The meeting with Hikmet Hajiyev, chief of staff to controversial Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, took place last week at the presidential palace in the country’s capital, Baku, according to a post Frank Carone made on his private Instagram this pas…
Continue reading →Mayor Adams and the union representing Staten Island Ferry captains, mates and engineers are set to announce Monday that they’ve reached a deal on a contract after going 13 years without one, according to a city government source familiar with the matt…
Continue reading →A Staten Island judge ordered Friday that Mayor Adams’ administration cannot for now use an old private school in the borough as a migrant shelter — a ruling that came down just as city workers started moving new arrivals into the location.
Continue reading →John Kaehny, head of the Reinvent Albany watchdog group, deemed the financial arrangement of Adams’ Israel trip an “obvious” conflict of interest and a “big, big loophole” due to the executives’ ties to city government.
Continue reading →Mayor Adams’ administration is pursuing an “aggressive” new legal strategy for rolling back the city’s right-to-shelter mandate — and wants local lawmakers to ramp up public pressure on Gov. Hochul for not doing more to alleviate the worsening local mi…
Continue reading →Speaking with reporters on a press call from Israel, where he’s on a four-day trip, Adams said the unconventional idea came up during a meeting he had with local police officials.
Continue reading →New York City’s largest municipal union is sending out text messages to its workers urging them to heckle Council members who support legislation that would guarantee traditional Medicare coverage for retired municipal employees, the Daily News has lea…
Continue reading →The planned sit-down with Netanyahu, set to take place in Jerusalem, is likely to stir controversy, as the prime minister’s far-right government is in the middle of enacting a controversial set of reforms to Israel’s judicial system that critics say wi…
Continue reading →Mayor Adams’ administration wants permission from the federal government to house migrants at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, an infamous prison that closed down in 2021 following years of complaints over dangerous conditions.
Continue reading →But on the flipside, the officials insisted it’s offensive to suggest the administration could’ve used those beds to accommodate a group of nearly 200 mostly adult male migrants who resorted to camp out on the street after being told the city shelter s…
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