Mayor Bill De Blasio

Ex-NY Mayor Bill de Blasio and wife Chirlane McCray are separating, yet won't be divorcing, still live together and date others — progressive?

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City‘s death toll from the coronavirus has been disproportionately high in black and Hispanic communities, and the city is starting an outreach campaign for those residents, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. “We’re seeing folks who have struggled before really being hit particularly hard,” de Blasio said at a […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Members of Eric Garner’s family want a court to force New York City’s mayor and police commissioner to answer questions under oath about their relative’s 2014 chokehold death. A petition being filed Tuesday in state court seeks a proceeding at which city officials can be questioned under penalty of perjury about […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A police sergeant accused of failing to properly supervise officers involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner has agreed to give up about four weeks of vacation time to settle her internal disciplinary case, a police official said Wednesday. Sgt. Kizzy Adonis was the first police supervisor to arrive on […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department official in charge of training recruits said Tuesday that the restraint technique an officer used on Eric Garner five years ago, leading to his death, “meets the definition” of a chokehold, a practice banned since the 1990s because of its potential for lethality. Cell phone video […]

New York City's mayor ignores prison reform activists and plans renovation of controversial prison complex.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and hip-hop icon Darryl “DMC” McDaniels says the New York police commissioner’s recent comments — where he labeled rappers as thugs following a shooting at a hip-hop concert — are disrespectful and that the commissioner should apologize to rappers like Chuck D, Will Smith and […]

  So apparently New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio is on C-P time these days. You know, colored people time, at least when it comes to one particular endorsement. Hillary Clinton: “I heard my name, I just have to say thanks for the endorsement Bill. Took ya long enough.” ((Laughs)) Bill de Blasio: “Sorry Hillary […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Weeks removed from an open revolt from his own police force that had officers turning their backs on him, Mayor Bill de Blasio now declares he has moved past the rift, striking a tenuous truce with a strategy to stay above the fray and public opinion that eventually soured on the […]

New York’s City’s top cop went on a media blitz to deny that NYPD officers are singling out minorities in a crackdown on minor offenses.…

For iPhone: The whole country is watching New York City to see with it does with its controversial “Stop and Frisk” policy. The new Mayor Bill de Blasio knows it. That’s why he’s tasked his newly-appointed police commissioner Bill Bratton to figure it out. Part of that figuring it out process is to try to […]

Al Roker is in a bad mood and he can’t hide it. He got into a feud with the Mayor of New York over a “Snow Day,” His angry Tweet to Mayor De Blasio criticized him for keeping the schools open during the city’s Nor’easter that resulted in dangerous road conditions and all that comes […]