JULY 23, 2025

NYPD retirements spike

Call it a crashing blue wave.

A spike in retirements among NYPD officers threatens to undermine Mayor Eric Adams’ assurances that the department will be on a path to a 35,000-officer corps by the fall.

Through the first six months of the... MORE

PSC says adjuncts were fired for supporting Palestine

The union representing faculty and other pedagogical staff at the city’s public university system has called on CUNY’s leadership to reinstate four adjuncts who have publicly protested in support of Palestine and were suddenly not reappointed for... MORE

Daily News Union contract fight gets boost from lawmakers

Journalists, editors and photographers at the New York Daily News have been bargaining for a first contract with the newspaper’s owners for three years amid cuts, staff reductions and complaints from employees about a lack of raises. Members... MORE

Council compels inquiry about city’s knowledge of 9/11 toxins

Nearly 24 years after the 9/11 terror attacks, questions persist about what city officials knew about the toxins that lingered over ground zero and swaths of downtown and Brooklyn in the aftermath of the twin towers’ collapse.

The City Council is... MORE

Dim outlook for city construction jobs

New York City’s construction industry is still struggling to fully recover from the pandemic, a recent report from the state comptroller’s office found.

As of last year, there were 143,000 workers employed in the construction sector, meaning that... MORE

Parks Department gets a 'fraction' of funding restored

Around 600 positions in the Department of Parks and Recreations lost under the Eric Adams administration have still not been restored, park advocates and union leaders say, leading to a degradation in the quality of the city’s open spaces. The... MORE

OPINION

Mamdani: ‘de Blasio on steroids’

Bernard Whalen is a former NYPD lieutenant and the co-author of “The NYPD’s First Fifty Years” and “Case Files of the NYPD.”

When it comes to New York City mayoral elections, the candidate who secures the Democratic party nomination is presumed... MORE

Box checking

When the call to public service and the duplicitous itch to "give back to the community" dovetails with rabid ambition, there can be no compromise or chances taken. Every "t" must be crossed, "i" dotted and every box checked.

In the pursuit... MORE

LETTERS

Time and again on EMS

To the editor:

A City Council Member was recently paraphrased stating she thinks the Council has no say in the city’s contract negotiations with the FDNY’s EMS workers (“EMS peer support program included in budget,” The Chief, July 11). Why then... MORE

Ill-served

To the editor:

David McClary, who in 1988 murdered police officer Edward Byrne, is now up for parole. I wholeheartedly agree with those who say he should not be released.

But a further issue is why is he even being considered for parole? Why is... MORE

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