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City Government Whistleblowers Grow Scant, With Most Denied Protection
The task of becoming a whistleblower exposing corruption in city government is a stressful high-wire act, balancing the moral imperative to do the right thing with the possibility of losing a good-paying job. Just ask Ricardo Morales. Morales was fired a few years back as a deputy commissioner after exposing evidence of backroom deals regarding […]
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Office Lease Deal With Adams Donor Moves Ahead After Review City Hall Won’t Release
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is quietly moving ahead to relocate a city agency’s headquarters to a Wall Street tower owned by one of the mayor’s big donors — a transaction paused earlier this year following reports that one of Adams’ longtime associates had steered the deal to the donor. The administration is justifying the behind-the-scenes move […]
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Adams and Adams Shake on City Budget for Last Time
Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams officially shook hands on a nearly $116 billion budget late Friday, culminating the end of the pair’s sometimes contentious negotiations while adding more money for mental-health services and child care. The fiscal year 2026 budget, which is set to be voted on by the full Council […]
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He Fled Death Threats for Being Gay, Applied for Asylum and Married a U.S. Citizen. ICE Arrested Him Anyway.
When Fitz Smith, 43, first met Mamadou on the dating app Grindr in December 2023, he immediately saw a younger version of himself. Mamadou, then 27, had fled Guinea just after his father, a conservative imam, learned he was in a relationship with a man. Sex between people of the same gender is punishable with […]
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Early-Morning Lap Swims Back for First Time in Five Years
With New York City’s outdoor pools officially open as of Friday, early-morning adult lap swimming is about to return for the first time since the pandemic. The downsized adult lap swim program is coming to one pool in each borough: Van Cortlandt Park pool in The Bronx, Kosciuszko pool in Brooklyn, Hamilton Fish pool in […]
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