Eight of the city's mayoral candidates participated in a forum hosted by NY1 Thursday night to discuss their plans for affordable housing and rent relief as the issues have taken center stage in city politics amid the pandemic.
The participants were civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley, Brooklyn…
Eric Adams Mayoral Campaign Backed by DC37 Union Leaders By Emily Ngo New York City PUBLISHED 8:31 PM ET Mar. 10, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:31 PM EST Mar. 10, 2021
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NEW YORK Eric Adams is on track to have another major labor union in his corner.
The Democratic mayoral candidate earned a nod Wednesday from DC37’s executives, who will recommend to rank-and-file members that Adams be endorsed.
DC37 is the city’s largest municipal workers union, boasting 200,000 members.
“I am truly honored by and appreciate the DC37 Executive Board’s vote of confidence because they represent the people who make this city work,” Adams said in a statement. “And because I am the son of a DC37 member who worked hard every day to provide for her children.”
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New York City Poll: Yang, Adams, Wiley Lead Crowded Mayoral Democratic Primary Field
In the first WPIX-TV/NewsNation/Emerson College poll of the New York City mayoral race, entrepreneur Andrew Yang leads the crowded Democratic primary with support from 32% of likely Democratic voters. Rounding out the top five candidates at this stage in the race are Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams at 19%, followed by former counsel to Mayor de Blasio Maya Wiley at 9%, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer at 6%, and Former NYC Department of Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia at 5%. All other candidates polled under 5%, and 17% of respondents answered someone else (n=644, +/-3.8%).
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The picks are in to lead Attorney General Tish James’ investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo: Joon Kim, the former acting U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and employment discrimination lawyer Anne Clark will take the reins.
The investigation will cover both what the governor said and did, and how his office handled the complaints after
high-ranking Democratic lawmaker charged the administration violated its own sexual harassment policies.
Kim became the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan after Preet Bharara was fired from the post by then-President Donald Trump. Before that, he was a deputy under Bharara during a slew of Albany corruption cases, including one
Transportation Alternatives’s bold plan to claw back a quarter of the city’s public space from the domain of automobiles is already making waves in the mayoral race, with five top progressive candidates backing the safety and quality-of-life initiative. Others reacted tepidly or not did not return responses.
Called “NYC 25 by 25,” the plan asks mayoral candidates to commit to dedicating 25 percent of the space now designated for vehicles including 19,000 miles of roads and three million on-street parking spaces as space for people by 2025 so that New Yorkers might have room to recover from (and thrive after) the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted the city’s lack of equity when it comes to active transportation and green space.