the scope […]

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A fundraiser for Mayor Eric Adams charged in a kickback scheme involving city contracts obtained a delay in the case in preparation for possible plea negotiations with prosecutors in the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office, a court filing shows. Weihong Hu was indicted last week in a public corruption scheme, accused of bribing the founder of […]

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For the first time in decades, an effort is underway to reconsider the city’s approach to real estate development in a bid to help alleviate the housing crisis. Mayor Eric Adams in December convened a Charter Revision Commission to consider changing the city’s governing document to refine and possibly ease the processes surrounding land use.  […]

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Almost all of Manhattan’s notoriously pokey crosstown buses that run south of 60th Street have sped up — slightly — in the weeks since congestion pricing took effect, MTA data shows. January peak-hour bus speeds for east-west lines operating within the congestion relief zone on weekdays reveals that 11 of the 13 local and Select […]

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This article is adapted from our Feb. 20 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, It’s been another hectic week for Mayor Eric Adams. Calls for him to step down or be removed are getting louder, particularly after his four top deputy mayors announced they’d […]

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