A corruption indictment unveiled by Manhattan prosecutors Thursday alleges what safe street advocates have long suspected: that a behind-the-scenes pay-to-play scheme involving an influential Greenpoint family and Mayor Eric Adams’ most powerful aide wrecked improvements to the neighborhood’s deadliest street.    Now, two years since the city’s Department of Transportation watered down its own plan for […]

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Rival candidates lined up to roast Mayor Eric Adams in the wake of a new bribery indictment of his close longtime advisor and the news that a campaign confidante had handed a reporter for THE CITY cash stuffed inside a potato chip bag. Andrew Cuomo, who, like Adams, is running as an independent after a […]

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The NYPD is transferring oversight of its 3,600 school safety agents from the Community Affairs Bureau to the office of Chief of Department John Chell, according to multiple sources, in a move that comes as the department’s commissioner pushes for stricter repercussions for some teens convicted of serious crimes. A police department spokesperson confirmed the […]

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A plan from the Parks Department’s Marine Unit to reconstruct the Dyckman Marina has the Hudson River Community Sailing group heading for treacherous waters.  Estimated to cost about $20 million, according to the Parks Department, the project initiated in 2022 would rehabilitate the docks at the marina, one of two in Manhattan owned by the […]

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Mayor Eric Adams’ closest longtime advisor, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, sold off her influence to a wide variety of interests, taking free catering, cash, home renovations and other gifts in exchange for her help eliminating bureaucratic hurdles for developers and steering lucrative contracts to select vendors, prosecutors charged Thursday. The breadth of her alleged perfidy was breathtaking: […]

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