In a sign that his electoral coalition might be weakening, a group of Black pastors urged Eric Adams to not seek re-election after the Trump DOJ calls for the mayor’s corruption charges to be dismissed: “NYC needs and deserves a mayor whose priority is the people he serves,” wrote the four pastors.

Maybe my second-favorite @nytimes.com feature is the daily The Great Read, which is typically a narrative that can come from any corner of the newsroom. Metro is lucky enough to have a city of 8.5M stories, so we do plenty of them. Almost four dozen of them in 2024. Here they are: 🧵