Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Knicks in the finals…all my friends using landlines and flip phones…1999 is so back

My obsession with the shakers continues…

I have an idea: what if we visited websites again??? hear me out: websites published by humans who are professionally trained to gather accurate information I KNOW IT’S CRAZY BUT IT MIGHT JUST WORK

Adding “L I double R” to the discourse

Sometimes all you need is one word!

With the strike, NYCTA has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever: seize the railroad

Oh baby

they found love in a hopeless place (the MSG panopticon)

“Is there life after a brutal frame-mogging?” I bravely ask while running headfirst into a Looney Tunes tunnel wall youtu.be/AJCvmzLQNZ4?...

Can report that the zine ROCKS

If you vote in NYC, you've probably wondered: "Who are these people running to be judges? Why doesn't it feel like I have much choice about voting for them? How were they selected? Why do many judges seem to be... bad?" May I present to you @hellgatenyc.com's latest big project: Courts of Contempt.

A thrilling — and beautifully designed — read! Please check out this incredible reporting project, which I got to play a l small part in last summer

It’s my first ever May Day as part of a union!!

On the next episode of Scrappy and the City, Scrappy’s relationship with Mr. Met goes public, leaving the Met couple on the brink of divorce.

As the race for state comptroller heats up, DiNapoli announced the expansion of a program that sends checks for unclaimed funds directly to New Yorkers, now up to $5,000. Get your bag! www.newsday.com/real-estate/...

NEW: Hochul has offered a new immigration compromise that would bar cops from sharing information with ICE in civil cases, but still give them broad discretion to coordinate in criminal cases, New York Focus has learned. Lawmakers are balking.

This AI-slop SEO farm masquerading as an auto news site has some hitters. I too want to understand “the global implications of car repair form”

I cover downstate tax breaks a lot at Newsday. A data center getting a $77 million subsidy in exchange for just one permanent job? Unheard of. Worth a read!!

allow me to take you on a journey into the yawning maw of Weddingtok: www.404media.co/wedding-plan...

Many readers may be shocked to learn that an event largely consisting of Fireball consumption and "sexy elf" jumpsuits may not be the shining charitable enterprise it pledged to be, but warning signs did exist. hellgatenyc.com/santacon-fed...

After a morning visit to Brooklyn housing court no less…

deceased

The internet bagels are coming for you Long Island. There is no escape. www.newsday.com/business/pop...

Fixed if

Summit has bought more than 5,000 mostly rent stabilized apartments in the Pinnacle portfolio, over objections from the city and tenants — many of which wanted to buy their buildings. I spoke to a few last year about their fight for repairs and ownership. www.brickunderground.com/rent/pinnacl...

This rocks

Wall Streeters got massive bonuses last year as firms raked in $65.1 billion… water is wet, and so on… www.newsday.com/business/wal...

Shot: Average Wall Street bonuses hit the highest number on record Chaser: the gender wage grew nationally…but at least it shrunk in NY! www.newsday.com/business/gen...

Who’s going to buy me a decommissioned Brooklyn Mirage VIP pod? www.brickunderground.com/buy/brooklyn...

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

A meteor exploded over Ohio, cementing the state’s enviable status as having the coolest and most mysterious space rocks chroniclet.com/news/460563/...

Some 1,600 people are suing NY prisons over sexual abuse they allege they suffered while in custody. Reporters at @nysfocus.bsky.social sought records to find out how the prison agency handles sex abuse allegations, but they met a stone wall. Now they're suing. hellgatenyc.com/why-these-re...

NEW: Since New York tacked an extra fee onto auto insurance bills to help the state combat auto theft and insurance fraud, the fee has multiplied tenfold — from $1 to $10. But a smaller and smaller proportion of those fees has gone specifically toward addressing fraud and theft.

An incredibly strange pairing: saw Paul Krugman interview veritable law god Lina Khan last night.

looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:

New from me: Northwell Health is laying off “under 4%” of its IT staff, a spox confirmed this morning… www.newsday.com/real-estate/...

Activists at Stonewall put a Pride flag (back up!) at the park, after a Trump admin decision to remove it. They tied it to the American flag.

Also rallying at Stonewall now, City Council Speaker Julie Menin, Senator Erik Bottcher, and Representative Dan Goldman

Spotted at a rally at Stonewall today: Congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg, who’s running to replace Representative Jerry Nadler in New York’s 12th Congressional District—

Trump launched a website advertising low-cost prescription drugs, even though it often *cheaper* to use insurance/generics, and named it after himself. Welcome to TrumpRx—

New York's youth prisons are a disaster. Kids locked in solitary for days at a time. Staff forced to work 24-plus-hour shifts. Crisis after crisis. "I'm a human rights violator," one whistleblower told me. They recounted the nightmare at one facility: nysfocus.com/2026/02/04/o...

When do they, uhh … when do they….uhhh…

On this Groundhog Day, I choose, once again, to celebrate the greatest lede ever written about a rodent's death, courtesy of @jonlemire.bsky.social

Perennial reminder to my NYC friends that landlords cannot refuse to rent to you, evict you, or discriminate against you because of your immigration status. www.brickunderground.com/rent/undocum...

Nurses at three Long Island hospitals ratified new contracts with Northwell Health, avoiding a possible strike on the island — www.newsday.com/business/nor...

Mokafe Coffee House is serving up Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s face on its Cardamom Mamdani Chai Matcha, even at one of its Long Island stores. (And it HITS.)

Inbox: A City Council employee was detained by ICE while at a routine immigration appointment in Bethpage this afternoon, Council Speaker Julie Menin says. The detention happened even though this employee has legal status to be in the country until October, per Menin.

Weeks after we first wrote about PureGym's controversial tube-assisted egress system, the FDNY has inspected 7 of the gym locations and issued dozens of violations, some of them related to having to scan your phone to exit the building.