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E-bike safety checks and enforcement would be a key role of the new city agency Mayor Eric Adams is contemplating to regulate New York’s growing food and package delivery industry. Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi — who is leading Adams’ push to design and establish what some informally call the Department of Sustainable Delivery — told the New York Daily News the agency “will regulate new forms of delivery transit and ensure their safety.” “The equipment that you’re going to use to do that delivery has to be inspected,” said Joshi. “There has to be some oversight to ensure that it’s safe.” Joshi, who......

New York City’s Probation Department has cut programs, its workers gripe about low pay, and city government is in a budget crunch — but Probation Commissioner Juanita Holmes has a new, luxurious city-funded car. Holmes travels in an $86,590 Ford Expedition Platinum, purchased in October from a dealership in Rockland County, city records show. The Ford’s standard features include heated leather-trimmed “multi-contour” seats that vibrate with “Active Motion massage,” a high-end Bang & Olufsen stereo system with 22 speakers and a “panoramic” sun roof, the car maker says. After the city bought the......

NEW YORK — After New York City moved last week to slow the pace of migrant-filled charter buses from Southern states, roughly a dozen buses have arrived outside the city in New Jersey since Saturday, according to officials. The wave of buses west of New York City, which continued Monday morning, appears to represent a response by Republican-led Texas to an executive order implemented by Mayor Eric Adams barring migrant buses from the city except during 210-minute windows on weekday mornings. Over the weekend, about 10 migrant buses that originated in Texas and one bus that came from Louisiana ......

NEW YORK — There are no known security threats related to this weekend’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square, but the New York Police Department is gearing up for the possibility that thousands of pro-Palestine protesters will be demonstrating nearby, Mayor Eric Adams and police officials said Friday. In an afternoon security briefing outside the NYPD’s Times Square substation, Adams said the Police Department is still on high alert, citing an incident at last year’s Times Square ball drop event where a Maine teenager allegedly attacked three NYPD officers with a machete. “There are no ......

NEW YORK — Selene Sanchez wakes up early in the morning and kisses her 2-year-old son before dashing off to cleaning jobs across the city. She travels to different houses, scrubbing floors and tidying up before heading home, to the emergency shelter where she lives. Sanchez, 30, makes it back by lunchtime, when she and her husband switch places. Then he goes off to work, while she stays with Beymar, their son. Later in the day she heads out again to search for more work. Sometimes she gets lucky — a new job comes up, and she can work an hour or two, bringing home a few more dollars. The massiv......

NEW YORK — More than seven out of ten city residents believe Mayor Eric Adams “did something wrong” in his dealings with Turkey during his 2021 mayoral run, according to a new Marist poll released Tuesday. The poll found 72% of city residents think Adams did something untoward in connection with Turkey and that Adams’ job approval rating has taken a dive, with 54% of New Yorkers now disapproving of his performance and only 37% approving. The new results mark a steep decline in public opinion for the mayor. In a separate March 2022 poll, 61% of people who responded to that survey approved of Ad......