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NY news Mayor Adams Announces Opioid Overdose Deaths in City Drop Significantly for First Time in Past Decade October

NYC Reports 28% Drop in Opioid Overdose Deaths, First Decline in a Decade as Settlement Funds Flow

New York City posted 2,192 overdose deaths in 2024, down 28% from 3,056 in 2023, marking the first meaningful decline in a decade, Mayor Eric Adams said Oct. 28, 2025. Provisional DOHMH data show broad-based improvement across all five boroughs, led by Staten Island—off nearly 50%—while the Bronx still has the highest fatality rate. City…

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City of New York Files Lawsuit to Protect Over 100 Million in Federal Emergency and Disaster Grants

City of New York Files Lawsuit to Protect Over $100 Million in Federal Emergency and Disaster Grants to Local Governments Nationwide

– The City of New York — as part of a national coalition of nine local governments from across the country — has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), challenging the federal government’s effort to force cities and counties to agree to unlawful conditions to…

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Battle of the Boroughs NYC news 2025

Mayor Adams Launches 2026 NYC “Battle of the Boroughs” Minecraft Esports to Reimagine Sunset Park’s Pier 6

, Mayor Eric Adams—joined by Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos and MOME Commissioner Pat Swinney Kaufman—kicked off the sixth annual New York City Minecraft Education Battle of the Boroughs esports competition, challenging K–12 students to design a more inclusive, sustainable, future-ready NYC. The first-round prompt tasks teams with reimagining Pier 6 at the MADE Bush Terminal…

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NY ALBA LIFE ADAMS 17 October 2025

From Times Square to Tirana: Mayor Adams, Smoothies, and Skyscrapers

In a breezy chat on Alba Life TV, Mayor Eric Adams celebrated New York’s Albanian community (strong on family, faith, small business—and yes, public safety), recapped his first-ever-by-a-NYC-mayor trip to Albania, and pitched tighter business ties, tech exchanges (shoutout to e-gov IDs and AI), and a coveted direct NYC–Tirana flight—because layovers are so last regime….

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NYC Sues DOE news

City of New York Files Lawsuit Against U.S. Department of Education Seeking to Protect $47 Million in Federal Education Grants for New York City Public Schools

 – The City of New York today announced a new lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Education (U.S. DOE), U.S. DOE Secretary Linda McMahon, and two other members of the U.S. DOE to protect grant funding that New York City Public Schools is owed by the federal agency after it, last month, sought to block the…

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