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NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Sanitation Commissioner Tisch Announce Next Steps in War on Rats: Rules Requiring More Businesses Containerize Their Waste

Mayor Adams: Thank you so much, Ingrid. And before we start, I want New Yorkers to know that the ongoing Canadian wildfires may impact New York City’s air quality tomorrow, and off and on over the coming weeks. It just really amazes me when I think about it, a fire that’s taken place thousands of miles…

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DEMOCRACY IS A TYRANY ?

“It has been observed by an honorable gentleman, that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved, that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was…

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Mayor Eric Adams Announces New York City has Connected Victims of Benefits Theft to Nearly $48 Million in Replacement Funds

– New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Social Services (DSS) Commissioner Molly Wasow Park today announced that the city has helped nearly 95,000 low-income households whose vital public benefits were electronically stolen recover nearly $48 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Cash Assistance (CA) benefits over the last 16…

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City of New York to sue 30 New York Counties for Illegally Walling off Their Borders to Asylum Seekers

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Corporation Counsel Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix today announced that the City of New York is filing suit against more than 30 New York localities that issued unlawful emergency executive orders (EO) intended to prohibit New York City from arranging for even a small number of asylum…

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NY Governor Hochul Announces Start of Construction on $32.5 Million Supportive Housing Project in Queens

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the start of construction on a development that will add 50 units of affordable housing in the Jamaica area of Queens, including 30 units to serve New Yorkers living with serious mental illness. The project to build ‘The Morgan’ resulted from a $32.5 million investment — including $12.4 million through…

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