NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams is opting out of New York City’s Democratic primary and running for reelection as an independent — embarking on narrow path as he further isolates himself from the city’s dominant political party.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Thursday that he would run for reelection as an independent, not as a Democrat as he did in his first, successful mayoral bid.

Adams’ exit from the Democratic party comes one day after a federal judge dismissed the corruption case against him.

First, transit officials in New York City said goodbye to the Metrocard. Now the MTA is waving farewell to another transit icon: the famed subway map. “This is a lynchpin moment,” said MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber,

The lawyers for Payton Gendron, who murdered 10 Black people at a Buffalo Tops Supermarket, want his federal trial moved to New York City.

Attorneys for a white gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket want to move his federal death penalty trial to New York City

Ahead of his federal death penalty trial, the attorneys for the Buffalo mass shooting gunman are asking the court for a change of venue.