A strike on the Long Island Rail Road, America's biggest passenger rail service, has been averted, after unions made the unusual decision to ask President Trump to intervene on their behalf. The move could put off the strike for months. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/n...

I rode the 7 train with Sean Manaea on his regular commute from Midtown to Citi Field, and he told me all about being just another New Yorker nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/12/m...

The Long Island Rail Road, the nation's busiest commuter rail service, could have its first strike in over 30 years next week. Here's why, and also what to do if you rely on it. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...

Last year, the MTA lost $1 BILLION to fare and toll evasion, across the buses, subway, railroads and road tolls. For the first time in five years, it looks like 2025 could start to turn the tide, thanks to a range of anti-fare evasion tactics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...

The subway had its safest summer in 15 years, according to police data, a vastly different picture than the one painted by the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...

I can't help but notice that this job was posted in February but still appears to be open. "Come use your journalism degree to shovel out multiple pieces of AI slop every day in order to 'enable' your colleagues to do actual journalism" is such a good pitch though, I don't understand

Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Meeting in Florida, w/ the NYT team: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/n...

I haven’t been in Grand Central Madison at rush hour until today and IMO it’s wild that retailers haven’t opened here yet. It’s bustling. Per @mta.info 70k commuters each weekday. And Tracks is now open and it’s already busy. MTA is negotiating 5 leases currently.

Patients are inundating some NYC medical practices with messages that they are experiencing Covid symptoms. They also are peppering medical providers with questions about whether they qualify to receive a coronavirus vaccine after the FDA released new vaccine restrictions.

NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.

My Greek cousin described his neighborhood as the Jersey of Athens and I’ve never been prouder as a New Yorker of my family

The city called them essential workers, when they cleaned up trash, vomit and excrement in the subway, at the height of the pandemic. But they were grossly underpaid, the comptroller found. Now, they’ll split $3M in back pay. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...

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.

Love this historical look at "the rent is too damn high," WWI edition. Lots of echoes in today's market. by @elizashapiro.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/n...

MORE THAN HALF of immigrants arrested in NYC since President Trump took office have had no criminal records whatsoever. New vital reporting from @luisferre7.bsky.social and Ashley Cai www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/n...

Omny finally brings back its trip history tabs. Shoot me a line, if you have issues with it

Love seeing pro wrestling (and not just wwe!) getting serious treatment in media www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/w...

President Trump didn't like the jobs numbers, so he fired the person responsible for producing them. It's a move that has been tried before, by leaders of countries from Argentina to Greece to the Soviet Union. It rarely ends well. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b... #EconSky

I wanna ride the train with a New Pornographer

Today Gov Hochul announced new details on the IBX, a 14-mile light-rail line that will connect Brooklyn and Queens directly. Take a ride on the future line with us! Free link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This new rail line, the most ambitious in 90 years, could change the face of New York City. We hopped on a freight train to film the route, and show its potential. Take a look! 🚂 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s been a long week, month, year. Enjoy a Norteño-style Cure cover youtu.be/NHzFNJ-pAxU?...

“There is no one in Gaza now outside the scope of famine, not even myself,” said Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, who leads the pediatric ward at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. “I am speaking to you as a health official, but I, too, am searching for flour to feed my family.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

Well done, Queens Chron

Meanwhile in Philly —

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

One set of data, two polar-opposite views on subway safety. We do some factchecking on the blow-up b/n a Manhattan congressman and the head of the US dept of transportation www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/n...

OK that's pretty cute. Nathan's hot dogs is cutting a promo with the MTA to highlight the company's original Coney Island shop. The N, F, and Q lines form a hot-dog-shaped nexus on the new subway map

The Mamdani campaign is calling out Eric Adams, who ran as the “bus mayor,” for its lack of action on some major bus and infrastructure projects.

Employee: “We need a name for the liquor store, something timeless that people will instantly get.” A genius: “You ever seen that Billy Crystal movie from 1991?”

Three out of four riders who use OMNY, New York's replacement for the MetroCard, said they've had problems with it, months before the two-decade old swipe card is slated to be retired. (A majority still prefer OMNY, but they have THOUGHTS) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/n...

Zohran Mamdani promised to make New York City's buses fast and free. Can we have both? The policy has split transit advocates, and it'll be a key proposal on the road to November. (Shoutout to the Q23, my childhood ride and 2022 slowest bus of the year) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...

This could be rly big for housing production in the city, where deference to the local council member often dictates whether big housing projects can move forward www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/n...

More than 70,000 apartments could be built in New York along the new IBX rail line, a passenger train that will connect Qns and BK like nothing before it. That's magnitudes bigger than any neighborhood rezoning in recent history. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/n...

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The Mayor's office *redacted* Chris Sommerfeldt's name from the official transcript

We've got our live coverage up for today's NYC mayoral primary. We'll be live all day, and we'll have live results pages this evening.

I wrote about the Black New Yorkers who are leaving the city, and why it underscores Democrats’ problems with their base ahead of tomorrow’s mayoral election. Reported across three boroughs and informed by conversations with 60+ voters. Read it here (no paywall): www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/n...

On the agenda at the MTA meetings this week, a proposed update to their ad policy: *no big-format nudies (no more Calvin Klein models, i guess?) *but some new adspace for booze www.mta.info/document/176...

Due to dangerous heat wave, NYC is opening 500 cooling centers all over the five boroughs. Will be open today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. See locations & hours here: maps.nyc.gov/cooling-center/ Please check in on vulnerable neighbors.

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More findings in support of congestion pricing, by @rpa.org: *Traffic delays in Manh 25% lower than w/o the toll *Delays in the BX down 10% *Bergen County down 14% *Staten Island mostly flat, but not worse rpa.org/news/lab/con...

The mayor refused to answer questions on this as he walked out of the briefing room

We heard directly from more than 150 researchers, scientists and investigators about their terminated NIH grants and the science that’s being lost. Full story ⤵️

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

SABEW, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, is raising alarm over troubling signs of deterioration in the quality and timeliness of work by federal statistical agencies. sabew.org/2025/06/sabe... #econsky @bencasselman.bsky.social @chrisrugaber.bsky.social @samsutton.bsky.social

The mayor wants e-bikes to cap their speed at 15 mph, far slower than the rest of traffic, even tho most bikes don’t have speedometers. Citi Bike says it will comply. @simko-bednarski.bsky.social broke the news before the mayoral debate www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/n...

I’m so proud to have worked on this investigation, and so grateful that Rukmini has kept the story alive. A serial deed thief has been found guilty of stealing 11 more homes, after we identified new victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/r...

NEW: A federal judge has blocked the Trump admin's attempts to shut down New York's congestion pricing program, a move that should protect the program for months and also signals that the court agrees the toll is legal www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/n...