eric adams

Mayor Eric Adams’ announcement last week to use the vacant, landmarked Candler Building at 209-213 W. 42nd St. for migrant housing made us expect that Times Square stakeholders would howl their heads off over…
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You’ve heard the expression, “Cat got your tongue?” Maybe, just maybe, the Kat in Albany is finally finding her tongue — and her courage. Gov. Hochul’s threat to hold up the state budget if the Legislature…
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The Issue: Rikki Schlott’s piece on why fewer young people consider college a necessary experience. Hooray for Rikki Schlott (“Smart Hire is the ‘Drop’ of the Class,” March 11). She showed good analytical…
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Has New York broken its three-year-old subway curse, under which violent felonies have soared even as nonviolent thefts stayed low? Not yet. New police data show the city is trying — but running up to the…
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The Issue: Mayor Adams’ plan to send 100 illegal immigrants to SUNY colleges on the taxpayers’ dime. Mayor Adams has to be off his rocker (“U. gotta be kidding, Eric,” March 10). He shells out $4.6 million a…
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Last month, at the City University of New York, I lectured about how evolutions in data-led policing strategies helped New York City reduce annual murder numbers from 2,245 in 1990 to just 292 in 2017 — and from 93…
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The Issue: Mayor Adams’ call for store owners to make customers take off their masks before entry. Does Mayor Adams honestly believe this fantasy that a rule against wearing a face mask while entering a store…
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There is no doubt the Adams administration’s decision to open five more “safe injection sites” by 2025 is motivated by a sincere effort to reduce the wave of drug overdoses that claimed the lives of more than 2,000…
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New York’s lax approach to crime has claimed yet another victim: a 21-year-old woman raped in her Manhattan apartment over the weekend, allegedly by a career criminal who in any sane world would’ve been behind bars…
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Mayor Adams is no newbie, so he should be fully aware of the Law of Holes. It’s a simple concept, advising those who find themselves in an unwanted hole to immediately drop the shovel, climb out and find a new…
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