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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised Sunday that police would...

Eric Adams is now nearing the homestretch of the race to succeed Mayor Bill de Blasio, but  faces over two dozen men and women who seek the same job     Eric Adams, now a front-runner in the New York mayor’s race, has called himself “the poster child of endurance.” He is not nearly as flamboyant as his predecessor as Brooklyn borough president, Marty Markowitz, who installed “Fuhgeddaboudit” signs on highways and stood on the iconic Brooklyn Bridge during the 2003 blackout yelling into a megaphone, “Welcome home to Brooklyn!” But in his nearly eight years as Brooklyn’s chie...

Regional By Reuvain Borchardt NEW YORK - Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 6:02 pm | א' סיון תשפ"א Andrew Yang (R) receiving the endorsement of Satet Sen. Jeremy Cooney of Upstate New York, at an event in Astoria on Tuesday. (Yang campaign) Six thousand miles from the rockets and the riots, the violence flaring in Israel and Gaza is roiling the New York City mayoral race. Candidates for Hizzoner of The Big Apple tweeted solidarity with Israel this week, drawing praise from Israel supporters and condemnation from Israel opponents. At 6:11 p.m. Monday night, as Israelis cowered under...

Evan Bernstein, CEO and national director of Community Security Service, an organization that trains volunteer security squads for synagogues, said Burnette’s release is a source of pain for Riverdale’s Jews. “There’s some very unhappy people in Riverdale right now,” Bernstein said. In the days after Burnette’s release, several national organizations objected to the judge’s decision and called for the bail reform bill to be amended to allow judges to set bail for perpetrators of hate crimes. Agudath Israel, a Haredi Orthodox advocacy organization, reiterated its support for an a...

Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein and Councilman Kalman Yeger, both Democrats, embraced Yang as a friend of Orthodox Jewish people on Wednesday.