Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks!

"California has reduced reported food and cash benefit theft by 76% relative to the 2024 peak, the state said. New York, on the other hand, does not even keep data on people losing their benefits to fraud." by @rosagoldensohn.bsky.social www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/25/s...

1,300 people who sued the archdiocese over sexual abuse face a monumental choice: accept an $800M proposed settlement w/the archdiocese or risk fighting it out in court, an option that would likely lead the archdiocese to declare bankruptcy. w/ @mayaaking.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/n...

For James Dolan, the famously irascible owner of the New York Knicks, a sudden feud with Mayor Zohran Mamdani seemed in character, and unsurprising to longtime Madison Square Garden Kremlinologists. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/n...

“A.I. is coming for all of us.” by Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/n...

"The primary in New York’s 7th District has turned the left against the lefter." by Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

Adams has seemed to move on with his life. Recently, he has reached out to members of New York’s business community. One of those members said Adams is pitching construction industry products, including a type of rust-resistant rebar and wallpaper that can heat a room www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/n...

Schlossberg has translated fame, charisma and creativity into a narrow lead. But fellow Democrats, family friends and union leaders describe an operation so erratic and plagued by turnover that it raises questions about how he would handle being in Congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...

New York City’s emergency management agency, which ran the alert network, said it needed to free up personnel to help translate messages for the World Cup. w/ @matthewhaag.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/n...

For 25 years, through the terms of three mayors, the Office to Combat Domestic Violence oversaw the city’s domestic violence prevention efforts and retained a relatively direct line to the mayor. That appears to be changing. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/n... with Hurubie Meko

NYC is remarkable for its dynamism, but also for its stubborn refusal to change www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/n...

Congressman’s Gambit to Save Seat: He’ll Personally Match Each Donation, by Nick Fandos: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/n...

Mamdani Expected to Reject Bill Involving Police at School Protests, w/ @sallygoldberg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/n...

A spokesman for the mayor said that the administration was “not actively engaged in negotiations to move this project forward at this time.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/n...

"Black homeowners in Queens are fuming. Brooklyn 20-somethings are suddenly very invested in potholes. And one young Republican admitted that his fears New York would turn into “Gotham City” now feel overblown." by Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/n...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s law department on Tuesday sought a judge’s approval to stop representing the former mayor, Eric Adams, in a sexual assault lawsuit brought against him in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/n...

"What emerges is a pragmatic and cunning politician at the height of his powers and unafraid to use them — even if it means delivering a sharp elbow to old friends and compromising his ideological purity as a democratic socialist." by Nick Fandos and Sally Goldenberg www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/n...

today is the anniversary of the death of kitty genovese, and every year someone posts posters for her at the LIRR station in kew gardens next to where she was killed ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

New: Steve Banks, Mamdani's corporation counsel, is cutting off city-funded legal representation for Tim Pearson and Jeffrey Maddrey, two top adviser to former Mayor Eric Adams, against lawsuits accusing them of sexual harassment and retaliation.

“Hold on,” the judge said. “Insanity. Talk about timing. Unbelievable.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/n...

NEW: Under Trump, mental health care for vets is getting squeezed VA is bleeding shrinks & *not replacing them* One told me she's so overloaded her sessions can be *16 mins* She's had to online sessions w/ 35 vets How is that therapeutic? It's not, she said www.propublica.org/article/vete...

"An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings." Gift link, free article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...

Different wars, different circumstances, similar rhetoric. For Anton Troianovski, who was in Moscow when Putin launched his "special military operation" against Ukraine, the Trump team's language on its "operation" against Iran sounds awfully familiar. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

NEW: The State Dept. has ordered diplomats in Saudi Arabia to leave. It's the first mandatory ordered departure issued by the agency during the US-Israel war on Iran, and indicates US officials fear more violence. Iranian drones hit the embassy in Riyadh. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

How the rich have gotten richer since the 2017 tax cuts, and how it's affecting everyone else. A case study in Wyoming: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues. In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

City Hall declined to provide any further detail, but the mock-up of the Daily News cover touting 12K new units of housing is possibly a reference to Sunnyside Yards, the massive rail yard in Queens over which the city has long dreamed of building 12K units of housing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

Bet you didn't expect to see Gov. Kathy Hochul as Rambo: gothamist.visitlink.me/WWuDLZ

“Nassau officials are jailing more immigrants who have no criminal history since entering the United States than immigrants who do, ICE data shows.” www.newsday.com/long-island/...

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

Leqaa Kordia, who was arrested during a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University in 2024, and then detained by ICE a year ago and has been held in Texas since, suffered a seizure and hit her head: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

"Mayor Zohran Mamdani has spent much of his early weeks in office focused on New York City’s bad landlords, pledging to hold them accountable for dilapidated apartments. But he has said little about the largest landlord of all" by @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

"The reversal marks the clearest example yet of the clash between the ideology of his democratic socialist campaign and the tough realities of managing a sprawling, costly bureaucracy." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

"C.B.P. officials thought they were firing on a cartel drone, the people said, but it turned out to be a party balloon."

BREAKING: The Pentagon let Customs and Border Protection use an anti-drone laser before the FAA closed El Paso airspace, AP sources say.

NEW: The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted images of nude women (and possibly teens) as part of its Epstein release. The faces of those people were also left unredacted. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Gift link: “After the young Muslim woman spent nearly 24 hours locked in the bathroom with the three men, agents moved her to a different locked bathroom in the building’s basement, she said. …When she felt dizzy and vomited twice, agents did not grant her request for medical care.”

Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Grand Jury Hears Evidence on Frank Carone: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...

As the CDC removes vaccines from its childhood schedule, vaccination rates decline and measles spreads, parents are trying to figure out how to keep their children safe — including, in some cases, by limiting their activities or seeking vaccinations early. I talked to a number of them. Gift link:

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

Trump is now mobilizing the power of the federal government to relitigate the 2020 election that he lost by again advancing lies and distortions already debunked by Republicans and judges. Here is what really happened @reidepstein.bsky.social @nytnickc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

"Unlike previous mayors who refrained from criticizing or overtly undermining their successors, Adams has largely cast aside decorum." www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

NEW from @glennthrush.bsky.social & @anniekarni.bsky.social: The DOJ under Biden opened an investigation into Ilhan Omar's finances, campaign spending & interactions with a foreign citizen. But the inquiry into @ilhanmn.bsky.social appears to have stalled for lack of evidence.