Andrew Cuomo
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LISTEN: The Mayor Who Cried Wolf?

When Deputy Mayor for Communications Fabien Levy put out the news Sunday night that Mayor Eric Adams wasn’t feeling well and was clearing his public schedule, it came just a week after City Hall’s late-night news that he’d cancelled his Martin Luther King Jr. Days plans and was driving to D.C. to attend Donald Trump’s […]

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LISTEN: Is This ‘A City in Crisis’?

Mayor Eric Adams, who won office talking about making New York feel safer, is cutting spending on core services even as his own poll numbers are plummeting and as critics are talking, however cynically, about “a city in crisis.” Co-hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss all that, the last big cases to emerge from […]

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LISTEN: Pigeon Swag, Queens Boys and Turkey Talk

that time that Andrew Cuomo tried to push aside Carl McCall? Co-host Christina Greer does. With the former governor reportedly considering a run against newly embattled Mayor Eric Adams, she and Katie Honan talk about that episode and plenty more— including how you can celebrate Thanksgiving the old-fashioned way, by checking out THE CITY’s […]

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Legal Weed Shops May Not Hit in 2022, New York. Here’s What We Know

Puff, puff… pause. New York legalized marijuana use this spring, and by year’s end cities and towns across the state must individually decide whether to allow cannabis dispensaries and “on-site consumption.” The city has opted in. But that doesn’t mean New Yorkers 21 and older will be able to walk into a shop in the […]
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Seeking Mercy From Hochul: Three New York Prisoners Plead Their Cases

In 2015, Andrew Cuomo vowed to overhaul the state’s clemency process, but never followed through. Now, thousands of petitions offer a test of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s commitment to “improving justice.” Here are the stories of three incarcerated men making pitches for freedom.