The FOIL fairy 🧚 has come through! Here’s a first look at the new One45 for Harlem plan (h/t Jeff Coltin who first reported on the filings) nydailynews.com/2024/04/24/fil…

Students at City College set up an encampment — the first CUNY school to do so. At least 200 people here.

Overlooking Columbia's Gaza Solidarity Encampment from Low Steps, Speaker Mike Johnson promised to demand Biden take action to clear it, including potentially calling in the National Guard. Leading @PoliticoNY Playbook, w/ Madina Touré ⬇️
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Scott Stringer, a potential NYC mayoral candidate, gets a procedural win in court today. A mid-level appeals court ruled that his defamation suit against Jean Kim can proceed to the merits after she tried to dismiss it.

Here's some background:
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May 22nd -- LCA Show in Albany!

Rice was asked to resign as chairwoman after criticism of the fatal police shooting of Kawaski Trawick and efforts to increase the power and budget of the oversight agency. After 2 years as interim chairwoman, appointed by the mayor, City Hall referred to Rice as a “holdover.”

'When you can go from working in the mailroom to becoming mayor, dreams come true in New York!,' Mayor Eric Adams tells Hazel Sanchez & Dan Mannarino on. Mayor says he wants to look at current library systems & repeats city didn't make libraries cancel Sat service (just didn't give $$)

'I communicated directly with Ms. (Arva) Rice and told her, she does not have to leave the CCRB board,' Mayor Adams says on PIX 11. 'Now, I have been making leadership changes.' Writes off the controversy as typical turnover in an administration.

Looks like the JP Morgan HQ, which Hochul and Adams visited in November for the topping-off ceremony.

Get your NY Playbook!

- Biden comes to NY, via Katelyn Cordero
- Blasting the speaker, via Irie Sentner Madina Touré
- $16B for four NYC jails, via Jeff Coltin
- IDAs' raw deal, via Nick Reisman
- Brandon Williams won't be with Biden
- Tim Kennedy's new ad
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Thinking about this, the week after the Inner Circle show

Spotted at Cindy Adams’s 94th birthday party at her Park Avenue apartment: Kathy Hochul, Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams, Woody and Soon Yi, Al Sharpton, Kellyanne Conway, Bill O’Reilly, Don Lemon, Robert Thomson, Keith Poole, Al Sharpton.

It was like the New York Post come alive.

Borough Based Jail construction was budgeted at $11.6B last year - this year, it's $16 billion.
“The price tag, it has gone up in an unbelievable manner,' Mayor Adams explains.
Says he met with the Speaker two weeks ago to talk about adjusting the closing Rikers plan.

'No one was pushed out,' @nycmayor says when asked why the chairwoman of an independent police oversight agency was asked to resign: nytimes.com/2024/04/23/nyr…

.Mayor Eric Adams is taking questions on the budget, which we wrote up earlier here:

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'This time, however, Adams has largely been negotiating with himself, making concession after concession without getting anything from lawmakers in return...' subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

The hard numbers of Mayor Adams’ FY ‘25 executive budget. $111.6B total, and projecting $4.7B on asylum-seeker spending.

A few little kids excitedly shouted “Mayor Adams!” from outside the City Hall gates. He waved them in, and invited them up during this budget rally. Much more positive interaction than he had on the plane the other day.