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A Wave of Asian Votes Helped Propel Zohran Mamdani’s Trailblazing Win
Even after months of organizing 250 volunteers to canvas for Zohran Mamdani in the city’s South Asian neighborhoods, Jagpreet Singh was stunned to see how those communities turned out for the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist on election night. “We saw, like, all of our neighborhoods just glowing,” said Singh, the political director of the South Asian […]
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City Government Whistleblowers Grow Scant, With Most Denied Protection
The task of becoming a whistleblower exposing corruption in city government is a stressful high-wire act, balancing the moral imperative to do the right thing with the possibility of losing a good-paying job. Just ask Ricardo Morales. Morales was fired a few years back as a deputy commissioner after exposing evidence of backroom deals regarding […]
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Office Lease Deal With Adams Donor Moves Ahead After Review City Hall Won’t Release
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is quietly moving ahead to relocate a city agency’s headquarters to a Wall Street tower owned by one of the mayor’s big donors — a transaction paused earlier this year following reports that one of Adams’ longtime associates had steered the deal to the donor. The administration is justifying the behind-the-scenes move […]
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Adams and Adams Shake on City Budget for Last Time
Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams officially shook hands on a nearly $116 billion budget late Friday, culminating the end of the pair’s sometimes contentious negotiations while adding more money for mental-health services and child care. The fiscal year 2026 budget, which is set to be voted on by the full Council […]
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He Fled Death Threats for Being Gay, Applied for Asylum and Married a U.S. Citizen. ICE Arrested Him Anyway.
When Fitz Smith, 43, first met Mamadou on the dating app Grindr in December 2023, he immediately saw a younger version of himself. Mamadou, then 27, had fled Guinea just after his father, a conservative imam, learned he was in a relationship with a man. Sex between people of the same gender is punishable with […]
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