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News of President Donald Trump's "audacious" move to manipulate New York City's mayoral race by offering Mayor Eric Adams a White House position and giving former Gov. Andrew Cuomo a path to defeat Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani sparked a slew of responses mocking the trio.

Adams, who was reportedly offered a position with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, declined to abandon his re-election campaign. The current mayor is lagging in polls and trailing in fourth place. Trump hopes that pulling Adams out of the general election could potentially change Mamdani's chances and grant Cuomo a win. Trump is also considering adding Curtis Sliwa, a Republican candidate, to the administration. Sliwa has also declined to drop out of the race.

The Times referred to it as a "potentially audacious intervention."
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NEW YORK — Hundreds of beds in the city’s shelter system sat vacant while a large group of migrants were sleeping on a Manhattan sidewalk for several nights in a row earlier this summer, according to data obtained by the Daily News. The data undercuts Mayor Eric Adams’ repeated claim that his administration could not find any shelter beds for the roughly 200 mostly male migrants, who as a result resorted to sleeping on the street outside Midtown’s Roosevelt Hotel, which is being used by the city as an intake center for asylum seekers. The dire scene in front of the Roosevelt played out between......

A stabbing suspect locked up on Rikers Island died in his cell early Sunday morning — marking the seventh death at the notorious jail complex this year and the 26th in New York City jails since Mayor Eric Adams took office. A correction officer patrolling housing unit 5A at the George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island found Curtis Davis, 44, lifeless on the floor of his cell about 5:10 a.m. and reported a medical emergency, according to Correction Department records. Jail staff started chest compressions on Davis about 5 minutes later and EMS medics showed up at about 5:45 a.m. to try to reviv......

NEW YORK — A teenage subway surfer died and another was seriously injured when they fell from an L train near the Bushwick-Aberdeen station in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon, police said. The two 14-year-old boys were found unconscious on the rail bed when police arrived just before 2 p.m., cops said. Both teens were found under the Manhattan-bound train, NYPD transit chief Michael Kemper told reporters. “Both of them had serious trauma to their bodies, and tragically one was pronounced deceased on scene,” Kemper said. The other teen was taken to Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Queens, and ......

NEW YORK — Another FDNY chief has asked to be demoted as the department continues to quake from the ongoing clash between Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh and the department’s top brass, sources told The New York Daily News. Assistant Chief Thomas Currao sent a letter asking for a demotion and to be put back in the field earlier this week, sources with knowledge of the case said. Currao was apparently outraged of the flippant way newly minted First Deputy Commissioner Joseph Pfeifer dismissed concerns by staff chiefs who feel they’re being ignored by Kavanagh and her team in a recent New York ......

NEW YORK — Frank Serpico has finally gotten his due from the New York Police Department. The legendary police whistle-blower got his proper police Medal of Honor and its accompanying certificate after Mayor Eric Adams stepped in and said he’d make sure Serpico got the accolade, ending Serpico’s five-decade fight with the department. Serpico announced his receipt of the honor on Twitter Thursday, crediting Adams and several others — including veteran New York Daily News scribe Larry McShane, whose story about the 50th anniversary of his testimony before the Knapp commission helped bring the ove......