🚨✌🏽 goodbye (and good riddance?) to the metrocard www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/n...

ALSO! @stefanoschen.bsky.social went inside the high security facility where he witnessed the last ever batch of MetroCards being printed 👀 www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...

My mom, as always, has made many, many delicious Christmas cookies. Merry Christmas Eve to all who celebrate!

I know I’m home when Mass ends with the pastor reminding everyone that there is time to both take nap and say a rosary ahead of tonight’s Pats game.

Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, a conservative Republican with close ties to President Trump, abruptly announced on Friday that she was suspending her campaign for governor and would give up her seat in Congress next year.

Just submitted my last assignment for my final class of grad school! Now I just need to do the capstone project in 2026. This lab assignment for my interactive data visualization class let me try out some ways of thinking about how to visualize the data.

The New York Times is looking to talk to New Yorkers about how they budget, splurge and save in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

The law will apply to adults who have incurable, irreversible illnesses and six months or less to live, and each patient will need certification from three doctors.

At the start of the year, I did a 🧵 of all The Great Reads that Metro published last year. In the interests of not overwhelming people's timelines, I'm going to start the thread today and add to it through the end of the year. Here's one from Corey Kilgannon from January.

More than 2,900 attorneys quit the Justice Department or were fired during the first 10 months of this year -- about triple the number who depart in a typical year. personnel records obtained by Reuters show.

There is an unwritten tradition in New York City that a departing mayor avoid bad-mouthing his successor and display some grace on the way out. Mayor Eric Adams is not one for tradition.

A new poll released by Siena University on Tuesday found that nearly two in three voters across the state favor the new benefit and would support Mr. Mamdani’s plan to pay for it by increasing taxes on those earning more than $1 million a year.

Two of the largest food-delivery app companies have made a last-ditch effort to overturn tipping laws in New York City that go into effect in January just as its next mayor, who has been highly critical of the companies and the app industry, takes office.

Since 1976, Metropolitan Diary has published stories by, and for, New Yorkers of all ages and eras: memories, quirky encounters and snippets that reveal the city’s spirit and heart. For the past four years, we’ve asked for your help picking the best Diary entry of the year. Now we’re asking again.

The trailer opens with a voice declaring that “this is not the most wonderful time of the year.” Between images of revelers making merry or making trouble — and police making arrests — words flash on the screen describing SantaCon as “the most feared, most reviled, most hated event on the planet.”

A judge ruled Jeffries unfit to stand trial in May, after doctors evaluated him and determined that he met the criteria for Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy Body disease. But on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said that he had been “restored” to competency

The decision came one day after another judge granted a similar request in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, who conspired with Epstein in his sex-trafficking scheme. The two rulings could lead to the most expansive and revealing look yet at the federal investigations of Epstein and Maxwell.

A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday granted the DOJ motion to unseal the records of the grand jury investigation of Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2021 of sex-trafficking a minor and other counts.

After-work runs only get more light from here on out!

Alina Habba resigned as U.S. attorney in New Jersey on Monday after a panel of federal judges ruled last week that she was serving in the position unlawfully. Ms. Habba will become a special counsel to Attorney General Pam Bondi, she said in a social media post.

The fallout from being at the controls when a subway train strikes a person — panic attacks, sleepless nights, crippling guilt — can linger for years. But many other systems make it easier for train drivers to get help afterward than the MTA does, a @nytimes.com examination has found.

The Times said in its lawsuit that it had contacted Perplexity several times over the past 18 months, demanding that the start-up stop using the publication’s content until the two companies negotiated an agreement. But Perplexity continued to use The Times’s material.

The suit argues that the DOD's new policy violated the First Amendment and “seeks to restrict journalists’ ability to do what journalists have always done — ask questions of government employees and gather information to report stories that take the public beyond official pronouncements.”

This fight with a garage door opener company also raises another important question: If companies can modify their internet-connected products however they want after consumers have purchased them, what does it mean to even own anything anymore?

Reynoso, 42, is the first major candidate to declare a campaign for the left-leaning district. While not a socialist himself, he has a long progressive record, a high-profile role in the city’s most populous borough and a close relationship with Velázquez.

The BQE triple cantilever opened in 1954 and was designed to last 50 years. The risks go up as it continues to deteriorate. City officials and transportation engineers say imminent collapse is not a threat, but other catastrophes could still strike, like concrete falling off and hitting vehicles.

ICYMI: Sandy produced a deadly storm surge and the remnants of Hurricane Ida brought extreme rainfall. The next hurricane could bring both. A model showed a 16-foot storm surge, 2 feet higher than Sandy’s, which when combined with a torrential downpour, could put 25 percent of the city under water.

As transit ridership continues to recover from a pandemic drop, the cost of unpaid subway and bus trips tripled to $918M in 2024, from $305M in 2019, said Andrew Rein, the president of the commission. That is almost twice the sum that the congestion pricing toll is expected to collect this year.

NJ Dem lawmakers advanced a bill that would severely weaken an agency that investigates fiscal misconduct by state leaders and scrutinizes gov't contracts. It would remove subpoena powers from the Office of the State Comptroller & would instead rely on the troubled State Commission of Investigation.

For nearly 50 years, the two men, who lived in buildings near each other with the same landlord, always seemed to get on well, according to tenants, the buildings’ superintendent and family members. Then a fleeting sidewalk encounter left one dead and the other facing criminal charges.

James Solomon, a councilman who ran for mayor of Jersey City as a progressive reformer, defeated Jim McGreevey, a former governor of New Jersey, by a more than 2-to-1 margin, in a runoff victory he called a win “against the corrupt political machine.”

Immigration judges who were fired earlier this year suggested that the administration was targeting judges who were considered too lenient and was also trying to create a feeling of fear.

A federal appeals court said on Monday that Alina Habba had been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey, dealing a blow to the Trump administration and most likely setting up a showdown at the Supreme Court.

The standoff began just after 11 a.m., when a handful of protesters gathered outside a garage on the edge of Chinatown, on Centre and Hester Streets, where agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security had been arriving.

The standoff over the B.Q.E. has become, more broadly, a symbol of the power that local communities wield over critical infrastructure projects around the nation.

Some of Manhattan's most iconic spots would be submerged, including parts of Chinatown, SoHo and the financial district. Several feet of water would pool in the theater district and areas near MSG. In the Bronx, Yankee Stadium would be nearly surrounded by water, up to 11 feet in places.

Menin, who represents the Upper East Side, said she had the support of at least 34 current and incoming City Council members, more than the 26 votes needed to become the Council’s speaker, considered the second most powerful job in city government.

Sandy produced a deadly storm surge, and in 2021, the remnants of Hurricane Ida introduced the damage of extreme rainfall. The next hurricane could bring both to New York City. A model of the damage such a storm could cause put 25% of the city underwater.

NEW: A growing number of children have been left in the care of relatives, neighbors & babysitters after parents have been deported by ICE. Few countries have been as vocal as Venezuela, which claims 150 children have been separated. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...

A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.

I know winter half-marathon training has started because it’s not even 7 p.m. and I’m ready for bed after today’s long run. My brain: “It’s dark out. Go to bed.” (Long run went great, but to find comparable runs in my Garmin history I had to go back to early 2020.)

“Loyalty should be a two-way street, and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district’s interest,” Ms. Greene wrote in a long post. She said that if she had been cast aside by “MAGA Inc,” it was indicative that “many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.”

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Harlem-based organizer, will receive the group’s first endorsement in New York City for the 2026 midterms, and its fifth in a new crop of progressive challengers to establishment moderates in Congress.

The letter, signed by Kash Patel, announced he was being “summarily dismissed” from the academy because of “political signage” he had displayed at his work space in LA, he said. The only thing that could be, he realized, was a pride flag that had been given to him as a gift by his former bosses.

The 10 contenders include a Kennedy scion, a Gen Z democratic socialist and a former journalist who, if elected, would be the first Black woman to represent the area. The heightened interest in the 12th Congressional District makes it clear that this is no ordinary House seat.

The announcement, which followed weeks of speculation over whether Commissioner Tisch would agree to stay, as Mr. Mamdani had said he had wanted her to, could help provide continuity at a moment when the Police Department is facing pressing challenges.

For at least five days, a blind Ecuadorean man who was arrested this month in NYC by immigration authorities was held in isolation at a county jail, locked in his cell for 24 hours a day and deprived of his cane. Monday night, after days of pressure from the lawyers, ICE relented and released him.

The 41-page ruling marked another defeat for President Trump’s efforts to strike down laws passed by cities and states that limit cooperation between localities and the federal government on immigration matters.

On Tuesday, city officials unveiled six designs that reimagine this scaffolding, known officially as “sidewalk sheds.” The new options take up less space, allow in more light and air, and eliminate the X-shaped bars that make pedestrians feel like they are in cages.

Now I'm recalling the time in a writing critique group where one person's feedback was the story was unrealistic because police officers would never be in league with the mob.