Chris Sommerfeldt
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NYC spending an average of nearly $5 million per day on housing, feeding migrants: ‘This is not sustainable’
Mayor Adams’ administration is shelling out an average of nearly $5 million per day on housing and feeding migrants, according to a Daily News analysis. The city has largely shouldered the financial burden of the migrant crisis alone since thousands of mostly Latin American asylum seekers started arriving last spring. → Read More
NYC Mayor Adams dismisses need to separate church and state, declares himself ‘a servant of God’
Mayor Adams on Tuesday dismissed the notion that there should be a separation between church and state in American society. → Read More
‘Cowardly’ James Dolan ripped for skipping NYC Council hearing on MSG’s controversial facial recognition tech
The hearing in the Council’s Consumer and Worker Protection Committee was held to scrutinize the use of facial recognition technology by private businesses in the city at large. → Read More
NYC Mayor Adams’ friendship with pro-Trump radio host alarms some Dems: ‘This is who Eric hangs out with?’
Mayor Adams has repeatedly gone on Trump-loving Sid Rosenberg's radio show and dined with him a number of times, a relationship called 'too close for comfort' by a Democratic strategist. → Read More
Mayor Adams claims ‘woke’ Democrats are driving minority voters out of party
Adams' broadside against some of his fellow Democrats echoed talking points typically pushed by Republicans. → Read More
Biden, Adams silent on NYC migrant crisis at event to tout Gateway project
Much more pressing has been the city’s response to the more than 40,000 migrants who’ve come here since last spring when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and others began sending them by the busload. For Adams, the new arrivals have represented both a humanitarian and logistical crisis and have led him in recent months to call on the Biden administration to do more to ease the situation. → Read More
Mayor Adams vows to improve NYC ‘quality of life’ in light-on-details State of the City speech
Many of Adams' most ambitious promises — like offering free health care for homeless people and increasing housing production — were light on details when it came to funding and logistics. → Read More
Mayor Adams launches newsletter to counteract ‘distorted’ NYC press coverage
The initiative comes as Mayor Adams has grown increasingly cranky lately with how he’s covered by the City Hall press corps. → Read More
Grubhub execs poured $13K into Mayor Adams’ campaign while suing his administration over NYC delivery fee caps
Executives at Grubhub dished out more than $13,000 in donations to Mayor Adams’ reelection campaign over the span of a few weeks this fall while the food delivery company was in the midst of suing his administration, according to freshly released records. → Read More
NYC Mayor Adams again floats possibility of housing migrants on cruise ships
Adams, who spoke Wednesday morning in an interview broadcast by Politico, said “there is no more room” to house the thousands of migrants who began flooding into New York City last year and that his “guesstimate” on the cost of the city’s projected total response would come with a price tag of $2 billion. → Read More
Progressive critics target NYC Mayor Adams’ approach to migrant crisis at MLK Day event
Comptroller Brad Lander said Monday that King would have been at the forefront of welcoming Latin-American migrants — a shot at Adams, who has said on multiple occasions that there’s 'no more room' in the Big Apple. → Read More
Companies co-founded by top Adams adviser Frank Carone sued by major NYC real estate firms for $1.1 million
Two companies co-founded by Frank Carone, Adams’ recently departed chief of staff, are being sued by two of the city’s largest real estate firms for more than $1.1 million in unpaid rent and other expenses. → Read More
Adams open to Sliwa as NYC rat czar, OKs feral cat colony to fight rodents at his Brooklyn home
Adams, a Democrat who defeated Sliwa in the 2021 mayoral race, said Wednesday that he’s ready and waiting to team up with the Republican. → Read More
NYC Mayor Adams in his first year has taken bold steps — but success remains uncertain
To paraphrase the mayor himself, in this city, we’ve got 8 million people, but 35 million opinions. → Read More
Indicted NYC ‘Bling’ Bishop Lamor Whitehead professes innocence on social media
'Bling' Bishop Lamor Whitehead, who wiped away tears as he stood before a judge in Manhattan Federal Court on Monday, came back swinging on Tuesday. → Read More
NYC seizes 600 pounds of weed, issues flurry of summonses in crackdown on illegal pot sales
Mayor Adams, Sheriff Anthony Miranda and other city officials touted the pilot effort — which played out in late November and early December — as a critical counterweight against the wave of unlicensed weed that has washed over New York since the state legalized its recreational use in March 2021. → Read More
Mayor Adams tells progressives who bash the rich to ‘leave’ NYC
The mayor made the case that deep-pocketed New Yorkers play a critical role in the city’s economy due to their high tax rates. → Read More
With remote work devastating the NYC post-COVID economy, Hochul, Adams unveil a blueprint for change
The plan seeks to address a post-COVID world where the old model of how the city’s business districts work and how people commute has fundamentally changed. → Read More
Shops selling illegal pot flourish on Manhattan’s Upper West Side: ‘Free-for-all environment,’ says councilwoman
City Councilmember Gale Brewer discovered that 26 of the surveyed businesses sell marijuana in various forms without licenses, the Democratic lawmaker told the Daily News. → Read More
Airbnb likely to lose more than 10K listings in NYC under tight new rules, says Adams official
An Adams administration official revealed the figure to the Daily News ahead of a key public comment hearing on the matter scheduled for Monday. → Read More