Boroughs in Brief

The Department of City Planning on Monday introduced a measure that it says would cut red tape for casino applications in the Big Apple — but which would ice out community boards, critics say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams and the woman accusing him of sexual assault worked for the city’s Transit Police Department at the same time, according to an NYPD official and court records reviewed by the Daily News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At a Tuesday press briefing, Mayor Adams revealed his travels to Turkey go back to his days when he was state senator but wouldn’t commit to providing full details of his foreign travel to that country which lies at the heart of an FBI probe into his campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The “improper” behavior a top city official recently informed the FBI of centers on claims City Hall staffer Rana Abbasova tipped colleagues to “delete” their text exchanges hours after the feds raided her New Jersey home, a source close to the investigation into Mayor Adams’ campaign told the Daily News on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over two weeks this month, the FBI raided the home of Mayor Adams’ top campaign fundraiser and then seized his electronic devices, as a federal corruption inquiry into possible misconduct by his 2021 mayoral campaign spilled into public view Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The additional fiscal pain Mayor Adams and his team have been predicting for months is now upon everyday New Yorkers, as top budget officials unveiled across-the-board cuts Thursday as part of the city’s annual budget modification. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The NYPD will freeze hiring of new police officers for the foreseeable future as part of “extremely painful” city budget cuts set to be unveiled by Mayor Adams on Thursday, the Daily News has learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams warned Tuesday that the city budget update he’s set to release this week contains a laundry-list of “extremely painful” spending cuts that will impact millions of New Yorkers and hamper all municipal agencies, including the NYPD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul, who had pursued the idea of issuing state-approved work papers to migrants, took the plan off the table Monday, saying she would not have been able to protect New York employers from criminal exposure under federal laws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FBI agents stopped Mayor Adams on the street earlier this week and seized multiple electronic devices from him as part of a federal investigation into allegations that the Turkish government funneled illegal foreign cash into his 2021 campaign’s coffers, an attorney for the mayor confirmed Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Violent crime rates are falling across New York State, mirroring national trends, with statewide murder rates plunging sharply and robbery rates dipping slightly, according to state data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The federal monitoring team tracking violence at Rikers Island and other city lockups said Wednesday it has little to no confidence in the accuracy of violence data produced by the Correction Department, or much of anything else the department says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams is not traveling to Puerto Rico this week for the annual Somos conference, a source close to him told the Daily News on Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul on Monday signed legislation to establish a statewide doula directory, aiming to improve New Yorkers’ access to childbirth experts and to combat a recent nationwide rise in infant mortality.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Creepy, crawly bugs and vermin abound at Rikers Island, say consultants who found signs of ants, flies, fruit flies, roaches, gnats, and drain flies, along with mice and mouse droppings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FBI agents on Thursday raided the Brooklyn home of Brianna Suggs, the manager of Mayor Adams’ campaign fundraising operation who has claimed credit for raking in more than $19 million for his political efforts over the years, according to sources familiar with the matter and public records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fewer than 1,700 affordable housing units were built in New York City in the first nine months of this year, according to a new analysis by a housing advocacy group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams said Tuesday that his administration is not trying to “mislead” or “harm” migrants in New York City by offering them free tickets out of the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Migrants ousted from city shelters due to new time limits are being offered free tickets out of NYC or being sent to so-called “waiting rooms” at local shelters with no assurance they’ll get a new bed, the latest signs the crisis is crashing the city’s social safety net system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New Yorkers’ concerns over the mushrooming migrant crisis have put Democrats on the defensive and offered Republicans a potentially powerful line of attack in next month’s most competitive City Council races. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams raked in more than $326,000 in income last year, but declared a net loss of nearly $5,000 on his rental building in Brooklyn — a financial setback that came after he spent heavily on rat mitigation at the property, his tax returns show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Only two houses of worship have sheltered migrants as part of a city-run program launched five months ago — even though up to 50 faith institutions were set to quickly join the effort, a senior Adams administration official acknowledged this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams said Tuesday that more than 100 migrants were housed in a Manhattan shelter even though it ultimately was found to be unsafe because the city has few options — and that New Yorkers could soon see migrants could sleeping on the streets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams announced Monday that his administration will allow a variety of city employees in managerial positions to work from home twice a week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

About 1,500 migrants removed from shelters under a new city policy have reapplied to stay in the city’s care after failing to find housing on their own, according to data provided by City Hall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices