When a federal judge ordered City Hall to make major structural improvements to its jails and release some people facing low level charges to alleviate overcrowding, reformers hailed what they described as a major legal victory. Yet the case — known as “Benjamin v. Malcolm” after the lead plaintiff and jail commissioner when it was […]

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Last month Jesse Hamilton, a longtime ally of Mayor Eric Adams who oversees the city’s real estate transactions at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), stepped off a plane at JFK Airport returning from a trip to Japan and had his phone seized by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. That was just the start. […]

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Hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss Trump’s last days rally in his old Manhattan stomping grounds, and the mayor’s defense of the president and the president’s public praise of the mayor that’s  sure to re-circulate in 20025 ads from the Democrats running to replace him. They also discuss the NYPD’s usual suspects […]

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When Sheila Berman traveled to a Brooklyn police precinct last month to file a report, she encountered stairs just inside the front entrance — a dead end for a 62-year-old woman who walks with the help of a cane. So she stood outside the 68th Precinct in Bay Ridge and hollered for help. “I had […]

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