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vrijdag 4 april 2025
WORLD WORLDWIDE US USA - New York NY - New York City NYC - THE CITY SCOOP - Adams escaped his court case. His friends? Not so much
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025
Dear New Yorkers,
Hours after a federal judge tossed the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams, the mayor stood on the steps of Gracie Mansion and crowed, “Today finally marks the end of this chapter.”
Not quite.
Law enforcement investigations of some of his closest aides continue, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and city Department of Investigation actively delving into allegations of pay-to-play at the top levels of the administration.
To jog your memory: Several Adams allies have had their electronic devices seized. Some have had their homes searched. At least 11 have resigned for reasons related to the investigations, and three have been indicted.
Some of those under the microscope are the mayor’s closest friends and allies, many with histories that date back decades to his time as a cop, as a state senator and as Brooklyn borough president. Adams has even likened one of them, former chief advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin, to his “sister.”
How far that loyalty now extends is an open question.
Read more here about the investigations still ongoing against members of the Adams administration.
Weather ☁️
Cloudy in the mid-60s, with a slight chance of rain.
MTA 🚇
There’s no Jamaica-bound E train from West 4 Street in Manhattan to Roosevelt Avenue in Queens all weekend. (There are a number of weekend train disruptions — find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.)
Lagging in polls after an extraordinary deal with the Trump administration to drop corruption charges against him, the mayor says he’ll run to represent the city’s “working class” — but not as a Democrat.
The Working Families Party is taking steps to run a candidate in the general mayoral election, teeing up what could be the first competitive November election in NYC in over a decade. Depending on who wins the Democratic primary, the WFP could elevate one of the losing candidates to run on their party line in the fall.
At a carefully choreographed event hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, a defiant Adams appeared at a candidate forum for the first time — and used the platform to decry his critics and former supporters now backing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “People broke my heart, broke my heart. Folks that knew me for 40 years,” the mayor said.
We could be looking at a general election that features five (!) mayoral candidates: One Democrat, one Working Families Party nominee, one Republican, and two independents — Adams and attorney Jim Walden. Whew! Read the latest edition of our election newsletter Ranked Choices to learn more.
Correction officials are preparing to reopen a jail facility on Rikers Island to add space for convicted people who should be moved to state custody but can’t right now because of post-strike chaos. The island is now holding more than 7,100 people, a number not seen since 2019.
The impacts of the federal cuts to public health services in the city are starting to come into focus, with wide-ranging consequences for disease surveillance and outbreak response, addiction recovery programs and mental health services.
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