A test of faith, in so many ways. A superb and insightful story here from @hannahnatanson.bsky.social about a federal worker, and Trump voter, who chose to take the buyout as his wife was dying, only to be told he was too late. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

After federal funding threat, NYC Mayor Eric Adams targets transgender students’ bathroom access www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

wow, per our reporter Lauren Hartley who is at the hearing now, the Avenir proposal (for the Hudson Yards area) was also just voted down. two major Manhattan casino plans scraped off the board. story to come ...

Pretty neat @thecity.nyc event at the Tenement Museum next month, looking forward to checking it out @rachelholliday.bsky.social @katiehonan.bsky.social www.tenement.org/events/beer-...

“Deaths in NYPD custody have surged to levels not seen in at least a decade, with 40 people dying in 2023 and 2024 combined — roughly double the toll of any two-year period since at least 2016.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/d...

A longtime anti-gun violence advocate and current campaign proxy for Eric Adams got fired from his Adams administration job for social media posts calling Charlie Kirk racist.

Eric Adams Advocate Fired from City Job After Posts Critical of Charlie Kirk www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/12/t...

Here’s what to know about where our water comes from, how to check your service line and indoor plumbing pipe material, and how to mitigate your household’s lead exposure.

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

A corruption indictment unveiled Thursday alleges what safe street advocates have long suspected: that a scheme involving an influential Greenpoint family and the mayor’s aide wrecked improvements to the neighborhood’s deadliest street.

Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...

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LISTEN: @katiehonan.bsky.social describes how an ally of Mayor Eric Adams slipped her cash hidden inside an empty bag of potato chips, and how she and her editors navigated the episode www.wnyc.org/story/an-ada...

Meanwhile...the NYPD is moving its school safety division to be managed by the head of its uniformed officers. It's been in community affairs and had previously been slated to move out of the NYPD entirely.

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...

New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

While other cities like LA are being put through outdoor ICE raids, NYC is the nation's capital of ICE immigration courthouse arrests, new data analysis shows. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/11/2...

whoopsie daisy

A start-up plugged New Yorkers’ ACs into small batteries in their homes as part of a new experiment this summer. When Con Ed requests energy conservation during heat waves, the ACs keep blasting, powered by the batteries. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/08/r...

just wild that there was basically a $17 million heist last month using the city’s youth job program — and it barely registered

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

have you ever applied to the NYC housing lottery? I'm reporting out a story and looking to talk to people who got a golden ticket (an actual call back on an affordable apartment) but for whatever reason decided not to take it. I know you're out there! reply and/or DM, thank you!

“People are leaving in droves, the programs are being chopped without explanation, technical violations are spiking, and frontline workers — many of whom are women of color — are being pushed to the brink.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/28/p...

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

Great reporting as always and this has GOT to be an all time mother-in-law quote

The feds may have dropped their case, but investigative journalism never sleeps. Blockbuster new reporting from @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social and @haidee.bsky.social

Two videos offer the first glimpse inside the detention site on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where dozens of immigrants are being held for days at a time, according to an analysis by THE CITY of ICE data through the end of June. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/v...

One of the men @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I wrote about is Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. He came into the U.S. legally, through the CBP One app. His family has worked tirelessly to secure his release from CECOT. Tonight, they got to hug him again. His mother Ydalys shares this video:

NEW: As many as 252 Venezuelans, deported by the U.S. to a notorious Salvadoran prison, could be returned to the U.S. for further legal proceedings, under a diplomatic arrangement tied to today’s prisoner swap, the Trump admin indicated in court tonight www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

NEW: Story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and me based on interviews with families of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared them to El Salvador in March. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🚨 NEW: Both @bloomberg.com and @reuters.com are reporting that the United States is in the process of completing a prisoner swap, deporting all or potentially nearly all of the Venezuelans imprisoned in CECOT to Venezuela in exchange for American political prisoners. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

The NYPD is barred from using facial recognition software to ID suspects — so they asked the city’s fire department to do it. New @smaldo.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/18/n...

New: Discovery in the civil sexual assault case against Mayor Adams has hit a snag as his lawyers say they can't produce his NYPD employment records because they all apparently got destroyed in Hurricane Sandy over a decade ago. www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/17/a...

"This lawsuit is not a personal grievance. It is a statement against a corrupt system that betrays the public, silences truth, and punishes integrity."

Inbox: "Former FBI Section Chief and NYPD Interim Police Commissioner Thomas G. Donlon filed a sweeping federal lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York, alleging that Mayor Eric Adams and his top NYPD deputies are running City Hall and the NYPD as a criminal racketeering enterprise."

Chancellor Felix Matos Rodríguez became the latest university chief facing hostile questioners, where his non-responses did little to satisfy House Republicans while they also infuriated the union representing faculty members.

NYC ICE arrests jumped 46% this May from last year. In the first 10 days of June alone, ICE agents in NYC made 495 arrest— more than twice as many as in all of June last year. That’s also nearly seven times the 73 people arrested in the first 10 days last June. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/14/i...

The number of ICE arrests jumped 46% this May, to 409 up from 281 last year. In the first 10 days of this June alone, ICE agents in NYC made 495 arrests — more than twice the 247 arrests it made in all of June last year. - @haidee.bsky.social @gwynnefitz.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/14/i...

Justice Dept. whistle blower: “It should be deeply, deeply worrisome to anyone who cares about their safety and their liberty, that the government can, without showing evidence to anyone of anything, spirit you away on a plane to wherever, forever.”

‘They’re killing us’: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions inside NYC holding site https://gothamist.com/news/theyre-killing-us-immigrants-complain-of-inhumane-conditions-inside-nyc-holding-site

The ex-chiefs and assistant chiefs say they were pushed out in 2023 after complaining about promotions and plum assignments given to unqualified friends of top brass and other misconduct. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/08/f...

Seeing More Fireflies in New York City This Year? You’re Not Alone. buff.ly/EALAk8U

One of the 4 NYPD whistleblower lawsuits filed today alleges that former police commissioner Edward Caban was selling promotions for as much as $15k a pop. This is from the James Essig lawsuit:

If you're pissed off at the NYT, here's your chance to put my money where your mouth is. This long weekend, I will donate $0.50 to @thecity.nyc for each of: - every new Bluesky follower I get - every new Bluesky follower THEY get - everyone who reposts this post

We are going to need a vast increase in local journalism capacity to cover the impact of this massive surge in spending on immigration detention and ICE enforcement, as well as the slashing of medicaid and SNAP. Many outlets know what to do, but the scale of this vastly outstrips our resources.

"There were more cases in three months than there had been in two previous years. While a new more rigorous standard may take some blame, frustrated parents are still left with questions." — Shenal Tissera reports on lead levels in @nycha1934.bsky.social child centers www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/02/h...

Brian Kendall was 17 when he was charged w/a murder he said he didn’t commit. In a dramatic reversal decades in the making, the Brooklyn DA’s Conviction Review Unit found he’s “likely innocent” and should have his conviction vacated and indictment dismissed. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/01/b...

but what do you really think brad lander hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.   This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

New! Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the mayor's indicted ex-adviser, is playing an active role in the mayor’s re-election bid. She organized volunteers on a virtual campaign meeting, instructing them on how they could canvas and phone bank for the mayor www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/27/i...