NEW YORK (AP) — A former aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams pleaded guilty Tuesday to soliciting straw donations in a case tied to separate corruption charges against Adams that the Trump administration ultimately decided to drop.

Mayor Eric Adams wants to make it easier to take drug addicts off the streets — and into treatment against their will.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams was endorsed by 13 police unions in his reelection bid, but the Police Benevolent Association has yet to formally back a candidate in the race.

Former Gov. David Paterson, who had endorsed his successor, Andrew Cuomo, in the Democratic primary, said he believed Mr. Adams “would run the city the best.”

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has proposed a controversial new law to get drug addicts off the city's streets by expanding the state's involuntary commitment laws. The Compassionate Interventions Act,

Mayor Eric Adams called on Albany lawmakers Thursday to grant City powers to forcibly hospitalize people struggling with drug addiction — a proposal that was quickly met with intense pushback from civil rights and homeless advocates.

The mayor boasts of being on course to create 500,000 new homes, but many of those potential new residences are far from being built.