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Articles like this one are why I make regular donations to @thecity.nyc and if you can afford it, I hope you make one too: www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/05/z...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...

if you can't handle journalists asking clarifying follow up questions you have no business managing reporters. go run a dick's sporting goods

Election over, back to our regularly scheduled programming

"A Manhattan Supreme Court judge on Thursday rejected a petition from a mysterious advocacy group to toss the city’s new self-funded health plan for municipal workers, administered by EmblemHealth and UnitedHealthcare." — via @clauirizarry.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/e...

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

30ish minutes till polls close in NYC. Wine, beer and light snacks (popcorn and pretzels) are on the house at Cuomo HQ. The wifi password contains the year 2026 — because that’s the year the next mayor will be sworn in, I’m told

A new proposal would require judges who hand down sentences or make detention decisions to conduct meaningful prison visits annually. The proposed change would be the first of its kind in the nation and mandate hundreds of in-depth judicial visits to state prisons. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/b...

Just in: Zohran Mamdani says he's voting yes on ballot questions 1-5 and no on 6.

In Washington Heights, handyman Juan Carlos Montoya was electrocuted trying to deploy a pump in the building’s flooded boiler room. Friends remembered the father of 5 as gregarious and generous, and loved treating neighborhood kids to candy. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/31/f... @smaldo.bsky.social

Council Spent $1.5 Million on Anti-Ballot Measure Mailers Despite Electioneering Ban www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/31/a...

Safe Streets for All: Vision Zero in an Era of Immigration Crackdowns We were thrilled to welcome @nyccomptroller.bsky.social Brad Lander, Max Markham of Policing Project, and Ligia Guallpa and Antonio Solis of @workersjusticep.bsky.social for a panel moderated by @clauirizarry.bsky.social!

According to Naveed, “Mr. Adams said Muslims were experiencing hate because they had failed to adequately condemn Hamas.” “‘I don’t know the difference between a Palestinian, Pakestinian, Arab, Muslim, I have no idea,’ the suit also quotes the mayor as saying.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/n...

“I’m poor. You got to think more about what and when and how you’re going to eat than you normally would.” NEW from @lauren-hartley.bsky.social + @thecity.nyc:

The worker who fell to his death at the Gateway tunnel site last week recently worked a 35-hour shift, as construction managers race against the clock to finish the project on time, @gothamist.com reports gothamist.com/news/worker-...

Mamdani’s Forest Hills Stadium event marked the first time Ron, 55, ever attended a political rally: “This guy excites me… Getting more money from the rich and kind of funneling down – I think it’s a good thing. It’s going to be very hard, but why wouldn’t we try it?”

SCOOP: Brad Lander is telling allies he's planning to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/26/e...

164,000 early votes cast this weekend!! "..a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021."

The former governor participated in a radio interview on Thursday where he laughed with the cohost about mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim, cheering on a future 9/11 attack against the city. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/c...

The leader of a Bronx mosque who hosted Cuomo last month “completely” condemns his remarks yesterday suggesting that Mamdani would have cheered 9/11, saying his comments evoked painful memories of anti-Muslim backlash. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/c...

Islamophobia is front and center in the last days of the NYC mayor's race NEW from @yoavgonen.bsky.social + @clauirizarry.bsky.social:

Weeks after calling him "a snake and a liar," mayor preparing to leave Gracie Mansion amid scandal endorses ex-governor who departed Executive Mansion amid scandal.

Time for debate night bingo ✅ We're co-hosting the final NYC mayoral debate tonight with NY1 and WNYC. Let's play. (Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)

Cuomo’s legal team got the OK from a judge to depose the therapist of one of his sexual harassment accusers, who is known to the public as Trooper 1. Last week, the same judge revoked a subpoena his legal team sent to Trooper 1’s mother. gothamist.com/news/andrew-...

Inside prison, George Santos reunited with his former campaign manager and riffed about gold bars with Fred Daibes and Wael Hanna, US Sen Bob Menendez’s co-conspirators. nymag.com/intelligence...

Just a glimpse of the massive scale of white-collar crime. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/a...

A NY demolition company agreed to pay $1.4 million after the AG's office found it systematically denied workers compensation, and harassed and intimidated workers who did file claims for their injuries -- even offering $5,000 bounties for any leads. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/a...

🚨 🗣New York is getting a new professional baseball team next year

A NY demolition company agreed to pay $1.4 million after the AG's office found it systematically denied workers compensation, and harassed and intimidated workers who did file claims for their injuries -- even offering $5,000 bounties for any leads. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/a...

this is why the whole world, the whole thing and not just the united states, canada, japan, south korea, and a few countries in the caribbean and south america call baseball "the beautiful game"

Cuomo (ex-HUD secretary!) sounded genuinely confused when my colleague @clauirizarry.bsky.social asked him about his stance on the housing ballot measures. (He's in favor of all three, his staff assured us.) Meanwhile Mamdani is still not saying how he'll vote. Here's why.

"Vote for Cuomo — and make America great again!"

"Vote for Cuomo — and make America great again!" A key part of Cuomo's path to victory in the mayoral race requires him to walk a tightrope when it comes to Trump — persuading voters he can stand up to the president while courting those who ardently support him. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/10/c...

Some of the most fervent volunteers for Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign are Republicans who voted for and still embrace Trump.

On the road with Andrew Cuomo's biggest fans, from Bloomingdale’s to a Queens union hall www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/10/c... w/ @smaldo.bsky.social

UPDATE: Emily Wilder was deported to Istanbul today, alongside many of the other flotilla participants, and is safe and hopefully heading home to LA shortly. Thank you so much for your advocacy. More coverage soon!

The ICE detention center near Buffalo has banned book deliveries, reversing a policy that allowed detainees to obtain fantasy and romance novels, Sudoku puzzles, and English textbooks, New York Focus has learned. nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

NEWS: The federal govt is sending NYC’s top disease control official to Arizona for a months-long stint at an Indian Health Service facility. That could complicate local infectious disease response efforts. “If we have an outbreak, then we’re fucked,” a city health department staffer told me.

THE CITY obtained audio from a private meeting with union leaders ahead of a key vote to advance the new proposed health plan impacting 750,000 workers and retirees. The leaders of several prominent unions forcefully opposed the cost-saving plan. More here: www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/m...

Moments before Mayor Eric Adams and other city officials gathered for a press conference, debris continued to fall from the building. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/01/n... w/ @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social and @fractenberg.bsky.social @thecity.nyc

Others said they were concerned about the projected $1 billion savings, with David Nicholson of the Police Benevolent Association saying they are “not guaranteed,” according to audio from the meeting that was obtained by @thecity.nyc — via @clauirizarry.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/m...