New: There's a new PAC in support of Zohran Mamdani, coming as the city's wealthiest drum up their own groups to try to defeat him. www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/11/n...

New! Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the mayor's indicted ex-adviser, is playing an active role in the mayor’s re-election bid. She organized volunteers on a virtual campaign meeting, instructing them on how they could canvas and phone bank for the mayor www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/27/i...

Winnie, who resigned as an Adams aide in 2024 after being raided by the FBI as part of a corruption probe, is now at Adams' rally. "I'm not campaigning...I love him, I love my community," she told @josiestratman.bsky.social when asked about her role in the rally. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/26/f...

I’ve spoken to 10 union members at this Cuomo carpenters union rally. Only two live in NYC — the other eight live outside the city and therefore are not eligible to vote here, obv. Jersey: 3 Long Island: 3 Westchester: 1 Hudson Valley: 1 Bronx: 1 Queens: 1

Cuomo’s car parked (illegally) outside union HQ. I asked a cop nearby if it was parked illegally. He said “yes.” Why? “Because it got two tickets already”

New: Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso’s 2025 campaign has taken thousands of dollars in contributions from real estate industry players even though he ran for office on a promise to not take money from the business sector. w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/13/b...

New York City’s powerful teachers union announced Friday it won’t endorse in the Democratic mayoral primary, citing no clear consensus among United Federation of Teachers members this election cycle w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/13/u...

Unlike in the first debate, Cuomo had several verbal flubs tonight, using the term "illegal immigrants" — which he later corrected himself on — and mispronouncing Zohran Mamdani's last name several times. Full rundown w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/12/c...

Cuomo says he’s feeling “great” about tonight’s debate. “Hope to have a serious debate,” Cuomo said, touching my arm as he turned away.

Michael Blake will NOT debate tomorrow, a Manhattan Supreme Court justice has ruled today. "Petitioner has failed to meet this burden here."

New: Longshot mayoral candidate Michael Blake has sued the city's Campaign Finance Board, arguing he should be allowed to participate in the 2nd mayoral debate this Thurs. Blake’s profile has risen after a fiery appearance at the 1st debate last week. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/09/l...

Adrienne Adams is considering cross endorsing in the primary, she says. She doesn’t rule out throwing her support behind Zohran Mamdani. “We're still in talks with my team about cross endorsement, and we're going to see what happens.”

At City Hall yesterday, Mayor Adams encouraged asylum seekers to keep going to their immigration hearings. Just a block away from City Hall, people showing up for those court dates today are swept away and arrested by ICE.

Mayor Adams talks about the need to "tone down the rhetoric" (while surrounded by firearms). He doesn't condemn CM Paladino's call to have Zohran Mamdani deported: "Everybody needs to tone down their mean spirited, hateful language. And I'm not going to point out CM Paladino"

New: Mayor Adams today attended a “lunch with America’s bitcoin mayor” fundraiser hosted by crypto entrepreneur Brock Pierce. In a Bitcoin 2025 speech earlier in the day, Adams urged crypto moguls to "support" local electeds like himself who like crypto www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/28/m...

Mayor Adams speaks at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas, following remarks from JD Vance. "Just as our flag still flies, Bitcoin is going to continue to fly in our country and NYC," he says, later reciting part of the pledge of allegiance and calling the crowd of crypto dudes the “Betsy Rosses of today”

Since announcing his bid for mayor, Cuomo has exclusively attended mayoral forums where candidates are quizzed by moderators one-at-a-time — part of a campaign strat that has shielded him from public clashes with his opponents. w/ @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/20/c...

Comptroller Brad Lander announces he’s hit the max spending threshold for his mayoral campaign, raising over $8.3m. He notes he’s the second candidate to hit that cap. “We've got the support, the energy, the enthusiasm, the vision to bring down Andrew Cuomo,” @bradlander.bsky.social says.

Mayor Adams blamed his dyslexia as the reason he couldn’t unlock his phone for federal investigators who requested access as part of their probe into his campaign fundraising, he said Tuesday. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/13/m...

Mayor Adams is considering turning the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx into a semiconductor manufacturing plant — and he has discussed the idea with President Trump amid the administration’s ongoing trade war with China. w/ @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/09/a...

“Any attempt to reverse the law that requires the city to close Rikers is a useless, unproductive waste of fucking time,” Council Criminal Justice Committee Chairwoman Sandy Nurse told us after being informed of the discussions underway at City Hall.

NEW: Mayor Adams is exploring a move to abandon the current plan to close Rikers Island, and instead turn the borough-based sites intended to replace the notorious jail complex into housing. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/02/m... w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Last last year, Mayor Adams gave an ex-girlfriend his stake in a Brooklyn apartment they’ve co-owned together for decades, capping off years of confusion about the unit that began swirling during his 2021 run for City Hall. w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/29/m...

Now Adams is wearing a new version of this shirt, reading, “in Dio confidiamo” which is “in God we trust” in Italian. “That’s why today, in Spanish, I'm saying, God, we trust because that's the time we need to lean on the faith,” the mayor says.

NEW: The city’s Law Department will not represent Mayor Adams or his administration in the City Council’s suit against him over the ICE on Rikers executive order.

NYC City Council has sued Mayor Adams and Randy Mastro over the Rikers/ICE executive order. “Today, in NYC a corrupt bargain is taking place in plain view: NYC Mayor Eric Adams, acting through his first deputy mayor, is using his official powers to pay off the Trump Admin”

Mayor Adams’ first deputy mayor Randy Mastro can continue representing Madison Square Garden in its case brought by NBA legend Charles Oakley, a judge ruled Monday www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/14/d...

The City Council has empowered itself to sue Mayor Adams over his decision to let ICE agents operate on Rikers, arguing the move's “the poisonous fruit” of a deal he allegedly made with Trump’s admin to get his criminal case dropped. w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/10/n...

1st Dep Mayor Randy Mastro doesn’t answer repeated Qs on any guardrails for ICE on Rikers & says it’s “disrespectful” to even ask the question of whether feds would unjustly deport people or share info ICE will target “violent transnational gangs” but didnt back that claim up, either

Alleged cop-biter/NYC CM Zhaung's charges dropped after she participated in a restorative justice program where she sat down with the cop she was charged with chomping “It made the most sense for both sides to resolve the case this way," her lawyer says www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/08/n...

USDOT Sec. Sean Duffy said today he might sic DOGE on the MTA -- a New York State agency -- based on the voluminous experience he gained from... riding two stops on the B train. City Hall wouldn't tell us where -- but the Daily News made it happen anyway:

Sean Duffy, Trump’s transportation secondary, slammed congestion pricing as “classist” where roads are only accessible by the “elites” Mayor Adams stood next to him and didn’t defend the program. Duffy remarks afterwards said that “some would say” the subway is a shithole

Today’s story on the death of the case against Eric Adams, updated with more from Judge Ho’s scathing opinion and a hard no comment from Emil Bove w/ @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social + @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/02/f...

“You can’t un-ring the bell,” ex-NY State Democratic Party executive director Basil Smikle said of the Trump pawn accusations he believes Adams will continue to face even as his indictment is over. The mayoral primary's June 24. w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/02/e...

“I've never seen anyone do such a good job of defining the deep state,” Mayor Adams tells Andrew Schulz on his pod of FBI Director Kash Patel's book, which has been widely slammed as conspiratorial & worse Adams repeatedly praised the book during the 2 hr pod www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/02/m...

Mayor Adams takes this opportunity to promote “Government Gangsters” a book written by FBI Director Kash Patel in which he rages against the “deep state”

Mayor Adams declines to address his case after a retail theft event at the Met, weaving between priceless works of art as he strutted away from reporters

New: Adams admin files a declaration of support in AGs’ suit against Trump admin over HHS cuts. Acting health commish Michele Morse writes the $100m cuts to CDC funding would be devastating and “unnecessarily increases risks to the health and lives” of New Yorkers

Mayor Adams didn't say Tuesday how he plans to address a potential billion-dollar budget hole in the upcoming fiscal year as Gov. Hochul’s office again made clear the city would not be getting migrant funding that it’s seeking. with @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/01/a...

New: Rep. Adriano Espaillat has endorsed Councilmember Keith Powers in the race for Manhattan borough president, Powers’ most prominent endorsement yet www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/31/n...

A new grand jury is reviewing Ingrid Lewis-Martin's case, who is already facing influence peddling charges, as part of an ongoing investigation into the former chief advisor to the mayor and her associates, DANY lawyers said Thursday. www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/27/a...

Zellnor Myrie has a new plan to push back on Trump funding threats: - hire 50 "frontline" lawyers to defend against Trump’s agenda, and argue w/holding fed $$ amounts to coercion - “nuclear option” of w/holding state and local tax payments to feds gov www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/26/m...

Former Acting USA Sassoon was given just 40 mins to brief DOJ officials on the logistics of Mayor Adams’ fed corruption case and had no time to go over other issues connected to the DOJ’s reasons for dropping the case, she wrote in a newly unsealed letter www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/25/f...

New unsealed filings in Mayor Adams' case: Danielle Sassoon was concerned with how quickly Emil Bove ordered the dismissal -- she wanted to wait for Todd Blanche's confirmation. "No need to wait," Bove said, as Blanche was "on the same page."

10% of the 423 donors who maxed out their contributions to Cuomo’s mayoral campaign were also financial supporters of Adams’ successful 2021 campaign. In total, the ex-gov raked in at least $126,000 total from 135 defector donors W/ @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/20/d...

A Greek-American reception at Gracie Mansion set for Thurs has stirred controversy after senior Adams administration officials revoked an award for one of the honorees at the last minute. w @grahamrayman.bsky.social & @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/17/c...

New: 2/3 of the city’s emergency management budget is federally funded and at risk. “Bottom line: ... We need to prepare for a world in which we can’t necessarily depend upon the federal government for support during or after emergencies." www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/14/t...

At Council budget hearing, @nycemergencymgt.bsky.social Zach Iscol says 2/3 of the city's Emergency Mngmt budget relies on fed and state grants -- a point of concern to him bc of 5-yr trend of fed funding falling. He doesn't mention Trump, who has shown a willingness to dip fingers into city funds

New: Comptroller Lander is demanding more info from the Adams admin about subpoenas aimed at migrant shelters — coming as the mayor is facing increasing calls to take a tougher stand against the president’s increasingly aggressive immigration actions. www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/13/c...

The mayor addresses the subpoenas that went out to migrant shelter hotels: “The workers should not be getting caught up in the politics of it,” Adams says. “And that is who my heart goes out to. And I say to them, ‘I'm sorry you're going through all of that we’re seeing.’”