Federal agents raided the Crown Heights home of a top fundraiser for Mayor Eric Adams early Thursday, according to reports, leading the mayor to return to the city immediately after traveling to Washington D.C. to discuss the migrant crisis. The raid on the residence of Brianna Suggs, first reported by The New York Times, happened […]
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Miss Immigrant USA, Whose Contestants Often Appear With Adams, Cancels Its Crowning
They’ve been photographed repeatedly with Mayor Eric Adams. They’ve volunteered their time at more than 100 government and civic events in the last three months. They are contestants in Miss Immigrant USA, where many traditional beauty pageant rules do not apply. Here, contestants representing different countries of origin are judged not by their age or […]
Posted inFAQ NYC
LISTEN: The FDNY Keeps Shutting Down Migrant Shelters
Co-hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss kids in tents, city hall’s crude insult comedy, Eric Adams’ strong political hand and much more. Some show notes, starting with election stuff! Look up your early voting and election day votings sites and also what will be on your ballot. Read up on the handful […]
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Manhattan DA Drops Charges Against Guard Arrested After Tussle with Adams Advisor Tim Pearson
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office dropped obstruction and harassment charges against a guard at a migrant shelter arrested following a scuffle allegedly set off by Tim Pearson, a top advisor to Mayor Eric Adams. In Manhattan Criminal court Friday afternoon, an assistant district attorney said that after interviewing a dozen witnesses and reviewing body-worn camera […]
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What We Know About Tim Pearson, the Eric Adams Operative Under Investigation for Shelter Melee
He’s got no public schedule to speak of. He’s rarely seen in public with Eric Adams, but has the mayor’s ear across a variety of subjects. He works for a quasi-city agency, the Economic Development Corporation, but runs point for City Hall on security in migrant shelters and makes top-level decisions about the New York […]
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Behind a Chinatown Real Estate Deal, a Web of Shifting Alliances and Political Connections
This article originally appeared in Documented. On Sept. 29, when New York City was hit by record rains, the 88 East Broadway Mall in Chinatown was experiencing one of its busiest days since the pandemic. Nearly 300 Chinese immigrants from Langqi, a village in the Fujian Province in China, gathered to hold a religious ceremony […]
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Adams Advisor Tim Pearson Grabbed and Shoved Shelter Guards, Say Witnesses
One of Mayor Eric Adams’ top advisors grabbed a migrant shelter guard by her neck and threw her to the ground, according to an eyewitness statement obtained by THE CITY. He also shoved another guard, the same report alleges. Tim Pearson, a retired police inspector who Adams has identified as a point man on migrant […]
Posted inFAQ NYC
LISTEN: The Mayor Can’t Help It
Co-hosts Christina Greer and Harry Siegel discuss Eric Adams’ discipline problem, his Republican sympathies, his multi-lingual AI voice avatar and much more — including a look back at his 2020 talk here on FAQ NYC about letting licensed current and retired law enforcement officers carry their guns into houses of worship. Subscribe to the FAQ NYC […]
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Tongue Twisted: Adams Taps AI to Make City Robocalls in Languages He Doesn’t Speak
Mayor Eric Adams is using artificial intelligence to turn himself into a polyglot: sending out robocalls with his voice to New Yorkers in a slew of languages he does not speak — and spooking out ethics and privacy advocates. The mayor mentioned his multilingual calls at a press conference Monday announcing the new “MyCity Chatbot,” […]
Posted inPolitics
Palestinian New Yorkers Feel Both Targeted and Ignored
Mahmoud Kasem, 36, owner of Al Aqsa, a Palestinian restaurant in Bay Ridge, said he was trying his best to go through the motions, coming into the restaurant from his home in Bayside, Queens and chatting up customers. “But inside it’s boiling, it’s like a volcano,” he said, speaking outside the restaurant on a Thursday […]