New voters made a serious mark on the NYC primary. How big a role did they play? gothamist.com/news/how-new...

"When families are hungry, their pets are experiencing food insecurity with them." www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/02/p...

A public service from @cityandstateny.bsky.social www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

Delays in food stamps, paychecks and upended travel among the impacts of a government shutdown www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/01/f...

ICE agents shoved multiple journalists while they were doing their jobs. One had to go to the hospital. www.amny.com/immigration/...

I spent many hours with the foot soldiers of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's army. The MO ahead of a doorknock: "Especially if they don’t agree with us, we want those people to leave thinking, ‘I hate his policies, but wow, that was a nice person who knocked.'" www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/m...

Really good deep dive by @smaldo.bsky.social on the Zohran Mamdani ground game. Absolutely LOVE that @jumaane.bsky.social mom is running a canvassing team in Brooklyn! Read through to the end for a great anecdote that perfectly sums up the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaign.

Could geothermal technology cool steamy subway platforms as temperatures rise? The MTA is trying to find out.

How to track disaster spending in your community. grist.org/accountabili... #Disaster #Weather #Climate #Money #Contracts

The vote passed, though there's a long way to go before the plan to create a new neighborhood just south of Brooklyn Bridge Park takes shape. And as you can guess, lots of people are very unhappy at the way this went down. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/22/b...

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

“As I write, my head is pounding from the cancer that is eating my skull. I am in extreme pain and have been for quite some time. Duwayne is all I have." Trump’s ICE Tries to Deport Man Caring for Terminally Ill Wife www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/22/d...

NEW: Task force approves plan for EDC-led redevelopment of Brooklby Marine Terminal. The vote has been postponed 5x previously. Story coming, background here: www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/18/b...

Come for how mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa ran into Daniel Penny and Bradley Tusk on the same subway car. Stay for why NY Republicans still think there’s a path to winning for Sliwa — who, for the record, now has 6 cats in a one-bedroom (no longer 17 in a studio). www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/22/c...

Sir, you’re not supposed to keep the money in the bag

Infuriating read of online scammers impersonating brokers and swindling apartment-hunters, made possible by a cut-throat rental market. www.curbed.com/article/scam...

Climate Week though amirite www.lohud.com/story/news/i...

A high-stakes vote on the proposed transformation of one of Brooklyn’s Marine Terminal last remaining industrial waterfronts will take place Monday, after five previous postponements. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/18/b...

Long before Mayor Adams gave Waymo a 🚦green light 🚦 to test robot cars in NYC, the company spent 💰millions 💰 wooing officials in hopes of someday having autonomous vehicles cleared to cruise city streets. 🤖 🚙 🤖 NEW story in @thecity.nyc w/ @smaldo.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/09/w...

NYC left holding the bag for Cuomo's energy policies, and Mamdani largely silent. (Not for nothing: Mamdani supported the effort to expand NYPA's ability to build new renewable power generation. Now, Gov. Hochul tasked NYPA with building new nuclear.) www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Let me live in a wind turbine tiny home www.cnn.com/style/wind-t...

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE 🌐 new photos of the infamous potato chip bag, feat. the actual potato chips. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/25/w...

Safe Streets Activists Want McGuinness Boulevard Redo After Adams Ally Is Charged With Sabotaging Plans www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/i...

Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see it was mentioned in the press. “While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...

Back from vacation — anything important happen? www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

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...

New York got $249.8 million through this program

The Most Generous Man in New York (or more accurately: Anna Delvey x Robin Hood) went to my high school lol nymag.com/intelligence...

Dozens of forged and fraudulently obtained signatures on Mayor Adams' petitions to appear on the ballot, including one from a person who died in 1997. gothamist.com/news/forged-...

“Subway stations flooded. Cars got stuck on a Queens parkway. Park staircases became waterwalls in Brooklyn. But, overall, New York City mostly avoided the worst possible outcome from Thursday evening’s torrential rain storm.” — @smaldo.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/31/n...

"One detainee was beaten unconscious. Others emerged from the dark isolation room covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another returned to his cell in tears, telling fellow detainees he’d just been sexually assaulted." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

NYC is under a state of emergency for possible flash floods. What impacts are you seeing/experiencing? Get in touch www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/31/n...

The storm coming today in NYC is forecast to be intense. As much as 5 inches of rain could fall between 2 and 5 pm., at a rate of as much as *3 in/hour.* This would be a storm of historic proportions for NYC. Significant risk of flooding in subway, streets etc. 1/2

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

Great reporting from @mollytaft.com on how the DOE's climate science report misuses scientists' work to downplay the negative effects of climate change www.wired.com/story/scient...

FDNY helped NYPD identify a pro-Palestinian protestor using the facial recognition tech, Clearview AI — which the NYPD isn’t allowed to use. Manhattan DA used the ID to charge a hate crime. A judge dismissed the case & warned about government surveillance: www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/18/n...

“the much more salient and existential question for New York City’s future is not whether a handful of very wealthy people will stick around, but whether the city’s middle class will” By @felipedlh.bsky.social epicenter-nyc.com/can-you-affo...

A high schooler returned home to NYC from ICE custody, released without food or money. Other women in detention told her, "No one leaves from here." Before, she spent 10 days at 26 Federal Plaza, where she had almost nothing to eat & had to sleep sitting up or on the ground. tinyurl.com/33t6d25f

Want to build a legal basement apartment under a year-old New York pilot program, or build an ADU thanks to City of Yes? You can't, because those laws are meaningless until city agencies promulgate rules that actually enable them. @smaldo.bsky.social from the frontlines of abundance.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem didn’t approve FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until more than 72 hours after the flooding began amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/...

A grisly murder, the killer’s redemption arc and unfulfilled promises around clemency looming over the governor, with lives hanging in the balance. This story by @reuvenblau.bsky.social has it all: www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/10/f...

ConEd wants to raise its rates again and public hearings are underway. Catch @smaldo.bsky.social on how rate increases work and how much more New Yorkers might pay if the hike is approved. www.wnyc.org/story/coned-...

not just Mamdani — we've also got City Council vote tally results today!

Zohran Mamdani cemented his lead in the mayoral primary election. After BOE ran a tabulation of the ranked choice ballots, Mamdani emerged as the winner with 56% of the votes. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/01/z...

Up to 300,000 Jewish Democratic primary voters who look to religious leaders for voting guidance are up for grabs in the upcoming general election in November. Key questions remain: Who will they support? And will it make a difference? www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/25/j...

Mamdani pulled an upset, but the real race has yet to begin. “This is the political earthquake that very few saw coming, unless you were on the ground and felt the rumbling. Now the top has been blown off." www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/25/m...

For a REAL detailed map of how NYC voted, check our map out 😎 www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

“I want to applaud the Assemblyman for a really smart and good and impactful campaign. Tonight was his night. He deserved it. He won,” Cuomo said. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

The big question is if this project would serve NYC at all. Depends on if the state can build transmission lines to bring the power here.

Oregon is shipping ACs, air purifiers and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly health effects of extreme heat, wildfire smoke & other climate-related disasters. www.cbsnews.com/news/medicai...