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Mayor Eric Adams holds a roundtable discussion with local Pakistani community leaders at City Hall regarding ongoing flooding disaster in Pakistan on Tuesday, September 6, 2022.

Fired Adams Staffer Offered Businessmen Connections to ‘Politics’

Oct. 10, 2024, 10:42 a.m.Oct. 10, 2024, 11:49 a.m.

Ahsan Chughtai was fired last summer and had his home raided by the FBI and NYC DOI. Shortly after he was appointed, he told a group of businessmen it was his job to open the “portals in politics."

The iconic East Broadway Mall is changing hands, but the former operator and tenants have questions about the new leadership.

Manhattan

Behind a Chinatown Real Estate Deal, a Web of Shifting Alliances and Political Connections

Oct. 23, 2023, 2:36 p.m.Oct. 8, 2024, 10:25 a.m.

The iconic East Broadway Mall is changing hands, but the former operation and tenants have questions about the new leadership.

Vendors

Obscure Law Enables Herald Square’s Private Security to Issue Street Vendors Tickets

June 14, 2023, 10:00 p.m.June 16, 2023, 11:27 a.m.

The private security officers are deputized as ‘peace officers’ and are allowed to issue city fines.

Feds Say Bloods Took Over Fire Clean-Up Company That Worked Building Where Loot Went Missing

July 12, 2022, 7:35 p.m.Nov. 13, 2023, 2:42 p.m.

A Brooklyn gang first gained control of First Response Cleaning in 2019, and then used the company to extort competitors and muscle the industry with violence and threats, according to a federal indictment.