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TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2025

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Dear New Yorkers,

Campaign finance officials could not verify the billing address of more than 200 credit card contributions Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign has submitted for public matching funds, raising questions about the true source of many of his donations.

In Adams’ 2025 reelection bid, the city’s Campaign Finance Board has found $202,000 of the $602,000 in donations he’s submitted to be invalid for public match through May 19, THE CITY found — one dollar out of every three. Those funds would have been worth $1.6 million in public matching dollars.

The invalid donations include four that were featured by THE CITY in a recent report, and that were submitted to the board in the weeks after a federal judge dismissed his campaign finance fraud case at the behest of the Trump administration.

While a spokesperson for the Adams campaign touted its “robust internal compliance procedures,” the latest CFB findings continue to undermine Adams’ claims for a public match windfall at a time when both Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo are outperforming him in the polls.

Read more here.

Weather ⛅

Sunny, hot and humid, with temperatures reaching 97º. Heat advisory in effect.

MTA 🚇

The downtown 6 train runs express, from 9:45 p.m.-5 a.m., from Grand Central to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.

Alternate side parking 🚙

It’s in effect today, July 29.

By the way…

NYC Open Streets are back across the city, every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Our Other Top Stories

Four people including NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, who was working a paid security detail, were killed and a fifth person is in critical condition after a man stormed a Manhattan office building with a M4 rifle. THE CITY spoke with the son of a 87-year-old Bay Ridge resident who hasn’t voted in a primary election in decades — but who had a ballot fraudulently cast in his name in a tightly contested Republican City Council primary in Brooklyn.  The MTA is bringing newer buses to Staten Island in swaps that could riders in the other four boroughs in the lurch.  On the latest episode of the FAQ NYC podcast, the hosts discuss Columbia’s $221 million settlement with the Trump administration, Mayor Eric Adams’ insistence that the city is powerless to enforce its own laws and ordinances inside the federal building in lower Manhattan now doing double duty as a makeshift immigration jail, and much more. What does the future of work in New York City look like? Join THE CITY and JPMorganChase for a community conversation about the skills needed to access 21st-century careers. From 6 to 8 p.m. in the Chase Harlem Community Center Branch. RSVP here.

Things To Do

Here are some free and low-cost things to do around the city this week.

Tuesday, July 29: There’s live model figure drawing at Bryant Park, 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 29: Wagner Park reopens after three years of construction, with a free concert by the genre defying Taylor Mac, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 29: New York City Ballet is holding a free dance workshop for kids, ages 12 and under, at 5 p.m., David Geffen Hall. And at 7:30 p.m., explore Beethoven with a pay-what-you-wish concert.

THE KICKER: The first data is out for congestion pricing’s effects on air quality. It’s too early to draw a final conclusion, but things are looking better.

Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Tuesday.

Love,

THE CITY

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