NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has an unusual financial arrangement with his former chief fundraiser, a 25-year-old whose home was recently raided by the FBI. Brianna Suggs, who worked as an intern for Adams in Brooklyn Borough Hall, was paid on commission by the mayor’s reelection team — an unorthodox employment […]
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams has already spent more than $400,000 on legal costs for a federal investigation involving his 2021 campaign. The expense was revealed Tuesday, in the first disclosure of a fund he established to allow him to fundraise to pay off the bills. Meanwhile a 2025 campaign filing also released Tuesday […]
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is set to release a $109.4 billion budget that contains far less doom and gloom than he had originally warned of, according to several people familiar with the blueprint the mayor is unveiling Tuesday afternoon. In short: Higher revenue projections, less money spent on migrants and […]
Mayor Adams is expected to release an updated fiscal forecast Tuesday showing the city’s on track to rake in well over $2 billion more in tax revenue than what his team previously estimated — a revision that’s likely to fuel calls for the mayor to undo some of his unpopular budget cuts to city services, […]
New York City has pulled in more tax revenue than Mayor Adams and his budget team previously predicted. Migrant costs, according to them, have been cut 20%. And as of last week, funding that had been previously slashed from the NYPD, FDNY and the Sanitation and Education departments has been restored. What exactly all that […]
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday announced a restoration of his budget cuts — a move with far more political benefit than fiscal consequence. Due to lower cost projections for managing an influx of migrants, the city will restore a canceled police academy class set to start in April and will also cobble […]
Even for Eric Adams, whose hardscrabble upbringing featured heavily in his rise to become mayor of New York City, the tale of his near-miss school shooting was harrowing. One day at school, Adams was hanging out with a group of friends when someone showed up with a gun, according to his 2009 book, “Don’t Let […]
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order Wednesday to restrict the flow of migrant charter buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to New York City. Adams said the order mandates any buses carrying migrants arrive in the city only between 8:30 a.m. and noon on weekdays. The buses’ arrival must also […]
A passerby captured dramatic video of an exploding propane tank as crews were called to the scene of a garage fire in Adams County Friday night. According to Irishtown Fire Company, crews were called to the 100 block of Fish and Game Road in Oxford Township around 10:24 p.m. on Friday night for a report […]
WASHINGTON — New York City Mayor Eric Adams will meet Thursday with several congressional leaders and the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to discuss his city’s growing population of migrants. Adams has said his goal is to secure more assistance from the federal government, including covering the massive cost facing New York City […]