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FBI raids Bronx homes of Mayor Adams aide
March 01, 2024 11:00 - 8 minutesFBI agents on Thursday raided two Bronx homes owned by Winnie Greco, a top aide to Mayor Adams, multiple sources confirmed to the Daily News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams rolls out new plan to create jobs, address climate change
February 29, 2024 11:00 - 8 minutesMayor Adams unveiled a new economic plan Wednesday geared toward addressing climate change and creating 5,000 new jobs — and which his administration predicted will generate $55 billion of “economic impact” for the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lander report slams Mayor Adams on migrant contract spending
February 28, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesThe cost of comparable migrant services provided by contractors hired by Mayor Adams’ administration “varied widely” and came in “significantly higher” than what the city typically pays, leading to mismanaged taxpayer dollars, a report released Tuesday by city Comptroller Brad Lander revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Biden visits New York City for campaign trip, second this month
February 27, 2024 11:00 - 5 minutesPresident Biden Monday was set to visit New York Monday afternoon for his second campaign trip of the month to the Big Apple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NYC lawmakers make yet another bid to crack down on unlicensed cannabis shops
February 26, 2024 11:45 - 5 minutesA renewed push to weed out the estimated 2,500 unlicensed cannabis shops in the city rolled forward Friday, another effort in what so far has been a largely losing battle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
DOT claims more red light cameras save lives in New York City
February 23, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesCity transportation officials are asking Albany pols to expand New York City’s red-light camera program, which is set to end this year as fatalities from light-running reach a record high. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams cancels next round of NYC budget cuts, but will slash migrant spending
February 22, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesMayor Adams called off a plan Wednesday to cut all city agency budgets by 5% this spring — but also announced he’s going to slash nearly $600 million in projected spending on housing and services for newly-arrived migrants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
41% of N.Y voters want someone other than Biden, Trump
February 21, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesDemocrats found reasons for optimism after scoring a special congressional election victory in swing Long Island territory last week, but President Biden continues to show signs of weakness in deep-blue New York, according to a statewide Siena College poll published Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NYC mulls e-bike safety crackdown
February 19, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesE-bike safety checks and enforcement would be a key role of the new city agency Mayor Adams is contemplating to regulate New York’s growing food and package delivery industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The city sues social media giants to hold them ‘financially responsible’ for youth mental health crisis
February 16, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesMayor Adams’ administration sued the owners of five major social media platforms Wednesday with an aim to hold them “financially responsible” for the city’s youth mental health crisis, joining a wave of similar legal actions brought by jurisdictions across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Low-income New Yorkers sue Mayor Adams over refusal to expand rental voucher access
February 15, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesFour New Yorkers who are either at risk of becoming homeless or already living in the shelter system sued Mayor Adams on Wednesday for refusing to implement a package of laws that’d make it easier for them to access the city’s rental assistance program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams denounces state bill seeking to ban migrant stay limits
February 14, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesMayor Adams pushed back Tuesday on new state legislation that seeks to outlaw the 30- and 60-day limits his administration has put on migrants staying in New York City shelters, saying his policies constitute a “successful humanitarian response.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NY lawmakers propose bill aimed at Mayor Adams’ migrant shelter stay limits
February 13, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesTwo progressive New York lawmakers are taking aim at 30- and 60-day migrant shelter stay limits in the latest challenge to the Adams administration’s controversial policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
20 NYC migrant shelters to face new 11 p.m. curfew
February 12, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutes20 NYC migrant shelters to face new 11 p.m. curfew Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
City Council OKs legal action against Mayor Adams in housing voucher feud
February 09, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesThe City Council empowered Speaker Adrienne Adams on Thursday to take legal action against Mayor Adams over his refusal to implement a set of new housing voucher laws — but the speaker played coy on what exactly comes next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
City Council to clear way for legal action against Adams admin in housing voucher battle
February 08, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesCity Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is set to grant herself the power Thursday to take legal action against Mayor Adams’ administration over its refusal to implement a set of new housing voucher laws — a procedural step that carries outsize weight amid a tense relationship between the two top politicians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams asks NY lawmakers to shoulder half of migrant costs
February 07, 2024 11:00 - 8 minutesMayor Adams visited Albany on Tuesday to urge New York state lawmakers who hold sway over city resources to increase aid for the migrant crisis, asking for the state to cover 50% of the city’s migrant costs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ringleader in 2021 straw donor scheme tied to Mayor Adams’ campaign pleads guilty
February 06, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesDwayne Montgomery, a former NYPD inspector and longtime friend of Mayor Adams, admitted as part of a guilty plea Monday that he helped orchestrate a scheme to funnel illegal donations into the mayor’s 2021 campaign coffers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2026 FIFA World Cup final to be held at MetLife Stadium
February 05, 2024 11:00 - 4 minutesThe 2026 FIFA World Cup’s final will be held at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, FIFA announced Sunday. While in competition with the AT&T Stadium inn Arlington, Tex., the home of the Giants and Jets promised to remove 1,740 seats to accommodate a wider field for the beautiful game, the Daily News previously reported. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NYC takes next major step toward getting trash off streets and into containers
February 02, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesAn uptown Manhattan community board district is set to become the first in the city where trash containerization will be universally mandated under a plan rolled out by Mayor Adams on Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NYC library use surged before Adams budget cuts
February 01, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesNew York City’s public libraries saw large spikes in visitors and social program participation in the months before Mayor Adams’ budget cuts prompted them to eliminate Sunday hours at all branches and scale back other services as well, newly released data show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
City Council overrides the Mayor's criminal justice vetoes
January 31, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesThe City Council voted Tuesday to override two rare vetoes issued by Mayor Adams — the “How Many Stops” bill that will expand reporting requirements around low-level NYPD stops and another aimed at banning solitary confinement in city jails. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams defends ‘How Many Stops’ veto
January 30, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesMayor Adams on Monday defended his veto of the “How Many Stops Act” as City Council leaders mounted a final internal lobbying push to line up the necessary support to override him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
City Council leaders call on mayor to open more migrant ‘reticketing centers’
January 29, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesTwo City Council leaders called on Mayor Adams’ administration Friday to open up more migrant “reticketing centers” amid concern over newly arrived asylum seekers sleeping outside the city’s only such site due to overcrowding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams investing $40M to give NYC women a greater leg-up
January 26, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesNew York City will invest $40 million as part of a comprehensive effort to address gender inequities across the five boroughs, building on existing initiatives rolled out in the last year, Mayor Adams announced Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams delivers his State of the City speech
January 25, 2024 11:00 - 9 minutesIn his third State of the City speech since taking office, Mayor Adams pledged Wednesday that the remainder of his first term will be focused on boosting job creation, education, housing development and public safety — but he acknowledged he needs help from state lawmakers in Albany to achieve several of those goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NYC to include migrants in annual street homelessness census
January 24, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesAny migrants spotted sleeping outside will be counted as part of the city’s annual street homelessness census this month, according to Adams administration officials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NYC officials and advocates demand an end to Mayor Adams’ migrant shelter limits
January 23, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesDozens of City Council members and advocates called on Mayor Adams Monday to halt shelter stay limits for migrant families, with Speaker Adrienne Adams slamming the policy as “counterproductive and cruel.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams vetoes ‘How Many Stops Act’ and solitary ban bill
January 22, 2024 11:00 - 8 minutesMayor Adams on Friday vetoed the How Many Stops Act, which would beef up NYPD transparency requirements, and a bill to prohibit solitary confinement in city jails — setting the stage for a dramatic showdown with the City Council, whose leaders immediately pledged to override the mayoral attempt to block the measures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ICYMI The Key takeaways from Mayor Adams’ budget plan for NYC
January 20, 2024 17:12 - 6 minutesAmid much better revenue flow than predicted, Mayor Adams announced Tuesday that the city won’t be cutting funding to its agencies as deeply as initially expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Former City Comptroller launches committee to explore mayoral run against Adams
January 19, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesScott Stringer, the former city comptroller who ran a losing mayoral campaign against Mayor Adams three years ago, officially signaled Thursday that he’s preparing for a possible rematch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A look at Mayor Adams’ reelection campaign contributions
January 18, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesThe latest fillings show New York’s real estate and legal industries drove much of Mayor Adams’ latest campaign cash haul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Takeaways from New York Governor Hochul’s state budget plan
January 17, 2024 11:00 - 9 minutesGovernor Hochul on Tuesday outlined her proposal for the next state budget, offering more detail on initiatives she centered in her State of the State speech last week, and putting a striking price tag on state funding for the migrant crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams has raised $650K for legal defense trust since FBI raid at his campaign aide’s home
January 16, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesIn the two months since its launch, Mayor Adams’ legal defense trust has raised at least $650,000 to help cover lawyer fees he and his associates rack up as part of an FBI investigation into his 2021 campaign’s finances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
New York Gov. Hochul to unveil state budget proposal on Tuesday
January 15, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesWeighing looming deficits, the city’s costly asylum seeker challenge and the loss of pandemic-era federal funds, Gov. Hochul has spent recent weeks preparing a framework for the state’s next budget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams rolls back cuts to trash pickup and jobs training program
January 12, 2024 11:00 - 8 minutesReductions in trash pickups and cuts to the city Parks Department announced in November were rolled back Thursday as part of the fiscal rejiggering Mayor Adams and his budget team are engaged in prior to rolling out the city’s new preliminary spending plan next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams reversing some NYPD and FDNY cuts
January 11, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesNew York City won’t freeze hiring of police officers or lay off disabled firefighters this fiscal year after all, Mayor Adams announced Wednesday, citing “better than anticipated” tax revenue and a reduction in projected migrant crisis spending as the reasons for calling off the planned NYPD and FDNY cuts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Governor Hochul’s State of the State address centers on public safety, mental health, and affordability
January 10, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesGovernor Hochul on Tuesday was set to trumpet her agenda for the new year, outlining proposals aimed at overcoming post-pandemic mental health challenges, cracking down on retail thefts and illegal weed stores and addressing the state’s urgent affordability crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What would NYC Council’s ‘How Many Stops Act’ actually do?
January 09, 2024 11:00 - 8 minutesFor the second time in less than a year, the City Council is bracing for Mayor Adams to veto a bill it passed with overwhelming support — and this time the legislation at hand relates to police transparency, a top priority for most members of the chamber. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pushback growing over mayoral control of NYC schools with renewal up for debate in Albany
January 08, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesAs state lawmakers reconvene for a new legislative session, one of the tasks they’ll face is reviewing school governance at New York City public schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NYC teachers’ union, Staten Island borough president sue to stop congestion pricing
January 05, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesNYC teachers and Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella are suing to stop the MTA’s congestion pricing plan, saying it will punish teachers, firefighters and other city workers who commute to Manhattan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Governor Hochul proposes statewide phonics-based reading program
January 04, 2024 11:00 - 6 minutesGovernor Hochul on Wednesday introduced a framework to overhaul reading curriculum across New York State, emphasizing phonics, after New York City officials introduced similar, sweeping changes to literacy education in city elementary school districts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams fails to register his Brooklyn rental property with NYC housing agency again
January 03, 2024 11:00 - 7 minutesMayor Adams faces potential fines for failing to register his Brooklyn rental property with the city’s housing agency last year — the latest in a string of violations at the building, according to public records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NYC murders and shootings down in 2023 for second year in a row
January 02, 2024 11:00 - 4 minutesNew York City homicide and shootings dropped in 2023 for a second straight year, NYPD data show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams dismantling ‘disruptive’ NYC task force accused of heavy-handed raids at bars, venues
December 29, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutesMayor Adams, an avowed booster of New York City’s nightlife scene, is dismantling a decades-old, multiagency enforcement task force that has long been accused of using heavy-handed tactics during inspections at bars and venues across the Big Apple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams sets strict limits on when migrant buses can arrive in NYC
December 28, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutesNew York City will only allow buses of asylum seekers to arrive between 8:30 a.m. and noon on weekdays going forward, Mayor Adams said Wednesday, instituting the restrictions in concert with Denver and Chicago, which created broader windows for bus arrivals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Governor Hochul uses Christmas address to condemn hate crime spikes in N.Y.
December 27, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutesNew York Governor Kathy Hochul used her Christmas address Monday to condemn a spike in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic hate crimes seen across New York since Hamas’ terror attack on Israel this fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
UFT sues to block Mayor Adams’ NYC education budget cuts
December 22, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutesThe city’s teachers union is suing to stop the Adams administration from shaving as much as $2 billion off the local Education Department budget as part of a long list of spending cuts first announced in September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
New York Democrats renew push to boot Trump from ballot
December 21, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutesNew York Democrats Wednesday vowed to renew their push to get former President Donald Trump banned from the state’s presidential ballot after a bombshell ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mayor Adams threatens to limit press access at City Hall to one reporter per outlet
December 20, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutesMayor Adams — who has for months lamented what he sees as unfair press coverage of his administration — announced Tuesday he’s considering restricting media access at City Hall so that only one reporter per outlet can be admitted to the building at a time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices