Oh my…

Asked if he sells the paper, Windsor Terrace bodega clerk informs: “No, the phones. Nobody’s buying anymore”

Alerting all New Yorkers to go outside and look up

Judge Rakoff just set back-to-back trials in the cases brought by Epstein victims against Bank of America and BNY, starting on 5/11. He’s hoping they won’t settle. “I’m much more selfish, and I would love to see two very good trials, so I just mention that for what it's worth.”

After pleading not guilty to fraud charges this AM, AG James asks Judge Walker to dismiss the case, arguing Lindsey Halligan’s “invalid and unlawful” appointment as US attorney “fundamentally tainted the structural integrity of the grand jury process” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Daily News coverage of Canal St vendors in 1985: “Lower Manhattan merchants who display their wares on sidewalks … contend that their sales methods are as much a part of New York's history and culture as carriage rides in Central Park”

@repdangoldman.bsky.social, addressing reporters about 4 US citizens held overnight at 26 Federal Plaza, says the NYPD should arrest ICE agents for excessive force. He also announced a new task force, but no details on who will be on it or how it will meaningfully assist people targeted by ICE

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...

New York AG Tish James has urged members of the public who have witnessed and documented ICE activity to share their videos and photos with her office through an online portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

A 3rd circuit judge was skeptical this AM of the gov’s arg that NJ shouldn’t have jurisdiction over Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas petition as he was in Louisiana when it was filed (unbeknownst to his attys) “What else do they do, unless we're creating a black hole of no jurisdiction?”

ICE detainees in New York jails are struggling to access to legal advice, phone calls, and even their own court hearings. nysfocus.com/2025/10/06/i...

Breaking: SDNY Judge Lewis Kaplan has ordered the Trump administration to disburse $33.8M in antiterrorism funds to the MTA, which FEMA/DHS has denied based on NYC’s sanctuary status

Just in -- SDNY Judge Lew Kaplan has extended a TRO blocking the Trump administration from giving anti-terrorism funds requested by the MTA to other states b/c of NYC's sanctuary status. He consolidated the NYAG’s motion for a preliminary injunction with the trial on the merits.

Women abused by Jeffrey Epstein have sued Bank of America, alleging it “showed absolute loyalty to Epstein, including a willingness to violate banking laws, ignore multiple red flags of criminality, and participate directly in sex trafficking to enable Epstein to fulfill his abusive sexual appetite”

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social just held a presser outside the courthouse where AG James took Trump to trial to condemn the charges against her. Asked how he’ll keep the city running, if elected, when the admin withholds funds, he said he’d ensure cash is set aside for the most in need New Yorkers

New York AG Tish James says the charges filed against her by Trump’s DOJ “are baseless, and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.” “The president’s actions are a grave violation of our Constitutional order…”

BREAKING: Judge Subramanian announces he will sentence Sean “Diddy” Combs to 50 months in federal prison (~4 years) for transporting women and male escorts across the U.S. to engage in morbidly relentless sexual performances marred by violence and drug use for more than a decade.

Judge Arun Subramanian, set to sentence Sean “Diddy” Combs within the hour, says the mogul’s claim that escorts were paid for their time and not sex is “flatly inconsistent with reality and any acceptance of responsibility.”

Hitting the docket with less than 12 hours until Sean “Diddy” Combs is sentenced is this 11-minute, campaign launch-style video he wants to play in court. Unclear if the judge has OK’d it Prosecutors have requested 135 months; Combs has asked for an effective term of time served

Judge Kaplan has GRANTED the NYAG’s motion for a TRO blocking DHS from withholding funds to protect against terrorist attacks in the subway system, noting the critical program was created in the wake of 9/11, “in which 3,000 people died within sight of this courthouse”

“Women can’t ride the subway without worrying that a hoodlum will shove them onto the train tracks,” Trump said in March Today, his admin is cutting 100% of federal funds meant to protect riders from terrorist attacks Args on the AG's TRO request at 2 www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/01/n...

@nyc.streetsblog.org’s @davecolon.bsky.social and @dmey.bsky.social and their big scoop today on the DHS zeroing out the MTA’s security grants is on page two of the filing — nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/30/t...

In an eleventh-hour filing, @newyorkstateag.bsky.social filed a TRO seeking to stop DHS from withholding funds requested by the MTA for protecting tunnels from terrorist attacks and other large-scale emergencies before midnight. No order has hit the docket storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Story by New York Daily News' @mollycranenewman.bsky.social. Photography and video by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images. Steffi Keith is one of the toughest, sharpest photojournalists in NYC. She shot stills and video simultaneously and got the best images of anyone at the scene.

The Adams docket comes alive, one year after the feds unsealed now-dismissed public corruption charges against him. Judge Ho has agreed to add the city’s Campaign Finance Board as an interested party, as it seeks records from his 2021 and current mayoral campaign

Deleted a “skeet” misstating SDNY Judge Garnett’s order this AM, which says Trump admin officials appear to have violated her prior ruling warning against making prejudicial comments about Luigi Mangione during the pendency of his capital case. (She wants this conveyed to DAG Blanche, not Bondi)

Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.

Comptroller Brad Lander has been released after he and 10 other electeds were detained while observing immigration proceedings at 26 Fed. Am told all are expected to be released promptly. More Tk.

BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.

Killer story from @grahamrayman.bsky.social, @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social and @mollycranenewman.bsky.social today -- the boyfriend of a top Adams administration was hauled out of his and his girlfriend's apartment by ICE last month and has been detained since. www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/15/b...

Maurene Comey has sued the White House, the DOJ, and others, alleging her firing from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office this summer, days after she’d been assigned to take the lead on a major public corruption case, was based on who her father is and her perceived political beliefs

Nadine Menendez is bawling her eyes out to Judge Stein before he imposes sentence, talking about men who abused her. Of Bob: “He was one of the most powerful men in the most powerful country on earth and there was no way he’d lead me astray or lead me to do anything illegal, or so I thought.”

The Second Circuit has upheld the $83.3M judgment against Donald Trump in E. Jean Carroll’s first defamation case, finding the damages awarded by a jury were “reasonable in light of the extraordinary and egregious facts of this case.” ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...

OOO in my mother’s kitchen in Ireland trying to retrace Rudy Giuliani’s footsteps on a highway in New Hampshire, as you do

Spoke with Giuliani’s head of security, Michael Ragusa, who said the former mayor is expected to remain hospitalized for a couple more days. He described last night’s collision as a freak accident that occurred after Giuliani intervened in a DV incident. “It’s just wrong place, wrong time.”

@mollycranenewman.bsky.social The count is now four bicycles and one moped abandoned outside 26 Federal Plaza. 🙁

First day back after being battered by Covid: four new indictments against Ingrid Lewis Martin; 1st Dept throws out civil fraud judgment in Trump fraud case; Winnie Greco gave Katie Honan cash hidden in a bag of potato chips. Ok, cool, great

Woke up feeling like I’d been hit by a train and just tested positive for Covid. We are still in a pandemic 😵‍💫

Judge Reyes: You're making the argument that the President can basically run the entire police department based on language that doesn't even allow the President to talk to the police department. He has to go through the mayor. He has to issue the order through the mayor of DC.

Brooklyn real estate magnate Erden Arkan was just sentenced to 1 year of probation for funneling straw donations to Eric Adams’s 2021 mayoral campaign. His attorney angered Judge Ho after making a stink about prosecutors pursuing him and letting the mayor off the hook.

I will just say as a person who practices in this district, judge Kaplan is not someone who I would want enforcing a TRO against me.

In a lengthy call in June, Obama congratulated Mamdani, offered him advice about governing and discussed the importance of giving people hope in a dark time. Others in Obama’s orbit have also shown a keen interest in Mamdani, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

Prosecutors at the Manhattan district attorney’s office just said they’re ready to proceed with their third prosecution of Harvey Weinstein, asking for a trial date in early January.

HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't: - Restricted by capacity - Has mats for people to sleep on overnight - Is cleaned 3 times a day - Provides hygiene supplies - Offers free legal calls

Judge Lewis Kaplan has GRANTED a motion for a TRO sought by lawyers for detainees at 26 Federal Plaza. It requires DHS to provide migrants a clean and safe place to sleep, prescription medication, nutritious meals, access to counsel, & other necessities storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mohamed Bahi, a former aide to Eric Adams, just pleaded guilty to conspiracy for organizing bogus donations to Adams’s 2021 campaign for mayor Bahi said he knew donors would be reimbursed, that Adams’s campaign would use the cash to seek matching funds, “and that it was wrong”

There was a teleconference hearing this morning in the suit against DHS regarding conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, but the press and public were shut out due to “audio issues,” and we have no idea what happened. The courts have had at least 5 years to figure out remote hearings and have not.

NEWS: Manhattan Judge Paul Engelmayer has DENIED the Justice Department’s motion to unseal grand jury materials in Ghislaine Maxwell’s case.

The moon over Brooklyn honest to god just hit my eye like a big pizza pie

It’s a spectacularly beautiful day in nyc, even from the dentist’s chair