Mayor Eric Adams: King of NY Official Thread
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City Council Passes Bill Enabling Tenants to Report Vacant Apartments — THE CITY
Dec 6, 2023 | 11:36 AM
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I don’t see the purpose.
City Council Passes Bill Enabling Tenants to Report Vacant Apartments — THE CITY
Dec 6, 2023 | 11:36 AM
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This is what’s going to kill his re-election campaign. Charging people $15 to go into fukking Manhattan is ridiculous. Especially after they raised train fairs recently.
Mayor Adams seeks last-minute changes as congestion pricing faces MTA vote
Political observers say Adams is attempting to distance himself from the inevitable backlash over the cost.gothamist.com
Mayor Adams seeks last-minute changes as congestion pricing faces MTA vote
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Published Dec 5, 2023
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The MTA board is set to vote on the toll structure for congestion pricing on Wednesday – and now Mayor Eric Adams is ready to pump the brakes.
Last week, an MTA advisory panel recommended a $15 base fare for the landmark plan to toll drivers entering Manhattan south of 60th Street. Adams responded by calling the proposal “the beginning of the conversation.”
“Now is time to hear from community, to deliberate and to make the determination of who is going to be exempted, who's not going to be exempted,” Adams said.
His remark came four-and-a-half years after congestion pricing was signed into law, and four months after the first in a series of marathon public hearings on the program that featured remarks from Adams’ own Department of Transportation. A key subject of the hearings was who should be exempt from the tolls.
Adams said he supports congestion pricing, but argued that full exemptions should be granted to taxi drivers, people traveling to medical appointments and school buses.
Political observers said Adams was attempting to distance himself from the inevitable backlash over the cost. Rachael Fauss, a senior research analyst with the good government group Reinvent Albany, noted that the city’s transportation department plays a role in the installation of toll gantries on Manhattan streets and provided data used in the MTA’s analyses of traffic patterns.
“I think it's trying to have it both ways,” said Fauss. “His administration is helping to implement the program as we speak. But once a toll number comes up and you start talking about real dollars that people will be charged, it's certainly more convenient, politically, to start questioning it, even while his own administration is doing good work to move the program forward.”
John Samuelsen, the international president of the Transport Workers Union and Adams’ appointee to the six-member MTA advisory panel known as the Traffic Mobility Review Board, has also questioned the structure of congestion pricing tolls.
Samuelsen resigned in protest hours before the final recommendations were issued.
“My resignation was not done in conjunction with the mayor. I didn't ask for anybody's permission,” Samuelsen said.
Samuelsen said he wants different exemptions from the mayor. He argued that drivers who already pay tolls on the Verrazzano and Marine Parkway bridges should get a discount after entering the Manhattan tolling zone. And he said the MTA should provide improved service once congestion pricing goes into effect.
“It doesn't necessarily mean that the mayor condones the positions that I've taken, but if he was smart, he would pay serious attention to the positions that I've taken,” Samuelsen said.
Adams also has a vacant seat on the MTA board set to vote on the advisory panel's recommendations. Adams’ appointee, Sherif Soliman, quietly resigned in September, Streetsblog reported. The mayor nominates four members of the board.
Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, said the congestion pricing debates have reached the end of the road.
“On paper, is it the end of the conversation? Yes. Unless you are in the political world,” Gelinas said.
By law, the MTA must hold a round of public hearings, similar to when it has a fare and toll increase, and then the board will hold one more final vote.
If there are additional exemptions, the $15 base toll rate for vehicles could increase.
This might kill the Governor too but we got to see.
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Eric Adams Donor Claims Boss Reimbursed Campaign Contribution Tied to Event Now Under FBI Investigation — THE CITY
The Adams campaign listed the donation as from a May 2021 fundraiser organized by a co-owner of a Turkish-American company under probe for possible illegal foreign funds routed through employees. “He gave me the money in cash,” said the donor.
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Cuomo weighs run for NYC mayor amid Adams’ woes
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo wouldn't try to compete in a primary against Eric Adamswww.politico.com
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I think Cuomo runs, all the local politicians are scared of Adam’s but Cuomo who got caught up on sexual harassment looks like a boy scout compared to Adam’s and the feds seizing his phone.
Plus Adams biggest strength connections and money go out the window and people trust Cuomo from his time as Governor…… I am not even joking I think it’s going to happen.
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Wait, Cuomo is coming back? As Mayor?
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6-Story Residential Building Partly Collapses in the Bronx
There were no immediate reports of injuries after part of the 46-unit building came apart on Monday afternoon, city authorities said.
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Bronx Apartment Building Partially Collapses
A six-story residential building in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx partially collapsed.CreditCredit...Dakota Santiago for The New York TimesBy Amelia Nierenberg and Matthew Haag
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Part of a six-story building in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx collapsed on Monday afternoon. There were no immediate reports of injuries, the Fire Department said.
Initial photographs and videos show rooms at the corner of the 46-unit building exposed, almost as if the walls had been ripped off. Evidence of the lives disrupted by the partial collapse peeked out of the tangle of metal and wood.
On the street below, walls and bricks lay in a jumble below the apartments, left exposed to the cold afternoon air.
The Fire Department cautioned that its investigation of the collapse, at 1915 Billingsley Terrace, was in preliminary stages. Laura Kavanagh, the fire commissioner, said on Twitter that firefighters were looking for people who might be trapped.
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There have been questions around the building’s safety for years, according to city building records. The ground floor has several stores, including a market at the corner of West Burnside Avenue and Phelan Place.
Just last month, the Department of Buildings issued a $2,400 fine to the building’s owner for “deteriorated and broken mudsills” at the base of scaffolding that wrapped the property. The damage could affect “the structural stability causing a potential collapse,” the fine read.
The building is owned by a limited liability company, 1915 Realty, which bought the property in 2004 for $3 million, records show.
After the collapse on Monday, the city’s Emergency Management Department issued a request for a structural stability inspection of the site.
In 2020, the building’s brick facade was deemed “unsafe” after a required inspection of it by a structural engineer revealed “significant masonry damage throughout the facade,” including cracks in the brick. The owner was ordered to repair the exterior; it was not immediately known on Monday whether the repairs had been completed.
The engineer’s report determined that the deterioration was “generally caused by aging” as well as exposure to the elements.
This is a developing story. Check back here for updates.
Maria Cramer contributed reporting.
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the city feels like it’s in a rapid state of decline under Adams and I get a sense that city agencies are barely functioning… it’s like the Covid years but without the rules and lockdowns
Praying no one is hurt
Praying no one is hurt
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Over 1,000 NYC parks workers expected to lose their jobs — CBS New York
Budget cuts to New York City's Parks Department could result in a filthy city and a loss of over 1,400 jobs.
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Mayor says New York is world’s greatest city because any day could be a new 9/11 — Guardian US
Eric Adams says city is a place where New Yorkers could ‘wake up’ to a terrorist attack in unusual interview comments
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Never thought about it this way before
Thanks, Eric
