The Adams administration is preparing to reopen a jail facility on Rikers Island to add space for convicted people who should be moved to state custody but can’t right now because of post-strike chaos. The city Department of Correction is set to once again house detainees inside a small section of the Anna M. Kross […]
This article is adapted from our April 3 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, Whew, we’re off to the races now! In case you hadn’t heard: Mayor Eric Adams will not run as a Democrat this year, opting to skip the June primary altogether
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“When polls only ask people how they feel about ‘tough-on-crime’ solutions, they receive only validation for those very solutions.” A rally last year in support of the city’s mental health clubhouses. (Gerardo Romo/NYC Council Media Unit) As budget negotiations continue in Albany and the mayoral primary heats up in New York City, more and more
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Pushing the limits of figuration and abstraction and of fiction and fantasy in our relationship to nature, British-American artist Emma Webster has embarked on an aesthetic, philosophical and spiritual examination of contemporary perceptions of landscape, navigating the slippery terrain between sensorial reality and digital manipulation. She debuted new works during Art Basel Hong Kong at
For the first time as mayoral rivals, Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo shared a stage on Thursday — albeit a few minutes apart. Speaking one after another at a candidate forum hosted by Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, Adams and Cuomo joined seven other mayoral hopefuls in making their case to
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Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Shortly after noon on Thursday, the staff at Vanity Fair received an email from Condé Nast’s Anna Wintour inviting them to a meeting with editor-in-chief Radhika Jones. To the surprise of almost everyone, including most of the magazine’s senior-most editors, a visibly emotional Wintour announced that Jones would be stepping down
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Home lenders and their partners have been cheating New Yorkers by inflating what they owed on home equity loans that fell into foreclosure, according to lawsuits filed Thursday. The systematic miscalculations diverted thousands of dollars from people who fell behind on loans, homeowners said in documents filed in federal court in Brooklyn. The discrepancies allegedly
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Hours after a federal judge tossed the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams, the mayor stood on the steps of Gracie Mansion and crowed, “Today finally marks the end of this chapter.” Not quite. Law enforcement investigations of some of his closest aides continue apace, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and city Department of
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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Experts’ reactions to President Trump’s big new protectionist push have been mostly negative. From economists, judgments have largely ranged from skeptical to horrified. In the political realm, Democrats have been almost uniformly hostile, while Republicans have generally fallen silent or hoped for the best. From the generally Trump-aligned business community,
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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images An adrift Democratic Party received a much-needed jolt of energy this week when Democratic senator Cory Booker took to the Senate floor to speak in protest of the Trump administration’s policies, vowing to hold it for as long as he was physically able. Over the course of 25 hours, Booker
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