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In this image provided by the Office of the New York Mayor, New York Mayor Eric Adams hosts "Talk with Eric: A Community Conversation," Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, in New York. As tens of thousands of international migrants have arrived in New York City over the past year without jobs or a home, Adams and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul have begged President Joe Biden for one thing: Make it easier for migrants to get work authorization papers quickly. (Benny Polatseck/Office of the New York Mayor via AP, File)

New York Mayor Adams calls out Biden for not meeting with him, helping with migrant crisis

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Migrants sit in a queue outside of The Roosevelt Hotel that is being used by the city as temporary housing, Monday, July 31, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

NYC mayor pushes Biden for permits to put illegal immigrants to work

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE — Worshipers in New York's East Harlem neighborhood take part in the traditional annual prayer commemorating the end of Ramadan, in front of the Masjid Aqsa-Salam mosque, on July 17, 2015. New York Mayor Eric Adams announced new guidelines Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, allowing mosques to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer on Fridays and at sundown during the holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith, File)

Muslim call to prayer can now be broadcast publicly in New York City without a permit

By Karen Matthews - Associated Press

Mayor Eric Adams of New York, center, kneels before the spot where Jesus is said to have been anointed before burial in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Adams spent the second day of his visit to Israel touring holy sites before a planned meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he sought to avoid publicly weighing into the political crises plaguing the nation. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

In Israel, Mayor Eric Adams of New York City stays neutral on divisive judicial overhaul

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

The Manhattan Correctional Center appears in this July 1, 2019 photo, in New York. New York Mayor Eric Adams' administration suggested in a letter, to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Aug. 9, 2023, that it wants to house migrants in a notorious federal jail that was closed after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's suicide there led to its squalid conditions being deemed unsafe for humans. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

NYC suggests housing migrants in jail shuttered after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide

By Anthony Izaguirre - Associated Press

People work on securing the bases of tents on an athletic field on Randalls Island in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. New York Mayor Eric Adams says the city will house as many as 2,000 migrants on the island in the East River where a migrant center was set up last year and then taken down weeks later. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Mayor of sanctuary city complains about cost of caring for immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants sit in a queue outside of The Roosevelt Hotel that is being used by the city as temporary housing, Monday, July 31, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Advocates accuse New York City of using migrants as ‘props’ in bid for federal money

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends a a news conference, Oct. 11, 2022, in New York. Every New York City mayor in recent history has waged battles against Public Enemy No. 1: Rats. But the current mayor, Eric Adams, took the war on vermin into unfamiliar territory when on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 he contested a pair of summonses from his own health department citing him for allegedly allowing broods of rodents to take residence at his Brooklyn property. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams says crane collapse could have been ‘much worse’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

NYPD Police Commissioner Edward A. Caban, right, is sworn in during a ceremony outside New York City Police Department 40th Precinct on Monday, July 17, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams appoints Edward Caban as city’s first Hispanic commissioner

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Spectators look on during the Diwali festival at a Times Square celebration, Oct. 7, 2017, in New York. New York City will add the Hindu festival of Diwali to the list of public school holidays in recognition of the growth of the city's South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday, June 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

NYC will add Diwali as a public school holiday, but there’s a catch this year

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A biker stops to look at a pile of e-bikes in the aftermath of a fire in Chinatown, which authorities say started at an e-bike shop and spread to upper-floor apartments, Tuesday June 20, 2023, in New York. New York City is receiving $25 million in emergency funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to establish scores of new e-bike charging stations across the city. Mayor Eric Adams announced the funding Sunday, June 25. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

NYC gets $25M for e-bike charging stations, seeking to prevent deadly battery fires

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New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell stands in New York's Times Square during a news conference about New Year's Eve security, Dec. 30, 2022. Sewell, the first woman to hold the position, is stepping down after 18 months on the job. Sewell, who was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams, announced the resignation in an email to department staff, Monday, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

New York City police commissioner, first woman to lead department, resigns after 18 months

By Jake Offenhartz and Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Recent immigrants to the United States sit with their belongings on the sidewalk in front of the Watson Hotel in New York, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. The immigrants, mostly from Venezuela and other Latin American countries, had been living in the hotel until recently, when they were told to leave the temporary shelter. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Room for rent? New York mayor willing to pay homeowners to house migrants

By Dave Boyer and Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Pedestrians pass the shuttered front of the Roosevelt Hotel, Monday, May 15, 2023, in the midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York. Mayor Eric Adams announced Saturday, May 13, 2023, the historic hotel will be reopening to accommodate an anticipated influx of asylum seekers just as other New York City hotels are being converted to emergency shelters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

N.Y. leaders plead for help in authorizing work permits for migrants

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

People line up along temporary tents to partake in a free Thanksgiving meal provided by the Union Rescue Mission as the Los Angeles Skid Row district annual feast hosts thousands of homeless and others in need, in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 2022. Democratic leaders in major U.S. cities are finding themselves politically squeezed when it comes to addressing homelessness. Some hope L.A.'s newly elected Mayor Karen Bass will make good on her campaign promise to move people out of tents and cardboard shanties and eventually into permanent housing. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

New York City has a right to shelter, but will it establish a right to sleep outside?

By Bobby Caina Calvan and Christopher Weber - Associated Press

A Town of Newburgh police vehicle sits parked outside The Crossroads Hotel, where two busloads of migrants arrived hours earlier, on May 11, 2023, in Newburgh, N.Y. The founder of a nonprofit group has been accused of fabricating a story about homeless military veterans being evicted from the hotel to make room for international migrants, a tale that stoked days of outrage on cable news networks. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Group accused of making up story about homeless vets being evicted to make room for migrants

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

A Town of Newburgh police vehicle is parked outside as security and staff personnel mill about The Crossroads Hotel where two busloads of migrants arrived hours earlier, Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Newburgh, N.Y. New York City Mayor Eric Adams touched off a furor north of the city by announcing last week that the city would temporarily send north up to 300 single, adult men to two hotels in suburban Rockland County and neighboring Orange County. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Judge halts New York City’s plans to dump migrants on neighboring county

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Workers erect a hangar-sized tent in the parking lot of Orchard Beach, in the Bronx borough of New York, on Sept. 27, 2022, as temporary shelter for thousands of international migrants who have been bused into the Big Apple. New York City announced plans Friday, May 5, 2023, to send hundreds of asylum seekers to two hotels north of the city for up to four months as it tries to cope with new arrivals, antagonizing some officials in the largely suburban area. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson) **FILE**

County official vows to fight NYC mayor’s migrant bus plan

Associated Press

Kathleen Corradi was introduced as the city's first-ever citywide director of rodent mitigation, also known as the "rat czar," in New York, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Corrari, a former school teacher and anti-rat activist — is vowing nothing short of annihilating the whiskered, four-clawed vermin to live up to the mayor's need for a deputy with "killer instincts," is "bloodthirsty" and can commit to the "wholesale slaughter" of rats. (AP Photo/Bobby Caina Calvan)

Rat czar ready to battle New York’s 2 million rodents

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

New York Mayor Eric Adams, left, introduces Kathleen Corradi, center, as the city's first-ever citywide director of rodent mitigation, also known as the "rat czar," in New York, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Bobby Caina Calvan)

Teacher’s pest: NYC hires former educator to slaughter rats

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press