All 11 local elected officials have now been released and given summonses for obstructing, they are due back in federal court in November. Full story here: www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/18/d...

The arrests happened after an hour long standoff where law makers refused to leave, here is AM Marcela Mitaynes explaining in Spanish why she came today.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Forty people died while in police custody in 2023 and 2024 — the highest two-year toll in nearly a decade, @yoavgonen.bsky.social and @reuvenblau.bsky.social report. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/d...

These Immigrants Became Immigration Court Judges. Trump Just Laid Them Off. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/08/2...

Two lawyers with the New York Legal Assistance Group have been guarding the halls of 26 Federal Plaza nearly every day since masked federal agents started staking out the hallways and arresting people showing up for immigration court. Listen to their observations: www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/30/2...

On Monday, federal Judge Lewis Kaplan extended a temporary restraining order that limits capacity at the ICE detention area inside 26 Federal Plaza through Sept. 9. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71065...

“While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money,” Bob Clark, vp of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc. told ‪@smaldo.bsky.social‬ about the @katiehonan.bsky.social, Winnie Greco chip debacle. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...

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

In Manhattan District Attorney's indictment of Ingrid Lewis-Martin and the Argento family released just now, the McGuinness Boulevard redesign plays a central role.

Cannot be made up!

According to local electeds, the 6-Year-Old NYC Elementary Schooler and Her Mom, whose arrest last week drew widespread outrage, has been deported. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/19/e...

The Trump admin has moved to restart thousands of paused immigration court cases -- another tactic in the "mass deportation" effort. gothamist.com/news/these-n...

The lull continues this week, hearing there are no masked federal agents today in 26 Federal Plaza. ICYMI, a TRO is limiting ICE's capacity to hold people it arrests, and fewer people are showing up to court. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/15/a...

ICE splits a Queens family into three, sending a 7-year-old to a newly reopened family detention center in Texas. @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reports on the behind-closed-doors deportation arrests targeting young kids.

ICE detained a 7-year-old, her mother and 19-year-old brother at a check in at 26 Federal Plaza this week. The Queens mother and daughter have already been shipped to Texas while the 19-year-old is on is how at a detention center in NJ. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/15/f...

Arrests inside immigration courthouses slowed this week, (before white powder scare last night) A judge's TRO is impacting ICE's detention capacity, but another thing is at play, fewer people showing up to court. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/15/a...

Going to be on @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social show momentarily, talking about ICE's 10th floor holding room in Lower Manhattan, where a judge has just ordered ICE to improve conditions after weeks of mounting concerns from immigrant advocates.

A striking read from @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social.

ICE says its reduced the number of people inside 26 Federal Plaza holding areas to just 26 people. But here's how many people were being held there overnight during June, July, where ICE exceeded its own stated capacity restrictions at least 6 times. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/12/j...

A federal judge has just ordered the Trump Administration improve conditions inside it's shadowy holding cells on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, story coming shortly. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

‘They’ve Gone Off the Map’: Fear Drives Immigrants Away From Clinics, @reuvenblau.bsky.social reports. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/12/i...

Annddd an hour-long technical difficulties meant the press and the public were not allowed to listen in to his hearing.....

This morning, a federal judge will hear from the Trump administration and immigrant advocates who have sued over attorney access and conditions inside ICE's shadowy 10th floor holding area of 26 Federal Plaza. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/11/2...

"A woman who had her period while in detention was deprived of menstrual products “because the guards only gave the women in her hold room two pads to share among them." gothamist.com/news/migrant...

The storefront Democratic club HQ where the mayor just had a ribbon-cutting ceremony had a parapet collapse in dramatic fashion two years ago and is still subject to a vacate order, @katiehonan.bsky.social reports. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/08/a...

Numbers run by @haidee.bsky.social & @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reflect remarkable contrast between ICE in LA (immigration raid spectacles on the streets) and NY (arrests at court or office check-ins). Sparing NYC's mayor a mess as he runs for reelection.

While other cities like LA are being put through outdoor ICE raids, NYC is the nation's capital of ICE immigration courthouse arrests, new data analysis shows. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/11/2...

Among those who ICE is fighting to keep detained, a Jamaican green card holder who owns nine Golden Krust restaurant franchises and been cited for his philanthropy. He was detained while returning to the US from vacation in the DR. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/28/i...

Espaillat and Velazquez Call On DHS To Investigate Manhattan ICE Facility www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/26/e...

Comptroller Brad Lander and Public Advocate are calling for the Buildings Dept and the FDNY to inspect conditions on ICE's 10th floor lockup, but the DOB is saying they don't have jurisdiction.... www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/23/2...

‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/v...

NYPD Bypassed Facial Recognition Ban to ID Pro-Palestinian Student Protester, @smaldo.bsky.social reports. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/18/n...

“We had to beg the people working there that they gave us something to eat, they didn’t even give us water. Sometimes a few cookies they’d throw in there. They had us in there like animals.” — via @gwynnefitz.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/16/q...

Early this morning, a high school student from Queens was reunited with her family after three weeks in ICE detention, some of which she spent in Louisiana. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/16/q...

Reps Nydia Velazquez and Adriano Espaillat back at 26 Federal Plaza trying to get information about people being held on the 10th floor by ICE, including several constituents of theirs who've been detained in recent days.

New data from the Deportation Data Project confirms what we've seen on the ground in NYC for the past few weeks -- immigration arrests are spiking, while the # of people arrested w/ no criminal history is also shooting through the roof. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/14/i...

NEW: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions at ICE holding cells in NYC. No showers or changing clothes. Sometimes only one meal per day. Over 100 people in small rooms. Sleeping on benches, the floor, or sitting up, due to lack of space. gothamist.com/news/theyre-...

Courthouse arrests by masked federal agents continued at an increasing clip this week. Here's the tale of one of the young man. He's gay and married to a US citizen, fled Guinea after his father found out about his sexuality, and might have had him killed for it. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/27/i...

Weeeeeeeeping with joy. @katiehonan.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/27/e...

"Tonight we made history, in the words of Nelson Mandela, it always seems impossible until it is done," Mamdani speaking to exuberant crowd short while ago.

"This campaign has shocked the world," says Rep Nydia Velazquez says, "but everyone in this room knew we could do it."

Mamdani's campaign manager takes the stage to thank earlier supporters, crowd chants DSA.

I cannot cannot cannot stop scrolling through this

"na na na na hey hey hey good bye" as Cuomo's concession speech repeats. Still no sign of Mamdani.

First pass at a wild night, Cuomo has conceded, Mamdani is expected to speak soon, @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

Venue is filling up, energy is high.

Cheers at the Mamdani watch party, as his election night lead continues to hold.

Andrew Epstein, spox for Mamdani holds impromptu gaggle with reporters, as Mamdani hold significant lead over Cuomo with over 80 percent of precincts reporting.

Polls are now closed, and people trickling in to Zohran Mamdani's watch party in LIC. @thecity.nyc