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From HellGate: "The Eric Adams Table of Success" makes some connections, including, yes, Woodland

Credit HellGate and TypeInvestigations for publishing the Eric Adams Table of Success, connecting the embattled mayor to some of his most prominent, and controversial, associates.

Of particular note are the "After Hours" connections, several linked to Woodland, the controversial bar/nightclub, since shuttered, that I've suggested might be be the Rosetta Stone of the Adams administration.

They include the bar operators, Robert & Zhan Petrosyants; Adams's son Jordan Coleman, who--scooplet!--worked at Woodland; "Bling Bishop" Lamor Whitehead; and even Jay-Z.

A few notes

Note: the Table of Success page for Whitehead reports, without caveat, that Whitehead’s father was Arthur Miller, a high-profile victim of police violence, killed in Crown Heights in 1978. A New Yorker article raised major doubts about that.

Note: the Table of Success page for Jay-Z reports that  he "had agreed to donate over $1 million" to the Brooklyn Public Library, which hosted his "Book of HOV" tribute exhibition.

However, that link goes to an article that says the benefit gala raised $1.5 million and that Jay-Z's Shawn Carter Foundation donated "$1.5 million to the library, in partnership with Michael Rubin, chief executive of the sports merchandise company, Fanatics, and the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism founded by Robert Kraft."

There's a good bet that Jay-Z's foundation contributed very little, and that Jay-Z himself contributed less. Sure, he facilitated such fundraising. But that's not the same as donating the money himself.

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