“Also Wednesday, the commanding officer of the Strategic Response Group — an NYPD unit that Mamdani has vowed to disband as mayor — filed for retirement, according to department documents shared with THE CITY.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/05/m...

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

much love to the thousands of people googling and finding our ballot proposal explainer right now, same energy as the kids doing their homework in the hallway before class 🫶 🫶 🫶 🫶

More than 732,000 New Yorkers have already turned out to cast their ballots, accounting for nearly 14% of the more than 5.3 million registered voters in the city, according to THE CITY’s analysis of the latest city Board of Elections data. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/02/e...

Pedicab driver died by suicide in an NYPD holding cell amid a bruising police crackdown on the industry www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/30/p...

A 15-year-old kid riding an e-bike being chased by a police car ran a stop sign and got struck by a bus in Queens. His death stayed unreported for over a year

This story about Melissa DeRosa allegedly threatening Cornell's funding after an undergrad dared to ask her about Cuomo's sexual harassment allegations is not gonna do anything for this crew's reputation as frothing bullies. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."

"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...

New: Newly-retired NYPD Chief of Department John Chell, a key Mayor Adams ally, will rake in $295,000 a year from a disability pension stemming from an incident on Randalls Island he says hurt his foot. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/24/r...

The leader of a Bronx mosque who hosted Cuomo last month “completely” condemns his remarks yesterday suggesting that Mamdani would have cheered 9/11, saying his comments evoked painful memories of anti-Muslim backlash. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/c...

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

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.

Earlier on Canal Street, as agents attempted to disperse, one who I recognize from the courts pulled out a taser and threatened protester with it. @thecity.nyc

NEW: Chaos erupted in Lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon as dozens of masked federal agents targeting street vendors on Canal Street were met with droves of spontaneous counter- protesters. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

It is a good day to support your local worker-owned news organization. hellgatenyc.com/membership/

Slow-mo shows the agent pushes a female journalist who wasn’t in the elevator, just filming-- she then falls into the man who leaves on the stretcher in a neck brace

Thank you Nick Pinto for spotting this. If you don't know, this is Andrew Cuomo's long-time spokesperson reposting a post calling Mamdani a "terrorist".

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Woah!!! Thanks to all our followers! Crazy to think we’re so close to reaching 50,000!! If you have a friend or neighbor who’s looking to read more local reporting, pass our handle along ♥️

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...

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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: