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Then-Mayor Bill de Blasio is flanked by his security detail after announcing his run for president at Batter Park.

De Blasio Sued City Hall and Lost. Here’s How Much It’s Costing Us

May 21, 2025, 4:57 p.m.May 21, 2025, 4:57 p.m.

The former mayor apologized to New Yorkers and agreed to pay for his past NYPD protection on the presidential campaign trail. But taxpayers still paid to defend a "meritless" lawsuit he filed to avoid paying for the police detail.

Adams World: Investigated

Feds’ Files on Eric Adams Reveal Uzbek Influence Campaign That Yielded Election Cash

May 21, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 20, 2025, 6:29 p.m.

FBI agents probing the mayor surface text exchanges with a proxy of the central Asian government — with Adams demanding contributions while boosting a repressive regime’s image.

Campaign 2025

Meet Your Mayor 2025

Gothamist May 14, 2025, 6:00 a.m.May 13, 2025, 4:43 p.m.

Who should you rank on your ballot to be the next mayor of New York City? Take the same quiz the candidates did and find your closest match.

Mayor Eric Adams talks with people in custody on Rikers Island on Thursday, July 7, 2022.

Jails

Federal Judge Orders Appointment of Rikers Island ‘Remediation Manager’

May 13, 2025, 12:44 p.m.May 14, 2025, 10:16 a.m.

Fourteen years after the filing of a landmark class-action lawsuit over brutality in city jails, a judge has ruled that a third-party should manage the Department of Correction.

Tenant advocates protest during a Rent Guidelines Board meeting at Hunter College.

Housing

Will the Next Mayor Freeze Rent? That Could Be Up to Eric Adams

May 1, 2025, 5:45 p.m.May 2, 2025, 5:58 a.m.

The Rent Guidelines Board is readying a hike as high as 4.75% — and could favor landlords well into the next mayor’s term despite many candidates’ call for no increase.

Eric Adams

City Hall to Float Nonprofits More Money Upfront to Address Payment Delays

April 29, 2025, 6:25 p.m.April 29, 2025, 6:25 p.m.

The change authorizing initial payments of 50% of a contract, up from 25%, could be worth $5 billion over the next year.

Demonstrators rally outside City Hall against Mayor Eric Adams' executive order allowing ICE and other federal agencies back onto Rikers Island.

Immigration

Judge Temporarily Blocks ICE’s Return to Rikers Island

April 21, 2025, 3:18 p.m.April 21, 2025, 3:18 p.m.

The move came after the City Council sued to stop City Hall’s executive order allowing federal authorities to return to the jail a decade after they departed.

Economy

Pressure Grows on Adams to Budget for Trump Funding Cuts and Recession

April 16, 2025, 5:22 p.m.April 17, 2025, 3:06 p.m.

Set aside more money in reserves, City Council, comptroller and finance experts urge.

City Hall

City Council Sues Eric Adams Over Executive Order Allowing ICE Back Onto Rikers Island

April 15, 2025, 1:49 p.m.April 15, 2025, 1:50 p.m.

Council attorneys argue that in inviting immigration enforcers the mayor violated conflict of interest laws that bar public servants from getting benefits from their job, citing his deal with Trump’s Department of Justice.

City Hall

How an Indicted Tow Trucker Gained Entree to the Top of the Adams istration

April 15, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 14, 2025, 5:55 p.m.

Mike Mazzio helped raise nearly $400,000 for Adams’ 2021 campaign and hired the mayor’s former state Senate colleague Jeff Klein as his lobbyist — all while facing charges for illegally rigging the industry.

City Hall

De Blasio Sued City Hall and Lost. Here’s How Much It’s Costing Us

Feds’ Files on Eric Adams Reveal Uzbek Influence Campaign That Yielded Election Cash

Meet Your Mayor 2025

Federal Judge Orders Appointment of Rikers Island ‘Remediation Manager’

Will the Next Mayor Freeze Rent? That Could Be Up to Eric Adams

City Hall to Float Nonprofits More Money Upfront to Address Payment Delays

Judge Temporarily Blocks ICE’s Return to Rikers Island

Pressure Grows on Adams to Budget for Trump Funding Cuts and Recession

City Council Sues Eric Adams Over Executive Order Allowing ICE Back Onto Rikers Island

How an Indicted Tow Trucker Gained Entree to the Top of the Adams istration

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