Eric Adams

After Helping The FBI, Former State Senator Shirley Huntley Still Gets Slapped With A Year In Prison

At the end of last August, former State Senator Shirley Huntley called for a press conference in her home district of Jamaica, Queens. There, she informed her supporters that she would be arrested the following day for an extensive criminal investigation into her personal expenses. Turns out, betwe ... More >>

Deputy Chief Michael Marino in Stop and Frisk Trial: 'Do Your Job or Suffer the Consequences'

When then-NYPD Capt. Michael Marino arrived as a commander in the tough section of Brooklyn known as East New York, he was appalled at what the 400 officers in the command considered to be work. "They were doing five [summonses] a month, which was just not enough to address the problem," he testif ... More >>

There's an App for Reporting Crime in Brooklyn

Welcome to the age of smartphone civilian authority.At the City Council Hall on 250 Broadway this afternoon, State Senator Eric Adams, a Democrat from Brooklyn, will announce a little app that he helped create called "Brooklyn Way of Life." It's a downloadable "crime fighting mobile app," in his own ... More >>

Brooklyn Pols Ask Andrew Cuomo For SUNY Downstate Loan

As SUNY Downstate Medical Center reels from recent management changes and layoffs, area pols are demanding that Gov. Andrew Cuomo help the hospital. Today, a group of Brooklyn electeds sent a letter to Cuomo asking for immediate assistance so that critical services and medical training could conti ... More >>

New York Politicians Spent Nearly $50,000 On Cigars Since 2008

Bill Clinton's not the only politician who likes a good cigar...Since 2008, New York politicians have spent nearly $50,000 on cigars and other tobacco products, a new study from the New York Public Research Group.The study, first provided by the group to the New York Daily News, finds that state law ... More >>

Arming Transit Workers With Stun Guns: Recipe For Disaster Or Necessary Safety Measure?

There's currently a bill in the New York State Legislature that would add transit workers to the list of New Yorkers authorized to have -- and use -- stun guns.The bill was introduced by state Senator Eric Adams, a 22-year law enforcement veteran who spent six years working as an MTA cop. It's in re ... More >>

State Senator Eric Adams Wants To Arm Transit Workers With Stun Guns. What Could Go Wrong?

Over the past year, there's been a slight increase in the number of attacks on New York City transit workers. State Senator Eric Adams' solution: give those workers Tasers.Adams currently is pushing a bill through the appropriate committees in the state Legislature that would add transit workers to ... More >>

Governor Cuomo Joins the Lawless Kelly-Bloomberg Gang

Isn’t it time the NYPD had some real oversight?

State Government Sets the Stage for Police Oversight Showdown

​Despite the fact that NYPD is one of the largest police forces in the country, neither the city nor state governments currently exercise any significant oversight over the police department. Now, a new bill introduced in the state legislature aims to change that, by creating an inspector ge ... More >>

Report Gives Mike Bloomberg's Polemic School Closure Policy an 'F'

​A new report released last week comes down hard on the mayor's record of shutting down schools that aren't performing well. Mike Bloomberg and the Deptartment of Education can add it to the list of grievances and criticisms that have been thrown at them so far this year (He demonizes teachers ... More >>

Ray Kelly's Gulag

Get on the NYPD commissioner's secret list, and you're going nowhere

Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Under Fire Over Corruption Cases

​Over the past few weeks, one scandal after another has hit the police department, making things increasingly uncomfortable for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his top advisors, and the accretion of negative news has some people arguing for change in the department's leadership. Such a rema ... More >>

Domestic Abuser Registry Proposed Following Sarah Coit Murder

Sarah Coit​Following the brutal murder of 23-year-old Sarah Coit on the Lower East Side, several New York legislators are advocating a bill that would create an online database revealing the names of convicted domestic abusers, much like a sex-offender registry. Coit's boyfriend, Raul Barrera, ... More >>

It's Really Easy to Buy Gun Clips in New York

​State Senator Eric Adams of Brooklyn and the New York Daily News went on a secret stunt mission together in Albany, where they bought explosive gun magazines that can hold up to 30 bullets, even though the high-capacity clips were banned in 1994. Under the law, the big gun magazines, "used by ... More >>

Eric Adams, Brooklyn State Senator, Teaches Parents to Spy, Narc on Kids

​Eric Adams, who was an NYPD officer for 22 years before becoming a state senator (you may remember him from the campaign to end saggy pants), has released a video instructing parents on how to find potential drug and gun paraphernalia in their kiddos' rooms and backpacks. There are many place ... More >>

Hey, Ray Kelly, Frisk This

Governor David Paterson slaps down the Police Commissioner's stop-and-frisk database, but it's only a start

NYPD Issues Policy on Stop-and-Frisks; Folks Now Get a Card, Too

In the wake of The Village Voice's "NYPD Tapes" series, the police department has started issuing written cards on a citywide basis to New Yorkers explaining the purpose and legal justification for a stop-and-frisk. Based on tape recordings made inside Brooklyn's 81st Precinct, the Voice series rep ... More >>

Brooklyn State Senator Launches Anti-Sagging Campaign

​State Senator Eric Adams of Brooklyn really wants young people in Brooklyn to pull their pants up, and he's putting up billboards to tell them so. On Monday, billboards with pictures of models in ultra-low riding jeans reading "We are better than this! Stop the sag! Raise your pants, raise yo ... More >>

Who's Already Benefitting from the Paterson Scandal?

​ This morning we woke up with the news that our governor might soon be having his picture taken with Terry Richardson in the near future no thanks to a New York Times story essentially explaining the various ways he's not only demonstrated his own piss-poor intimidation skills, but the piss- ... More >>

Sheldon Silver Finds the Acceptable-Insults Limit for Still-Governor Paterson

It may seem these days as if our leaders may visit upon David Paterson any insult and get away with it, but apparently Sheldon Silver has tested the limits of such behavior. Today in the Daily News, the assembly speaker suggested that maybe Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch -- the governor-presump ... More >>

Hiram Monserrate Expelled, 53-8

​The State Senate just voted 53-8 to expel Hiram Monserrate immediately. Eric Adams, Ruben Diaz Sr., Martin Malave Dilan, Carl Kruger, Pedro Espada Jr., Kevin Parker, John Sampson, and Monserrate himself were the only no votes; Thomas Morahan was excused. Monserrate gave the final vote and t ... More >>

Rubashkin Trial Opens; Kosher King Accused of Immigration Fraud

The much-anticipated trial of Sholom Rubashkin -- former CEO of the country's largest kosher meat processing plant and a member of a powerful Crown Heights Lubavitch family -- began in at a federal court in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Wednesday, with a slaughterhouse worker testifying that she fak ... More >>

Early D.A. Endorsements: Cops, Clubs, Pols, and Judge Judy

At PolitickerNY, Azi Paybarah sees Manhattan D.A. candidate Richard Aborn pursuing an "Early-Endorsement Strategy." His office certainly sends out plenty such notices: in the past few weeks we've been alerted to his endorsements by the Broadway Democrats and the Gramercy Stuyvesant Independent Democ ... More >>

Senators Join Tabloid in War On Birds

This weekend the New York Post called for a goose holocaust to prevent another jetliner from being brought down by birds in the engines as US Airways Flight 1549 was last week. We knew politicians couldn't be too far behind so absurd a curve, and sure enough, today state senators Eric Adams and Hir ... More >>

Letters 12.10.08

The Fall of the House of Rubashkin

As the nation's largest kosher empire implodes, Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jews begin to break ranks

Golisano's Senate Picks: Mostly (and in NYC, Only) Same-Old

What Sean Bell's Legacy Needs To Be

A permanent, independent prosecutor to handle police crimes

TABLOIDED: David Tarloff's Adult Diapers

Cops on Steroids

Baseball has no monopoly on foul balls. The NYPD's own drug scandal keeps simmering.

Exterminating Angel

The twisted relationship of the goth girl, her preppy sister, and their murdered father

NYPD Blew It

Kelly's new deputy chief of training brings lots of experience, much of it bad

Guzzling Gas, Backing Brigitte

A woman accused of castrating and killing her father garners support from an unusual source

'Lady Vengeance'

How Brigitte Harris asphyxiated and castrated her father and won over politicians

Andrews Amnesia

Why are the media giving the scandal-ridden Norman pal a pass?

Credible Threat

In a cop's final battle with his bosses, clues about a terror scare

Spying Behind the Shield

NYPD 'Deep Throat' Alerted Black Cops to Surveillance

Bloomberg Radio

How Black Talk Jocks Sold ‘We Like Mike’ to African Americans

Mark Green, You Can’t Hide

Unmasking a Phony White Liberal

What Black Vote?

The City’s African American Electorate is No Longer Predictable

Eric Adams for Police Commissioner

But How Black Is Mark Green?

Taking the Rap

City Clubs Ban Hip-Hop Radicals

Portraits in Racial Profiling

When Clothes Make the Suspect

The Louima Case Is Not Dead

Schwarz May Be the Fall Guy

Rudy Kisses Butts

Embattled mayor embraces a harsh critic, but still can't find forgiveness in some African American quarters.

Rage Against Muhammad

An investigation by the joint terrorist task force adds to the Million Youth March leader's woes

Driving While Black

Fear & Loathing on the New Jersey Turnpike