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NYC Mayor Adams ordered to cough up $300 for rat infestation at Brooklyn residence

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ avowed hatred for rats won him little love from an administrative court judge who ordered him on Tuesday to pay $300 for a ticket citing persistent rodent-friendly conditions at his Brooklyn rowhouse.

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NYC Mayor Adams gets split decision in battle against rats

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has scored a split decision with a hearing officer dismissing one summons while upholding another issued by a city inspector citing him for not doing enough to keep rodents at bay from his Brooklyn townhouse

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Mayor Adams appears in court to demand dismissal of rat infestation tickets

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams appeared in a virtual courtroom Thursday to demand tickets he received for a rat infestation at his Brooklyn home be dismissed.

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For New York City mayor, his war on rats becomes personal

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Commentary: Welcome to Sanctuary City! Feds, pay up

Sanctuary cities are easy to declare but harder to pay for. Take New York City. It has long attracted immigrants, both legal and illegal. But the latest wave to hit—and, perhaps, overwhelm—the Big Apple comes thanks to President Joe Biden’s dismantling of border controls and disregard of immigration law.

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NYC nurses follow up private hospital strikes by demanding pay parity from city-owned Health + Hospitals network

Weeks after going on strike at two private hospitals in New York City, a nurses’ union is calling on the city’s public hospitals to commit to paying its members salaries comparable to what they now make in the private sector.

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Editorial: ‘No jab, no job’ did the job: The COVID vaccine mandate was the smart policy, so keep it handy

When he was New York mayor in 2021, Bill de Blasio was right to impose a COVID vaccine mandate for anyone employed by the New York City municipal government. And during his time as mayor, Eric Adams was right to keep the requirement in place for the past year and…

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New York City is lifting its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for municipal employees

New York City began mandating COVID-19 vaccines for municipal employees in July 2021. The mayor said more than 96% of city employees are vaccinated.

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams says there’s ‘no coordinated effort’ to ship migrants to Canada

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams addressed concerns Tuesday that the city is pawning off its migrant crisis on Canada, saying that the city has no “recruitment campaign” in place to redirect people north of the border.

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As illegal pot dispensaries thrive, NYC goes after landlords

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan’s top prosecutor say they will go after landlords who allow hundreds of illicit shops to operate

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Nick Sirianni on Empire State Building: Philly would never celebrate New York

Nick Sirianni thinks the Empire State Building celebrating the Eagles is hilarious because Philly would never, ever celebrate the Giants.

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New York City Gives Up On Vaccine Mandates, Putting Pressure On Biden To End Covid “Emergency”

Mayor Adams and other Democrats, are ending mandates while federal mandates remain on soldiers and federal workers.

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NYC ending COVID-19 vaccination mandate for city employees

New York City is ending its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for municipal employees including police officers, firefighters and teachers

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Family of gravely wounded NYPD officer mulling ‘decisions’ about his fate, Adams says

NEW YORK — The family of an off-duty police officer who was shot in the head and critically wounded is now in the process of making grave “decisions” about his medical treatment, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday morning.

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The heated rhetoric over the migrant standoff in midtown Manhattan obscured a stark reality

NEW YORK — To many, the scene that unfolded over the last week in Hell’s Kitchen was perplexing: Why would migrants sleep on a freezing sidewalk rather than accept a bed and food in Brooklyn?

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NYC Mayor Adams hunkers down for frigid night with migrants inside Brooklyn Cruise Terminal

NEW YORK — On the coldest night of the year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams warmed up with hundreds of asylum seekers in an unannounced visit to their temporary home inside the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.

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Empire State Building plans to go green again if Eagles win Super Bowl

If the Philadelphia Eagles win Super Bowl LVII, the Empire State Building intends to go green once again despite the previous outrage.

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The ethical dilemmas behind plans for involuntary treatment to target homelessness, mental illness and addiction

Over the past year, cities across the United States have unveiled new policy plans to address homelessness amid rising concerns about health and crime – for homeless people themselves, as well as for surrounding communities. Notably, several proposals include civil commitment, also referred to as involuntary treatment, for people with…

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Brickbat: It Will Be Vacant Soon Enough

Last year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams pledged to use $1 million in federal funds to transform vacant newsstands into places where bicycle delivery riders can rest, repair their bikes and recharge e-bikes. But one of the first newsstands targeted for the program is still currently in use. Ullah…

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Memphis' SCORPION unit among many to draw scrutiny in US

Police departments across the country deploy plainclothes squads of officers in unmarked cars to tackle increasing crime rates or get guns off the street

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams laments Empire State Building colors

NYC Mayor Eric Adams admits the Empire State Building lighting up in Eagles green was a bad look and declares, "the Giants will be back!"

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How a Drake concert put NYPD’s ‘arsenal’ of surveillance technologies under the spotlight

Tens of thousands of cameras and facial recognition software police the nation’s largest city and its world-renowned performances halls. Watchdogs and lawmakers are calling on NYPD and billionaire-owned venues to hit pause, Alex Woodward reports

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Straphanger shot during clash on NYC train hours after Hochul and Adams tout subway crime reduction

NEW YORK — An argument on a Manhattan subway train took a violent turn when one of the straphangers pulled a gun and shot the other rider twice, according to the New York Police Department.

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NYC residents sue Adams administration for holding up their food stamps, cash assistance: ‘Hunger and immense distress’

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has stiffed thousands of low-income New Yorkers on their food stamps and cash assistance benefits, leaving them in a state of “hunger and immense distress,” sometimes for months on end, according to a lawsuit filed late Friday.

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NYC protests of Tyre Nichols death draw more than 100; two arrested as Times Square protester smashes police car windshield

NEW YORK — More than 100 people showed up at two protests in Manhattan on Friday night as Memphis police released video showing its officers fatally beating Tyre Nichols, a Black man.

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