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The New York City Council will have its first Black leader after Adrienne Adams was chosen as the council’s speaker Wednesday.

Adams was elected as speaker by a vote of 49 to 2.

Former speaker candidates Keith Powers and Diana Ayala were named to leadership positions at the council’s first meeting.

As coronavirus cases and pediatric hospitalizations surge in the U.S., the majority of U.S. schools are staying open for in-person learning.

Jennifer Ynoa, 36, stood in front of the counter at Salim Smoke Shop and & Lottery Corp on Dekalb Avenue in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn shortly before 10pm Sunday.

Eric Adams is New York City's new mayor, with the Democrat being sworn into office in a Times Square ceremony shortly after the nation's largest city rang in the new year Saturday.

Adams takes over from Bill de Blasio, who leaves amid a spike in crime and a 10-year high in murders across the five boroughs at the end of his second terms.

The officer was rushed to a hospital where he underwent surgery and is recovery from a fractured skull, officials said Saturday.

More than half a dozen candidates have already declared they are running to replace Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Footage of the aftermath of a stabbing and of an elderly man being attacked inside a Manhattan bank have rounded off a year of rising crimes in the Big Apple.