Meet New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams

The Queens lawmaker wasn’t Mayor Eric Adams’ first choice, but she made history anyway.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 10, 2022

How Adrienne Adams became the speaker

The compromise candidate’s win came after Mayor Eric Adams picked someone else.

• By Jeff Coltin
• January 10, 2022

Pace University navigates COVID-19, clinches national contest and looks to future

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the school across from City Hall in Lower Manhattan won the 18th annual national College Fed Challenge and enrolled its largest incoming class of first-year students.

• By Ralph R. Ortega
• January 10, 2022

Adrienne Adams, Eric Adams and Hochul in the first week of 2022

Rounding up the week’s political news.

• By Rebecca C. Lewis
• January 8, 2022

Is this nonprofit responsible for Eric Adams’ primary win?

Show Up, Turn Out, launched a campaign to encourage Black New Yorkers to vote in the election and the result they say was a big bump in voter turnout.

• By Jeff Coltin
• January 8, 2022

Can Eric Adams really hire his brother?

Bernard Adams wouldn’t be the first family member of a mayor to work in their administration.

• By Jeff Coltin
• January 7, 2022

New council members denounce conditions at Rikers

After a visit to the deteriorating jails complex, new progressive council members decried the “dehumanization” at Rikers.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 7, 2022

New state data shows exactly how many people are hospitalized because of COVID-19

A majority of hospital patients who test positive for the coronavirus do not need treatment for the virus.

• By Zach Williams
• January 7, 2022

Cuomo’s groping charge is officially dismissed

The ex-governor made his first public appearance since resigning from office during the Friday court hearing.

• By Sara Dorn
• January 7, 2022

Eric Adams’ first week: An icy reception from labor, a cozy appearance with Hochul

The mayor continued to build out his staff, boost law enforcement, and practice healthy habits.

• By Sara Dorn
• January 7, 2022

This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

Who’s up and who’s down this week?

• By City & State
• January 7, 2022

A nonprofit thought leader’s resolutions for a new year: To follow and to fail

• By Lisa Pilar Cowan
• January 7, 2022

Mary Bassett on her challenging first month in office

In a Q&A, the state health commissioner talked about tackling the omicron variant and what she wants to accomplish after the pandemic.

• By Rebecca C. Lewis
• January 6, 2022

Hochul and Adams take tag-team approach to subway homelessness

The move to direct more cops to the subway system has already raised some eyebrows.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 6, 2022

Jan. 6 insurrection only aligned New York GOP closer to Trump

A year after the Capitol riots, Republicans continue to use Trumpism to their advantage.

• By Sara Dorn and Zach Williams
• January 6, 2022

NYC teachers are stretched thin as COVID-19 surges in schools

More than 14,000 students and staff have tested positive since winter break.

• By Sara Dorn
• January 5, 2022

Reforms for vulnerable New Yorkers round out The Legal Aid Society‘s 2022 legislative agenda

• By Ralph R. Ortega
• January 5, 2022

What Hochul left out of her State of the State address

The parts of the governor’s agenda that she didn’t include in her speech may speak volumes about her priorities for this year.

• By Rebecca C. Lewis
• January 5, 2022

Hochul’s 2022 legislative agenda is sweeping. Her powers to enact it are not.

Many of the New York governor’s most ambitious proposals outlined in her State of the State address require federal funding and changes to the state Constitution. As she notes, collaboration will be essential.

• By Zach Williams
• January 5, 2022

New data proves bail reform both worked and failed, depending on who you ask

• By Rebecca C. Lewis
• January 5, 2022