Freezing the rent requires a big squeeze. Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s promise of freezing rents in New York City if elected mayor hinges on his appointments to a powerful board that could easily buck his wishes — just ask Eric Adams. The nine-person Rent Guidelines Board — all of whom were handpicked by the mayor —...

Mayor Eric Adams “violated” the law when he blocked the City Council’s ban on solitary confinement in Big Apple prisons, a Manhattan judge ruled Monday. “Mayor Adams acted beyond the scope of his emergency powers,” wrote Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Jeffery H. Pearlman in his decision on Monday. A Manhattan judge ruled that Mayor Adams...