The unfolding international scandal around Mayor Eric Adams has fixed New York City’s attention on his odd ties to various Turkish government proxies.

But overlooked have been the equally strange ties one of those groups, a charity incorporated by the son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has to medical fraudsters in Brooklyn — the borough that catapulted Adams into power.

So far, public attention on the Turken Foundation has focused on the nonprofit’s 21-floor headquarters in Midtown, which Adams helped break ground for in 2018 as Brooklyn borough president, and on the donations some of its leaders made to his campaigns.

But well before it secured a foothold in Manhattan for its glamorous home base, Turken acquired a dingy one-story doctor’s office in the remote reaches of Brooklyn. In doing so, the organization entangled itself in a network of insurance-related criminal schemes endemic to both the building and the surrounding neighborhood: what New York magazine once labeled “the Brighton Beach swindle.”

President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t yet laid out a detailed plan for his administration’s education policy. But a review of his first term and his campaign promises, as well as the details contained in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, gives some indication of what might be coming in New York.

President-elect Donald Trump wants to “terminate” Democrats’ climate agenda — and let America “drill, baby, drill.” Those promises could stymie a key component of New York’s plan to help slow global warming over the next few decades: building wind turbines off the coast of Long Island.

The question of how to fund schools is a major political battle in New York state.

New York spends more per pupil than any other state, and education funding makes up nearly a third of its overall budget. Yet student outcomes are subpar. This year, the state is examining a key piece of how schools receive money: Foundation Aid.