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Eric Adams
Eric Adams’s Approval Rating Is Falling Crime is the top issue for New Yorkers, and very few say it’s gotten better under his watch.
By Nia Prater
tyre nichols
Jan. 31, 2023
Eric Adams Defends Specialized Police Units Following Tyre Nichols Case The New York mayor said that, while he did not want to second-guess the decision to disband Memphis’s SCORPION unit, “units don’t create abuse.”
By Nia Prater
state of the city
Jan. 23, 2023
Working for New York City When Everyone Else Is Leaving Empty cubicles, giant caseloads that leave low-income tenants without rent aid, and “no end in sight.”
By Ross Barkan
Here’s Why Everything at Walgreens Is Suddenly Behind Plastic The recent spike in shoplifting is both overblown and real. And almost everyone is profiting from it (including you).
By James D. Walsh
diary of a hospital
Jan. 18, 2023
Eric Adams’s Plan to Commit the Homeless Has Little Meaning in the ER People who are unhoused already use the city’s hospitals all the time.
By Lisa Miller
Adams Says New York ‘Cannot Take More’ Asylum Seekers During a recent trip to the southern border, Adams called on the federal government to provide more support to cities that have taken in migrants.
By Nia Prater
Why Can’t We Figure Out Where Politicians Live? Lester Chang and George Santos are just the latest.
By Clio Chang
rodent trouble
Jan. 4, 2023
Curtis Sliwa Has Solution for Eric Adams’s Rat Problem: Two Cats The Guardian Angels founder on his offer to set up a small feral-cat colony to fix the rodent problem on the mayor’s block in Bed-Stuy.
By Matt Stieb
Eric Adams Has More Rats Even his patented rat bucket didn’t solve the problem.
By Clio Chang
goodbye 2022
Dec. 21, 2022
The Year in Rent Breaking down the 12 months in which everything got more expensive, then more expensive, and then even more expensive.
By Clio Chang
street view
Dec. 15, 2022
Can the Hochul-Adams New New York Actually Happen? The Hochul-Adams mission statement is big on sweeping ideas — and way short on explaining how any of this happens.
By Justin Davidson
the city politic
Dec. 15, 2022
Eric Adams Has a Goal on Mental Illness — But He Needs a Plan He wants to involuntarily hospitalize those with the most serious problems. Does he understand the challenges he’ll face?
By Errol Louis
first person
Dec. 9, 2022
I Lost My Brother Twice First to schizophrenia, then forever to the city.
By Alex Brook Lynn
just asking questions
Dec. 6, 2022
How Frighteningly Strong Meth Has Supercharged Homelessness Journalist Sam Quinones on the radically transformed picture of drug addiction in America.
By Benjamin Hart
Eric Adams Has Rats According to an unpaid summons for his Bed-Stuy townhouse.
By Clio Chang
‘i can do my time’
Dec. 5, 2022
Why Was Eric Adams Really in Qatar? The mayor went to some World Cup matches, met investors, and didn’t appear to say much about the tournament’s alleged abuses.
By Matt Stieb
reasons to love new york
Dec. 5, 2022
Eric Adams Is Certainly Enjoying Himself Performance is an inherent part of politics. But perhaps no prior mayor has ever leaned so far into spectacle.
By Clio Chang
The City’s Listing for a Rat Director Is a Bit Much The right candidate will have a “general aura of badassery.”
By Clio Chang
Eric Adams Says His Upcoming Trip to Qatar Is ‘On My Dime’ The mayor is set to travel to Doha, Qatar, in preparation for New York City to serve as a host city for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
By Nia Prater
migrant crisis
Nov. 11, 2022
Eric Adams Closes His Big Tent on Randall’s Island Migrants are moving to hotels, which is what many advocates asked for in the first place.
By Clio Chang
city agencies
Nov. 2, 2022
The Department of Buildings Seems Like a Mess Right Now The Buildings commissioner was just interviewed in relation to an illegal gambling investigation, and that’s just the half of it.
By Clio Chang
It Took 157 Years, But New York Has a Female Fire Commissioner Mayor Eric Adams officially appointed Laura Kavanagh, who has been serving as the interim fire commissioner since February.
By Nia Prater
the city politic
Oct. 21, 2022
The Banks Administration Inside the Adams Administration David Banks is serious about turning around New York’s schools. And it’s just one part of his family’s political project.
By Errol Louis
it’s his town
Oct. 20, 2022
Things Eric Adams Has Called ‘My’ My cops, my nightlife, my Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
By Christopher Bonanos
migrant crisis
Oct. 19, 2022
The Randalls Island Migrant Shelter Is Looking a Lot Less Temporary “There is no limit to how long people that are seeking asylum can stay in this facility.”
By Clio Chang
I Brought a Medium to Gracie Mansion The mayor says there are ghosts. I wanted to believe.
By Clio Chang
migrant crisis
Oct. 4, 2022
Is Moving Migrants to Randalls Island a Solution? Critics of the plan say the mayor is swapping one isolated floodplain for another.
By Clio Chang
parks and recreation
Sept. 21, 2022
By Clio Chang
the city politic
Sept. 11, 2022
New York’s Leaders Are Sleeping Through a Housing Emergency The political response should reflect the size and speed of the worsening crisis. It hasn’t even come close.
By Errol Louis
society pages
Sept. 9, 2022
Eric Adams, Shouldn’t You Be Working? The party mayor and Anna Wintour kicked off Fashion Week with cocktails at Gracie Mansion.
By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
Who Are the Petrosyants Brothers? Eric Adams’s friends are also the city’s most unconventional restaurant power brokers.
By Aaron Short
The Tragedy of Jayquan McKenley He wanted to be a drill star. He became a symbol in a culture war instead.
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
getting around
Aug. 4, 2022
By Bridget Read
the city politic
Aug. 2, 2022
A Kid Accused of a Crime Is Still a Kid Young New Yorkers should be protected from the inequities of the criminal-justice system, not demonized by the mayor for cheap political points.
By Errol Louis
the unhoused
July 28, 2022
By Alissa Walker
urban fauna
July 28, 2022
By Clio Chang
getting around
July 19, 2022
By Clio Chang
the city politic
July 15, 2022
By Errol Louis
the return to the office
July 13, 2022
By Choire Sicha
the city politic
July 13, 2022
Where Is Phil Banks? Eric Adams’s man in charge of public safety hasn’t talked to the public once, and veteran observers can’t tell what he’s doing.
By Nia Prater
the real estate
July 7, 2022
The Woo-woo Agents of Real Estate Can unblocking your chakras get you a house? Maybe!
By Bridget Read
the city politic
July 1, 2022
Waiting (and Waiting) for an Adams Doctrine Six months into a highly energetic mayoralty, how has Eric Adams changed the city — if at all?
By David Freedlander
A Mother Pushing a Stroller Was Shot and Killed in Manhattan Investigators say 20-year-old Azsia Johnson was shot at “very close range” while on the Upper East Side Wednesday night.
By Danielle Cohen
Eric Adams Tracks Homeless Encampments on a Google Doc It’s his “system,” and he gets mad when police don’t use it.
By Clio Chang
Meet Eric Adams’s Other Brooklyn Apartment An unofficial tour of the Prospect Heights co-op he forgot he still owned.
By Clio Chang
getting around
June 23, 2022
Bring on the SUV Crushing If New York City wants to do safety spectacle, let’s go big.
By Alissa Walker
the rent is too damn high
June 22, 2022
Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are About to Get More Expensive The Rent Guidelines Board voted, tenants booed, landlords cleaned up.
By Clio Chang
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