The MTA cracked down on fare jumpers on 41 bus lines Thursday, the latest high-profile enforcement push to stem fare evasion on city transit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Sarah Palin was granted a new defamation trial against The New York Times on Wednesday after a federal appeals court found “several major issues” tainted the first one in February 2022 – including jurors learning the judge had dismissed the case from breaking news alerts during their deliberations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho…

Mayor Adams dialed back plans for a cell phone ban in New York City public schools, saying it may not happen this school year — just two months after the schools chancellor announced changes were imminent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

State officials are offering south Brooklyn families shut out of free afterschool programs a back-up plan, though not all will qualify, the Daily News has learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

New York State officials are conducting a review of college safety plans as pro-Palestinian protests start to resume at some campuses, Gov. Hochul announced Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

An attorney for the ex-city employee accusing Mayor Adams of sexual assault threatened to sue the mayor’s lawyer for defamation during a contentious court hearing on Friday, where the two sides traded barbs and accused each other of withholding information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

With just weeks until the start of school, families in southern Brooklyn are scrambling to find free after-school options, after the state unceremoniously pulled funding from multiple neighborhood programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

A group of uptown Manhattan tenants filed a lawsuit Thursday that alleges their landlord engaged in a “systemic” scheme to raise their rents beyond the legal limit by claiming credit for fictitious building repairs — a case advocates say points to a need for stronger state housing law enforcement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoi…

New York City is significantly expanding its 60-day limits to shelters where the bulk of migrant families are staying but until now had been spared eviction, the Adams administration confirmed Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

The United Arab Emirates’ government paid as much as $5,000 for Joel Eisdorfer, then a senior City Hall adviser to Mayor Adams, to visit the Middle Eastern country for a summit in February, newly released documents show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Mayor Adams told reporters Tuesday he didn’t ask for a speaking slot at this week’s Democratic National Convention and that there are no sour grapes between him and party leaders over the fact that he wasn’t offered one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Mayor Adams’ top attorney at City Hall said Tuesday that neither the mayor nor anyone working in his government office have been told they are targets of a federal investigation into his 2021 campaign’s ties to Turkey’s government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Former Republican Representative George Santos pleaded guilty to 23 counts of a superseding federal indictment on Monday, putting an end to the notorious fabulist’s legal battles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

A $500 million plan to drastically rezone a swath of the East Bronx secured final approval from the City Council this week, paving the way for significant infrastructure upgrades in the area as well as the construction of some 7,000 new apartments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

In the wake of revelations that he was personally subpoenaed by federal prosecutors investigating him and his campaign, Mayor Adams said Friday he believes evidence collected as part of the probe will show he “did nothing wrong.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said Thursday she still hasn’t made up her mind whether to support or oppose Mayor Adams’ nomination of controversial litigator Randy Mastro to become his administration’s next top attorney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Mayor Adams is heading to Chicago next week for the Democratic National Convention — and hopes the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, will take time at the event to talk about the country’s migrant crisis despite ongoing sensitivity in the party around the issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastch…

Robert Kennedy Jr. on Monday lost his bid to appear as an independent presidential candidate on the New York State ballot after a judge’s ruling found the residency claims “preposterous.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Robert Tucker, a committed philanthropist with deep roots in civic service and strong ties to public safety, was appointed as New York City’s 35th FDNY commissioner on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Mayor Adams, who has focused heavily on rodent extermination efforts across the city, got a $300 ticket thrown out this week that alleged a rat infestation is persisting at his Brooklyn property. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

New York City has started applying for new preschool special education classes, after advocates sounded the alarm about young children with disabilities who could be shut out of the program on the first day of school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

The medical services company with a nearly half-billion-dollar contract to feed, house and care for thousands of migrants in New York City overcharged the city by millions for vacant hotel rooms and security guards, according to an audit released Tuesday by NYC Comptroller Brad Lander. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch…

New York State is providing a fresh infusion of $4 million for a grant program that helps city homeowners build unconventional forms of apartment units on their properties, Mayor Adams announced Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Mayor Adams blamed the city’s independent election watchdog agency Monday for stirring up “a lot of sensationalism” by releasing a draft audit that found his 2021 campaign failed to properly document $2.3 million in spending, among other alleged violations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Plus, five men were stabbed and slashed in a bloody Queens bar brawl late Saturday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Persistent fare evasion and a decline in real estate tax revenues were on track to land the MTA’s day-to-day operating budget in a $428 million deficit in 2027, with a $469 million deficit projected for 2028, the transit agency said Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Roughly 750 smoke shops have been shuttered across the five boroughs in the three months since Mayor Adams’ administration launched a crackdown on unlicensed weed peddlers, city and state officials announced Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

City Comptroller Brad Lander announced Tuesday he’s running against Mayor Adams in next year’s primary election, making him the first candidate to officially declare a challenge against the incumbent mayor and teeing up an unusual matchup between two high-profile elected officials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoice…

Mayor Adams and top administration officials announced Monday that the city financed the preservation and construction of nearly 29,000 affordable and public housing units over the last year — a 12% increase over last year when the city funded more than 26,000 such units. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Mayor Adams killed several components of a new law meant to ban solitary confinement in city jails in an emergency order Saturday, just one day before it was set to take effect, officials said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Congestion pricing supporters filed two lawsuits against Gov. Hochul Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court, arguing her “indefinite pause” violated New York state law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

One of the country’s largest auto insurance companies is seeking to question Frank Carone, Mayor Adams’ political confidante, as part of a civil lawsuit alleging corporate entities Carone co-founded were involved in orchestrating a sprawling “money laundering scheme,” court papers reveal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a…

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez is resigning from office August 20th following his conviction for taking bribes for corrupt acts including acting as an agent of the Egyptian government, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

After President Joe Biden’s announcement that he would not seek reelection in 2024, New Yorkers weighed in with mixed emotions — and relief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

President Biden announced Sunday he will not seek reelection in 2024, sparking a flurry of reactions from prominent New York politicians just four months before Election Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

The Hochul administration will close two upstate New York maximum security prisons citing a continuing overall drop in the incarcerated population, cost savings, staffing shortages and authorization from the state Legislature in its latest budget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Outgoing FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh is leaving the department to focus on family and friends, which she says she neglected as the head of the country’s largest fire department, she explains in an online essay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez Tuesday declined to resign from the Senate after his conviction on federal bribery and corruption charges, raising major questions about what will happen to his seat, which is likely to stay in Democratic hands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

In a sign the 2025 mayoral race may well be contested, former city Comptroller Scott Stringer told the Daily News he’s raised approximately $425,000 in donations for a potential primary run against Mayor Adams — an amount that could grow to about $2.1 million once matching funds are factored in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoice…

Scores of NYPD officers have turned to the Bible to avoid shaving off their beards, police sources said. A recent edict that cops dress neater banned beards, but allowed for both religious and medical accommodations. Now, an untold number of cops — the NYPD could not provide statistics — have said their religious rights would be violated were they …

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is preparing to announce an election-year run against Mayor Adams within the next two weeks, several political sources revealed to the Daily News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Rudy Giuliani was warned by a judge to keep his mouth shut Wednesday after the ex-mayor interrupted an opposing lawyer at his chaotic bankruptcy hearing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

New York City’s head of early childhood education is out after a tenure pockmarked by backlash to 3-K budget cuts and workplace tensions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Melissa Aviles-Ramos, Chancellor David Banks’ last chief of staff, is taking over as deputy chancellor for family engagement and external affairs — after the schools head tapped outgoing Deputy Chancellor Kenita Lloyd last week as his next right hand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

After being held out as an example of how a new state law was allowing NYC to quickly stamp out unlicensed cannabis shops, New City Smoke Shop in downtown Manhattan is back up and running as errors in execution and legal challenges hamper efforts to shut down thousands of weed shops, the Daily News has learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis…

A Delta Airlines flight destined for Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency landing at JFK International Airport early Wednesday after passengers were given rotten food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesتوسط New York Daily News

Mayor Adams defended NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban’s decision to save the job of a police officer who admitted to submitting a phony COVID vaccination card and then lying about it, saying Tuesday the cop in question ultimately suffered a “huge penalty.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Mayor Adams took a victory lap Monday over the adoption of a municipal budget that reversed his controversial cuts to the city public library systems, vexing City Council members who argued it’s disingenuous for him to celebrate the rollback of spending reductions he long advocated for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc…

With just hours left on the deadline clock, the New York City Council on Sunday voted to approve a $112.4 billion budget that restores almost all of the cuts proposed by Mayor Adams and adds about $1 billion to what he proposed in April. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

"Initial results of several hotly-contested state Assembly primaries offered a view Tuesday night into which way the political winds are blowing for New York City Democrats — with most incumbents holding onto their seats and maintaining the status quo." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…