Adams had repeatedly and vehemently denied he was contemplating quitting his reelection bid until now, despite multiple news reports that he was contemplating a job in President Donald Trump’s administration or in the private sector. That speculation had hindered his fundraising, he claimed earlier.

New: While a 29-year-old detainee with severe mental illness was on the brink of death in his Rikers Island cell last month, a medical staffer stood outside his cell door spraying air freshener, according to a Board of Correction report obtained by @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/25/r...

Yonkers got a thumbs up. Next vote: this afternoon for Resorts World in Queens. @lauren-hartley.bsky.social will be covering for us, stay tuned.

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Lede of the day: “Viva no Vegas! A key committee has voted down the third and final casino proposed in Manhattan.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/22/f...

Coney Island casino would be great for the area says former elected official who is being paid by the casino w/o disclosing that in this DN editorial.

“My wife is mad at me because I don’t want to go for the infusions, and I’m like, ‘We can’t afford it,’” Danahy said. “All this money that we thought we saved over the past couple of years could be out the window.”

“Back in 2003, some lawyers came by here to say the train was coming this way,” said Hector Quiroz, an owner of the restaurant since 1999. “So, I guess it’s finally getting here.” — via @jmartineznyc.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/19/s...

With a pivotal deadline looming next Friday, elected officials and family members of Win Rozario are urging NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to quickly level disciplinary charges against the officers involved in the killing of the 19-year-old at his home last year. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/18/n...

For years, Republicans cast themselves as the party of free speech, railing against what they derided as “cancel culture” from the left. Yet what we are witnessing now is a full-scale cancel campaign led from the right, with the force of federal government power behind it.— @oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Tokyo adds roughly 80,000 homes a year — two to three times New  York’s pace — and rents there stay moderate even as its population rockets past 14M. Houston allows townhomes and small apartment buildings on most blocks, virtually ending chronic homelessness. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/new...

"The cards are down, and two proposed casinos in Manhattan are out of the running in the first votes on projects across the region vying for up to three new state licenses." www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/m...

Despite being able to point out some policy successes as an administration — including a 3% drop in so-called major felonies, Adams’ tenure has been tainted by multiple corruption allegations against former top aides. It wasn’t all positive: reported rapes spiked 62%. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/m...

“When they called to tell me she had died, my first thought was that the gang had killed her. I said, ‘They killed her, they killed her.’ But it wasn’t that. It was stress, it was sadness. Deportation killed her.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

good one to read as more and more polls come out this fall

“Deaths in NYPD custody have surged to levels not seen in at least a decade, with 40 people dying in 2023 and 2024 combined — roughly double the toll of any two-year period since at least 2016.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/d...

The Civilian Complaint Review Board concluded Officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco committed multiple acts of misconduct — including excessive force and abuse of authority — when they tased and shot Win Rozario in March 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/12/c...

Mayor Eric Adams’ parks department is moving ahead to let the Related Companies continue running the city-owned Wollman Rink — ending the Trump Organization’s quest to reclaim control of the popular sports facility in Central Park. — via @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/10/p...

Public defender groups slammed the DOC for what they described as systemic and “unconstitutional” barriers that prevent incarcerated people on Rikers Island from meeting with their lawyers, including locking lawyers in window-covered rooms without bathrooms for hours. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/09/r...

As a federal judge contemplates who to assign to take over managing Rikers Island, Carlos Cruz, 43, has become the 12th person to die in a city jail this year — as he waited more than two months to be transferred upstate. “He was looking forward to going upstate." www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/04/r...

Inbox: The city Correction Department just announced another death on Rikers Island, the 12 this year and third over the past week. The judge overseeing the department is currently looking over candidates for a “remediation manager” role. She’s taken the entire summer and no deadline on the books.

“When people see homeless drug addicts sprawled out on their local sidewalks, when they hear of carjackings, when they see…smash-and-grab shoplifters or of immigrants climbing over border fences, it triggers an authoritarian reaction in about 1/3 of the population.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

“The current administration’s cuts will do enormous damage to that institutionalization and that movement, and can absolutely be expected to cost lives.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

"A revised commissary contract the Adams administration said would protect Rikers Island detainees and their families from excessive charges has instead locked in many prices that are substantially higher than those at local stores." www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/26/r...

“They’re not doing it to improve public safety,” he continued. “It’s designed to humiliate political opponents.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

Inbox: Rikers Island detainee Jimmy Avila, 34, died at 4:29 p.m. He’s the 11th death on Rikers this year. Last weekend, Ardit Billa, 29, was found dead inside his cell covered in feces. He was housed in a specialized unit for detainees w/serious mental health conditions.

Two ESU officers were slashed by a detainee with a long history of violence during a routine transfer at Rikers Island Wednesday night. Oliver Sundance, 30, used a one-inch ceramic scalpel blade — a weapon scanning devices are unable to detect. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/28/r...

A top NYPD official in charge of transportation is under investigation for an alleged hit and run of a parked car — and then trying to cover it up. “He’s in a lot of trouble,” a senior NYPD source said. “It’s a serious case.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/27/n...

"When app lobbyists talk, many Council members pay close attention. In all, the companies spent $3.2 million to promote Council candidates in this spring’s primary, including consumer committee chair Julie Menin, who benefited from $143,129 in spending by Uber’s PAC." www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/25/d...

The PACE unit on Rikers Island is supposed to provide the highest care w/nurses and psychiatrists. On Saturday, Ardit Billa, 29, was found dead inside his PACE cell covered in feces. He hadn't left his cell in days, according to a jail source. My latest —> www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/25/a...

“Adams is once again suing the Campaign Finance Board for denying his requests for millions of dollars of public matching funds due to his continuing failure to address its concerns about his questionable fundraising tactics.” — @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/18/e...

THE CITY obtained a trove of emails via the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) from Terence to his brothers and sister-in-law that reveal the depth of the influence peddling during the first two years of Adams’ tenure. — via @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/18/b...

“A clown once held the door for me on the way to battle, that was a nice jester,” Monroe cracked last week while performing as a gladiator on a southbound Q train. “That was a nice jester.” — @jmartineznyc.bsky.social reports on the transit entertainers www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/18/c...

A 7 yr old student at P.S. 89 in Queens was detained along with her 19-year-old brother and their mother at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement check-in at 26 Federal Plaza this week — the first known ICE arrest of under the age of 18 since Trump took office. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/15/f...

New: The top tech official at Mayor Adams' Probation Department resigned Tuesday after being sidelined by Commissioner Juanita Holmes amid a dust-up over the hiring of Holmes' niece to a senior post — the latest instance of alleged nepotism rankling DOP. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/06/s...

For the first time since masked agents started staking out the hallways of 26 Federal Plaza’s immigration courthouses in late May, attorneys monitoring the building this week, said they didn’t witness a single arrest over the course of the entire day Monday. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/15/a...

For the first time since its founding over 400 years ago, New York City soon won't run its own jails. Instead a federal judge will. My latest for @brennancenter.org unpacks the road ahead for the troubled jails — including Rikers Island. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

“‘Scare the hell out of people and maybe we can get them to vote for our deficient politics,’” he said, describing the approach with brutal efficiency. “That’s not a politics I want to be associated with. That’s not a politics I think prevails.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

"Just because you’re holding the meeting and all the cameras are there and handshakes and hugs are happening does not necessarily mean that you are changing the directional arrow of world events." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

“I am fearful New York City is losing its greatest oldest asset: Broadway … It is very different sitting in front of a slot machine than going to see The Lion King with your family,” said Veanne Cox, a Broadway actress — Shenal Tissera reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/13/t...

"For months, the international medical residents who make up a significant number of the Brookdale physician staff, have been caught up in a whirlwind of restrictions and regulations regarding their visa and travel status." — @annaoakes.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/14/b...

Why did NY waive $5.25M in Atlantic Yards fines? The developer threatened to sue. gothamist.com/news/why-did...

Hundreds of mentally ill people are routinely trapped on Rikers Island for months at a time without court-ordered treatment they need to stand trial, a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday afternoon by the city’s largest public defender organization charges. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/12/r...

“A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order, requiring the Trump administration to immediately improve conditions for immigrants inside the 10th floor detention area of 26 Federal Plaza as well as provide access to confidential calls for attorneys.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/12/j...

A former aide to Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday admitted choreographing an illegal donation scheme aimed at generating matching funds for the mayor’s 2021 campaign, contending he was “instructed” on how to do this by a campaign volunteer. — @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/12/m...

For months now, Dr. Chanelle Diaz, a primary care physician with roots in immigrant health, has noticed a troubling pattern: her undocumented patients — some of whom once relied on safety-net programs like NYC Care and hospital charity care — have stopped showing up. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/12/i...

“A high school student forced to wear blood-soaked clothing for days when ICE failed to provide her a maxi pad. Dozens of people crammed in a room so tightly they had to try to sleep sitting up. A man who watched another prisoner have a seizure for a half an hour.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/11/2...

“Half of all immigration courthouse arrests earlier this summer were in Manhattan, as the Trump administration has mostly kept ICE enforcement off of the streets, in stark contrast to Los Angeles and other cities.” - via @gwynnefitz.bsky.social @haidee.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/11/2...

“Mayor Eric Adams cut the ribbon on a new campaign office on Thursday, but the Brooklyn storefront it’s inside has a full vacate order following a wall collapse two years ago — meaning technically it isn’t supposed to be occupied.” — @katiehonan.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/08/a...

The Los Angeles County jail inspection commission noted this morning that deaths in Los Angeles County jails stand at 30 people so far this year—approximately one person the County lets die in their custody per week. A record pace even by LA County’s horrific standards (6 people in the last month).