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Mayor Eric Adams’ legal defense fund raised just $2,200 from two donors over the last three months, even as his expenses to battle federal corruption charges mount ahead of an expected April trial, new filings show. The donors include Tzvi Odzer, who donated $2,000 to the fund. A convicted bank fraudster with multiple aliases, Odzer […]

This article was originally published by Healthbeat, a nonprofit newsroom covering public health published by Civic News Company and KFF Health News. Sign up for Your Local Epidemiologist New York and get Dr. Marisa Donnelly’s community public health forecast in your inbox a day early.  Does it feel like everyone around you is sick right

Councilmember Susan Zhuang (D-Bensonhurst) — who bit a police officer during a protest against a forthcoming homeless shelter in her district — raised $238,686 from more than 800 supporters, according to a new quarterly filing with the city’s Conflict of Interest Board released Tuesday.  The money amassed by her legal defense fund since last fall

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s attempt to skip out on paying nearly $500,000 in restitution and fines for sticking taxpayers with the bill for his NYPD detail during his failed 2020 presidential run was struck down Tuesday by a state Supreme Court judge.  Judge Shahabuddeen Abid Ally tossed out de Blasio’s suit, calling his claims

NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Wednesday announced a new police vehicle pursuit policy that she said would “make both the police and the public safer,” reforming a tactic that had been aggressively carried out under previous police leadership. The new policy restricts police officers to pursuits only in cases where felonies and violent misdemeanors

St. Francis College, a Catholic institution that’s been in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn for 166 years, fired around 17 employees including academic advisors, registrar workers and librarians last week. It’s the latest in a series of drastic cost-saving measures implemented by college President Tim Cecere that current and former employees and students told THE

The landlord whose Bronx building burned in a five-alarm fire Friday fought the city’s housing agency in court last year in an unsuccessful bid to exit a city program that requires monitoring for landlords with chronic heat complaints. Landlord Ved Parkash owns 2910 Wallace Avenue, a now burnt-out 98-unit apartment building in the Allerton neighborhood

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Gov. Kathy Hochul will move to limit cellphone use in New York schools this year as part of a broader education agenda focused on improving student mental health, expanding opportunities for early college, and more. The inclusion of a school cellphone

In a typical New York City election year, the mayoral race is effectively over by the June primary — when the Democratic nominee is chosen, essentially anointing the mayor-elect in this deep blue city. But 2025 is hardly a typical political season. Mayor Eric Adams, once a registered Republican, has hinted at switching parties for

Kimberly Gray is about to start her first major fundraising effort for her female-led tech startup Uvii, which was launched during COVID to make education more accessible through mobile-first learning. She has added a platform called Insync, which uses artificial intelligence to improve the onerous government contracting process. She has tried to position her company