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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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Early-Morning Lap Swims Back for First Time in Five Years

With New York City’s outdoor pools officially open as of Friday, early-morning adult lap swimming is about to return for the first time since the pandemic. The downsized adult lap swim program is coming to one pool in each borough: Van Cortlandt Park pool in The Bronx, Kosciuszko pool in Brooklyn, Hamilton Fish pool in […]
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Rein in Cuomo’s Aggressive, Taxpayer-Funded Legal Tactics, Advocates Demand

Spurred by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resounding defeat in the mayoral primary Tuesday, advocates called on state lawmakers to pass tougher protections for people who come forward with reports of sexual harassment — and to curb taxpayer spending on Cuomo’s legal defense. Charlotte Bennett, one of the first women to make harassment allegations against the former […]
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