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Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday that New York City had made progress in helping homeless people who are severely mentally ill get connected to treatment and housing. The mayor has made addressing mental illness a priority after a series of random, high-profile attacks involving homeless people. On Wednesday, a year after announcing a plan to involuntarily hospitalize mentally ill homeless people who appeared to be unable to care for themselves, he said at a news conference that the city was seeing results. “We made a commitment to New Yorkers that the days of ignoring the mental health crisis playing out on our streets were over,” Mr. Adams said. “We will not abandon New Yorkers in need.”The mayor said the city had, on average, involuntarily hospitalized 137 homeless mentally ill people a week since May.

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Homeless people and their advocates say the sweeps are cruel and a waste of taxpayer money. The AP submitted data requests to 30 U.S. cities regarding encampment sweeps and received at least partial responses from about half. “Unfortunately, it’s becoming a way of life, and that is 100% incorrect.”For homeless people, sweeps can be traumatizing. But never an end solution.”There are many reasons why someone might reject shelter, say homeless people and their advocates. We’re walking around saying, ‘What do you need?’”In Portland, the encampment dismantled in July was cleared again, in September and November.

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Mayor Eric Adams of New York said on Tuesday that the 25-year-old woman he had chosen to manage his political fund-raising was no longer working in that role, weeks after a search of her home by the F.B.I. revealed a federal investigation into his campaign and plunged his administration into turmoil. The announcement by Mr. Adams was something of a reversal: He had previously said he had “full confidence” in the fund-raiser, Brianna Suggs, adding that she was qualified for the job and that he would love for her to remain on his team. At his weekly press briefing on Tuesday, Mr. Adams declined to explain the reasons for the change, saying as he often does that he would not discuss private conversations. “She is no longer doing fund-raising for the campaign,” Mr. Adams said, in response to a question from a reporter.

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But on Monday, Mr. Banks said there had been “many rumors and misinformation” about what happened. “Violence, hate and disorder have no place in our schools,” Mr. Banks, who himself attended Hillcrest in the 1970s, said at a news conference. “They feel a kindred spirit with the folks of the Palestinian community,” Mr. Banks said, adding that the “notion that these kids are radicalized” was irresponsible. On Monday, Mr. Banks and other city leaders attempted to quell the mounting online backlash against students at the school. Some Hillcrest students had openly discussed their plans in the lead-up to Nov. 20, the two teachers said.

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☆ A Jewish teacher had to hide in a locked office as students stormed the halls demanding she be fired for attending a pro-Israel rally, say reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Students found a photo of the high school teacher showing support for Israel, the New York Post reported. The teacher was put in a locked office while a group of students tried to enter her classroom. AdvertisementStudents flooded their school halls in protest over a teacher's Facebook profile photo, which showed her at a pro-Israel rally, the New York Post reported . One senior at the school told the Post students planned the action in response to the teacher's photo. Advertisement"No one should ever feel unsafe at school — students and teachers alike," she said.

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☆ Andrew Cuomo accused of 'continuous sexual harassment' by former executive assistant in new court filing
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Andrew Cuomo's former executive assistant is suing him for sexual harassment. The former New York governor faces allegations of forcible touching and unwelcome sexual advances. Andrew Cuomo, who accused him of groping her in late 2020, is suing the former governor under New York's Adult Survivors Act. AdvertisementCuomo has long denied Commisso's allegations, which were first made public in 2021. Commisso later revealed herself publicly as Executive Assistant #1 and told media outlets that she wanted Cuomo to be held accountable.

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☆ New York City will pay homeowners up to $395,000 to build an extra dwelling in their garage or basement to help ease the housing shortage
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

New York City unveiled a pilot program to help homeowners build accessory dwelling units. New York City just unveiled its newest effort, which will hand 15 homeowners up to $395,000 to build an additional apartment. The idea is to boost housing density in a city in desperate need of new housing. The proposal also aims to legalize ADU construction across much more of the city. New York City is facing an especially severe housing affordability crisis.

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☆ Andrew Cuomo lawsuit: Accuser who previously claimed former New York governor groped her filing suit
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Kristina Sgueglia | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —A former aide to ex-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who previously claimed Cuomo groped her breast, is filing a lawsuit against him alleging sexual harassment and abuse, according to a summons filed this week. Commisso’s claims are provably false, which is why the Albany District Attorney dismissed the case two years ago after a thorough investigation,” Cuomo attorney Rita Glavin told CNN in a statement. The report triggered the eventual resignation of Cuomo, which he announced on August 10, 2021, a week after it was released. According to the state’s report, Commisso told investigators Cuomo grabbed her buttocks during hugs and a photo. Commisso claims she was demoted by the then lieutenant governor, now governor, Kathy Hochul, removed from the front office, and moved to the “demeaning task of answering telephones” for Hochul’s office, according to the document.

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☆ Opinion | New York’s Era of Overspending Ends With a Shudder
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Mara Gay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

After years of heady spending, the budget cuts announced by Mayor Eric Adams last week hit New York City like a punch to the gut: Most libraries would be closed on Sundays. So would efforts to improve New York’s notoriously dirty streets and keep rats at bay. The brutal cuts come as Mr. Adams scrambles to fill a $7 billion budget deficit in the next year. The Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan watchdog group, estimates that the budget gap could be significantly higher, closer to $10.6 billion. At the same time, thousands of migrants began arriving at the city’s doorstep in need of shelter.

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☆ New York Mayor Eric Adams accused of sexual assault in 1993
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 23 (Reuters) - A woman on Wednesday accused New York Mayor Eric Adams of sexual assault and other offenses in a court filing, alleging they occurred in 1993 while both of them worked for the city of New York. A spokesperson for Adams denied the claim and said the mayor does not know the accuser and does not recall meeting her. New York City Mayor Eric Adams reacts during his visit to Colombia in Bogota, Colombia October 7, 2023. "The mayor does not know who this person is. Adams' lawyer said that the mayor was cooperating with an investigation but did not say what it was about.

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☆ Lawsuit Accuses Eric Adams of Sexual Abuse Three Decades Ago
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Christopher Maag | More About Christopher Maag | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Mayor Eric Adams of New York has been accused in a lawsuit filed under New York’s Adult Survivors Act of sexually assaulting a Florida woman three decades ago. The suit, which was filed Wednesday in Manhattan, accuses the mayor of assaulting the woman in 1993 when Mr. Adams was a New York police officer. He denied the claim and said he does not recall ever meeting the woman who filed the suit. Mr. Adams on Thursday denied its central claim. They see how I am, how I carry myself,” the mayor told reporters, adding, “This never took place, and I do not recall ever meeting the accuser.”

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[1/7] People demonstrate during the 95th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 23, 2023. War in the Middle East has prompted officials to take extra precautions at airports and shopping malls across the United States and along the route of New York's signature Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A quintessential American rite, Thanksgiving brings together family and friends for turkey dinner and watching the parade and American football on TV. Many of them wore tops emblazoned with "Stop the Genocide" as they unfurled a banner saying "Free Palestine," "Land Back" and "Genocide Then, Genocide Now." For many Native Americans, however, Thanksgiving is a day of dark reflection about the genocide that followed.

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☆ New York Mayor Eric Adams accused of sexual assault
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsNew York Mayor Eric Adams accused of sexual assaultPostedA woman on Wednesday accused New York Mayor Eric Adams of sexual assault and other offences in a court filing, alleging they occurred in 1993 while both of them worked for the city of New York. Olivia Zollino has more.

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War in the Middle East has prompted officials to take extra precautions at airports and shopping malls across the United States and along the route of New York's signature Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A quintessential American rite, Thanksgiving brings together family and friends for turkey dinner and watching the parade and American football on TV. It also marks the most intense week of the year for travel and start of the holiday shopping season on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. but slower economic demand has retailers concerned that the holiday season could prove lackluster. For many Native Americans, however, Thanksgiving is a day of dark reflection about the genocide that followed.

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☆ New York City Major Eric Adams named as defendant under state’s Adult Survivor Act
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Nicki Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of a 1993 sexual assault under a New York law that’s set to expire this week, according to a court document filed Wednesday. The “plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in 1993 while they both worked for the City of New York,” according to a summons filed in New York County Supreme Court. But he would never do anything to physically harm another person and vigorously denies any such claim.”The three-page summons also lists the City of New York, the New York Police Department’s Transit Bureau and the New York City Police Department Guardians Association as defendants. The claims are being brought under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which is set to expire after Thanksgiving. The city’s legal department and the NYPD referred CNN to City Hall.

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☆ New York City Mayor Eric Adams accused of 1993 sexual assault in legal filing
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993, according to a legal summons filed Wednesday. The three-page filing does not contain details of the alleged assault but names Adams, the transit bureau of the New York Police Department and the New York Police Department Guardians Association as defendants. "Plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in 1993 while they both worked for the City of New York," the summons reads. In a statement, a City Hall spokesman said: "The mayor does not know who this person is. Adams, a Democrat, was a New York City police officer who rose to the rank of captain before entering politics.

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993, according to a legal summons filed Wednesday. The three-page filing does not contain details of the alleged assault but names Adams, the transit bureau of the New York Police Department and the New York Police Department Guardians Association as defendants. “Plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in 1993 while they both worked for the City of New York,” the summons reads. In a statement, a City Hall spokesman said “The mayor does not know who this person is. Adams, a Democrat, was a New York City police officer who rose to the rank of captain before entering politics.

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The cities say they buy tickets only for migrants who want to travel and they do not coerce people to leave. The vast majority were bus tickets, but Denver also purchased about 340 tickets for flights and 200 for train rides. Ewing gave a similar message regarding El Paso’s busing of migrants to Denver, saying the two cities have been in communication. New York City and Chicago also are limiting migrants' shelter stays. “We have other Democratic cities, Denver, California, L.A., sending their people to Chicago, New York.

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☆ The Mounting Challenges Facing New York City Mayor Eric Adams
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Jimmy Vielkind | Erin Ailworth | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NEW YORK—With the skyscrapers of Wall Street behind him, Eric Adams watched earlier this week as an electric passenger aircraft circled Manhattan’s downtown heliport. He shared his dream that the city would be a hub of the new technology and waxed about the prospect of futuristic new jobs. Then reality came back: a question about whether anyone else on his team had their phones seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as happened to Adams this month. “We’re talking about helicopters!” the mayor spat back, ignoring the question as he spun around and turned his eyes to the sky.

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The coordinated raids were the first public sign of a broad corruption investigation into the mayor’s 2021 campaign. and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are examining whether the Turkish government conspired with Mr. Adams’s campaign to funnel foreign donations into campaign coffers and whether Mr. Adams pressured Fire Department officials to sign off on a new high-rise Turkish consulate despite safety concerns. Both Ms. Abbasova and Mr. Öcal have ties to Turkey. She was Mr. Adams’s longtime liaison to the Turkish community when he served as Brooklyn borough president; he was the general manager of the New York office of Turkish Airlines until early last year. Ms. Abbasova, Mr. Öcal, Ms. Suggs and Mr. Adams have not been accused of wrongdoing.

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☆ Safe Injection Sites Don’t Lead to More Crime, New Study Finds - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Maia Szalavitz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over 100,000 Americans now die from drug overdoses annually. Upon taking office, Mayor Eric Adams, Mr. de Blasio’s successor, has continued to support the sites’ work. Some neighbors, politicians and media have claimed that the centers — one in East Harlem and one in Washington Heights — are increasing crime and public drug use in neighborhoods already burdened with poverty. But an important new study published this week refutes these claims. It shows that violent and property crime rates near the two overdose prevention centers (sometimes referred to as safe injection or safe consumption sites) did not increase any more than crime in similar neighborhoods elsewhere in the city.

Persons: Bill de Blasio, Eric Adams, de Blasio’s, ”, Brandon Del Pozo Organizations: Brown University, New York Police Department Locations: New York City, East Harlem, Washington Heights, Burlington , Vt

☆ Eric Adams Says ‘We Don’t Do Quid Pro Quo’ for Contributions
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( James Fanelli | Jimmy Vielkind | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Eric Adams’s electronic devices were seized last week by federal investigators. Photo: angela weiss/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesNew York City Mayor Eric Adams said he and his aides haven’t exchanged political favors for campaign contributions, offering a broad defense of his conduct in office amid a federal public-corruption probe. Adams, a former police captain, during a press conference Tuesday sought to shift focus from the investigation, in which federal officials are examining whether Turkish money illegally went to the Democrat’s 2021 campaign, people familiar with the matter said.

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“There has been no indication that I’ve seen that the mayor is a target,” added his chief legal counsel at City Hall, Lisa Zornberg. The federal investigation burst into public view on Nov. 2 when agents searched the home of Adams' chief fundraiser during his 2021 mayoral campaign, Briana Suggs. Four days later, FBI agents stopped Adams as he was leaving a public event, asked his police security detail to step away and took his electronic devices. Political Cartoons View All 1247 ImagesThe U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, which is overseeing the probe, has declined to comment. “This is what we do as elected officials,” Adams said, adding that he was thinking of Turkish constituents in the city.

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☆ Eric Adams’s Turkey Ties: Travel, Donations and a Meeting With Erdogan
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Emma G. Fitzsimmons | More About Emma G. Fitzsimmons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A major federal corruption investigation into Mayor Eric Adams’s fund-raising is examining whether his campaign conspired with members of the Turkish government to receive illegal donations. Mr. Adams, a Democrat in his second year in office, has longstanding ties to Turkey. The mayor has said that he met the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, when he was Brooklyn borough president, and that he has visited the country at least six times. Federal authorities raided the home of Mr. Adams’s chief fund-raiser on Nov. 2, and then seized at least two cellphones and an iPad from Mr. Adams himself. Mr. Adams has defended his links to Turkey, arguing that they were part of his outreach to immigrant communities that have not always received attention from City Hall.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Amtrak service north of New York City was disrupted Monday because of structural issues with a parking garage that's over the tracks on Manhattan's west side, officials said. Service between the city and the Croton-Harmon station in Westchester County was halted Sunday after structural problems were discovered at the parking garage on West 51st Street. Amtrak said passengers traveling between New York City and Croton-Harmon could take Metro-North, which is honoring Amtrak tickets. New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that city engineers were dispatched to the parking garage to assess the situation. New York City officials stepped up the inspection of parking garages after a three-story parking structure in lower Manhattan collapsed in April, killing one worker, injuring several others and crushing dozens of cars.

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