Visiting New York’s island of the dead
NEW YORK — The first time I heard about Hart Island, I couldn’t believe it. There’s a 150-year-old mass grave on an island in ...
Eric Adams mulling another City Council showdown
NEW YORK — Aides and allies to Mayor Eric Adams have discussed launching a charter revision commission next year, a move that ...
Council Speaker Adams ups heat in City Hall power struggle with proposed new charter commission
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams plans to introduce a bill under which the City Council would launch its own ...
Mayor Eric Adams' City of Yes proposal heads to the New York City Council and public review
New York City Mayor Eric Adams' rezoning proposal to generate more economic development throughout the city heads to the City ...
Council weighs in on ‘City of Yes’
Council members laid out myriad concerns with Adams’ “City of Yes” housing plan during the first part of a two-day public ...
NYC Council members call for probe of locking seriously mentally ill Rikers Island detainees in cells for extended periods
Four City Council members have decried a practice by city jails of locking severely mentally ill people in their cells for ...
City Council committee backs plan to lower Chicago default speed limit to 25 mph
A handful of aldermen objected to lowering speed limits across the city, suggesting Chicago take a more targeted approach to ...
Bid to lower Chicago’s speed limit to 25 mph advances in City Council
But Chicago drivers won’t soon face lower speed limits — or corresponding lower thresholds on most roads for the city’s ...
Rikers Island inmate grabs NYC council member’s butt during facility tour: sources
A locked-up sex offender groped New York City Councilwoman Sandy Nurse during a Tuesday morning tour of Rikers Island, The Post has learned.
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Adams’s City of Yes Still Popular as Mayor Grapples With Federal Indictment
Eric Adams’s ambitious plan to modernize the city’s rezoning kicked off its City Council review this week with plenty of ...
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NYC Council to form its own commission amid ongoing battle over Mayor Adams' authority to govern
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is opening a new front in the battle between an increasingly diminished mayor and an emboldened city legislature — setting up the potential to change ...