Bloomberg is reporting Wednesday evening …
”New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been has been indicted following a federal corruption investigation, the New York Times reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.The indictment is sealed and it is not yet clear what charge or charges Adams will face, the Times said. The Times said Adams' representatives and campaign had no immediate comment. His lawyers did not immediately respond to the request for comment from the Times, while the US attorney's office for the Southern District of New York and FBI declined to comment to the paper.” (From
Bloomberg Media 9/25/24)
”Adams, a Democrat, has been dogged by a series of probes involving his associates. Within the past several weeks, Adams’s police commissioner, schools chancellor, health commissioner and chief counsel have all either resigned or announced their plans to step down. Federal agents earlier this month searched homes of several top administration officials. Investigators last year seized Adams’s electronic devices and searched the home of a fundraiser for his campaign.” (From
The Wall Street Journal” 9/26/24)
“The indictment makes Mr. Adams the first sitting mayor of New York City to be criminally charged.” (From
The NY Times 9/25/24)
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Should shut down you know who's claim only GOP is targeted by DOJ.
Adams speech was interrupted by black spectators shouting "you are an embarrassment to Black people... resign"
He could not have single handedly pulled off decades of corruption and criminality. All the places he ever worked must have deep seated culture of corruption and revolving doors of enablers. I would investigate all those places and institute remedial measures. May be more heads, going down the chain of command, need to roll. Otherwise, we just sleep walk from one corruption case to another, providing nothing more than entertainment value to the public.
What I’m wondering is - if a corrupt government might have any bearing on the workings of the New York Stock Exchange? Albeit, it’s a big stretch. But permits are necessary for everything from infrastructure compliance to signage to health regulations to some forms of communications and, of course, to establish ingress and egress to a facility. And there’s the security performed in public areas by the NYPD. “No man is an island” might apply to institutions as well.
Now, if those in authority are siphoning off some of the tax take for personal gain, then that might help explain why the subway is for the most part a wreck
Anything in particular? I often zip right through Times Square on my uneventful way to Carnegie Hall. (I know how to get there
And why didn’t they restore the direct bus from LGA to Port Authority after the pandemic ended? Lots of people now taking taxis and cluttering the already busy roads who’d be happy taking a bus. The go-arounds don’t sound too easy if toting luggage. It’s absurd not to run that bus to the heart of Manhattan.
Oh - I’ll confess those in Hudson Yards have a beautiful new subway station with escalators. But some of us of lesser means can’t afford a $7.00 styrofoam cup of coffee there - let alone stay there.
No kiddin. On a recent stay (1/4/24) the #1 Local from TS to Lincoln Center stopped running an hour before show time after colliding with another empty train. I jogged the 1/2 to 3/4 mile to Lincoln Center for a ticketed event! There @msf - a real “wreck”.
I was going to add a comment about inaccessibility, but I couldn't find the page I was looking for to cite. NYC is by far the worst system in the country in terms of complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act. As I recall from the page I was looking for, NY is about 50% compliant, Boston next worst at 78%(?), and most others (except Chicago?) 95%+.
NYC is decades behind in updating its antiquated signaling system. (Decades, literally; San Francisco upgraded 20-30 years ago as I recall.) In 2009 NYC upgraded the L line; in 2019 it upgraded the Flushing (7) line. These are the two lines that do not share tracks with other lines and are thus easier to upgrade. Wrecks, delays, they're the result of delayed capital expenditures.
https://new.mta.info/project/cbtc-signal-upgrades
Sigh...
London does such a better job. Fast, modern trains operate right out of Heathrow to many London area destinations. I’d argue that the theater in NYC is now superior to London’s. And, of course all the rich cultural centers, If I ran the city I’d work night and day to make access to these places easier, faster for visitors. These people spend a lot and help keep theater and the other cultural assets thriving. A shame NYC can’t provide some form of fast transport out of LGA. If they can’t figure out how to do it someone like Musk could.
Thanks @hank.
Robert Caro has been in the news lately because of the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Power Broker. There’s lots to learn in that fantastic analysis of how the city of New York has been run and the extent to which raw power (the corrupting kind) has prevailed. In the event you don’t own a copy of the book, be warned that the paperback edition weighs 3 lbs 2.87 ounces. I counsel against reading it in bed unless you have device on which to rest it. I believe Caro has finally agreed to allow a digital version to be published, but I’m not certain.
I was surprised to hear Adams is so hard up he (allegedly) performed illegal acts in return for upgrades from coach to business class - Geez - I willingly cough up the extra dough. Never considered resorting to criminal activity to obtain a better seat! The poor fella.
I wasn’t overwhelmed by the initial unveiling of charges. However, if indeed foreign money entered and influenced the electoral process - then that is a very serious charge.
There has been a lot of unexplained “push and pull” going on inside NYC government for at least a couple years. A prominent female member of the NYPD gave up a top position within the department several months / a year ago and refused to explain why she left. And an innovative highly respected manager of the transportation system was making significant upgrades to the archaic subway infrastructure / operations when he abruptly left 5-6 years ago. From what I heard, that was a result of a dispute with then Governor Cuomo.
“Politics” inside public sector jobs can be brutal. It’s a lot harder to demote or dismiss employees than in the private sector. And the existence of pretty good defined benefit pensions provides compelling reasons for the rank-and-file to remain - regardless of the infighting they endure.