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Mayor Eric Adams escalated his rhetoric over the migrant crisis on Wednesday night, claiming in stark terms that New York City was being destroyed by an influx of migrants from the southern border and saying that he did not see a way to fix the issue. “This issue will destroy New York City.”Mr. Adams, a Democrat in his second year in office, has clashed with leading members of his party as New York City has struggled to provide housing and services to the migrants, who now number 110,000. For months, Mr. Adams has criticized President Biden and Gov. Kathy Hochul for failing to help the city provide for the asylum-seekers and pleaded for additional funding and expedited work permits. In particular, Mr. Adams has focused on how it was hurting New York City’s budget and would prompt widespread cuts to city services.
Persons: Eric Adams, Mr, Adams, Biden, Kathy Hochul Organizations: New, Democrat, New York Locations: New York City, Manhattan
New York’s Migrant Crisis Is Growing
  + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In a sharp escalation, Mayor Eric Adams declared that New York City was being destroyed by an influx of 110,000 migrants from the southern border. His comments, criticized by advocates for villainizing migrants for seeking a better life, underscored how the surge has become overwhelming. New York City has struggled to provide adequate housing and services to the migrants, as has been required there by law for decades. And about 20,000 migrant children were expected to attend New York City schools when classes began today. Illegal crossings of the southern border have sharply risen in recent months.
Persons: Eric Adams, Adams, Biden Organizations: New, New York Locations: New York City, Texas, Florida, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia
The new rules threaten to shutter thousands of short-term rentals and fundamentally redraw what kinds of apartments and homes are used for short-term rentals in New York City. Data site Inside Airbnb estimates there are 40,000 Airbnb listings alone, while an economic study prepared for Airbnb by Boston University Professor Michael Salinger estimates that number is closer to 36,000. One reason for New York City's crackdown is a concern over how short-term rentals squeeze an already incredibly tight housing market. "But a lot of short-term-rental hosts are getting caught up in this lazy sweep." Currently, the average daily rate for New York City listings on Airbnb and Vrbo is $251, according to AirDNA.
Persons: it's, Michael Salinger, AirDNA, Grant, Eric Adams, Melissa, I've, Melissa isn't, she'd, Larry Korman, Siegfried Layda, Korman Organizations: Service, New York, Boston University, Street Journal, New York City's, Special, York City, New Locations: New York City, Wall, Silicon, New, Airbnb, Hollywood, York, Philadelphia, New York, Ridgewood , Queens, Central Park, Central
At an office in SoHo, rows of desks sit empty, while a shaggy dog — shadowing an owner nostalgic for work-from-home comforts — wanders the conference rooms. On the subway, commuters delight in a once-unimaginable indulgence: bag-spreading across two seats. About a year and a half after Mayor Eric Adams chided workers — “You can’t stay home in your pajamas all day!” — New York’s offices in late August were under 41 percent of their prepandemic occupancy. Just 9 percent of the city’s office workers were going in five days a week at the start of the year, according to the Partnership for New York City, a business group. Remote-work levels crisscrossing the country are more mixed, with just under one-third of America’s workdays now done from home.
Persons: , , Eric Adams, America’s workdays Organizations: Orange, Partnership, New Locations: SoHo, New York City, New York
After months of mostly working behind the scenes, a force of municipal, business and labor leaders in New York has begun a public campaign to highlight how they believe Washington has failed to adequately address the migrant crisis that has overwhelmed the city in recent months. As part of that effort, Mayor Eric Adams staged a rally just outside the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse on Thursday and called on federal officials to expedite work authorization for asylum seekers. Kathy Hochul met with White House officials to push the Biden administration for more support, days after she shifted tactics and began to publicly call on Mr. Biden to speed work authorizations. She emerged from the meeting in Washington hopeful but still dissatisfied that the help offered was “not enough to fully address this crisis.”
Persons: Eric Adams, , , ” Mr, Adams, Kathy Hochul, Biden Organizations: Thurgood Marshall U.S, Gov, White Locations: New York, Washington
C.E.O.s urge Washington to help with asylum seekersAs New York City’s migrant crisis continues to escalate, with more than 100,000 arrivals from the southern U.S. border straining shelters, some of the city’s top business leaders are intervening in a fight over who’s responsible. But recent communications by the Biden administration suggest that such calls won’t be heeded. The letter underscores the increasing urgency of the crisis, which has pitted Mayor Eric Adams against Gov. Adams has said the crisis could cost the city $12 billion over three years, while Hochul has spent $1.5 billion and deployed nearly 2,000 National Guard members so far. The migrant crisis is a business issue.
Persons: Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, Larry Fink, BlackRock, Jane Fraser, Citigroup —, Biden, won’t, Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul —, Adams, Hochul Organizations: JPMorgan, Citigroup, Gov, Biden, National Guard Locations: Washington, York, U.S, New
A few months before he was elected mayor of New York City, Eric Adams was feted at a $1,000-a-head fund-raiser at Russo’s on the Bay, a plush wedding venue overlooking the water in Howard Beach, Queens. Among the hosts was Eric Ulrich, a city councilman whom Mr. Adams would eventually appoint as buildings commissioner. In addition to Mr. Ulrich, those facing indictment include Anthony and Joseph Livreri, who own a Queens pizzeria that has drawn the attention of prosecutors investigating gambling and organized crime activity. The Livreris were also hosts of the fund-raiser, as was Michael Mazzio, a towing-company operator and friend of Mr. Ulrich’s who is also under investigation. Law enforcement officials had previously identified Mr. Mazzio and the Livreri brothers as having connections to organized crime.
Persons: Eric Adams, Eric Ulrich, Adams, Ulrich, Anthony, Joseph Livreri, Michael Mazzio, Mr, Ulrich’s, Mazzio Locations: New York City, Russo’s, Howard Beach , Queens, Manhattan, Queens
New York City has a pest problem so prolific, the mayor hired a dedicated rat czar earlier this year. Previous efforts to reduce the rat problem include brutal traps, poison, and birth control bait. The city has historically focused on population control methods, including brutal spring traps and hazardous poisons to keep the pests at bay. AdvertisementAdvertisementParsons previously told Insider the "real city rats" are "the men and women of bureaucracy and their two-and-a-half centuries of bad practice." To really have fewer rats, New York norms of takeout and eating outside would have to change."
Persons: Eric Adams, that's, Kathleen Corradi —, Department of Education —, Corradi, Jason Munshi, Michael Parsons, Parsons, Munshi Organizations: Service, New York City, Big Apple, Waste, Department of Education, New, New York Mayor's, Department of Sanitation, The New York Times, Fordham University, NYT Locations: York City, Wall, Silicon, New York
The mayor of New York City aims to turn old office buildings into 20,000 new apartments. The Manhattan-based architect John Cetra, who has worked on office conversions since the 1980s, calls it "the amenity war." His firm, CetraRuddy, recently announced it's leading the conversion of a 30-story office building, formerly home to Goldman Sachs, in Manhattan's financial district. Adams' goal is to create up to 20,000 new homes for 40,000 New Yorkers in converted office buildings over the next decade. AdvertisementAdvertisementNew York City has already had some success in converting office buildings to homes.
Persons: you'll, they've, everyone's, Steven Paynter, we've, John Cetra, it's, Goldman Sachs, Cetra, Eric Adams, Paynter, He's, who's, Adams, We've, Dan Garodnick, Mark Hogan, Hogan, Charles Bloszies, I've, that's, Bloszies, Garodnick, Arpit Gupta Organizations: Service, CetraRuddy, York, US Department of Housing, Urban Development, Yorkers, New York City's Department of City Planning, San Francisco, Supervisors, New York Stock Exchange, NYU Stern School of Business, Research Locations: New York City, Wall, Silicon, York, San Francisco, Manhattan, Toronto, Calgary , Alberta, York City, Francisco, New York
Mayor Eric Adams of New York, who often uses public appearances to reiterate that he “hates” rats, hired a rat czar this year dedicated to exterminating them. As rat hater in chief, Mr. Adams has continued the long “war on rats” that New York City mayors have waged for decades, with limited success. I’m an urban ecologist who’s studied New York City rats for 12 years, and I can say that the way the city and its residents have tried to exterminate rats, through traps and poisons, has been both ineffective and unnecessarily brutal. Today’s New York still has filthy streets, plus population density and aging infrastructure, making it a perfect home for its rats. City agencies have heavily relied on using rat poison; in 2021 alone, they applied over 60,000 pounds of rodenticide poisons.
Persons: Eric Adams, , Adams, who’s, Kathleen Corradi Locations: New York, New York City, Today’s, York
Apparently the mayor chose to follow a similar practice to his trip to Israel. On a whirlwind three-day visit, Mr. Adams dined at the Whiskey Bar and Museum in Tel Aviv, a sleek restaurant with more than 1,000 types of whiskey. He was photographed with the son of an Israeli billionaire as he enjoyed Tel Aviv’s buzzing nightlife scene. Mr. Adams may have been thousands of miles away from home, but was still very much himself: high energy, highly quotable, spiritual, ideologically to the right of many Democrats in his party, wary of the press, fond of police drone demonstrations and foremost a foodie. The trip gave Mr. Adams some distance from a series of pressing challenges in New York City, allowing him to focus on preferred topics, like his ties to the Jewish community, public safety and courting business.
Persons: Eric Adams, Adams Organizations: New, Bar and Locations: New York City, Israel, Tel Aviv
Kathy Hochul of New York on Thursday forcefully urged President Biden to respond to the influx of migrants arriving in the state, underscoring the urgency of a situation that has vexed Democratic leaders for months. More than 100,000 migrants have traveled to New York City from the southern border over the past year, and more than half of them have taken refuge in the city’s shelters, straining the system. Unlike Mayor Eric Adams, the governor has taken pains to avoid overtly criticizing the president’s response, choosing to communicate with Mr. Biden and his staff behind the scenes instead. But the governor’s 10-minute address, live streamed from Albany, marked her most direct appeal to the federal government since she first called the migrant crisis a state emergency in May. She noted how the White House has failed to respond to her call to expedite work permits for newcomers and turn more federal properties into emergency shelters, saying, “We’ve managed thus far without substantive support from Washington.”
Persons: Kathy Hochul, Biden, Eric Adams, “ We’ve, Organizations: Democratic, White Locations: New York, New York City, Albany, Washington
The mayor’s return to New York City from overseas was plagued by mishap. The chair of his “reception committee” was late; his aides violated the health code by boarding the mayor’s ship, the Vulcania, before the ship could be screened for contagion. And reporters — barred from asking questions on political or administrative matters — had the nerve to question the length of the mayor’s journey, which, in an apparent first for a New York City mayor, included a three-day visit to the new nation of Israel. In the 72 years since Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri’s voyage in 1951, every single New York City mayor would follow his lead, in recognition of a faith-based political reality: New York City is home to the largest population of Jews outside of Israel. Mayor Eric Adams upheld that rite of passage this week, visiting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in a three-day tour highlighted by meetings with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and its president, Isaac Herzog.
Persons: , , Vincent R, Eric Adams, Benjamin Netanyahu, Isaac Herzog Organizations: New, New York City, York Locations: New York City, New York, Israel, York City, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv
NYC Mayor Eric Adams outlined a proposal to convert office buildings into affordable homes. Adams said the goal is to create as many as 20,000 homes to help solve the city's housing crisis. "It makes no sense to allow office buildings to sit empty while New Yorkers struggle to find housing. Empty office buildings are an issue across US cities including San Francisco and Chicago. A recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that over 2,000 US office buildings could be transformed into as many as 400,000 apartment units.
Persons: Eric Adams, Adams, Dan Garodnick, Maria Torres, Meta Organizations: Service, New York's Department of City, Housing Opportunity, New York City Department of Buildings, of Standard, Appeals, Springer, Colliers, New York Times, National Bureau of Economic Research Locations: Wall, Silicon, York City, Manhattan, New York, San Francisco, Hudson Yards, Chicago
On the second day of his trip to Israel, Mayor Eric Adams of New York City will seek to strike a political balance by meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, and with leaders of the country’s pro-democracy protest movement. On Tuesday morning, Mr. Adams met with protest leaders, although his office did not specify which leaders or where the meeting was being held, and reporters were barred from attending. Later, at around 5 p.m. local time, Mr. Adams planned to meet with Mr. Netanyahu — part of a routine itinerary for New York mayors who have long visited Israel to show solidarity with Jewish voters in the city. But the political implications of such a meeting may be more fraught than usual, following the move by Mr. Netanyahu and his far-right government to limit the powers of Israel’s judiciary. The rollback, part of a broader fight over the country’s future, has prompted widespread protests among those who fear that Israel is abandoning its democratic traditions.
Persons: Eric Adams, Benjamin Netanyahu, Adams, Netanyahu Organizations: New, Mr, New York, Jewish Locations: Israel, New York City, New
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City will travel to Israel on Monday, the beginning of a rare three-day foreign trip to highlight his ties to the Jewish community. The political schism has prompted widespread protests by those who fear Israel is abandoning its democratic traditions. Mr. Adams, a moderate Democrat in his second year in office, has close ties to the ultra-Orthodox community in New York. The mayor’s office said in a statement that Mr. Adams plans to “learn about Israeli technology and discuss combined efforts to combat antisemitism.”A trip to Israel is a rite of passage for mayors of New York City, which has the largest Jewish population in the world outside Israel. But the political crisis in Israel could make the trip more difficult to navigate.
Persons: Eric Adams, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Adams Organizations: New, West Bank Locations: New York City, Israel, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, New York
CNN —Prominent restaurateur and Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer announced he will be closing two New York City restaurants located in a hotel which has been repurposed as a shelter for the city’s growing migrant population. Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group said in a statement they “admire and respect Redbury’s decision,” and that Meyer has previously advocated for expedited work permits for asylum-seekers. The nationally known ones include Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Cafe. In March 2020, Meyer closed all of his 19 restaurants in New York. Currently, the Union Square Hospitality Group said the two restaurants it is closing are looking for a new location and for job placements for employees affected by the closures.
Persons: Danny Meyer, Eric Adams, , Communications Fabien Levy, Meyer, USHG, ” USHG, Mayor Adams, Organizations: CNN, Shake Shack, New, Communications, Meyer’s, Square Hospitality, Gramercy Tavern, Square, NYSE, Square Hospitality Group Locations: New York City, Marta, York, New York
NYC bans TikTok on government devices
  + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
New York City banned TikTok on government-owned devices on Wednesday, pointing to security concerns that have made the app a target of bipartisan scrutiny across the country. Congress already voted to ban TikTok on federal devices last year and several states have taken similar steps. City agencies have 30 days to remove the app from government-owned devices. Still, broader action against TikTok beyond government-owned devices has remained elusive. TikTok did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment on the NYC ban.
Persons: Eric Adams, TikTok Organizations: U.S . Conference, Mayors, Washington , D.C, New York City, NYC City Hall, WNBC, ., CNBC, YouTube Locations: New York, Washington ,, China
An influx of migrants arriving in New York City over the last year has stretched city resources and strained political relationships among Democratic leaders grappling with an emerging humanitarian crisis. Kathy Hochul of New York had stayed largely above the fray. Now, as New York City’s shelter system barrels past a breaking point, Ms. Hochul is confronting an explosive political test that could define her first full term and have ripple effects for national Democrats. Critics from the left and right have called on Ms. Hochul to take a more hands-on approach to a crisis that defies easy solutions, saying that the migrant state of emergency — which she announced last spring — needs the same sense of urgency as the Covid pandemic. Ms. Hochul has argued that she has been an active partner in dealing with the crisis all along, even if much of the state’s help has unfolded behind the scenes.
Persons: Kathy Hochul, Hochul, Eric Adams, Her, Andrew M, Cuomo Organizations: Democratic, Gov, Democrats Locations: New York City, New York
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - New York City on Wednesday banned TikTok on government-owned devices, citing security concerns, joining a number of U.S. cities and states that have put such restrictions on the short video sharing app. TikTok "posed a security threat to the city's technical networks," the administration of New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement. New York City agencies are required to remove the app within 30 days and employees will lose access to the app and its website on city-owned devices and networks. Top U.S. security officials including FBI Director Christopher Wray and CIA Director William Burns have said TikTok poses a threat. Close to half of American adults support a ban on TikTok, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey released on Wednesday.
Persons: Dado Ruvic, TikTok, Eric Adams, Christopher Wray, William Burns, Wray, Donald Trump, Kanishka Singh, Jamie Freed Organizations: U.S, REUTERS, Rights, New York City, New, New York State, Reuters, Thomson Locations: New York City, New York, U.S, Montana, Washington
A new front opened on Wednesday in an escalating battle among Democrats over how to handle large numbers of immigrants crossing the southern border and moving into major cities. The leaders of New York City and New York State, where officials say the arrival of migrants has set off a humanitarian crisis, seemed to turn on each other this week, after the state sent a scathing letter accusing the city of resisting its help and being slow to act. Kathy Hochul faulted Mayor Eric Adams’s management of New York’s migrant crisis in sharp terms, puncturing the appearance of city-state harmony that the two leaders have spent much of their tenures cultivating. New York City is struggling to accommodate more than 100,000 migrants who have arrived after crossing the border, more than 57,000 of whom remain in city shelters. Mr. Adams has said that the city is running out of space and funds to support them, and has criticized President Biden, saying “the president and the White House have failed New York City on this issue.” His posture has infuriated top Biden aides.
Persons: Kathy Hochul, Eric Adams’s, Adams, Biden Organizations: New Locations: New York City, New York State
New York City on Wednesday joined a wave of states and federal agencies in banning TikTok from government-owned devices based on security concerns, snuffing out some popular city-run TikTok accounts in the process. Jonah Allon, a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams, said in a statement that the city’s Cyber Command determined that the app “posed a security threat to the city’s technical networks.” City agencies must remove the app within 30 days and employees will lose access to TikTok and its website from city-owned devices and networks. The TikTok accounts of Mr. Adams, the city’s Department of Sanitation and the Department of Parks and Recreation all updated their bios with this message: “This account was operated by NYC until August 2023. It’s no longer monitored.”Numerous government officials have been restricting access to TikTok in reaction to concerns that the app, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, could give Beijing access to sensitive user data. New York State has banned TikTok on state-issued mobile devices for more than three years, with some exceptions.
Persons: Jonah Allon, Eric Adams, Adams, It’s Organizations: Wednesday, Command, city’s Department of Sanitation, Department of Parks, Recreation, New York State Locations: York City, City, Beijing
Wonder Land: The United States is often described as a 'nation of immigrants,' but with Biden’s open river or another Trump wall, the clock on American pre-eminence could stop, as illegal immigration taints the legal path to citizenship. Images: AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyNew York politicians often believe the rest of the country cares about their problems. But the only time most people give a thought to the Empire State’s largely self-inflicted woes is when they relish the schadenfreude of seeing progressives pay for misguided policies. The Big Apple ’s migrant mess is a case in point.
Persons: Mark Kelly Organizations: Getty, Mark Kelly New, Apple Locations: United States, Mark Kelly New York
The fanfare started building minutes before Mayor Eric Adams made his arrival on Monday. Dozens of supporters, most on Mr. Adams’s payroll, lined the City Hall rotunda staircase, behind the lectern where the mayor was about to appear. With everything in place, Mr. Adams strode in to make his announcement. He was elevating his press secretary, Fabien Levy, to become his administration’s seventh deputy mayor. In doing so, Mr. Adams was underscoring the importance he places on messaging: Mr. Levy, according to the mayor, will be the first person in New York City to hold the title of deputy mayor for communications.
Persons: Eric Adams, Jay, Alicia Keys —, Letitia James, Adams strode, Fabien Levy, Adams, Levy Organizations: of Locations: New York City
The lawmakers made the plea after a 3-year-old died on a bus headed to Chicago on Thursday. Abbott has been battling with the Biden administration over immigration issues for over two years. Greg Abbott from transporting migrants from the US-Mexico border region to cities across the country after a three-year-old child died while en route to Chicago on Thursday. We are saddened and horrified, but not surprised, by the death of a three-year-old child on a state-sponsored bus from Texas to Chicago," the lawmakers said. Governor Abbott's barbaric practices are killing people, and the Biden administration has an obligation to stop them."
Persons: Castro, Joe Biden, Abbott, Biden, Greg Abbott, Joaquin Castro of, apprehensions, Eric Adams, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Adams Organizations: Gov, Service, Democratic, Texas Republican Gov, Reps, Lone Star, Operation Lone Star, The Texas Division, Emergency Management, US Customs, New York Times, Associated Press, The Illinois Department of Public Health, Texas Division, White, New York City, Los Angeles Mayor Locations: Chicago, Wall, Silicon, Mexico, Joaquin Castro of Texas, Chuy, García, Illinois, Denver, Los Angeles , New York, Washington, Texas, Brownsville , Texas, Antonio, Marion County , Illinois, New York
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