"At least one of the properties in Brooklyn was stolen after his sentencing in Queens — indicating that he continued to defraud people even after being convicted of the same crime in a different borough." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/r...

A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.

mariska hargitay’s documentary on her mother, jayne mansfield, is phenomenal

New: Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez is backing a bid to re-sentence a prominent counselor in the Hasidic Jewish community who was originally sentenced to 103 years in prison for repeatedly abusing an adolescent girl. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/13/brooklyn-eric-gonzalez-nechemya-weberman/

“The 23-page document calls on the incoming mayor to immediately reduce the number of people incarcerated, fully end solitary confinement and improve medical and mental health care. It also demands that Mamdani do everything possible to close Rikers Island for good.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/13/r...

There are hundreds of interested police officer candidates on multiple civil service rosters generated after they took and passed a written test for the job.

"On the eve of Zohran Mamdani’s election, an assistant commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs joined a wave of commenters smearing the young Muslim candidate as a terror sympathizer." — @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/12/i...

"While the facility is meant to hold 123 detainees, ACS has obtained and extended waivers from the state since 2023 to accommodate up to 154 teens as recently as the monitor’s visit this July, when 33 young people slept on portable bunks in classrooms and dayrooms." www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/12/f...

“This means we’re going to see a $200,000 loss each year,” Fischer said. “For an organization like ours, with a $4.8 million budget, that’s devastating. We may have to let go of three full-time staff who do on-the-ground work with our clients.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/10/o...

Marcy is the prison where Robert Brooks was killed by a group of officers as he was handcuffed on Dec. 9, 2024.

“Zane’s family is still reckoning with their loss – and trying to understand how he could have chosen to spend months talking with an AI tool rather than his loved ones. From their home, his parents recalled their son as a loving family member who was taken too soon.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

“A travel request reviewed by @THE CITY for Rodriguez and another DOT staffer totaled more than $6,600, which included $587 for round-trip flights and a $125 per diem for meals.” — via @katiehonan.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/s...

“With Cuomo garnering just under 855,000 votes, that amounted to the would-be power brokers spending $65 per vote for a losing candidate.” — via @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...

"A Manhattan Supreme Court judge on Thursday rejected a petition from a mysterious advocacy group to toss the city’s new self-funded health plan for municipal workers, administered by EmblemHealth and UnitedHealthcare." — via @clauirizarry.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/e...

THIS 👇

"The board report also noted that Correction staff in two of the five deaths did not immediately notify medical personnel after witnessing detainees in distress. In four of the cases, facility commanders delayed required notifications to central DOC leadership." www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/05/r...

Does mayor-elect Mamdani support a receiver for Rikers Island? "I think that Eric Adams’ actions have left us with no alternative. I also think that the fact that we have ended here is a reflection of what he has and hasn’t done," he told @katiehonan.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/05/m...

you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:

“Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani culminated a meteoric political rise by scoring a decisive victory in a polarizing mayoral election. At just 34 years old, he will become the youngest mayor in over a century and the first Muslim to lead New York City.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/m...

The number of voters casting ballots in the tense three-way race for mayor between Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa is breaking records, with more than 2 million check-ins, according to the city Board of Elections. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/r...

A new proposal would require judges who hand down sentences or make detention decisions to conduct meaningful prison visits annually. The proposed change would be the first of its kind in the nation and mandate hundreds of in-depth judicial visits to state prisons. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/b...

New Yorkers are HITTING THOSE POLLS. It's the highest turnout in about two decades.

Must-read brilliant deep dive into the complicated pedi cab industry following the death of a 29-year-old Turkish immigrant driver shortly after his arrest inside an NYPD precinct holding cell — via @yoavgonen.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/30/p...

"The White House also refused to source funds from a second account with billions of $, comprised largely of tariff revenues. It declined to do so even though the administration had taken the same approach with another federal nutrition program during the shutdown." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...

Avoid commas, semicolons and the word “castigate,” if you want to have impact. The Times’s corresponding headline that day — “Ford, Castigating City, Asserts He’d Veto Federal Bailout; Offers Bankruptcy Bill” — stands as a verbose counterpoint to “Drop Dead.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

More cops has historically led to more arrests and people on Rikers. There are current over 7,000 people locked up w/roughly 85% awaiting trial. Context: the number dropped to below 4,000 during the peak of the pandemic. The city needs to reduce the headcount to around that number to close Rikers.

“Two people died in flooded New York City buildings on Thursday after sudden and intense rain brought a deluge of water to the city in a major afternoon squall.” — @smaldo.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/30/f...

“Over the past year, President Trump and his allies have impinged on free speech to a degree that the federal government has not since perhaps the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“New York City Marshals and sheriff’s deputies have booted more than 600,000 vehicles since 2020, a dramatic rise after enforcement slowed during the pandemic. Just 31,379 cars were immobilized in 2020, compared with nearly 159,000 so far this year.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/30/b...

“He lives for political power,” Frank Seddio, a former Brooklyn Democratic chairman who has known Mr. Cuomo since the 1970s, said after the two campaigned together in southeast Brooklyn last week. This was a compliment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

“There is an emergency on Rikers Island but ending solitary will not make it worse,” Dr. Robert Cohen says at his goodbye party as he recalls his years long struggle to reform Rikers including banning the use of restraint desks that shackle mostly young detainees for hours at a time.

"Cuomo can see everyone’s faults but his own. He doesn’t show humility. He rarely apologizes. And if you never admit mistakes, you never learn from them. You never evolve." www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/29/t...

"A public disclosure law request — which the NYPD took 15 months to fulfill — has turned up 3 deaths that resulted from chases that were not previously reported, putting the # of deaths related to vehicle pursuits over those two years at 20." — @yoavgonen.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/29/n...

"The New York Housing Conference finds that 10 Council districts produced just seven units of affordable housing in total during the first six months of this year. Four produced none." www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/29/a...

“I imagine passing on and being greeted by every one of the patients I’ve looked after in the past,” he said. “Like them welcoming me in some sort of 1980s movie with a slow clap.” www.cpr.org/2025/10/28/l...

“We shouldn’t need to pay millions of dollars to tell the state to stop killing people,” said Jerome Wright. “There is a clear and simple solution here: Stop the racist brutality, stop the torture, and guarantee fair and safe pathways to release from these hellholes.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/24/p...

New York’s “top-to-bottom” prison review, ordered after the killings of Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi, is months overdue and is expected to cost as much as $9.3 million. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/24/p...

"Oh, please, don’t be glazing me here, Zohran! Are you kidding?” The last mayoral debate, what a ride! We recapped it here. Early voting starts Saturday. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/22/n...

In 2018, her office was given power to probe all police deaths in New York State. Zero convictions. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/n...

“I was looking forward to seeing him because the last time I saw him, he was above me with a knife,” Pollack told @jmartineznyc.bsky.social while leaning on a cane outside the Brooklyn courthouse. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/22/m...

“Sliwa — a New York fixture for decades whose brand is built on continuing to show up even when maligned and who once compared himself to a treatment-resistant hemorrhoid — has remained resolute despite the mounting pressure.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/c...

“Cornered and outnumbered, the masked agents pushed and shoved demonstrators out of the way so vehicles could clear the area, while one whipped out a Taser and pointed it at protesters.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

This new Cuomo ad has taken Austin Powers to a different place www.youtube.com/shorts/kZJSS...

"The staggering total, which includes students who lived in shelters along with those doubled up with family or friends, is larger than the entire Dallas school system. During the 2023-2024 school year, 146K city students were homeless." @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/20/1...

In the beatdown inside a medical room, Kieffer pepper sprayed Brooks, while Galliher attached shackles to his ankles, as shown in body-camera video the officers thought was turned off. Kingsley lifted Brooks by his neck during the beatdown, the video showed. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/20/r...

In 2018, the state’s Commission of Correction — an agency overseen at the time by Cuomo — issued a scathing report about the conditions on Rikers, threatening to speed up the closure. Now, Cuomo wants to scrap the plan already in motion. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/09/c...

Mr. Cravitz, one of the victims, “did not have a single bad bone in his body,” said Avrom Baker, 63, a care worker who used to look after Mr. Cravitz’s mother at a nursing home. Others said that Mr. Cravitz had worked as a delivery driver and at a local supermarket. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/w...

“How could we negotiate a bipartisan agreement and then have the president unilaterally through impoundment, or the Republican Party through rescissions and the president unilaterally through pocket rescissions, undo it all without any input.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Others said they were concerned about the projected $1 billion savings, with David Nicholson of the Police Benevolent Association saying they are “not guaranteed,” according to audio from the meeting that was obtained by @thecity.nyc — via @clauirizarry.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/m...

"The cost of a single subway, bus or paratransit ride will hit $3 for the first time come January, after the MTA board on Tuesday approved the latest in a series of every-other-year increases." — @jmartineznyc.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/m...