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In ongoing retreat, NYC’s county parties sit out mayor’s race
Brooklyn’s Eric Adams stared into the camera on a recent weeknight and declared, borough pride be damned, that he is in fact the “Queens candidate” in the upcoming mayor’s race.
“We have heard reported over and over again that there is not a Queens candidate running for mayor. That is not true. I am the Queens candidate,” the Brooklyn borough president, who grew up in Queens, told its Democratic county organization at a virtual forum earlier this month. “This is a borough that is dear to my heart.”
In ongoing retreat, NYC s county parties sit out mayor s race
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Rikers inmate knocked out correction officer s teeth: union
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Fire marshals are investigating a blaze that killed three men in Elmhurst early Saturday morning, including reports that several men were trapped inside by locked gates.
The fire department believes there were eight people in the house at 90-31 48 Ave., a property that had been illegally subdivided, according to Department of Buildings records.
Two died on the second floor and one was on the third. A body had to be slid out the window onto an FDNY cherrypicker because the staircases were no longer passable after the roof collapsed. One fireman was injured when he fell through the floor.
The New York Post reported that FDNY investigators believe it was an electrical fire.
A dispute last week between City Councilman Daniel Dromm and the head of the cityâs largest correction-officer union about solitary confinement has led to a call for punitive sanctionsâin the form of the Queens lawmaker s resignation. Â
The exchange between Mr. Dromm and Correction Officersâ Benevolent Association President Benny Boscio started typically enough, if a tad testily, during the Councilâs Dec. 11 Criminal Justice Committee hearing on legislation sponsored by the Councilman that would curtail the use of inmate isolation in city jails.Â
Push Comes to Thug
The two began by sparring over the meanings of the phrases âsolitary confinement,â and âpunitive segregation.â The usual question-and-answer format of a Council committee hearing then devolved into insults and counter-charges, with the Councilman calling Mr. Boscio a âthugâ and the COBA head telling Mr. Dromm that he knew little about jails.Â