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LISTEN: Andrew Cuomo Muscles Into Adrienne Adams’ Turf

Mayoral candidates former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Council Speaker Adrianne Adams are seen speaking at podiums in a diptych image.

After eight Black elected officials from Southeast Queens put out a joint statement saying they were endorsing Andrew Cuomo for mayor, three of them said that, actually, they’re not doing that (and, in one case, won’t be ranking Cuomo at all). Guest Jeff Coltin of Politico New York, who broke that story over the weekend, talks […]

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Crime Down and Tolls Working, MTA Fires Back After ‘Shithole’ Jab From Trump DOT Chief

Commuters packed onto an A train during the morning commute.

After President Trump’s transportation secretary trashed the subway as a “shithole,” baffled MTA and NYPD officials pointed to a nearly 30% drop in major transit crime from a year ago. Chief Joseph Gulotta, head of the NYPD Transit Bureau Chief conceded Monday that the subway is struggling with a safety perception problem — even as […]

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For New York Puerto Ricans, Language Matters, But Identity Runs Deeper

Born and raised in New York to a Puerto Rican family, Kisha Cedeño struggled from a young age with the stigma of not being fluent in Spanish.

This story was originally published by the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo. Kisha Cedeño recalls being 12 years old when she first felt embarrassed by her lack of Spanish proficiency. She was in sixth grade at Juan Pablo Duarte School in Washington Heights, New York, and was assigned to write and pronounce a word in Spanish […]

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City Contracts Director Resigns Suddenly, Latest Adams Appointee to Bow Out

Yet another top aide to Mayor Eric Adams has resigned, this time the head of the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (MOCS), a job the embattled mayor once described as a key player in the effort to “root out waste, fraud and abuse.” Lisa Flores, the city’s chief procurement officer as head of the office, […]

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Hochul Digs in on Home Care Switch, Despite Labor Ally’s Call for Delay

Union members rallied on the steps of City Hall to back raising the minimum wage to over $20 an hour.

Gov. Hochul pushed back Friday on a major health union’s demand that she delay moving home care for more than 250,000 New Yorkers to a single administrator, a transition Hochul’s office says is necessary to head off “runaway costs.” Just days before an April 1 deadline for hundreds of companies to stop managing the Consumer-Directed […]

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