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NY pols' 'cooling center' cold shoulder is shameful

Mayor Adams' office sent out an appeal to 225 local elected officials and staffers to offer their offices as "cooling centers" to the public, and only six responded.

NYC pols refuse to open offices as cooling centers during weekend heatwave

New York City's elected officials and community boards couldn't be bothered with helping residents cope with the stifling weekend heat wave -- despite a direct appeal from Mayor Eric Adams' administration.

NYC Comptroller Lander set to challenge Adams for mayor, tells key donors he's running: sources

With Adams' lagging poll numbers, Brad Lander has been recently lining up support for his bid, sources said.

NYC needs these charter reforms

If the Charter Reform Commission proposes some more fiscal discipline and the removal of the advocate, a worthless appendix of city government, it will have served the public well.

Key Adams ally eyeing run for NYC comptroller: sources

The Queens Dem, well-known for donning scarlet red dresses as she tags along with the mayor at seemingly every press conference or rally across the five boroughs, has been lining...

New data prove it: 'Supportive housing' is no cure-all for mentally ill homeless

Politico reported, the city’s main supportive-housing program, NYC 15/15, is falling far short of its production targets.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander calls for end of migrant shelter limits as thousands continue to pour in each month

"This is not a policy designed or implemented to help families achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency and integrate into our city," NYC Comptroller Brad Lander said Thursday outside the Roosevelt...

Even the 'peaceful' campus protests are actually violent bullying

Students and other campus protesters are free to engage in nonviolent protests. But that’s not what they’re doing: This isn’t free speech via peaceful protest, but threatening and menacing the rest of...

NYC comptroller, other pols score free Denmark trip from entity pushing 'green' jobs

A Cornell University entity pushing clean energy initiatives picked up a $20,000-plus tab for an entourage of progressive pols led by Comptroller Brad Lander to attend a week-long junket to...

Brad Lander ripped as 'Jew hater' for joint fundraiser with 'Squad' member Rep. Jamaal Bowman at Columbia prof's home

Jewish Democrats ripped city Comptroller Brad Lander for participating in a scheduled joint fundraiser with embattled anti-Israel "Squad" Rep. Jamaal Bowman Thursday night.

NYC comptroller shockingly says every Big Apple migrant should get a free lawyer — paid for by taxpayers

Coughing up individual lawyers for the tens of thousands of migrants pouring into the Big Apple could net billions in economic benefits for New York state, a new report from the city's...

Migrant security guards paid up to $117 an hour as NYC taxpayers fleeced by no-bid contracts rushed out by City Hall, audit reveals

Security guards at city migrant shelters are being paid upwards of $117 an hour -- more than four times the prevailing wage -- under rushed, no-bid contracts.

Migrant crime is turning cities into war zones

Criminals posing as asylum seekers are turning American cities into war zones.

NYC's top-ranking Jewish pol Brad Lander attends 'anti-Zionist' Shabbat dinner at Palestinian restaurant

The far-left Big Apple politicians attended dinner with Israel-hating radicals at the restaurant chain Ayat, which features an antisemitic phrase on its menu.

NYC pol who pushed for crackdown on reckless drivers caught speeding — again — in school zone after racking up parking tickets

City Comptroller Brad Lander got caught speeding and racking up parking tickets after promising to improve his dismal driving record, records over the past two years show.

Smarmy Brad Lander should put up his own resources to match his panders

City Comptroller Brad Pander last week announced he's launching an “investigation” of the Adams administration’s “cruel” 60-day shelter limit for migrants.

Comptroller to probe city's 'cruel' policy that's evicting migrants after 60 days

City Comptroller Brand Lander says his office will investigate City Hall's 60-day shelter rule for migrants, calling the policy cruel as the first wave of asylum seekers are sent packing...

Brad Lander is more invested in his own future than in NYC's

New York City's comptroller is supposed to keep an eye on the books, but Brad Lander only has an eye on his own future as a progressive (he hopes) superstar.

The week in whoppers: The AP blames 'conservatives' for Claudine Gay's ouster, Brad Lander gets his own math wrong and more

An article from the Associated Press claimed that conservatives are using plagiarism claims as a "weapon against colleges" after Claudine Gay resigned from Harvard University.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander keeps grandstanding on migrants, making crisis worse

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander told City Hall to send all emergency migrant contracts to him in advance for approval.