The Latest Breaking News from Eric Adams

NEW YORK — There are enough vacant apartments in the city’s public and supportive housing systems to accommodate 15,000 people, according to data shared with the New York Daily News by Brooklyn Councilman Lincoln Restler, who’s questioning why Mayor Eric Adams’ administration isn’t doing more to fill those units amid…

A majority of the City Council has signed a letter calling on Mayor Eric Adams to add at least $195 million for legal service providers to next year’s budget, warning that the city-supported lawyers face a “funding crisis.”

A man charged with manslaughter for putting an agitated New York City subway rider in a fatal chokehold has been indicted by a grand jury, a step that will allow the criminal case to continue.

Jordan Neely was shouting at passengers and begging for money when Daniel Penny pinned him to the floor

Daniel Penny, a former Marine, allegedly held Jordan Neely, a former Michael Jackson impersonator who has battled mental illness, in a chokehold on a subway train. Penny says he was protecting himself and others.

Daniel Penny has said he did not mean to kill performer Jordan Neely, whose death sparked protests in New York City.

He's been charged with second-degree manslaughter over the train incident.

New York grand jury indicts Daniel Penny, sources say, over death of Neely, a well-known subway performer, in May

NEW YORK — A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Daniel Penny for the chokehold killing of Jordan Neely aboard an F train, law enforcement sources told the Daily News on Wednesday.