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Republican NYC Mayoral Hopeful Challenges Democrats to Ride Subways for 24 Hours Curtis Sliwa, a Republican candidate for New York City mayor, was on Wednesday morning set to complete a 24-hours straight subway ride after challenging Democrats to join him on the journey in a bid to draw attention to his tough-on-crime policy posture. “It’s like Dante’s Inferno,” Sliwa told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement on Wednesday, shortly before concluding the ride, when asked to recap his e...

McDonald’s shareholder meeting will feature a clash over board seats. Steve Easterbrook, the former chief executive of McDonald’s who was fired in 2019 for having a consensual sexual relationship with an employee.Credit...Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters May 19, 2021, 2:36 p.m. ET Despite posting robust revenue and earnings during the pandemic of the past year, executives at McDonald’s are likely to face tough questions at Thursday’s annual shareholder meeting from critics who believed they mis...

Opinion: Andrew Yangs Israel tweet shows whats changed in NYC politics CNN 5 hrs ago Opinion by Lincoln Mitchell © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America/Getty Images Andrew Yang receives backlash after his pro-Israel tweet. As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was growing more intense and deadly last week, Andrew Yang, a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination in New York Citys mayoral race, shifted his focus to the Middle East. "Im standing with the people of I...

eye on the news New York’s Mayoral Race: Where It Stands Polling shows a tight contest between Eric Adams and Andrew Yang. New York Politics and law New York City’s mayoral contest is currently a tight race between Eric Adams and Andrew Yang, with Adams narrowly winning on the final ranked-choice ballot, according to a mid-May poll of likely Democratic primary voters conducted for the Manhattan Institute.* The survey shows a fluid race, with Yang edging Adams by a single po...

SHARE: Last summer, calls from progressives to “defund the police” in New York City following the murder of George Floyd caused the New York City Council to vote on shifting $1 billion from the NYPD’s budget and played a role in the fizzling of New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s bid for mayor and last year’s loss by former Staten Island Rep. Max Rose. But one year later, on the heels of a high-profile shooting in Times Square and as the city grapples with an uptick in viole...

Four Hedge Fund Titans Each Give $500,000 to PAC for Adams Bloomberg 2 days ago Martin Z. Braun and Henry Goldman (Bloomberg) -- Four big hedge fund managers contributed a total of $2 million to a political action committee supporting Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who is leading in some polls for the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. Billionaires Ken Griffin, Dan Loeb, Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones donated to Strong Leadership NYC Inc., which sp...

Four Hedge Fund Titans Each Give $500,000 to PAC for Adams Bloomberg 2 days ago Martin Z. Braun and Henry Goldman (Bloomberg) -- Four big hedge fund managers contributed a total of $2 million to a political action committee supporting Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who is leading in some polls for the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. Popular Searches Billionaires Ken Griffin, Dan Loeb, Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones donated to Strong Leadership N...

Four Hedge Fund Titans Each Give $500,000 to PAC for Adams Bloomberg 2 days ago Martin Z. Braun and Henry Goldman (Bloomberg) -- Four big hedge fund managers contributed a total of $2 million to a political action committee supporting Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who is leading in some polls for the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. Popular Searches Billionaires Ken Griffin, Dan Loeb, Stanley Druckenmiller and Paul Tudor Jones donated to Strong Leadership N...

Yang And Adams Trade Accusations Over Fundraising Practices arrow Eric Adams on Tuesday held a press conference on his plan to address subway crime in front of the West Fourth station in Greenwich Village. Elizabeth Kim / Gothamist With five weeks to go until the primary, two of the leading mayoral candidates, Andrew Yang and Eric Adams, are attacking each other over fundraising practices that each says potentially violate the citys campaign finance rules. The allegation...

Bike Boom Shows No Signs Of Slowing As Citi Bike Sets New Ridership Records arrow Mayor de Blasio riding a Citi Bike last week NYC Mayor Flickr Gorgeous spring weather and the growing pace of reopening has been a major boon for New York City’s bike-share program, according to new data released by Citi Bike. Cyclists took 631,314 rides on Citi Bike last week, smashing an all time record for the eight-year-old bike share program. Both Friday and Saturday saw consecutive ...