This story was published in partnership with The Guardian. City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging the administration of Mayor Eric Adams to nix a contract extension that would steer nearly $20 million to a hotel owner who was indicted last month in an alleged corruption scheme involving one of her government-funded Queens properties. The hotel […]

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In his first term as New York City mayor, Eric Adams set out to establish himself as a friend of labor, quickly settling contracts with the city’s largest public sector unions, establishing a remote work pilot for some civil servants and securing Staten Island Ferry workers their first raise in more than a decade. Under […]

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Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign severely lags behind his competitors in the latest fundraising haul, as his base appears to be dwindling months before the primary. The incumbent raised $36,121.34 between Jan. 12 and March 13 — but had to give back more than $21,000 to donors who’d already maxed out on giving or had […]

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Mayor Eric Adams’ Department of Homeless Services is trying out new rules that would create new grounds for kicking residents out of city shelters, THE CITY has learned.  A copy of a draft proposal for “Enhanced Client Placement Support” obtained by THE CITY would let DHS deny adults a placement in shelters if they fail […]

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The CITY partners with Open Campus on coverage of the City University of New York. The country’s largest private funder of biomedical research has cut its funding for a program at Queens College that had focused on making science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive and engaging for students of diverse backgrounds, the college confirmed […]

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