Welcome to Eric Adams’ Fear Factory
How the mayor, the cops and the corporate media make it impossible to solve NYC’s many challenges.
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Monthly Abortion Clash Resumes at SoHo Planned Parenthood
For the past year or so, anti and pro-abortion protesters have routinely squared off in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic on Mott and Bleeker streets. On Saturday, roughly 40 NYPD officers were a part of the mix.
Extinction Rebellion Urges Revolt Against Climate Inaction
Extinction Rebellion uses civil disobedience to dramatize the need for climate action. They are also thinking about the long term.
Louis Scarcella spread the blame for questionable arrests in which he participated.
This Month in Eric Adams: A Fishy Food Story, More Policing and a Taste for Homophobes
In February, NYC’s new mayor flaunted his Trumpish tendencies while presiding over a breathtaking expansion of the police state in New York City.
Homeless New Yorkers Respond to Mayor’s Plan to Boot Them from Subway System
“There’s got to be a better way to handle the situation,” says one homeless man who ended up on the streets following an eviction. “It’s inhumane to not let people sleep in the subway system.”
Eric Adams’ Weird and Wild First Month
There’s never a dull moment with the mayor who vowed to restore “swagger” to New York City.
Is Eric Adams Playing Black Voters?
NYC’s new mayor tapped into the highly charged dream of a strong Black father figure. The reality of governing, however, is turning out to be messier than the dream and may require an intervention by some of his most ardent supporters.
Mayor to name new Chair of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which still has to judge complaints against 68 officers for misconduct during the George Floyd protests.
The Rise of Occupy Wall Street: The Movement Moment That Revived The U.S. Left
Ten years ago this fall a protest movement took root in Lower Manhattan that transformed how we think about inequality and reinvigorated the Left.