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For four years, you’ve been treated to — if that’s the right expression — a blurring array of indictments, FBI raids and abrupt resignations involving Mayor Eric Adams and many of his highest-ranking aides.
It’s not often that a mayor gets indicted, which only happened once before, in 1871.
How often in a single administration have a police commissioner, school chancellor, first deputy mayor, and deputy mayor for public safety resigned under clouds? And that excludes the mayor’s closest confidant, his building commissioner, or the protege who was in charge of cutting deals on city leases. They’re all under indictment.
"There is nothing in the annals of New York political history quite like the scandals that enveloped Adams and his administration, Terry Golway, author of “Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics,” told THE CITY.
THE CITY has been at the forefront of chronicling the steady drumbeat of corruption investigations and prosecutions during the Adams administration.
For those who only remember the low points — the mayor’s indictment and how he squirmed out it, or his Asian affairs advisor handing a reporter for THE CITY $300 in a potato chip bag — we’re recalling a much larger panorama here — the story of a mayor who surrounded himself with people either under probe or alleged to have taken advantage of their public roles.
The 6 train will operate less frequently in The Bronx, from 9:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
Alternate side parking 🚙
It’s in effect today, Wednesday, Dec. 24.
By the way…
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appointed former EMS chief Lillian Bonsignore to lead the FDNY, the second woman to hold the post. She joins Jessica Tisch, who remains as NYPD commissioner, also the second woman in that job.
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The Adams administration predicted 150,000 new jobs in 2025, but as the year ends, the city is looking at a gain of just 40,000. What’s worse, in a troubling sign for the economy, those jobs were almost entirely low-wage health care positions. Black unemployment also sharply rose.
There’s good news for the climate! The city’s latest annual greenhouse gas inventory shows a decrease of about 5% in emissions citywide compared to the previous year and a 25% cut since 2005, when the city began tracking its emissions. Read more about what’s causing the drop.
Use of force by members of the NYPD surged 20% last year to 11,746 incidents — a record high since the department began detailed record-keeping on the issue in 2016, according to a police department report quietly posted online in recent days. Included in the incidents-of-force tally were 14 fatal shootings by officers, also the highest number since at least 2016.
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Things To Do
Here are some free and low-cost things to do around the city this week.
Wednesday, Dec. 24: Jes Good Rewards Children’s Garden will hold their annual Christmas event from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. They’ll be giving out toys, hats and gloves in the Brownsville, Brooklyn park.
Wednesday, Dec. 24: Paint whatever you want, materials provided at the 58th Street Library in Manhattan at their Winter Paint & Sip, 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 25: Visit seven unique Christmas trees in and around Central Park in Manhattan. Only one of them is at Rockefeller Center.
THE KICKER: A Japanese designer was behind the MetroCard vending machine, now departing from every station!
Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Wednesday.
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