Bill de Blasio Archives

New York City prisons are still a disaster 40 years after the projector was built

February 21, 2022 mohmad free

Records show that living conditions in New York City’s prison system remain dire — even after 40 years of federal oversight by a court-appointed monitor brought in at taxpayer expense. The Department of Corrections in the deeply troubled city came under intense scrutiny in the mid-1970s, when former trial detainees filed seven different class-action lawsuits alleging that incarceration conditions were so poor that their constitutional rights were violated. In 1982, then-Manhattan federal judge Maurice Lasker signed a settlement agreement that required the DOC to significantly improve the “environmental conditions” of…

GOP leader praises Adams’ determination in the face of BLM threat to “burn” New York City

November 15, 2021 mohmad free

Finally, some real bipartisanship! The Post has learned that New York State Senate Republicans love what they see in Mayor-elect Eric Adams — and are extending an olive branch to the former New York police chief in an effort to promote public safety. In a speech on Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Robert Ort (Democrat of Lockport) congratulated Adams on his landslide victory and said he hoped to work with the former Brooklyn senator “as partners at a time when this critical issue is at a peak, with alarming violent crime…

Dozens of New York hotels in danger as international tourism returns

November 14, 2021 mohmad free

Tourists are preparing to head to the Big Apple during the holiday season after international travel bans were lifted last week — but it may be too little and too late for dozens of New York City hotels. The pandemic has already wiped out a number of iconic properties, including the historic Roosevelt Hotel near Grand Central Station, the Excelsior Hotel on the Upper West Side, and the century-old Pennsylvania Hotel across from Madison Square Garden, which now faces the wrecking ball. The Post has learned that more than 30…

New York leaders evade comment on Hook Newsom’s threats

November 13, 2021 mohmad free

How about it: Longtime local left-wing activist Berta Lewis has proven she has more courage than Mayor Bill de Blasio, Reverend Al Sharpton and other so-called local leaders — by not evading The Post’s questions about Hook Newsom’s outrageous threats to riot if the mayor -elect Eric Adams brings back the NYPD plainclothes crime unit. “Give Brother a chance,” said Lewis, president of the Black Institute for the incoming mayor. Adams pledged a different way to police work. I’ll wait and see what Eric does and what the police department…

De Blasio will not address the BLM leader’s threat of “bloodshed” in the streets

November 11, 2021 mohmad free

It is now a mayor’s story. Mayor Bill de Blasio repeatedly avoided questions Thursday about the Black Lives Matter leader’s threat of “riot”, “fire” and “bloodshed” on city streets if his successor Eric Adams made good on his campaign promise to bring back the NYPD’s gun control unit — The next mayor also stood firm. De Blasio’s press secretary, Danielle Felson, blocked a Post reporter’s attempts to ask the mayor about New York BLM co-founder Hawk Newsom’s remarks while Hezoner walked the Veterans Day parade on Fifth Avenue. Felson initially…

De Blasio defends home renovations amid $400,000 stress debt

November 10, 2021 mohmad free

Under questioning from reporters on Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio was forced to defend going deep into debt to renovate his Brooklyn homes while failing to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars he still owes to a law firm representing businesses that do business with the city. The mayor summed up why he thinks potential conflicts of interest are okay in six words: “I need a place to live.” The lame-duck mayor, who will need to leave Gracie Mansion by the start of 2022, has claimed that his Brooklyn…

De Blasio admits there is a shortage of vaccines on school sites in New York City

November 8, 2021 mohmad free

The de Blasio administration acknowledged Monday that the few schools where COVID-19 vaccines are newly available to students as young as 5 do not have enough doses to keep up with the “unprecedented” number of students seeking them. “We have four locations that are late in getting their supplies, and that is being fixed now,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a news conference held remotely from City Hall. De Blasio noted that 12 public schools in Districts 1 and 2 in Manhattan and District 15 in Brooklyn were Long…

Taxpayers pay the bill for de Blasio’s trip to Sumos, Puerto Rico

November 6, 2021 mohmad free

Mayor Bill de Blasio has a parting gift for taxpayers: picking up the tab for him, his wife and an entourage of city hall employees to strike up the annual SOMOS political retreat in Puerto Rico. The time-limited de Blasio—who will leave office at the end of the year after spending most of his eight years as mayor out of town to advance his progressive agenda—attended the five-day seaside conference that ran alongside First Lady Cherlyn McRae and six staff members, The city was mentioned for the first time. De…

De Blasio’s ban on propane heaters will crush NYC’s dining scene

November 6, 2021 mohmad free

Cranks suing the city to end outdoor dining on issues like noise and litter can save their dough from legal fees, because City Hall is about to do the job for them. Last month, the FDNY, backed by Mayor de Blasio, unreasonably banned the use of propane heaters in outdoor restaurants. (Are any of the actions taken by the worst mayor in the history of the Big Apple? Not illogical?). The ban will likely end for thousands of places that relied on extra cash from outdoor seating to help offset…