Power Half-Hour Ep. #27 is on demand! Hear from @mrsethharris.bsky.social, Elizabeth Ford, @clauirizarry.bsky.social, @thecity.nyc, @bhamharold.bsky.social, @laborradionet.bsky.social for 30 minutes of the latest labor news! 🎧 poweratwork.us/power-half-h...

My colleagues @rosalindadams.bsky.social @haidee.bsky.social and I at @thecity.nyc spent the past several months tracking hundreds of ICE street arrests across the region through federal court records..🧵🧵 projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a....

ICE is racially profiling Latinos for arrest in New York. @rosalindadams.bsky.social, @gwynnefitz.bsky.social and @haidee.bsky.social got the numbers to prove it. projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a... @thecity.nyc

“We’re not here for trouble… we’re just here to see our family members.” Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark on Day 4 of the hunger strike, a 10-year-old whose father is detained inside confronts masked guards, asking why they won’t show their faces. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️

Smart story on the 500 tons (!) of vapes that New Yorkers toss per year. 💨 💨 💨 Good stuff, as they say in the trade, from @lillysabs.bsky.social. She’s had an outstanding internship @thecity.nyc - she hustles and produces sharp stories. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/26/v...

INBOX: Latino Victory Fund announced a $750,000 boost to Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus who is facing a spirited primary from a DSA-backed challenger. Most of that $$ is being spent on English and Spanish-language TV ads

LATE NIGHT on the LIRR strike beat (Psst... it's over). www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/18/l...

“Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States. Congress has total jurisdiction over Puerto Rico, so it is the responsibility — the moral obligation — of any member of Congress to also tackle the issues of Puerto Rico, because we, the Congress, own Puerto Rico.” -- @velazquez.house.gov

The future of journalism? Credentialed members of the New York City press corps came to Luigi Mangione’s hearing today to support the defendant they’re purportedly reporting on and to promote jury nullification “to the most cucked and submissive population in all of human history”

The leading NY-7 candidates have been outspoken on issues affecting Puerto Rico, even though the district is not the PR or Latino stronghold it once was. Why does it matter so much? www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/18/r...

Espaillat recently addressed rumors that he’s working on an alliance w the son of a longtime political rival who is also facing a DSA primary. “I speak to Jordan Wright, he is a good young leader, and we will continue to have conversations as the race moves forward.” www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/15/e...

Rep. Adriano Espaillat ramping up efforts to fend off #DSA backed challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier in heated #NewYork City primary. Backed by pro-Palestine activists & Mamdani-style organizers her campaign hopes to flip Upper #Manhattan with massive turnout. #NYC www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/15/e...

Espaillat recently addressed rumors that he’s working on an alliance w the son of a longtime political rival who is also facing a DSA primary. “I speak to Jordan Wright, he is a good young leader, and we will continue to have conversations as the race moves forward.” www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/15/e...

"Oh wow, I'm so sorry for calling you a Jew" www.notus.org/congress/wil...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to freeze rents for nearly one million rent-stabilized New York City apartments will reach a crossroads on Thursday. The panel that decides whether rents should go up will cast its preliminary vote.

“They were choking him, hitting him, trying to get him out of the car,” and the agents had bashed his car window, an eyewitness told @thecity.nyc. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/04/v...

Hundreds of case workers, career coaches and housing specialists at two prominent nonprofits serving recently incarcerated people announced they plan to unionize on Friday morning. buff.ly/zoqqPZf

Staff at the Fortune Society and the Osborne Association, two nonprofits serving the formerly incarcerated, are unionizing www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/01/s...

NYC cut ties with two subcontractors that stole hundreds of thousands of wages from workers who renovated a South Bronx playground www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/30/p...

this investigation started in ~~~ 2017 ~~~ wage theft is no joke! new story from @clauirizarry.bsky.social:

Two dozen workers who got stiffed big bucks while building a Bronx playground are getting 💰. But if this @clauirizarry.bsky.social tale doesn’t make you think of the classic Another Bad Creation tune “Playground,” then you had inferior taste in music in 1991. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/30/p...

What an image from @fractenberg.bsky.social of Council member Chi Ossé being taken to a local hospital after his arrest in Brooklyn this morning. Ossé was protesting the eviction of a constituent who is a victim of alleged deed theft. More details here: www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/22/b...

New in @thecity.nyc: Only 42% of likely NY-13 voters support re-electing Rep. Adriano Espaillat, per an internal poll from the @darializaforny.bsky.social campaign. Take it with a grain of salt, but it’s the first look at where voters stand ahead of the June primary www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/20/e...

A major push to roll back NY’s Tier 6 pension cuts could cost $1.5B a year and boost benefits for dozens of the very lawmakers negotiating the deal — @clauirizarry.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/15/t...

With the proposal, Levine is taking some of his aggressive tactics from President Joe Biden’s Federal Trade Commission to the local level.” NEW from @clauirizarry.bsky.social:

A Dunkin Donuts and Taco Bell franchisee has agreed to pay more than $1.5 million to settle an investigation by the city that found the coffee giant systemically violated local scheduling laws at 24 Manhattan and Queens locations. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/d...

I do not know who Lindy West is and at this point I am afraid to ask

A judge recently handed 24-hour home care aides a victory, and a City Council member is reviving his push to ban 24-hour shifts altogether. But the workers’ struggles are far from over. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/11/h...

A state judge recently handed 24-hour home care aides a victory, and a City Council member is reviving his push to ban 24-hour shifts altogether. But the workers’ struggles are far from over. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/11/h... @thecity.nyc

chances are that someone you love will need 24-hour care at some point. you should read this, from @clauirizarry.bsky.social:

Unions, NYCLU Slam Bills That Would Grant Police More Power Over Protests at Schools www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/25/f...

NewYork-Presbyterian Nurses Say Union ‘Sold Us Out’ in Contract Fight www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/11/n... @thecity.nyc

big news on the strike beat from @clauirizarry.bsky.social:

NEWS: NYSNA announced a tentative agreement at NewYork-Presbyterian -- even though nurses on the bargaining committee voted to reject the deal. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/10/n...

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🚨Tentative agreements at Mount Sinai and Montefiore 🚨 The deal is pending ratification by the members, who will return to work Feb. 14 at the earliest. Still no deal at NYP. Details here ---> www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/m...

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🚨Tentative agreements at Mount Sinai and Montefiore 🚨 The deal is pending ratification by the members, who will return to work Feb. 14 at the earliest. Still no deal at NYP. Details here ---> www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/m...

Striking baristas didn’t manage to force the company back to contract negotiations, but union leaders say the action succeeded by bringing workers together. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/06/s...

Scoop: After nearly 3 months, Starbucks workers in NYC quietly ended their strike this week, as part of what the union describes as its “evolving” strategy to force the company to the bargaining table. Workers in Philly & Seattle are still on strike. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/06/s... @thecity.nyc

NEW: Striking NYC hospitals set to resume bargaining tonight and tomorrow as nurses' strike nears fifth day www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/15/b...

As I'm literally always saying: Politics ain't beanbag! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/n...

NEW: Mount Sinai Hospital fired three nurses via voicemail message on the eve of a massive ongoing strike. buff.ly/6X62qql

Trump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...

Delivery Apps Have Stolen $550M From Workers By Changing How Customers Tip nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/13/d...

Back to work today after a week off! Here’s a small sample of what I’m looking forward to covering in 2026 for @thecity.nyc. If you want to discuss all this and more this year, I’d love to hear from you. Wherever you work in NYC, I want to hear your story. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/05/2...

I don't think it's overstating things to say that Mamdani is stepping into a collective bargaining crisis. The city and unions are in court over billions of dollars each says the other owes.

This is a big fiscal and political challenge for the incoming administration. Important reporting by @clauirizarry.bsky.social for @thecity.nyc on the Comptroller audit of the health fund that shows the piggybank is broken. Curious timing for its release. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/30/l...