Biden’s migrant mess costing New York City $5 million a day
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Biden’s migrant mess costing New York City $5 million a day

ByNews Polite

Nearly Five. Million. Dollars. Per Day. That obscene figure is how much some 30,000 illegal immigrants cost New York City, per Mayor Adams’ emergency management honcho Zach Iscol. The ultimate two-year tab is projected to exceed $4 billion. It already hit $500 million in mid-February. And there’s every reason to…

NYC brought itself back to life once before — but can it again?
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NYC brought itself back to life once before — but can it again?

ByNews Polite

Ideas matter, policies matter, leadership is essential.  That could be a list of bromides, but those ingredients actually produced one of the great examples of urban renewal in American history. Now there is a film that tells the whole story in compelling detail.  “Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New…

Parents want charters because schools are for kids, not unions — politicians, wake up!
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Parents want charters because schools are for kids, not unions — politicians, wake up!

ByNews Polite

As if state legislators and union leaders fearmongering about charter-school costs weren’t enough, Mayor Eric Adams, when he should be championing the city’s kids, is instead caving and joining that crowd. There’s no reality to charter schools costing $1 billion extra in any foreseeable future, but that doesn’t stop the ridiculous narrative against the increasingly…

Mayor Adams makes a parting shot at Kyrie Irving after trade to Mavericks
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Mayor Adams makes a parting shot at Kyrie Irving after trade to Mavericks

ByNews Polite

Mayor Eric Adams had a bit of trash talk for Kyrie Irving Monday morning following news that the talented but oft-troubled player will be traded from the Brooklyn Nets to the Dallas Mavericks. During an interview with morning host Pat Kiernan on NY1, Adams was asked to envision City Hall…

A look at NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell’s first year: crime, morale and visibility
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A look at NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell’s first year: crime, morale and visibility

ByNews Polite

Just three weeks into her tenure as the first woman to helm the New York City Police Department, Commissioner Keechant Sewell faced an immense tragedy in her new force — the fatal shooting of two police officers in a Harlem ambush. Her first year on the job was book-ended by…

Second migrant commits suicide in NYC-run shelter as border crisis rages
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Second migrant commits suicide in NYC-run shelter as border crisis rages

ByNews Polite

A second migrant who arrived in New York City from the southern border and was living in a city-run shelter has committed suicide, city officials told The Post.  The 26-year-old man was found in a bathroom of the shelter last week in Queens and was pronounced dead after being transferred…

El Paso’s migrant state of emergency a taste of what nation faces as Biden shrugs at border crisis
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El Paso’s migrant state of emergency a taste of what nation faces as Biden shrugs at border crisis

ByNews Polite

Oscar Leeser, the Democratic mayor of El Paso, has bent over backward not to “embarrass” the head of his party, President Joe Biden.  As migrants poured across the border, unmetered and unvetted, he quietly grappled with the strain on the city’s resources. He provided the shelter and food the federal…

Eric Adams offers few details after NYC ‘criminal justice summit’ with DAs
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Eric Adams offers few details after NYC ‘criminal justice summit’ with DAs

ByNews Polite

Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday touted to the media his two-day “mayoral summit on criminal justice’’ that he just held with city district attorneys — but fuggedabout him offering any major details. Aside from downplaying the role that the state’s controversial bail-reform laws may have on rising city crime, Hizzoner and…