“Earlier today, one of our officers was shot while protecting our subway system,” Adams told the public, neglecting to mention that the shooting was done by another of those officers. A bullet went through a bystander victim’s brain, his family announced, and he faced a terrible prognosis.

There has been no New York mayor in the past half-century like Eric Adams. No one this flamboyant, this brazen, this imperiled, and this unpopular. Last week, federal agents searched the homes of multiple senior officials in his administration,

Losing one police commissioner might be merely careless. But losing two—with a number of federal investigations targeting the mayor’s inner circle—has encouraged challengers.

The biggest city in the country is in the midst of a major political scandal, and things appear to be unraveling in New York Mayor Eric Adam's administration. There are federal investigations, top level resignations,

City lawmakers are calling for the mayor to step down as his inner circle comes under even more legal scrutiny

As four separate federal investigations plague Mayor Eric Adams and his administration, progressive politicians such as Councilmember Tiffany Cabán (D-Queens), state Senator Julia Salazar (D-Brooklyn) and Assemblymember Emily Gallagher (D-Brooklyn) have called on him to resign.