Every five days since he took office, like clockwork, former Mayor Eric Adams signed a temporary executive order extending a state of emergency inside the city’s jails — a maneuver that circumvents many strict Board of Correction rules intended to ensure the safe housing of people behind bars.  Now his successor, Zohran Mamdani, has to […]

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The city’s new comptroller, Mark Levine, said after his inauguration Thursday that he has not yet read a bombshell audit by his predecessor declaring insolvent the fund that helps pay insurance premiums and health benefits for hundreds of thousands of city workers and retirees. NY1 political anchor Errol Louis asked Levine twice about his plans […]

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Thousands of spectators lined Broadway and filled City Hall Park to celebrate the inauguration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who vowed to push his ambitious affordability agenda for New York City and not shy away from the promises he made during his historic campaign. “I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as […]

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Zohran Mamdani was sworn in just after midnight Thursday as New York City’s 112th mayor and the youngest in more than a century, taking the oath of office inside the old City Hall subway station.  Mamdani rode a southbound No. 6 train with family and supporters into a historic station opened in 1904 and decommissioned […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is expected to tap Kamar Samuels, a Manhattan superintendent, to run New York City’s public school system, according to a transition committee member briefed by administration officials. As the superintendent of Manhattan’s District 3, Samuels supervises schools with […]

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