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At CAM’s 2025 North American Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism Closing Gala Dinner, New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivered a passionate speech urging a united, “team sport” approach to combating antisemitism and all forms of hatred, emphasizing that the goal is not to “outrun” each other’s problems but to remove the “lion of hatred” from…
Governor Kathy Hochul has launched a second round of New York’s County Infrastructure Grant Program, providing an additional $50 million for small- and medium-sized county-led infrastructure projects that support housing growth, placemaking, and tourism, with applications accepted through April 1, 2026. Administered by Empire State Development, the program requires counties to submit a Letter of…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Yankees All-Star CC Sabathia, and community leaders have officially opened the $11 million “Harlem Field of Dreams” at Brigadier General Charles Young Playground in Harlem, transforming a once-dilapidated dirt lot into a 150,000-square-foot state-of-the-art multi-sport synthetic turf field for baseball, softball, soccer, football, and lacrosse. Funded through a public-private…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) announced a historic $38.9 million settlement with Starbucks for more than 500,000 violations of the city’s Fair Workweek Law at over 300 locations between 2021 and 2024, marking the largest worker protection settlement in city history. The agreement requires Starbucks…
1. What is COPA? New York City’s Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is a proposed local law in the City Council, officially Intro 902-2024. According to the Council’s own summary, the bill would: give certain qualified entities (nonprofits, community land trusts, etc.) a first opportunity to purchase certain residential buildings and a chance to…
A new online petition is renewing calls to restore the historic Tappan Zee Bridge name to the Hudson River span now officially known as the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. The petition, launched on November 23, 2025, argues that the original name honored both the Indigenous Tappan people and the region’s Dutch heritage, and that…