Judge in Eric Adams Case Assigns Outside Counsel to Examine Dismissal of Charges

Published   Feb 21, 2025 08:31PM

The judge considering the Trump Justice Department’s highly unusual motion to dismiss Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Friday appointed an outside counsel to help him decide what to do. Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho assigned the task to Paul Clement, a former Solicitor General under President George W. Bush, to advise on the scope […]
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Gov. Kathy Hochul Aims to Increase Oversight Over Mayor Adam


Gov. Kathy Hochul will move Thursday to restrict Mayor Eric Adams’ power and fund more outside scrutiny of the city’s finances, according to a source. Hochul’s move stops short of ousting the mayor, as she’d indicated she was consideri ... Read more

NYC Schools Restore LGBTQ Videos Yanked by PBS Following Tru


This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. In response to a blizzard of executive orders from President Donald Trump, the Public Broadcasting Service recently erased a s ... Read more

Adams-Appointed Charter Commission Carries on, Aiming at Dev


For the first time in decades, an effort is underway to reconsider the city’s approach to real estate development in a bid to help alleviate the housing crisis. Mayor Eric Adams in December convened a Charter Revision Commission to consider ... Read more

Manhattan Buses Got a Bit Faster in First Month of Congestion Pricing

Published   Feb 21, 2025 10:00AM

Almost all of Manhattan’s notoriously pokey crosstown buses that run south of 60th Street have sped up — slightly — in the weeks since congestion pricing took effect, MTA data shows. January peak-hour bus speeds for east-west lines operating within the congestion relief zone on weekdays reveals that 11 of the 13 local and Select […]
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Federal Workers Rally In New York to Protest Musk Jobs Purge


Hundreds of federal employees rallied across downtown Manhattan on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to the public sector workforce at the hands of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which is led by billion ... Read more

Adams Aide Tim Pearson Committed Misconduct in Violent Shelt


Timothy Pearson, a longtime close associate and senior advisor to Mayor Eric Adams, committed misconduct when he physically attacked two security guards at a migrant shelter who’d demanded to see his identification, the city Department o ... Read more

Federal Judge Presses Trump Justice Official and Adams’ De


The judge overseeing Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Wednesday scrutinized the controversial motion by the Trump Justice Department to toss the case, a request that many have described as a quid-pro-quo deal to secure Adams’ c ... Read more