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Post-Election, Pols Hit Puerto Rico for 5-Day SOMOS Feast
Mayor Eric Adams is no-showing the SOMOS political conference for a second straight year, but nearly a dozen current City Hall staffers made the taxpayer-funded jaunt to Puerto Rico to hobnob with his successor. The list of attendees at the annual gathering includes deputy mayors Camille Joseph Varlack, Ana Almanzar, Suzanne Miles-Gustave and Adolfo Carrion, […]
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How Mamdani Won, By the Numbers
Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory in the mayoral race Tuesday night broke records in more ways than one. Not only will the Queens Assembly member become the city’s first South Asian and Muslim mayor, and the youngest in more than a century, he also hauled in nearly as many votes — more than 1,036,000 — as […]
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Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg
In the weeks before Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral dream went up in smoke on election night, a handful of independent spending groups backed by New York City’s oligarchy spent more than $55 million supporting the ex-governor or attacking his ultimately victorious rival, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani. With Cuomo garnering just under 855,000 votes, that amounted to the […]
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Judge Declines to Pause New Health Insurance Plan for City Workers
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge on Thursday rejected a petition from a mysterious advocacy group to toss the city’s new self-funded health plan for municipal workers, administered by EmblemHealth and UnitedHealthcare. Judge Lyle Frank rejected the petition for a temporary restraining order from Hands Off NY Care, Inc. In the petition, city employee plaintiffs assert […]
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Rikers Detainee Found Dead With 121 Pills as Oversight Board Cites Mass Failures
A Rikers Island detainee who died in February had 121 pills and multiple synthetic drugs in his cell, according to a new city oversight report that highlights ongoing failures by jail officials to secure housing areas and respond to medical emergencies. The Board of Correction’s First Report and Recommendations on 2025 Deaths in Custody, released […]
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