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☆ A Weapons Scanner Arrives in the Subway. Adams Says It Isn’t Optional.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Emma G. Fitzsimmons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Mayor Eric Adams announced the start of a contentious new plan to put a gun-detecting scanner in the subway on Friday and warned that New Yorkers who refused to be scanned would be kicked out of the system. Mr. Adams highlighted the scanner inside the busy Fulton Street subway station in Lower Manhattan, arguing that the technology would help make the subway safer. “Many New Yorkers will be familiar with this type of technology — it’s not new, and it’s being used in big cities across the country,” Mr. Adams said, noting that scanners were already being used at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Citi Field. A new pilot program will involve one scanner that will be moved to different stations over the next 30 days, city officials said. Mr. Adams said it would not cost the city any money.

Persons: Eric Adams, Adams, —, Mr Organizations: Yorkers, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Citi Locations: Fulton, Lower Manhattan

☆ Inside the Money Race for the 2025 New York City Mayoral Primary
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Emma G. Fitzsimmons | Nicholas Fandos | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In a luxury apartment in Trump World Tower in Manhattan near the United Nations, a group of two dozen or so lawyers and civic leaders gathered this spring at the home of Mitchell Draizin, a financier and prominent Democratic donor. The group, he said, was searching for a candidate to defeat Mayor Eric Adams, “somebody to manage and have the city progress.” And for that evening, Scott Stringer, the city’s former comptroller, had their ear. “He’s obviously not the most charismatic person. Perhaps Adams is charismatic, but look where it got us,” Mr. Draizin said in an interview. “Look at the M.T.A., look at the garbage, look at the shoplifting and the migrant crisis.”Similar scenes are playing out across the city, with Democratic supporters being courted by Mr. Adams, Mr. Stringer and others interested in running in next June’s mayoral primary.

Persons: Mitchell Draizin, Eric Adams, “, Scott Stringer, “ He’s, Adams, ” Mr, Draizin, Stringer Organizations: United Nations, Democratic Locations: Trump, Manhattan

☆ Reopen N.Y.C. Libraries on Sundays? Yes. Free 3-K for All? Not Quite.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Emma G. Fitzsimmons | Jeffery C. Mays | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But other key programs were not made whole, including a popular and free preschool program for 3-year-olds. This budget is particularly significant for Mr. Adams, a Democrat who is running for re-election in a competitive primary next June. Mr. Adams has insisted that major budget cuts were necessary to help offset the costs of the migrant crisis, new union contracts for city workers and the ending of federal pandemic aid. The mayor and the City Council speaker, Adrienne Adams, adopted a celebratory tone at the announcement at City Hall, smiling and holding a model airplane to show that they had “landed the plane” as promised. Mr. Adams said they had found comity to fund important programs as the city faces major financial challenges.

Persons: Eric Adams, Adams, Adrienne Adams Organizations: City Council, New York, Democrat, Mr, City Hall Locations: New York City

The winger was named captain for the U.S. men’s national team’s opening game against Bolivia at the 2024 Copa America. Pulisic sprinted to the sideline looking for someone in the crowd until he finally found USMNT set piece coach Gianni Vio. This U.S. team needs Pulisic to be a game-changer if they are going to make a run in the tournament. PULISIC WHAT A GOAL 😱🔥 WHAT A START FOR THE @USMNT 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/PaXw3NleF3 — FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 23, 2024Pulisic also set up the second goal. Balogun set himself and arrowed a precise left-footed strike beyond Guillermo Viscarra and into the corner of the net.

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Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement that he would activate the city’s heat emergency plan starting on Tuesday. “The first heat wave of the season is here, and New York City has a plan to beat the heat — but we want all New Yorkers to have a plan as well,” Mr. Adams said. The city’s Heat Vulnerability Index — an effort spearheaded by the health department in conjunction with Columbia University — analyzes the neighborhoods that face the most danger during a heat wave. If everybody’s doing it, you’re multiplying it by millions.”Are heat waves in New York City becoming more common? The only heat wave to hit New York City last year happened in September, said David Stark, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service of New York.

Persons: Eric Adams, “, Mr, Adams, Ashwin Vasan, Anna Watts, Sandee, Columbia University —, Brian Ourien, ” Mr, Ourien, Zach Iscol, Vasan, ”, Con Ed, Brittainy Newman, Patrick McHugh, Con Ed ., McHugh, David Stark, Elijah Hutchinson, Hutchinson Organizations: Fire Department, National Weather Service, The New York Times, “, New York Public Library, Columbia University, Department of Health, Human Services, Bowery, Emergency Management, Workers, Con, New, New York City, Environmental Locations: New York City, New York, New, York, Bronx , Brooklyn, Queens, Mott Haven, Fordham, Jamaica, Hollis, St, Albans, In Brooklyn, Brownsville , East Flatbush, East New York

☆ Parents with young kids are fleeing New York City in droves. Skyrocketing housing and daycare costs are to blame.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The concrete jungle is an increasingly unfriendly playground for young kids and their parents. Families with kids under six years old are more than twice as likely to leave New York City than families without young kids, according to a new report from the Fiscal Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. To make matters worse, many parents of young kids were thrown into a panic several months ago when New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced he would cut $567 million from public preschool programs for three-year-olds. Between 2020 and 2022, 17,500 millionaires moved into New York City, while 2,400 left, FPI reported last year. Have you left New York City or State because of rising childcare and housing costs?

Persons: Eric Adams, Adams, FPI Organizations: Service, Fiscal, Institute, Business, The New York Times, New York City, Yorkers Locations: New York City, The, New, New York, Black

☆ 'Suits' actor Patrick J. Adams says reunion movie is 'possible' and its creator is 'definitely' interested
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

"Suits" actor Patrick J. Adams said a reunion movie is "possible." He said that the show's creator, Aaron Korsh, is "interested" in bringing the original cast back. Adams also pointed out that bringing the show back in some way "depends on a million things." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Advertisement"Suits" actor Patrick J. Adams said that a reunion movie has been discussed, and the show's creator, Aaron Korsh, is "definitely" interested in bringing it to life.

Persons: Patrick J, Adams, Aaron Korsh, —, Mike Ross, Harvey Specter, Gabriel Macht Organizations: Service, Harvard Law, Business Locations: New York

☆ Haiti Names New Prime Minister to Try to Lead Country Out of Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( David C. Adams | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An experienced international aid official, Garry Conille, was unanimously appointed prime minister of Haiti by a Presidential Transition Council on Tuesday, which tasked him with leading the country out of its current crisis until elections for a new president can be held. Mr. Conille will take on his new role just as a U.N.-backed security mission led by Kenyan police is scheduled to begin operations in the violence-torn Caribbean nation, which is battling to restore political stability and tackle armed gangs who control large parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Fluent in English, French and Creole, Mr. Conille’s credentials include a 25-year career working for the United Nations and other aid agencies. He also briefly led Haiti as prime minister over a decade ago during another period of crisis following the devastating 2010 earthquake. But Mr. Conille has spent many of the last few years outside the country, and his perhaps rusty domestic political skills are sure to be tested by the highly volatile situation he will encounter as prime minister.

Persons: Garry Conille, Conille Organizations: Kenyan, United Nations Locations: Haiti, Port

☆ Three Missionaries in Haiti Are Killed in Gang Attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Frances Robles | David C. Adams | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An Oklahoma-based missionary group working in Haiti’s capital was attacked by gangs on Thursday, leaving two Americans and the group’s director dead, the organization, Missions in Haiti, announced on Facebook. The independent nonprofit was founded by an Oklahoma couple, David and Alicia Lloyd, in 2000. The victims were the founders’ son, David Lloyd III, 23, known as Davy; his wife, Natalie Lloyd, 21; and the organization’s Haitian director, Jude Montis, 20, the group said. Most of you know my daughter and son-in-law Davy and Natalie Lloyd are full time missionaries in Haiti. They were attacked by gangs this evening and were both killed.

Persons: David, Alicia Lloyd, ’, David Lloyd III, Davy, Natalie Lloyd, Jude Montis, Lloyd, Ben Baker, “, Mr, Baker, “ I’ve, ” Organizations: Missions, Facebook Locations: An Oklahoma, Haiti, Bon, Port, Oklahoma, Haitian, Missouri

☆ Mayor Adams Fills a Key Commission With Allies and Donors
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Dana Rubinstein | Emma G. Fitzsimmons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mayor Eric Adams has long valued loyalty, keeping his allies close as he rose through New York City’s political ranks to become mayor, and rewarding them with top administration jobs. So this week, as the mayor quickly sought to fill out a powerful commission that could reshape city government, possibly for generations to come, he predictably turned to a cadre heavy on loyalists. The roster of the Charter Revision Commission was released on Wednesday, just 24 hours after Mr. Adams announced he was creating one. The move may foil an effort by the New York City Council to exert more control over the mayor’s high-level appointments. And although the announcement came as a surprise, the mayor’s spokesman said the commission has long been in the making.

Persons: Eric Adams, Adams Organizations: New, New York City Council Locations: New York

☆ Adams vs. Adams: A Power Struggle in New York City Turns Ugly
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Dana Rubinstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Amid growing public dissatisfaction with Mayor Eric Adams’s job performance, the New York City Council speaker, Adrienne Adams, was about to make a power play. Ms. Adams was preparing to introduce legislation on Thursday that would require the mayor to obtain Council approval on 21 commissioner-level appointments, according to a draft of the bill that the speaker’s office shared with The New York Times. The move would significantly curtail the mayor’s authority by adding a level of Council oversight. It would require a citywide voter referendum, because it proposes to curb the power of the mayor. Only one member was named; other names, the release said, would be forthcoming.

Persons: Eric Adams’s, Adrienne Adams, Adams Organizations: New, New York City Council, The New York Times, Times, Commission Locations: New York City

An aide to Mayor Eric Adams who served as his longtime liaison to the Turkish community and whose home was searched by the F.B.I. has been cooperating with the corruption investigation into the mayor and his 2021 campaign, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Originally from Azerbaijan, Ms. Abbasova, 41, had worked for Mr. Adams for about four years in the Brooklyn borough president’s office before he became mayor. agents and federal prosecutors conducting the corruption investigation in the weeks after her home was searched on Nov. 2. On the same day, agents also searched the homes of the mayor’s chief fund-raiser and a former Turkish Airlines executive.

Persons: Eric Adams, Rana Abbasova, Adams’s, Adams, Abbasova Organizations: —, Fire Department, International Affairs, Mr, Turkish Airlines Locations: Turkish, New York, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Brooklyn

☆ Free Preschool With One Catch: It May Be a Long Commute Away
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Troy Closson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

New York City once sold a promise of free prekindergarten for all as an unusual benefit designed to make it far easier to raise children in this expensive city. So as families worried over whether their 3-year-olds would have spots this fall, Mayor Eric Adams pledged last month that everyone would have “access” to a seat. Every 4-year-old in New York is guaranteed a free preschool seat, and 3-year-olds were next in line for a universal program. On Thursday, about 2,500 children did not receive a prekindergarten offer, leaving their parents in limbo. Many are still on huge waiting lists and scrambling to rethink their finances and future in the city.

Persons: Eric Adams, Adams Organizations: Education Department Locations: York City, New York

☆ Eric Adams Called Migrants ‘Excellent Swimmers.’ He Explains Why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Emma G. Fitzsimmons | Jeffery C. Mays | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Mayor Eric Adams was asked about New York City’s lifeguard shortage at his weekly news conference, he seized the moment to make a point about potential migrant workers. Immigrant rights groups called the comments “racist and divisive.” Conservative leaders viewed them as an attempt to legitimize the hiring of noncitizens. Mr. Adams, unsurprisingly, saw things differently. On Wednesday, the mayor explained that he had visited migrant centers in the city and asked people there if they knew how to swim. He was “blown away” by the number of those who raised their hands.

Persons: Eric Adams, Adams Organizations: New, Conservative, noncitizens Locations: New York

☆ A former surgeon general shares his 4-ingredient smoothie recipe to reduce ultra-processed foods and live longer
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewGetting enough fruits and vegetables into your daily diet can be a challenge, especially if you overthink it. But it's crucial for your longevity and to help reduce your intake of unhealthy and harmful ultra-processed foods. United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams takes questions from news reporters outside the West Wing at the White House. Related stories"You don't even taste the spinach," Adams added. One smoothie ingredient he advises against is juice because it contains so much sugar.

Persons: —, Jerome Adams, Adams, Donald Trump, Tom Brenner, You'd, I've Organizations: Service, Business, Purdue University, United, Wing, White, Reuters

☆ In Rome, Adams Sees a Model for Helping Migrants Assimilate
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Jeffery C. Mays | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It didn’t take long for Mayor Eric Adams of New York to articulate what he liked about a welcome center for migrants and asylum seekers that he visited on Sunday in Rocca di Papa, a town about 15 miles outside Rome. “In two months they’re going from migrant to participating in society,” Mr. Adams said after a 30-minute tour of the center, where migrants from countries including Syria and Sudan are processed, take Italian lessons and receive health care before being sent out for job opportunities. The mayor, who has called on the federal government to expedite work permits and relocation assistance for migrants, repeated that appeal after visiting the center, which is run by the Red Cross and receives funding from the Italian government. He said he wanted help from the Biden administration to develop something similar in New York, where more than 190,000 migrants have arrived over the last two years. Mr. Adams’s visit came on the last day of a three-day trip to Rome, where he met Pope Francis at the Vatican and spoke at an international conference on peace.

Persons: Eric Adams, Rocca, “, ” Mr, Adams, Biden, Adams’s, Pope Francis Locations: New York, Rocca di, Rome, Syria, Sudan, Israel

☆ A ‘Sacred Moment’: Mayor Eric Adams on his Meeting With Pope Francis
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Jeffery C. Mays | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mayor Eric Adams, who talks often about his faith, acknowledged on Saturday that he had felt some uncertainty — if not anxiety — about meeting Pope Francis. But at the Vatican, as Mr. Adams stooped before the pope, he felt any disquiet he had wash away. Pope Francis placed his hand on the mayor’s right arm. “I think that some people have a level of aura and energy and the ability to just calm people,” said Mr. Adams, who is Christian but not Catholic. The visit came as the mayor, who is up for re-election next year, faces difficulties in New York City, including lagging poll numbers and a federal investigation into his campaign fund-raising.

Persons: Eric Adams, Pope Francis, Adams stooped, “, ”, Adams Organizations: Mr Locations: Italy, New York, New York City

☆ With Conflicts at Home, Eric Adams Arrives in Rome to Discuss Peace
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Jeffery C. Mays | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With New York City at the center of global issues such as the influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants and the college protests about the Israel-Hamas war, Mayor Eric Adams arrived in Rome on Friday ready to discuss peace. During a three-day trip, the mayor is expected to meet with Pope Francis and attend the World Meeting on Human Fraternity, an event that will bring together Nobel Laureates, athletes and assorted celebrities as a step toward combating the “many forms of violence and wars” around the world. Earlier this week, the mayor said: “I think that His Holiness has a role right now as we all are trying to deal with the global conflicts.”The mayor has made his Christian faith a centerpiece of his politics. He has said that God told him three decades ago the exact date that he would become mayor, and that he did not believe in the separation of church and state. The trip to see Pope Francis is “a very special moment for me as being a Christian,” Mr. Adams said Tuesday.

Persons: Eric Adams, Pope Francis, “, God, ” Mr, Adams Organizations: New York, Human Fraternity Locations: New York City, Israel, Rome

☆ Second Democrat Emerges to Challenge Mayor Adams’s Path to Re-election
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Jeffery C. Mays | Emma G. Fitzsimmons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Zellnor Myrie, an Afro-Latino state senator from Brooklyn known for backing progressive causes, announced on Wednesday that he is moving to challenge Mayor Eric Adams in next year’s Democratic primary in New York City. Mr. Myrie’s announcement is further indication that Mr. Adams’s path to re-election is expected to be more challenging than is typical for Democratic mayors in New York. Mr. Adams, who faces record low poll numbers and a federal investigation into his campaign fund-raising, now must contend with at least two challenges from his own party. “For too many New Yorkers that I speak to, they’re tired of the showmanship,” he said. They want to see their government working relentlessly to make this city affordable, to make this city safe, to make it livable.”

Persons: Zellnor Myrie, Eric Adams, Adams, Myrie, ”, they’re Organizations: Democratic Locations: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, “, Yorkers

☆ Preparations Ramp Up for Global Security Force to Quell Haitian Violence
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( David C. Adams | Frances Robles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

U.S. military planes filled with civilian contractors and supplies have begun landing in Haiti, paving the way for a seven-nation security mission, led by Kenya, to deploy to the troubled Caribbean nation in the coming weeks, American officials say. But even as the security situation worsens and millions of Haitians go hungry, a military-style deployment that is estimated to cost $600 million has just a fraction of the funding required. Biden administration officials would not say whether a precise date for the deployment date had been set. The Kenyan government did not respond to requests for comment. Several flights from Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina have landed at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, the capital, in the past week, according to the U.S. Southern Command.

Persons: Toussaint Organizations: Biden, Kenyan, Charleston Air Force Base, U.S . Southern Command Locations: Haiti, Kenya, South Carolina, Port

☆ Mayor Adams to Meet With Pope Francis in Rome
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Dana Rubinstein | William K. Rashbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mayor Eric Adams will travel to Rome on Thursday to meet with Pope Francis, becoming the latest in a recent succession of New York City mayors to pay respects to the leader of the Catholic Church. The trip comes as Mr. Adams, a moderate Democrat facing languishing poll numbers and a federal criminal investigation, prepares to run for re-election next year in what is expected to be a contested primary. A spokesman for the mayor had no immediate comment when asked about the trip; roughly an hour later, the mayor’s press office released an advisory that Mr. Adams would be in Rome later this week. The advisory mentions “travel to the Vatican City,” but did not specify if he would meet with the pope. But three sources familiar with Mr. Adams’s itinerary confirmed that he would see Pope Francis.

Persons: Eric Adams, Pope Francis, Adams, Frank Carone Organizations: Catholic Church Locations: Rome, New York City, Vatican City, ”

☆ The Aggressive and Expensive Legal Team Defending Mayor Adams
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Emma G. Fitzsimmons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Not long after Eric Adams became the mayor of New York City, he quickly rewarded a cadre of loyalists with plum jobs in his administration. Now Mr. Adams is casting favor upon a new set of people looking out for his interests: defense lawyers. The firm has already been paid more than $730,000 by the mayor’s five-month-old legal defense fund. Mr. Adams intends to bring aboard Randy Mastro, a lawyer known for his aggressive tactics and roster of contentious clients and causes, to represent him as the city’s corporation counsel. Mr. Mastro would earn roughly $250,000 a year and would replace Sylvia Hinds-Radix, a former judge who has a more reserved style.

Persons: Eric Adams, Adams, WilmerHale, Randy Mastro, Mastro, Sylvia Hinds Organizations: of Locations: New York City, Southern, of New York, Turkish

On Today’s Episode:With Israel Poised to Invade Rafah, Negotiators Try Again for Cease-Fire Deal, by Isabel Kershner and Edward WongCrackdowns at 4 College Protests Lead to More Than 200 Arrests, by Anna Betts, Matthew Eadie and Nicholas Bogel-BurroughsTrump and DeSantis Meet for First Time Since Bruising Primary, by Maggie Haberman and Nicholas Nehamas

Persons: Isabel Kershner, Edward Wong Crackdowns, Anna Betts, Matthew Eadie, Nicholas Bogel, Burroughs Trump, Maggie Haberman, Nicholas Nehamas Locations: Rafah

☆ In a Communist Stronghold, Capitalists Become an Economic Lifeline
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( David C. Adams | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A modern grocery store whose shelves are packed with everything from pasta to wine fills a spot in central Havana once occupied by a drab state-owned flower shop, its ceilings and walls repaired and repainted. A former state glass company in a Havana suburb now houses a showroom for a private business selling Cuban-made furniture. And at the Cuban capital’s port, forklifts carefully unload American eggs from a refrigerated container. The eggs are bound for an online private supermarket that, much like Amazon Fresh, provides home delivery. These ventures are part of an explosion of thousands of private businesses that have opened in recent years across Cuba, a remarkable shift in a country where such enterprises have not been permitted and where Fidel Castro rose to power leading a communist revolution determined to eliminate capitalist notions like private ownership.

Persons: Fidel Castro Locations: Havana, Cuban, Cuba

The prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, formally signed his resignation letter on Wednesday, paving the way for a new government and bringing a measure of political stability to a nation mired in gang violence and an unfolding humanitarian crisis. With the sound of gunshots as a backdrop, the nine members of a transitional council took the oath of office early on Thursday in the National Palace. “We have served the nation in difficult times,” wrote Mr. Henry, whose resignation letter bore a Los Angeles address. “I sympathize with the losses and suffering endured by our compatriots during this period.”Mr. Henry, who has been unable to return to the country because of security concerns, had said in March that he would step down once the transitional council was established.

Persons: Ariel Henry, ”, Henry, Mr Locations: Haiti, “, Los Angeles

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