Jeffery C. Mays
Metro politics reporter @nytimes nytimes.com/by/jeffery-c-mays
- Check out our latest newsletter, The Sprint for City Hall, where @mayaaking.bsky.social lays out some game-theory ranked choice ballot strategies: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/n...
- Reposted by Jeffery C. MaysBreaking News: Andrew Cuomo was denied $622,000 in public mayoral campaign funds over suspicions of illegal coordination with a super PAC.
- Mayor Eric Adams of New York City was scheduled to meet with President Trump in Washington on Friday just hours before documents related to his abandoned federal corruption case were set to be released. via @emmagf.bsky.social @jonesieman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/n...
- To show how ranked-choice voting could work in the June 24 primary, my colleagues have broken down what happened in 2021 when RCV was used for the first time in a NYC mayor’s race. Data shows that voters may not have taken full advantage of the system back then: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- He'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
- NYC Mayor Eric Adams is going to have a difficult time explaining his relationship w/ President Trump to voters. On Ms. Jones, normally a friendly interview, she grills him on immigrants being deported w/o due process and asks what he's doing to stop it. Adams says immigration is not in his purview.
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- Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Andrew Cuomo, said the protesters who stormed the stage to interrupt the former governor during the Black Agenda forum in Brooklyn were “paid protesters” and a “bunch of white gentrifiers who tried to hijack a forum on Black issues.”
- Protesters stormed the stage as former governor Andrew Cuomo spoke at the Black Agenda forum in Brooklyn tonight. It might be one reason why he’s running a Rose Garden strategy: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
- “He is coming for New York,” Andrew Cuomo says about President Trump at the Black Agenda forum. Calls him “a significant force to deal with” and questions whether opponents can handle him but says that he can: “He is not going to run roughshod over New York.”
- Forum has returned to normal. Cuomo addressing mental illness, says if a person is in danger of harming themselves or others, the “humane” thing to do is get them help “not leave them on the street.
- After the first group of protesters, another man tried to interrupt Cuomo at the forum. He was escorted out. This was supposed to be a friendly crowd for Cuomo since forum organizers had endorsed him.
- Protesters chanting “Cuomo lies and New Yorkers die” during the Black Agenda forum in Brooklyn. Several protestors bum rushed the stage and came very close to Cuomo.
- Some heckling of former Gov Andrew Cuomo in front of what was supposed to be a friendly crowd.
- “I have spent my life making government work and getting results for people,” Andrew Cuomo says, listing his experience, including 11 years as governor. A woman yells out, “you resigned in disgrace!”
- Speaking at the Black Agenda forum, former governor Andrew Cuomo refers to a fatal stray bullet shooting in Harlem and says “we defunded the police” and the crowd yells back, “no we didn’t.”
- “Where were you when they were stealing Black homes….when gun violence was ravaging our blocks,” Zellnor Myrie says at the Black Agenda forum, the first candidate who is going aggressively after former governor Andrew Cuomo(though not by name), who was endorsed by the forum’s organizer.
- Cuomo's opponents are annoyed by his Rose Garden mayoral election strategy: “He’s in this bubble — you can’t even get near him,” Mayor Eric Adams said. “He controls walking in. He controls walking out. He’s not answering questions from you." w/@emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
- "The president loves this city. This is his city. He doesn’t want to see the city fail," Mayor Eric Adams tells Ms. Jones. Trump has sought to shape city policies and resisting his attempts to influence city affairs has become a major theme in the race for mayor: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/n...
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- Mayor Adams says he refers to his mayoral opponents as "Cuomo and the 7 socialists." Adds that if he had not been indicted, the mayor's race would not be so crowded.
- "I never thought I would be reading that book," Mayor Adams says about FBI director's book "Government Gangsters" which he held up after corruption charges were dropped. Says book is about the politicization of criminal prosecutions and "permanent" gov officials who believe they are beyond reproach
- Adams, who announced he's running for mayor as an independent in the November general election, says the name of his line in the general election will be: "Safe Streets. Affordable City."
- Of the decision to open ICE office on Rikers Island, Mayor Adams says there would be no question had he delegated the decision to the First Deputy Mayor under the Biden administration (Trump admin dismissed criminal charges against Adams so he could cooperate with their immigration agenda).
- "How far are you willing to go to work with the Trump administration, Juliet Papa of 1010 WINS asks Mayor Eric Adams. He says: "He's the president of the United States. I have to collaborate to bring resources to the city, not spend four years calling him names."
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- What do a disgraced former governor, a once-indicted mayor and a former Guardian Angel have in common? They all may be on the November ballot in the New York City mayor’s race. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/n...
- Mayor Eric Adams of New York City said on Thursday that he would not run for re-election in the Democratic primary in June, an acknowledgment of the growing backlash against his embrace of President Trump and record-low approval ratings, @emmagf.bsky.social reports. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/n...
- The leader of the City Council, @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social ,raises concerns about the mayor holding up FBI Director Kash Patel’s book “Government Gangsters” at a news conference and said she hopes the mayor’s “potential loyalties” are with the “interests of New Yorkers first.”
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- “I’m running for re-election, and you know what, I’m going to win,” Mr. Adams said outside of Gracie Mansion where he called the federal corruption charges just dismissed against him “baseless” and based on lies.
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- In dismissing the case, Judge Ho addresses concerns of a quid pro quo between Adams and the Trump Administration: “Everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions.”
- NEW: The head of NYC’s pension funds called for a shareholder lawsuit against Tesla, accusing Elon Musk, its chief executive, of causing the company’s shares to plunge because his actions to slash spending and the federal work force as head of the Trump admin’s DOGE. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
- "Everyone is running "Eric-like," Mayor Eric Adams says when asked how his proposal to reduce city income taxes compares to Andrew Cuomo's. "Everyone, they're creating policy 'Eric-like.' Everyone is trying to rebrand themselves 'Eric-like.' You don't have to have 'Eric-like' when you have Eric."
- "That's not on topic," @nycmayor says when @katiehonan.bsky.social asks at news conference about tax cuts about how Trump Administration cuts would affect working class New Yorkers. The mayor has avoided criticizing the Trump administration while his federal corruption indictment is still pending.
- NEW: As NYC voters tilt slightly toward the center, the left-leaning Working Families Party hopes that a slate of four mayoral candidates will be better than the one moderate rival currently leading the polls, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. w/ @mayaaking.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/n...
- Mamdani is betting that an unrelenting focus on the cost of living will resonate with people who feel ignored by government — a strategy he hopes appeals to disaffected Trump voters. w/ @mayaaking.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/n...
- An assemblywoman who leads the Brooklyn Democratic Party and a key backer of Mayor Eric Adams, endorsed his main rival in the mayoral election, former Gov. Cuomo, one of the clearest signs yet that the mayor’s winning coalition from 2021 is completely fractured. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/n...
- The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the funding and management of New York City hotels operating as shelters for migrants, sending a subpoena requesting “a list of full names of aliens currently residing at Hotel Chandler,” in Manhattan. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
