One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

At just 34 years old, Zohran Mamdani culminated a meteoric political rise Tuesday by scoring a decisive victory in a polarizing mayoral election. He will become the youngest mayor in over a century, the first Muslim to lead New York City. buff.ly/7kOwKhb

[email protected] spoke to older voters in Bed-Stuy and Mott Haven this week during early voting. Are Bed-Stuy voters still all about Mamdanity? "Yes, of course I voted for Mamdani. Of course I did," said 64-year-old Bernard. "That's the only choice." hellgatenyc.com/talk-mayor-t...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Our voter-on-the-street column TALK MAYOR TO ME returns, right as early voting is set to begin. @oliviabensimon.bsky.social went to two Andrew Cuomo strongholds—Co-op City in the Bronx and Canarsie in Brooklyn—to see if @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social had made progress:

I love bopping around the city and asking people who they’re voting for and why 😇

The former governor participated in a radio interview on Thursday where he laughed with the cohost about mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim, cheering on a future 9/11 attack against the city. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/c...

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were. The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

NEW: More than 50 federal agents descended on Canal Street in New York City, arresting several men and leading to impromptu protests. More on today's raid in Manhattan, including video and eyewitness accounts. With @oliviabensimon.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/n...

More to come, but confrontation still ongoing with the masked agents trying to leave Canal Street and a spontaneous crowd of counter protesters.

Huge showing of many federal agencies, though seems like mainly show of force. Few arrests

When ICE stormed through Santa Ana, CA, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system. Recordings obtained by @propublica.org captured the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. / Story by @davidmcswane.bsky.social

NEW: Federal agents arrested two Venezuelan men outside a migrant shelter in Times Square. DHS said the men were in the country illegally and belonged to Tren de Aragua. The partner of one of the men denied any gang ties. W/ @oliviabensimon.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

Male loneliness epidemic solved on the line at MTA Memorabilia fair (lots of transit nerds becoming friends here)

“Look at all these unemployed people” said a man as we walked down the four block long line for the MTA memorabilia sale in Coney Island (this man and other people, including me, are still lining up)

a few days late to this absolute banger list www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

A public service from @cityandstateny.bsky.social www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

olivia's ESL moments: trying to remember the word “scapegoat” and all I could come up with was “sheep shame” and “goat blame”

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES by William H. Whyte is well worth catching for anyone who's interested in cities or has enjoyed How to with John Wilson www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

New York state helped hundreds of asylum-seeker families leave crowded New York City shelters to find housing and jobs upstate. Now, some of them have been swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet. nysfocus.com/2025/09/29/w...

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City plans to announce on Sunday that he will abandon his foundering campaign for a second term, upending the race to lead the nation’s largest city just five weeks before Election Day, according to two people briefed on his plans. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

“The data has been collected every year since the mid-1990s, and is widely used by federal, state and local policymakers to make funding decisions for food-assistance programs, and to evaluate how well those programs work.”

“Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar. I am the only one who can beat Mamdani,” NYC Mayor Eric Adams says, stating he intends to stay in the race

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

They just decided to torment this man in one way after another for no apparent reason — pure Kafka.

Breaking News: Gaza City and the surrounding area are officially suffering from famine, a global group of experts said. An Israeli agency rejected the finding.

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

“I can see how this looks strange” lol what an understatement

Cannabis legalization was supposed to give people with weed-related felonies a clean slate. But a Hell Gate investigation reveals that when it comes to expungements, your zip code makes a dramatic difference. hellgatenyc.com/weed-felony-...

"the first known ICE arrest of a New York City child under the age of 18 during the second Trump administration" www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/15/f...

Detainees had described "horrific" and unsanitary conditions, with dozens of people packed into a single room, little food, and scant access to attorneys. hellgatenyc.com/judge-orders...

Mayor Adams will veto a common-sense bill that requiring Instacart to pay its delivery workers the same minimum wage that other delivery workers get. The increasingly right-leaning mayor once supported the bill, but no more. @sophlebo.bsky.social breaks it: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/12/a...

In court today, Kaplan heard about migrants sleeping in areas that reek of sewage and ICE agents “holding up a water bottle and spraying it into the mouths of the individuals who wanted water as if they were animals.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli strike, while he and other journalists were inside their tent

Imp by @sophlebo.bsky.social: "Inside Instacart’s Astro-Turf Group Opposing Worker Minimum Wage" -- nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/05/i...

NEW: Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign submitted faked and fraudulently obtained petition signatures in his effort to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent candidate, a Gothamist investigation has found. gothamist.com/news/forged-...

NEW visual investigation: ICE agents are smashing car windows & grabbing the people inside There's footage of sobbing kids, pregnant women, & bloodied faces We found ~50 cases but no civilians w/ sig criminal records Insiders told us this used to be rare projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

Carlos Daniel Terán says he thought he was going to die at the CECOT. Andry Hernandez describes the place as “hell on Earth.” Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse www.npr.org/2025/07/27/n... w/ Manuel Rueda

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

Gaza. "In conversations with Washington Post reporters this week, doctors, health officials and aid workers have all apologized for lack of focus, citing hunger." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

AFP, AP, BBC News, and Reuters all say their own journalists in Gaza are starving. They are "increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families."

An investigation by THE CITY uncovered donors who insist they didn’t donate to Eric Adams’ campaign, a donor who paid with a credit card linked to their employer and donors who don’t live where they claimed to. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

Chanting ‘Danny DeVito,’ Italians for Zohran told protesters yesterday to get over Columbus already nygroove.nyc/italians-for...

‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/v...

Congressional reps have been denied access to the 10th Floor at Federal Plaza on the grounds that it's not a detention facility. Videos, testimony and data reviewed by @thecity.nyc show dozens held there for days, sleeping on the floor, subsisting on cookies, and using an open toilet stall