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Adams said he has worked hard to fight the rodent problem in the city and in his own property, adding that he did everything he could to clear the pests from his home.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is such an enemy of rats that he once called a press conference to demonstrate a contraption for drowning them in poison.

The United States' 988 call service for helping anyone experiencing a mental health emergency is back up and running after a daylong outage.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city is in need of a new rat czar. The position's official job title is "director of rodent mitigation."

Mayor Eric Adams (D) wants to pay up to $170,000 for a "somewhat bloodthirsty" person who will once and for all solve New York City's rat problem.

Hate rats.

The nation’s new 988 hotline, intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency, has been out of service for several hours Thursday.

The city's new director of rodent mitigation should be "highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty," job listing says.

Mayor Eric Adams announced this week that officials will begin hospitalizing more homeless people by involuntarily providing care to those deemed to be in "psychiatric crisis."

A directive by New York Mayor Eric Adams would give police more leeway to commit mentally ill people involuntarily, even if they were not a threat to others.

Concerns about crime have put the city's mental health crisis in the spotlight.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a new initiative that would allow authorities to more aggressively intervene to help people in need of mental health treatment.

Journalist Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones ridiculed a New York City woman who tweeted her concerns about the persistence of violence on the city’s subway under the current local administration. Yiatin Chu, founding co-president of education advocacy group Place NYC, took to Twitter to call the attention of New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams to the conditions of public transit. Switched cars at next stop to be in a public toilet / urine-odor, crowded car for the rest of my ride.

1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones mocked Asian Wave Alliance President Yiatin Chu on Thursday for a tweet about subway safety in New York City.

Mayor Eric Adams said the closure is due to a slowing number of incoming migrants, but critics say his handling of the process has long been off.

As he rolls back diversity programs, David Banks says families just want a good neighborhood school

Mayor Eric Adams announced the closure of New York City's Randall's Island facility for migrant asylum seekers on Thursday, adding that migrants will be moved to a Midtown Manhattan hotel.

Anderson Cooper reports on the busloads of men, women and children from Central and South America who have been arriving in New York City for months.

The NYPD arrested a 24-year-old suspect for allegedly stabbing a man in the face around 7:00 a.m. on Sunday while the victim waited on a Bronx subway platform.

MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle clashed with Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday over crime, insisting New Yorkers "don't feel safe" and are "worried" ahead of the midterms.

Butts died Friday at home New York of pancreatic cancer. He was 73. The pastor and powerbroker lived a life filled with prayer and political activism.

The New York City mayor's office reported that less than 2% of the Big Apple's streets were considered "filthy," prompting baffled reactions from residents.

The latest New York City subway attack in which a Good Samaritan was stabbed was an outlier, Mayor Eric Adams said, citing data showing most residents commute without incident.

The N.Y. state Supreme Court has ordered NYC to rehire and pay back wages to government employees who were fired for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid.

Police in New York City have arrested the suspect allegedly seen on video pushing another man onto subway tracks in Brooklyn, leaving him with physical injuries.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will increase police presence on New York City's subway system, just weeks before she faces an election in which crime has been a major weakness.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams advised Friday that straphangers on the New York City subway put away headphones and smartphones and be "aware of what's around them."

An El Paso official has reportedly disputed claims that New York City leaders had not been given prior notice of the chartered buses of migrants sent from Texas.

El Paso, Texas will no longer be bussing migrants into New York City due to President Biden's reactivation of Trump-era Title 42 policies deporting Venezuelans to Mexico.

New York City Hall staffer Christopher Baugh was fired after Project Veritas released clips showing him criticize police, as well as Mayor Eric Adams' handling of the migrant crisis.

The city's sanitation commissioner vows that voracious vermin are "absolutely going to hate" the latest rule.

A New York City tent shelter on Randall's Island is opening Wednesday to house migrants being bused in from border states. The city has declared an emergency.

"Everybody that knows me, they know one thing — I hate rats," Mayor Eric Adams said in the press conference announcing the new measure.

Two rival Mexican drug cartels opened fire on one another near the Texas border in a recent incident. Drone footage shows vehicles mounted with .50cal machine guns.

Two rival Mexican drug cartels opened fire on one another near the Texas border in a recent incident. Drone footage shows vehicles mounted with .50cal machine guns.

Rat sightings in New York City have reportedly spiked this year, with data showing a 70% increase in calls about the rodents from the same period two years ago.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams told reporters on Tuesday that the migrant crisis would be felt citywide. In response, Adams declared a state of emergency on Friday.

A Black teenager in Mississippi died days after Gulfport police shot him in the head outside a discount store, and his relatives are questioning officers' actions.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott criticized New York City Mayor Eric Adams over the ticketing of buses carrying migrant

Two people were shot outside the home of Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), who has focused on crime in his long-shot bid to unseat Gov. Kathy Hochul (D).

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says that the city will fork out more than $1 billion to deal with the enormous surge in migrants the city is currently facing.

Over 17,000 migrants have arrived in New York City on hundreds of buses from the U.S.-Mexico border.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency on Thursday due to the continued influx of illegal immigrants from southern border states.

The Biden administration continues sending flights of migrants, including minors, to areas of New York, arriving in the small town of Montgomery.

The Daily BeastNew York City deployed a new tactic Friday morning in an effort to counter Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s increasing flow of migrant buses: drowning the bus companies and their drivers in traffic violations.Two more buses arrived at the city’s Port Authority Bus Terminal just after 6 a.m. Friday, adding to the more than 17,000 migrants Abbott has bused to New York in a sick political stunt.This time, however, a half-dozen uniformed members of the NYPD Highway Patrol’s Motor Carrier Safe

New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams ripped the "far left" for its "silence" on the border crisis, as the Big Apple relocated a shelter for migrants bused from Texas.

Mayor Eric Adams said the location of a planned New York City shelter that will use tents to temporarily house migrants is being moved to Randall's Island.

A Democratic Texas mayor pro-tem said she does not believe migrants are being "lied to" as they depart to various northern regions after crossing the southern border.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was blasted on social media for joking that Kansas doesn’t have a brand, unlike New York, during a press conferences on Tuesday.

New York's Mayor Eric Adams says their shelter system is not large enough to house the recent surge of arriving migrants.

The city council in New York City is considering paying drug users to turn in their needles after use as the number of used needles littering the streets surges.

A New York judge ruled that the city mandate requiring NYPD members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is invalid as applied to members of the police union.

New York City’s mayor says he plans to erect hangar-sized tents as temporary shelter for thousands of international migrants who have been bused into the Big Apple as part of a campaign by Republican governors to disrupt federal border policies.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says that he is open to conversations with Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan to move the world's most famous arena.

Democrat Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday that New York City would open "Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers" to receive influx of migrants from Texas, border states.

There are few places in the U.S. with a more deeply ingrained reputation as a refuge for immigrants than New York City.

New York City remains the largest place in the U.S. to have made vaccines mandatory as a workplace safety measure.

New York City will lift its private-sector COVID-19 vaccine mandate Nov. 1 but will continue to require city employees to be vaccinated against the virus.

Payment processor Visa Inc. says it plans to start separately categorizing sales at gun shops.

On Sept. 3, moviegoers in the U.S. are getting quite the deal: $3 tickets.

Officials in New York City have declared a public health emergency due to the monkeypox outbreak.

Two Republican border-state governors who are investing billions of dollars on immigration enforcement have found indirect support from the Democratic mayors of Washington and New York.

The Rev. Al Sharpton has condemned as “devastating and potentially dangerous" the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down key portions of New York's gun licensing law.

Technology to scan large numbers of people quickly for weapons does exist, but experts say installing such a system in the New York City subway would be challenging.

Jon Batiste will kick off a series geared toward the Grammy Museum's public and educational programs in New York City next month.

An on-duty New York City paramedic was shot and wounded by a patient he was treating in a moving ambulance Wednesday night.

The deepest fears of some New Yorkers are crawling to the surface as the metropolis continues its recovery from the pandemic.

Looking at the schmoozing guests at the Met Gala cocktail reception, TV host James Corden summed up the scene in a word: “Classy.”.

When smoke bombs and bullets were unleashed on a New York City subway train full of morning commuters, train driver David Artis said his first indication something was wrong was when passengers crowded near his cab door to report the chaos.

Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York City police captain, took office this year with a central focus on making the city feel safe and trying to return it to some sense of normalcy post-pandemic.

The shooting this week of 10 people by a man who deployed smoke grenades and fired at least 33 shots in a commuter-packed Brooklyn subway car was hardly the first time New Yorkers have grappled with an act of violence.

As the year began, New Yorkers shuddered at a subway crime straight out of urban nightmares — the death of a woman shoved onto the tracks.

Police say the gunman in the Brooklyn subway shooting fired at least 33 bullets in the rush-hour train, wounding 10 people.

After two years of plague and social disruption, many New Yorkers just want their city to feel orderly again.

Philadelphia has become the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate after reporting a sharp increase in coronavirus infections.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has tested positive for COVID-19.

New York City officials are planning to remove makeshift shelters set up by homeless people on city streets, mirroring similar efforts in other liberal metropolises that had previously tolerated the encampments.

New York City’s mayor has exempted athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate.

New York city’s mayor will announce Thursday that he’s exempting athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate for private workers.

In his first show since 2019, Ralph Lauren transformed a long room at the Museum of Modern Art into a cozy salon Tuesday night to debut a moneyed collection of mostly black and white for men and women.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is preparing to lift requirements that children under age 5 wear face masks in school.

Coronavirus restrictions in Canada and New York have assured that baseball will again be affected by COVID-19 in 2022.

The mayors of New York City and Washington D.

New York City and Los Angeles are lifting some of their strictest COVID-19 prevention measures as officials in big cities around the U.S. push for a return to normalcy after two grueling years of the pandemic.

An important milestone in New York City’s progress against COVID-19 could soon arrive when Mayor Eric Adams lifts mask mandates in schools and vaccination requirements in restaurants, bars and theaters.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says the statewide school masking requirement will be lifted by March 2.

The mother of Trayvon Martin is marking the 10th anniversary of her son’s death by thanking those who sought justice for her family and urging them to continue to fight.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is making an aggressive push to try to remove homeless people from the city’s sprawling subway system, announcing a plan to start barring people from sleeping on trains and or riding the same lines all night.

The mayor's race in Los Angeles is being dominated by a homeless crisis and rising crime rates.

Michael Kors' Fall/Winter 2022 collection is a celebration of a place near and dear to his heart: New York City.

There was something fishy about New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ declarations that he’s a vegan.

Gun violence was already on the rise during the pandemic, and now it's spiking anew, and cities are struggling with how to manage it.

President Joe Biden is pledging to New Yorkers and the nation that the federal government will step up its fight against gun violence by working more closely with police and communities to stop the surging bloodshed.

Officers massed by the thousands on Fifth Avenue for New York City's second police funeral in less than a week.

A string of high-profile violence in New York City has frayed nerves, but the nation's largest city remains relatively safe.

New York City police officers have given a final salute to a rookie colleague gunned down with his partner a week ago.

Three random killings and three homeless men charged with the crimes have reignited anger, fear and frustration with the intractable issue of homelessness in New York and Los Angeles.

The White House says President Joe Biden will travel to New York City next week to discuss combating gun crime with Mayor Eric Adams.

A city reeling from a spate of violence is preparing to lay to rest a rookie police officer killed last week.

The 22-year-old New York City police officer who was shot to death while responding to a call in a Harlem apartment once wrote that he joined the force to make a difference in the “chaotic city.”.