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The arrest of City Comptroller Brad Lander by federal agents as he attempted to escort someone out of a routine immigration court hearing yesterday brought other elected officials flocking to the Lower Manhattan federal building — including Gov. Kathy Hochul, who came down from Albany to see if she could “intervene,” she told reporters.
Also on the scene calling for his release were candidates running against Lander for mayor: Zohran Mamdani — who is backing Lander as his number-two pick in a cross-endorsement pact — Scott Stringer, Adrienne Adams and Michael Blake.
In his remarks through a megaphone to a crowd outside 26 Federal Plaza, Lander focused on Edgardo, the man he was trying to protect from arrest. “Edgardo will sleep in an ICE detention facility God knows where tonight,” Lander said. ‘He has been stripped of his due process rights in a country that is supposed to be founded on equal justice under law.”
Read more here about the reverberations of Lander’s arrest by ICE.
Weather ☔
More rain — but hotter! Highs around 80.
MTA 🚇
There’s no overnight L train between Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues and Lorimer Street in Brooklyn through Friday. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
A political spending group promoting City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams for mayor has spent nearly $300,000 so far on radio and video ads that tell voters they’re funded by a municipal workers union — but the only contributor in state records is DoorDash.
Passed six years ago, Local Law 97 was an attempt to make the city’s buildings greener by putting limits on their carbon emissions. But property owners say they need more time to comply — and the city just granted an extension.
22-year-old Messiah Nantwi was brutally beaten to death inside Mid-State Correctional Facility in March. A new federal lawsuit alleges his death is not an anomaly, but part of a pattern of excessive force and coverups.
Wait — can a mayor actually freeze the rent? Get the answer in our latest Ranked Choices newsletter — the last one before Primary Day!
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Reporter’s Notebook
Mayor Boots Daily News Reporter From Briefings
Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday banned a reporter with the New York Daily News from attending his weekly press conferences. Adams told the journalist, Chris Sommerfeldt — who has been covering City Hall since 2021 — that he would no longer be welcome at mayoral briefings after warning him against speaking out of turn.
After the briefing, when asked by CITY reporter Katie Honan why he issued the ban, Adams claimed Sommerfeldt has "continuously been disrespectful,” and “disrupts every other journalist that’s in there,” a claim his colleagues disputed.
Diverting from other mayoral administrations, Adams only allows reporters to ask so-called off-topic questions once a week in the Blue Room at City Hall. Sommerfeldt had not been called on in over three months, according to the New York Daily News Union.
“To ban a reporter from future press conferences for doing the very thing a press conference is designed to facilitate — asking a question — shows a flagrant disregard for the role of the press,” the union said in a statement.
— Shenal Tissera
Things To Do
Here are some free and low-cost things to do around the city this week.
Wednesday, June 18: Get free soft serve from a new Carvel billboard at 137 Perry St in Manhattan. 12 p.m. - 7 p.m., while supplies last.
Wednesday, June 18: Hear poets and critics read “Super Gay Poems,” a new anthology of queer poetry written after the 1969 Stonewall Riots. Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, June 18: The Muppets Take … Brooklyn? Watch The Muppets Take Manhattanat Coffey Park in Red Hook. 8 p.m.
THE KICKER: A Staten Island deli owner and father of three has gone viral for rewarding neighborhood kids with free snacks for their good grades.
Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Tuesday.
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