City officials have rejiggered the way that adult migrants reapplying for another 30-day shelter stint are counted, in an attempt to reduce the number sleeping outside a “reticketing site” in the East Village, advocates say. The change comes following uproar earlier this week, as hundreds of people waited for hours outside the 7th Street site […]
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High-End Sushi Joint Linked to Big Eric Adams Donor Got Fast-Tracked for FDNY Clearance
A high-end Manhattan sushi restaurant opened by mega-developer SL Green, one of Mayor Eric Adams’ biggest financial backers, landed on a high-priority Deputy Mayor of Operations list of locations eligible for fast-track FDNY inspections needed to open for business, THE CITY has learned. The restaurant, JoJi, was able to open in September 2022 in the […]
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Turkey Probe: Eric Adams Campaign Took Money from Leaders of Erdogan-Backed Foundation
Eric Adams’ 2021 mayoral campaign accepted donations from three members of a foundation incorporated by Bilal Erdogan, a son of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and whose board members include Erdogan’s daughter, Esra Albayrak. The campaign is at the center of an FBI probe looking into whether it conspired with the Turkish government to accept […]
Posted inImmigrants
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 inMigrant Crisis
Baffled Migrants Sent from Shelter to Shelter With No Rest as City Pushes Them To Leave
Migrants are experiencing a new level of confusion and hopelessness this week as city officials make a renewed push to get them out of shelters and the city altogether. Migrants who’d been evicted from their shelters and told to reapply were directed to a site in the East Village that turned out to be a […]
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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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A New Nuyorican: Famed Poets Cafe to Go Silent for Three Years
On a recent Friday at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the audience filled up the brick-walled space and ordered drinks as a DJ played hip-hop, soca and dancehall. Upcoming poets were scattered about inside as the host worked the crowd before the main event. It was almost like any other Friday Night Slam at what has […]
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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 inMarijuana
Deluge of Pot Shop Proposals Leaves Community Boards Dazed and Confused
One week after New York state opened the permit process for legal cannabis shops to the general public, community boards across the city have been bombarded by submissions that they are struggling to review. Under the state’s 2021 law, a retail applicant must notify their local community board at least 30 days before submitting their […]