"Approximately 2,500 sanitation workers are putting in overtime in 12-hour shifts instead of the normal eight hours. The department also has 500 additional emergency workers doing the painstaking — and frigid — work of snow removal." — @katiehonan.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/02/d...

"Immigration Judge Charles Conroy denied the release of a City Council data analyst whose arrest by ICE last month provoked widespread outrage." — via @gwynnefitz.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/02/r...

"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments." www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

Happy to get a chance to talk with Amina Srna about the new Rikers Island Remediation Manager, Nicholas Deml, a former CIA agent who recently helmed the Vermont detention system. Deml had a stellar reputation during his 4 years in VT, a system way smaller than Rikers. www.wnyc.org/story/in-cha...

“The second, he learned from Hall of Fame coach Paul Brown: When you win, say little. And when you lose, say less.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...

"The family of a Haitian man who died just a day after being detained inside a North Jersey federal immigration facility says they still have no answers about what happened to him." www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

“I see little reason for the use of force that the federal agents are currently using,” Ellis said when she issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting ICE from using tear gas and pepper spray. “I would find the use of force shocks the conscience.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“What we got with Nick that we did not get with other commissioners was an incredible amount of transparency,” Pahl recalled. “Whether we agreed or disagreed, we never felt like they were hiding the ball on us — and that’s huge in the work that we do.” www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/27/n...

"The new filings also expand the laundry list of alleged bribes Lewis-Martin accepted to include a pair of diamond earrings worth $3,000, gifted to her by the two developers she was allegedly helping." — via @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/27/i...

"Not every prosecution will succeed, and all will face obstacles that are built into our legal system. But critically, bringing these state and local prosecutions could produce deterrent effects that are so desperately needed now." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

Say it ain't snow! "Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a remote learning day Monday for nearly a million public school students, with up to a foot of snow expected to fall on the city over the weekend." — via @katiehonan.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/25/n...

"New York City Transit’s fleet for snow and emergency response includes 55 diesel locomotives, 39 crew transport train cars and 10 snow-thrower units."— via @jmartineznyc.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/23/m...

It’s official: ICE is trying to destroy the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, the one that protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures in our homes and guarantees that “no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Construction on the long-delayed Manhattan jail in Chinatown is set to begin, city officials told residents during a heated Zoom meeting Thursday night. The $3.9B facility is the final piece of NYC’s plan to close Rikers Island and it’s expected to open in 2032. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/23/c...

Thousands marching in solidarity with Minneapolis against ICE in NYC. @thecity.nyc

Greg Chen said that the government appears to be in “open defiance” of judicial orders. “I’ve never heard of the DOJ immigration court leadership issuing an instruction to judges essentially to disregard a federal court order." documentedny.com/2026/01/22/b...

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

The city’s ambitious plan to close Rikers Island is now scheduled to be finished by 2032 at the earliest. The new, smaller lockups are required by law to be completed in 2027 when the city will be legally prevented from using Rikers as a jail. tribecacitizen.com/2026/01/22/n...

"The city has issued 55 Code Blue alerts since November, according to DSS spokesperson Neha Sharma, with outreach workers making 1,400 referrals to shelters, drop-in centers, transitional housing facilities and hospitals." — @haidee.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/22/f...

“Using the coat to confront crowds with armed supporters, together with Bovino’s cropped hair and the (apparently) black or dark clothing underneath, gives the unmistakable whiff of dictators and of the 1930s,” said Harold James, a prof. of history at Princeton www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/s...

In a wide-ranging exit interview with @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social, Jocelyn Strauber discussed the Adams administration’s efforts to freeze her out, the independence of city investigators — and what she told her staff when the former mayor’s case was dismissed. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/22/j...

"The state Public Service Commission on Thursday approved increases for Con Ed customers in New York, amounting to increases of about 9% for electric and about 6% for gas over three years." — via @smaldo.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/22/c...

"The documents reveal that police officers responded to four successive reports of domestic violence from Aaron Bonnett’s home on the night of his death, that they failed to follow NYPD protocols...and that some of them submitted false reports about their actions." www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/22/n...

"The administration agreed to lower its threatened tariffs on Vietnam about a month after a Trump Organization project broke ground on a $1.5 billion golf complex outside of Hanoi. Vietnamese officials ignored their own laws to fast-track the project." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Mr. Walker was interrogated for hours by notorious Homicide Bureau Chief and one-time Ku Klux Klan member Will Fritz and Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade, who oversaw 20 proven wrongful convictions of innocent Black men."

"The Hudson River Park Trust, a publicly-owned corporation overseen by New York State and the city, will end its longstanding contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement." — via @gwynnefitz.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/21/i...

Paul Wolf, an attorney and president emeritus of NY Coalition for Open Government, called it “truly incredible that Gov. Hochul, who promised a new era of transparency, is 15 months behind in making her schedule available to the public.” — @chrisbragg1.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/k...

New York State has poured more than $65 million into public defense over the past seven years, but nearly all of that money bypassed New York City, helping fuel what defender groups now warn is a staffing and retention crisis in the city’s courts. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/21/p...

“During the appointment, federal authorities told her that she was being detained and that her husband should pick up their daughter, who was still breastfeeding. Two days later, Ms. Sánchez, 44, who worked as a home health aide, was deported.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

“To me it is just stunning the extent to which the victims of brutal shootings, that left one paralyzed…were not treated as victims at the time and also that they have been largely erased from this critically important historical event since.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/b...

An ambitious experiment to give young people money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say. — @haidee.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/c...

A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention. My story: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

"A correction officer was suspended for not properly checking a Rikers Island jail facility in the hours before a detainee’s death last month." gothamist.com/news/rikers-...

Deep dive into crime and what matters. Murders and shootings? Yes. But also other metrics like OD numbers, suicide rates, and the number of people unhoused. Same with poverty rates. The focus on crime stats fails to address underlying causes, criminologists say. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/16/c...

"Children as young as 12 are regularly held in small barren rooms for weeks and months on end across five facilities. The lawyers claim that youth are often held in solitary conditions to alleviate “dangerously low” staffing levels, and are forced to go to the bathroom in trash cans in their cells."

“It tells you how many people are living in this area and what’s the likelihood of them actually being there,” a deportation officer with ICE’s Fugitive Operations Unit testified about the raid in early December. “It’s basically a map of the United States. It’s kind of like Google Maps.”

“Term limits and lifetime lobbying bans for members of Congress. A ban on stock trading. Rules for elected officials and their crypto holdings. Guardrails for prediction markets. Maybe even consider a constitutional amendment banning presidential pardons.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...

“Many Christians were challenged for the first time to be Christians,” Lee wrote, adding, “What was heart-breaking was to discover that people you loved — friends, relatives, neighbors — whom you assumed were civilized, harbored the most vicious feelings.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/a...

“It’s monumental,” Stackhouse told Bolts. “If I am sent a letter saying I should come in for a jury, I am excited to go through the process. I’ve been telling family and friends that when they get a letter and they try to get out of jury duty—no, you should be excited to be involved. I am.”

"The Department of Homeland Security appears to be moving ahead with a new immigrant detention facility to hold as many as 1,500 detainees in Chester, New York — just over an hour from New York City." — @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/14/c...

“The reform effort continues to progress at a glacial pace,” said monitor Steve Martin, citing entrenched resistance and “pervasive poor practices.” www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/14/r...

“He walked downstairs to pick up the food and was taken by ICE. They took him and they left my baby in the apartment, all alone." www.nj.com/morris/2026/...

“They do and will say anything to try to intimidate and scare people,” Neubauer said that morning. “One of their favorite lines recently is, ‘This is your one and only warning.’”

Investigators found that handwritten jail logbooks masked hundreds of violent incidents. Years later, the Department of Correction says it’s finally piloting an electronic record system. A 🧵 www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/13/r...

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

“Mount Sinai Hospital fired three nurses via voicemail message on the eve of a massive ongoing strike, a move that amounts to illegal retaliation and intimidation, the New York State Nurses Association said on Tuesday.” — via @clauirizarry.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/13/m...

"The token opened at 60 cents per share Monday afternoon and almost immediately sky dived to 10 cents a share. By Tuesday it was trading at around 13 cents, and the company running it had removed liquidity from the equation." — via @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/13/e...

Inbox: UberEats and DoorDash designer changes to their apps that made it harder to leave tips for delivery workers after the city’s worker protection agency began enforcing a minor pay rate in December 2023.

The NYCity News Service’s analysis of inspection data found that, between 2023 and 2025, DCWP inspectors visited more than 4,000 grocery stores. Nearly a quarter of groceries were cited for at least one violation and inspectors confiscated 100 scales. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/12/f...