PEACE IN THE VALLEY: Striking LIRR workers, MTA reach deal with trains to run by noon This is my third — and hopefully last — story I've written today. Be honest, it's the one you've been waiting to read. NEW in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/18/l...

Puerto Rico Takes Center Stage in Reynoso-Valdez House Showdown www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/18/r...

LIRR Strike Brings Five-Hour Commutes, Bleary Travelers www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/18/l...

Manic Monday: New Yorkers Prep for Morning Rush With LIRR Still On Strike www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/17/m...

Just another normal Friday night were I start researching a 1940s America First Nazi tied to GLKSmith's Christian Nationalist Crusade who claimed to have known the guy who murdered Trotsky and later, in 1977, ran the Greek Orthodox Bingo Hall in Albuquerque after getting elected GOP precinct chair.

After Mamdani Cut-Off, Adams Aide Demands Payments for Sex Harassment Defense www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/15/e...

Rikers Official Forced Out Under Adams Returns to Oversee Discipline www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/14/r...

That's no earthquake: Pile Driving Draws Ire of Inspectors as Neighbors Watch Walls Crumble and Crack www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/14/p...

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Rex Reed was a fascinating man. In the late 1960s, he became the first entertainment journalist (for the NY Herald Tribune and the NYT) to be allowed to write in a recognizably queer voice for mainstream publications. The best of his on-set reports from back then are among the best ever written. >

Every time I teach the MOVE bombing, students are shocked. And when I teach the aftermath involving an anthropologist who hoarded some of the remains and used them as teaching tools, they are even more shocked. And I teach in Pennsylvania. Even some students from Philly are unaware of this history

Schroedinger's Renovation bedevils rent-paying tenants -- and could come to your building soon. To Evict Good Cause Tenants, Landlords Now Claim 'Demolition.' Is It Valid? www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/13/g...

The last line is concerning: “This was supposed to be put in place to help out the tenants,” Orlandi said. “But they made the lines so blurred and all the words so vague that no one knows — not even lawyers, not even ChatGPT — no one knows what that even means. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/13/g...

As Mamdani Pulls Budget Rabbit From Hat, Watchdogs Fret Over ‘One-Shots’ www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/12/a...

$124 Billion Mamdani Budget Leaves City Reserves Intact www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/12/1...

Paladino Settles With Council Over Anti-Muslim Tweets www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/11/v...

City Sued Landlords of Inwood Fatal Fire Building 16 Times Over Violations Across NYC www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/10/c...

Rent Freeze No Sure Thing in First Vote By Mamdani-Majority Board www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/07/r...

Support Cracks for Bill Banning 24-Hour Home Care Shifts www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/07/2...

Video Shows ICE Agent Tasing Man Multiple Times Ahead of Bushwick Hospital Standoff www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/04/v...

He Survived Japanese Occupation and Mao’s Cultural Revolution. At 93, He’s Fighting NYCHA. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/04/c...

Whatever happens next, it’s hard to think of a public figure who has more thoroughly humiliated himself in my lifetime than Rudy Giuliani.

Jimmy Breslin said Rudy Giuliani was “a small man in search of a balcony.” It doesn’t get any better than that.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

always a thrill: just got to edit a story where one of our reporters got hung up on. classic! support your local journalists who call people who do NOT want to talk — so you don't have to 😇 donorbox.org/nycdonate/

specific request, for journalism: looking to talk to New Yorkers who got a local problem solved (OR NOT) through their House rep's office ... who's gone to their federal district office to try and get help? were you successful? would love to talk about it for a story. thank you!

Carl Wilson Defeats Mamdani’s Choice in Council Special Election www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/28/c...

Hochul Refuses NYC Tax Move in Budget Showdown www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/28/k...

Mayor Mamdani today named Dana Kaplan his "Rikers czar" --but you heard it first a week ago in @thecity.nyc: www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/22/m...

THE CITY exists to help neighbors & today we are here to help 2 particularly feckless New Yorkers, Colin Jost and Pete Davidson, get off a sinking ship. By sinking their ship. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/27/c...

How the NYPD Slow-Walked and Shot Down Gang Database Reforms www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/28/n...

How Can Colin Jost and Pete Davidson Offload Their Boondoggle Ferry? Sink It, Artificial Reef Experts Say www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/27/c...

How Can Colin Jost and Pete Davidson Offload Their Boondoggle Ferry? Sink It, Artificial Reef Experts Say www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/27/c...

Mamdani To Veto School Protest 'Buffer Zone' Bill www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/24/m...

Unions Met With Mamdani Team Over Protest ‘Buffer Zone’ Bill www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/23/m...

Big Business Fears Mamdani. Its Workers Gave Him Big Bucks. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/24/m...

Mamdani’s Municipal Grocery Faces Basket Full of Challenges www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/23/m...

Mamdani’s New ‘Rikers Czar’ Helped Design Plan to Close Jail Complex www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/22/m...

Council Member Arrested at Brooklyn Eviction Linked to Alleged Deed Theft Scheme www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/22/b...

Great reporting by @rosagoldensohn.bsky.social and @smaldo.bsky.social at @thecity.nyc. A Superluxury Condo Sold for $87.7 Million. Will NYC’s New Pied-à-Terre Tax Apply? www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/22/p...

Challenger’s Poll Shows Soft Support for Espaillat in NY-13 www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/20/e...

Doorman Strike is Off as Union Cuts Deal With Luxury Landlords www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/17/d...

Insane story: Using facial recognition technology, The New York Knicks apparently tracked the movements of a transgender woman attending a game at Madison Square Garden to ensure she never appeared on the game's televised broadcast

Judge Slams City in Gay Couple’s IVF Discrimination Case www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/16/g...

Sir Hans Sloane, physician, botanist, Chelsea gardener, born #OTD 1660; benefactor of Chelsea Physic Garden, his collection founded British Museum. Portrait by Slaughter 1736, National Portrait Gallery London | Hans Sloane Chelsea plate c.1755 Met Museum

What Feud? Council Speaker Backs Mamdani’s Watchdog-in-Chief www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/15/z...

Never Mind Mamdani: Wall Street Doubles Down on NYC www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/14/w...

I think the current state of things is that you can delusionally attack the Pope OR post a meme of yourself as Jesus, but not one right after the other

Mamdani Embraces Socialist ‘Pothole Politics’ in Queens Barn Burner www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/12/m...

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