The Post reported on City Hall ads<\/a> promoting rosy city statistics under Eric Adams \u2014 such as drops in crime \u2014 that appeared on LinkNYC kiosks and referred to a \u201cdeliveringforyou.nyc\u201d website.<\/p>\nAdams, while weighing a run for re-election, did not personally appear in the kiosk ads nor was his name mentioned in the spots.<\/p>\n
Mamdani\u2019s office insisted the mayor complied with the law barring the use of public resources for electioneering.<\/p>\n
Mamdani\u2019s PSA was first reported by City and State, as critics have blasted the ad for hizzoner using public resources to boost his image. YouTube\/NYC Mayor’s Office<\/p>\n
Using the image of the now-nationally known socialist darling to promote pre-k is appropriate and does not violate the Public Officers Law prohibition on using government resources to purchase ads on private or commercial media \u2014 because the ad was not purchased, said mayoral spokesperson Dora Pekec.<\/p>\n
\u201cLinkNYC is required to broadcast city public service announcements as part of their operating agreement and the City did not use any taxpayer dollars to place this advertisement,\u201d Pekec said.<\/p>\n
The city of New York has free access to 25% of LinkNYC screen time per month as part of the franchise agreement.<\/p>\n
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Public service ads featuring prior mayors have been broadcast on TaxiTV and LinkNYC in the past, Pekec added.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for LinkNYC confirmed the \u201cfree ads\u201d provided to the city under the franchise agreement and that prior mayors have appeared in public service announcements. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hizzoner should get over himself. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has already put his own TikTok famous mug on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36446,49090,57,9,56,63,65,64,47350,58,82],"class_list":["post-109145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ads","tag-kiosks","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-pre-kindergarten","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}