NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Eric Adams has been elected New York City mayor, defeating Republican Curtis Sliwa on Tuesday in a contest far easier than his next task: steering a damaged city through its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
NEW YORK (AP) — Few American leaders have faced the battery of urban ills that confronted David Dinkins when he became New York City's first Black mayor in 1990...
NEW YORK (AP) — Joyce Dinkins, the former first lady of New York City, has died at 89.
Dinkins died Sunday at home, her family said in a statement.
Her husband, David Dinkins, was the city's first — and, to date, only — Black mayor.
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