New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams unveiled a team of deputy mayors Monday, five women who will be behind the city’s most important work. Adams’ team said that two of the new deputy mayors were the first of Asian descent in the city’s history. Topping the list as first deputy mayor is Lorraine Grillo, who … Read more
NEW YORK – Mayor-elect Eric Adams on Wednesday named Keechant Sewell the next NYPD commissioner, making her the first black woman to lead the nation’s largest police department. After current police department chief Dermot Shea retires at the end of the year, Sewell will oversee New York City’s 35,000 officers, a police force roughly a … Read more
Mayor-elect Eric Adams is slated to appoint Keechant Sewell as the next NYPD commissioner after the department’s current top head steps down at the end of the year, multiple sources told our sister network NBC 4 New York. Sewell would become the first black woman to hold the highest rank in the New York Police … Read more
Educator David Banks, who was appointed New York City Chancellor of Schools by Mayor-elect Eric Adams earlier this month, hinted at big changes in the city’s school system, including longer school days and summer classes. . “A longer school day, and going to school on Saturdays and during the summer, has been absolutely critical,” Banks … Read more
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced David Banks as his choice to lead the nation’s largest school system, an educator and lifelong friend committed to addressing racial inequalities in education. for work. Adams made the announcement outside Public School 161, the Crown Heights elementary school that Banks once attended. Banks, 59, is the founder … Read more
What you should know Despite growing global concerns regarding the recently discovered Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Mayor-elect Eric Adams still plans to visit Ghana, confirmed his spokesman, Evan Thies. The variant known scientifically as B.1.1.529 was little known to the public until November 24, when South African officials reported it to the World Health … Read more
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams’s recent trip to Puerto Rico raises some questions after it became known that he traveled to Isla del Encanto in the private jet of a Bitcoin billionaire. However, the next city leader insists that he did nothing wrong. On election night, Adams partied with crypto billionaire Brock Pierce at … Read more
NEW YORK – After a New York City bridge was closed by donut-making cars as well as groups of people appearing to have a dance party, Mayor-elect Eric Adams vowed to take action. In response to one of the viral videos posted on social media showing various vehicles blocking lanes on the Kosciuszko Bridge, as … Read more
Eric Adams started thinking about who might be on his team when I took over as Mayor of New York City. The mayor-elect revealed at a press conference in Queens on Saturday that he had spoken with Representative Tom Suozzi, to “convince him to be a deputy mayor in my administration.” Both the Long Island … Read more
Eric Garner Jr. criticized Black Lives Matter leaders threatening “riots” and “bloodshed” if Mayor-elect Eric Adams goes ahead with his plan to reestablish the powers of the NYPD. Speaking to the New York Post, Garner Jr. stated that Hawk Newsome should retract what he said. “Hawk Newsome threatening to set our city on fire in … Read more