Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
LISTEN: Time-Tunneling Into a Different Brooklyn with Jonathan Lethem
The author joins Harry Siegel and guest host Brian Berger for a deep dive into his latest book, the excellent and almost undefinable Brooklyn Crime Novel. Lethem digs into his reasons on re-reexamining the Brooklyn he wrote about 20 years earlier in The Fortress of Solitude, but doing so this time with the tools of […]
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How Other Prosecutors Could Pick Up the Case Against Eric Adams
The Trump Justice Department filed a highly unusual motion to dismiss the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams on Friday, setting up a high-stakes showdown with the federal judge overseeing the case and heightening calls for other prosecutors or Gov. Kathy Hochul to act. The filing by Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, came after […]
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Who Is Calling For Eric Adams to Resign or Be Removed
The calls for Mayor Eric Adams to step down or be removed from office grew this week as four deputy mayors resigned in the wake of the Justice Department moving to drop his criminal case on public corruption charges — and multiple federal prosecutors resigned in protest of what they said was a politically motivated […]
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Uproar at Stonewall After Feds Remove Mentions of Trans Identity
Hundreds of New Yorkers rallied at Stonewall National Monument in the West Village Friday afternoon, a day after the National Parks Service replaced the acronym LGBTQ+ with just LGB on its websites describing the historic plaza and removed the word “transgender” entirely. “I’m angry,” said Tabytha Gonzalez, a trans activist who works at the City’s […]
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Adams May Escape Legal Woes but Political Peril Looms
This article is adapted from our Feb. 13 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, President Trump’s Justice Department on Monday sent a memo to federal prosecutors in New York City directing them to drop the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. Although the Southern District […]
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