Ethan Stark-Miller
Senior politics reporter at amNewYork. NY native. Tips: estarkmiller@schnepsmedia.com.
- @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's Dem mayoral campaign received support from the Tenants Political Action Committee (PAC), amNewYork learned on Wednesday — a decision that adds to the long list of progressive organizations backing the Democratic socialist’s City Hall bid. www.amny.com/news/tenants...
- A Marist College poll released today revealed that Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to hold a commanding lead in the 2025 Democratic mayoral race, with Queens Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani a distant second as the June 24 primary fast approaches. www.amny.com/politics/cuo...
- New Marist Poll shows Cuomo continuing to lead the dem mayoral field 6 weeks out from the primary at 44% in the first round of ranked-choice. Mamdani comes in 2nd at 22% and Adrienne Adams breaks into the top 3 for the first time at 11%
- Mayor Adams zeroed in on his dismissed corruption case today — blasting investigators who alleged in recently-released court documents that he concealed the location of his personal cellphone, and claiming that his dyslexia caused him to forget the phone’s passcode. www.amny.com/news/mayor-a...
- At his weekly news conference, Mayor Adams announces he’s launching a new “Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism.” This comes as Adams is petitioning to run for reelection on the “EndAntisemitism” ballot line
- Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo learned Monday that the city’s Campaign Finance Board (CFB) would give his campaign $1.5 million in public matching funds — but chose to withhold another $622,000 over a super PAC supporting his mayoral campaign. www.amny.com/politics/cuo...
- The CFB is awarding mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo $1.5M in matching funds after it denied a payment to his campaign last month due to clerical issues. However, the amount is less than the over $2M his campaign estimated he would receive.
- Yesterday after meeting with Trump at the White House, Mayor Adams insisted they had productive talks around infrastructure and federal funding. Trump, on the other hand, said they discussed “nothing much” and that Adams came by to “thank me.” www.amny.com/politics/ada...
- Mayor Eric Adams is taking a last-minute trip to Washington, D.C. to meet with President Trump on Friday to discuss “infrastructure” and “other funding items,” his office announced. www.amny.com/politics/ada...
- Reposted by Ethan Stark-MillerHe's leading Democratic Primary contenders in all the polls, but former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is also petitioning to run on an independent ballot line in November called the "Fight and Deliver" line. Their symbol? A pair of boxing gloves. Read more in our upcoming newsletter, The Sprint for City Hall
- Mayor Adams, in his off-topic remarks, declares, “ICE is not a criminal organization,” emphasizing that the city works with ICE on criminal but not civil enforcement. He and NYPD Commissioner Tisch are talking abt the arrest of a 12-year-old and four other alleged migrant gang members.
- With roughly 7 weeks to go before the Dem mayoral primary, Cuomo still has a big lead and Mamdani is in second. Will candidates’ expected big spending on TV advertising in the coming weeks be enough to shake things up? www.amny.com/politics/nyc...
- Mayor Eric Adams today accused the city Campaign Finance Board of “poisoning the atmosphere” by releasing a letter via Freedom of Information Law this week notifying him that it has reason to believe his 2021 mayoral campaign broke the law. www.amny.com/news/adams-a...
- On NY1 First Dep, Mayor Randy Mastro says the administration has "prepared for every contingency "—referring to threatened cuts from the Trump administration. He says the $8.5B in reserves is more than enough to handle Trump cuts and other economic headwinds.
- 2 top City Hall aides said today that Mayor Adams’ newly released budget does not put additional funds into reserves ahead of President Trump’s tariffs and broad funding cuts because they do not anticipate it would spark a “doomsday scenario” for the city’s economy. www.amny.com/news/adams-n...
- Lots of pomp and circumstance at Bayside HS for Mayor Adams' FY26 executive budget rollout. For past budgets, the mayor has done the announcement at City Hall, but he is making a bigger spectacle out of this one for his re-election year.
- New: Mayor Adams is expected to unveil his $115 billion Executive Budget for the coming fiscal year today. The plan is flush with new spending as he faces a steep uphill re-election battle this year, amNewYork has learned. www.amny.com/politics/nyc...
- Making it easier to build affordable housing in New York City and opening local partisan primaries to voters of any party are just two of the ideas being floated by a local panel that voters may get to decide on this November. www.amny.com/politics/nyc...
- NEW: Taking a page from his mayoral challengers’ playbooks, Mayor Adams is today announcing an expansion of the city’s after-school program as a step toward making it free for all students who want a seat. www.amny.com/news/adams-a...
- Mayor Eric Adams scored two major policy wins in the month-late $254 billion state budget deal between Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York legislative leaders that she announced on Monday night. www.amny.com/politics/ada...
- Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday a slew of new housing investments that will be included in his Executive Budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year, which will be released later this week. www.amny.com/politics/may...
- At a housing/budget announcement this morning, Mayor Adams declares, "This is going to be the best budget ever." His office has dubbed this week, "budget week," as the mayor will release his executive budget proposal in the coming days.
- A state judge on Friday extended an order barring Mayor Eric Adams’ administration from allowing federal immigration authorities to re-establish offices on Rikers Island, handing a win to the City Council that filed a lawsuit April 15 seeking to block the move. www.amny.com/politics/jud...
- State judge in the councils suit to block ICE extends TRO until next hearing in the case. It will be in the next month or so. Attorneys for both parties must agree on a hearing date.
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- Asked about her booting 2 CMs, Lynn Schuman and Selena Brooks-Powers, off of her budget committee after they endorsed Cuomo, @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social says “the council's leadership, quite frankly, lost trust, and that's critical thing for members of BMC to have the positions of purposes.”
- Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign will hit the airwaves Thursday evening with a broadcast ad attacking front-runner Andrew Cuomo as a corrupt politician who will be no different than the scandal-scarred Mayor Eric Adams. www.amny.com/news/tv-ads-...
- Seeking to give Adrienne Adams a boost in the mayor’s race, state AG Tish James and leaders of 3 prominent unions today rallied to trumpet the City Council speaker as the best candidate to take on President Trump and block former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s path to City Hall. www.amny.com/news/speaker...
