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Eyeing Mayor Adams’ Independent Option as He Lags in the Money Race

Mayor Eric Adams holds his weekly off-topic press conference at City Hall.

This article is adapted from our March 20 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, Mayor Eric Adams has often said, when asked about his shift right politically, that he didn’t leave the party he’s currently registered in — “the Democratic Party left me.” That […]

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Brooklyn Apartments Tap Into the Earth for Heating and Cooling

An apartment building just off the boardwalk in Coney Island boasts a heated outdoor pool, a cozy library and a sunny penthouse lounge with sweeping views of the ocean and the Verazzano Narrows Bridge. But the most remarkable element is hidden below the ground: 153 wells, dug deeper than the Statue of Liberty is tall. […]

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Ex-Giuliani Aide Randy Mastro Tapped as Adams’ First Deputy Mayor

Randy Mastro speaks to city council in hopes of being elected corporate council. Mastro wears a dark blue suit and red tie. The city council chambers is filled with people. the people in the background are out of focus.

Randy Mastro, who withdrew his bid to be the city’s corporation counsel in September after an uproar from the City Council, will now be the city’s first deputy mayor. Mayor Eric Adams announced the hiring to round out a new slate of aides following the departure of high-level staffers earlier this month. “Randy is a […]

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Growing Concern: Parks Dept. Gives Multi-Million Dollar Tree-Planting Job to Contractor Facing Federal Time

Trees cover a street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Nov. 10, 2021.

A Westchester landscaping company is close to receiving contracts worth tens of millions of dollars in tree-planting work despite its owner facing prison time for a bribery and illegal dumping scheme, records show. Griffin’s Landscaping, based in Peekskill, has two active tree planting contracts with the Parks Department totaling $14.7 million and three upcoming contracts […]

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NYC Law Allowing Noncitizens to Vote is Unconstitutional, State’s Highest Court Rules

An absentee ballot box sat near the entrance to an early voting site in The Shed at Hudson Yards.

New York’s highest court ruled that a 2021 local law that allowed some legal permanent residents to vote in New York City elections is unconstitutional, in a decision released Thursday. The 6-1 decision by the New York State Court of Appeals striking down the controversial law is a setback to efforts to expand immigrant rights […]

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