NYC Mayors: Feds Investigate Adams & Turkish Airlines, Bloomberg Housing Legacy Ages Poorly

"Federal authorities investigating Mayor Eric Adams’s campaign fund-raising have been examining valuable flight upgrades they believe he received from Turkish Airlines that elevated him to its highest class of seats available on international trips, according to people with knowledge of the matter," reported The New York Times. "The scrutiny is part of a broad corruption inquiry that has already led the F.B.I. to search the homes of the former top New York-based executive of Turkish Airlines and aides to Mr. Adams, who has frequently traveled abroad and has made no secret of his affinity for flying on the Turkish carrier."

Meanwhile, Crain's New York followed up after "top Adams deputy mayor Maria Torres-Springer made a rare criticism last month, when she revealed new data showing how housing plummeted in some neighborhoods Bloomberg rezoned. 'We did the opposite of what we should have - we made it harder to build housing,' she said." Howard Slatkin, a former City Planning official during the Bloomberg years and now executive director of Citizens Housing & Planning Council agreed, telling Crain's New York, "There's a lot of evidence that downsizings played a big role in the virtual disappearance of new housing from low-density neighborhoods."