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Eric Adams

  1. housing crisis
    What Does the Mayor Have Against Windows?Natural daylight is not the enemy of affordable housing.
  2. getting around
    The New Taxi Commissioner Is Doing an Undercover-Boss ThingAnd if you manage to hail David Do, the ride is free.
  3. our mayor
    Eric Adams Wants to Fight Shoplifting With Mask-Lifting“Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask.”
  4. early and often
    Who Wants to Be Mayor?Chicago’s boss is in danger of being thrown from office, in a warning sign for other Democrats.
  5. our mayor
    Eric Adams Will Pay $300 for His RatsThe mayor needs to bin his recyclables.
  6. furniture
    City Austerity Has Come for the Herman Miller Desk ChairAs Adams pushes for budget cuts, lawmakers are singling out a contract with the Aeron-famous furniture company.
  7. streets
    Clearing Vendors From the Brooklyn Bridge Won’t Solve Its Overcrowding ProblemThe bridge deserves a more comprehensive plan.
  8. state of the city
    Working for New York City When Everyone Else Is LeavingEmpty cubicles, giant caseloads that leave low-income tenants without rent aid, and “no end in sight.”
  9. crime
    Here’s Why Everything at Walgreens Is Suddenly Behind PlasticThe recent spike in shoplifting is both overblown and real. And almost everyone is profiting from it (including you).
  10. rats
    ‘We Were Killing Them With These Little Pitchforks’Talking to Matt Deodato, rat specialist.
  11. mysteries
    Why Can’t We Figure Out Where Politicians Live?Lester Chang and George Santos are just the latest.
  12. our mayor
    Eric Adams Has More RatsEven his patented rat bucket didn’t solve the problem.
  13. goodbye 2022
    The Year in RentBreaking down the 12 months in which everything got more expensive, then more expensive, and then even more expensive.
  14. street view
    Can the Hochul-Adams New New York Actually Happen?The Hochul-Adams mission statement is big on sweeping ideas — and way short on explaining how any of this happens.
  15. first person
    I Lost My Brother TwiceFirst to schizophrenia, then forever to the city.
  16. our mayor
    Eric Adams Has RatsAccording to an unpaid summons for his Bed-Stuy townhouse.
  17. reasons to love new york
    Eric Adams Is Certainly Enjoying HimselfPerformance is an inherent part of politics. But perhaps no prior mayor has ever leaned so far into spectacle.
  18. urban fauna
    The City’s Listing for a Rat Director Is a Bit MuchThe right candidate will have a “general aura of badassery.”
  19. migrant crisis
    Eric Adams Closes His Big Tent on Randall’s IslandMigrants are moving to hotels, which is what many advocates asked for in the first place.
  20. city agencies
    The Department of Buildings Seems Like a Mess Right NowThe Buildings commissioner was just interviewed in relation to an illegal gambling investigation, and that’s just the half of it.
  21. migrant crisis
    The Randalls Island Migrant Shelter Is Looking a Lot Less Temporary“There is no limit to how long people that are seeking asylum can stay in this facility.”
  22. haunted
    I Brought a Medium to Gracie MansionThe mayor says there are ghosts. I wanted to believe.
  23. migrant crisis
    Is Moving Migrants to Randalls Island a Solution?Critics of the plan say the mayor is swapping one isolated floodplain for another.
  24. parks and recreation
    The City Quietly Stopped Pruning a Lot of Its TreesAnd now it’s hurricane season.
  25. the city politic
    New York’s Leaders Are Sleeping Through a Housing EmergencyThe political response should reflect the size and speed of the worsening crisis. It hasn’t even come close.
  26. getting around
    Eric Adams vs. New York’s Greatest Boat RidePay the Staten Island Ferry staff, please.
  27. the unhoused
    Trump’s Grotesque Plan to ‘End Homelessness’ Is Already Mainstream PolicyAmong plenty of Democrats, too.
  28. urban fauna
    Rat Dinnertime May Be Pushed Back by 4 HoursWhat is this, Europe?
  29. getting around
    We’ve Surrendered the Subway to the FloodThe water is winning.
  30. the return to the office
    No One Wants to Work for New York City AnymoreBlame the office, among other things.
  31. the real estate
    The Woo-woo Agents of Real EstateCan unblocking your chakras get you a house? Maybe!
  32. nypd
    The NYPD Changed Its Fitness-Test RequirementsAnd some cops are upset about it.
  33. our mayor
    Eric Adams Tracks Homeless Encampments on a Google DocIt’s his “system,” and he gets mad when police don’t use it.
  34. our mayor
    Meet Eric Adams’s Other Brooklyn ApartmentAn unofficial tour of the Prospect Heights co-op he forgot he still owned.
  35. getting around
    Bring on the SUV CrushingIf New York City wants to do safety spectacle, let’s go big.
  36. the rent is too damn high
    Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are About to Get More ExpensiveThe Rent Guidelines Board voted, tenants booed, landlords cleaned up.
  37. cannabis
    The Weed World Trucks Are Apparently Terrible at ParkingAccording to this week’s impound rate.
  38. politics
    New Yorkers Really Don’t Like Adams, Hochul Because of CrimeA new poll shows fear of crime has skyrocketed and sent both Democrats’ approval ratings into a crater.
  39. our mayor
    The Strange Case of the Mayor, a Bishop, and the Alleged Q Train ShooterFraudulent car loans are also tangentially involved.
  40. are u coming?
    Rockin’ Out With the Mayor and ‘Late-Night Dorinda’ at the New Hard Rock HotelDon’t expect Sid and Nancy; it’s pretty swanky.
  41. our mayor
    Eric Adams Is Design’s New Hype ManAnd by design, he means fashion.
  42. covid
    The Good-Luck-With-That PandemicThe city has moved on. The rest is a little puzzle for you to solve.
  43. getting around
    Fare-Evasion Arrests Are Back With a VengeanceEric Adams’s subway crackdown has arrived.
  44. the unhoused
    The 8-Hour Standoff Against a Homeless-Encampment Sweep in the East VillageSeven people were arrested after protesting the removal of the tents near Tompkins Square Park.
  45. housing
    The Cruel Theater of Encampment SweepsAdams’s task force cleared hundreds of sites. Five people accepted a bed.
  46. our mayor
    Eric Adams, Dr. Oz, and Cara Delevingne Attend Credit-Card PartyIt’s for paying your rent!
  47. the unhoused
    A 24-Hour Manhunt and a Fleeting Sense of Safety for Unhoused New YorkersThe suspect in a fatal shooting spree is in custody. What the city does next will matter more.
  48. our mayor
    Eric Adams Greets the Week in Total DarknessHe’s also on TikTok.
  49. our mayor
    The Pandemic Is Over for Eric AdamsAnd he’s having a lot of fun!
  50. sweatpants city
    Eric Adams Hates Remote Work So MuchNow he’s making fun of your pajamas.
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