Adriana Zapata will remain in the DRC after a federal judge reversed his own order that had directed ICE to bring her back. Zapata’s lawyers had argued the DRC never accepted her. The judge had previously agreed, but now says the government has changed his mind. gothamist.com/news/judge-r...

NJ inspectors cite poor hygiene, unsafe food handling at Delaney Hall Newark ICE facility gothamist.com/news/nj-insp...

Who is ICE detaining at NJ's Delaney Hall? Not as many criminals as DHS suggests. gothamist.com/news/who-is-...

Montclair Pastry Chef Detained While Visiting Niagara Falls, Family Says montclairlocal.news/2026/06/mont...

ICYMI a very busy morning for Delaney Hall news - @newjerseyoag.bsky.social sues to get health inspectors inside - @rasjbaraka.bsky.social threatens to expand city lawsuit - Curfew on the verge of lifting - official total for Sunday night arrests set at 61 gothamist.com/news/newark-...

“ It is chilling in every sense of the word when you see [reporters] live on national television being chased down the street to a place where they don't have sight or sound access,” FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told @michaelsolwarren.com.

. @michaelsolwarren.com has been out at Delaney Hall all day for @wnyc.org @gothamist.com covering the events unfolding inside and outside the ICE detention center. Read our reporting below.

Been a big day out here on beautiful Doremus Avenue. Shoutout @aryasundaram.bsky.social @ryankost.bsky.social for holding it down

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NY, NY attorneys general open probe into FIFA World Cup ticket pricing gothamist.com/news/ny-ny-a...

Martin Soto — the man ICE secretly transferred between detention centers in NJ, triggering a tense standoff — has filed an emergency motion for release in federal court. His attorneys argue his detention is punitive, with ICE escalating actions. New for @gothamist.com gothamist.com/news/detaine...

Tensions remain high at Delaney Hall. Updates from overnight: - ICE tried to transfer hunger strike organizer despite court order barring move - Rep. Menendez denied entry since 8:30pm Sunday, still not in - Protestors clash with ICE agents on street outside gothamist.com/news/congres...

A few updates on the Delaney Hall hunger strike: - Strike ongoing per detainee families, DHS continues to deny there is a hunger strike at all - @kim.senate.gov and @menendez.house.gov visited last night - Gov. Sherrill says she has reached out to ICE about visiting gothamist.com/news/hunger-...

NEW: Immigrants at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in NJ began a hunger and labor strike this AM. Local advocates and a wife of one of the detained organizers say there are hundreds of participants across multiple units, demanding their freedom. gothamist.com/news/immigra...

Delaney Hall detainees launch hunger, labor strike. From @aryasundaram.bsky.social gothamist.com/news/immigra...

Took a visit earlier this month to the see the World Cup playing field for Philly games be harvested on a South Jersey turf farm gothamist.com/news/field-o...

It’s been a SCORCHER this week, but few places feel hotter than Newark, one of the most intense urban heat islands in the country. Why it is and what some are trying to do about it gothamist.com/news/its-bee...

ICE deported Adriana Zapata to the DRC last month, despite DRC officials saying they couldn't care for her medical issues. ICE was ordered last week by a federal judge to bring Zapata back to the US. Now ICE says they can't, because of the DRC's Ebola outbreak gothamist.com/news/feds-sa...

Enviros this week sued over EPA pollution standards for incinerators, which they say are not strong enough to protect public health. That matters for places like Newark, where an incinerator burns ~1 million tons of trash from NYC and around North Jersey every year gothamist.com/news/environ...

🚨NEW: United Nations human rights experts have asked Starbucks and the US government to address the coffee chain’s “ongoing and widespread threats” against their workers. UN experts note instances in which police were called on baristas engaging in peaceful protests.

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

Adriana Zapata fled torture in Colombia and was trying to get to family in NJ when she was detained by ICE in 2024. She’d been kept in Texas until last month, when she was deported to Africa. Now a federal judge has ordered ICE to bring her back to America. gothamist.com/news/nj-boun...

Nearly 300 ICE detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark have signed an open letter detailing due process complaints and tough conditions inside. Immigration advocates say the letter -- the second one released this year -- is an impressive sign of organization inside gothamist.com/news/letter-...

Jersey City leaders -- grappling with a $255 million budget crisis -- are weighing scaling back, or eliminating entirely, the Via Jersey City microtransit program that has provided more than 3 million rides since 2020 gothamist.com/news/jersey-...

“What they are doing inside of there is trying to create conditions where people are so demoralized that they will sign voluntary departure papers to not have to be in there anymore,” said @menendez.house.gov “They're trying to break people so people give up.”

I interviewed Cameron Hamilton in the final episode of American Emergency, our series about FEMA. Excited for y'all to hear it in the coming weeks... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/c...

NEW: An internal memo sent by EPA deputy administrator David Fotouhi took aim at IRIS, the program that has independently assessed toxic chemicals for decades and directed agency offices to review regs that relied on its work www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Spent some time this week asking around Kean’s district and NJ political analysts one question: when a man with a reputation for being distant takes an extended medical absence, how does that play on the campaign trail?

Opioid maker Purdue Pharma shuts down as part of legal settlement with NY and other states gothamist.com/news/opioid-...

The entire state of NJ is experiencing moderate drought in the latest drought monitor update. I’ve never seen the entire map get a single designation

The master sergeant allegedly used classified intel to profit on the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, marking the first US arrest for insider trading on a prediction market. www.wired.com/story/us-spe...

Opponents of NJ’s new coastal development rules have a powerful new ally: State Senate Pres. Nick Scutari, a Democrat, who has turned to a rarely used legislative tool to undo agency regs. State lawmakers in Trenton marked Earth Day with a hearing about it all. gothamist.com/news/powerfu...

Long Branch’s Lester Wright, who set the 100-meter dash world record for a 100-year-old – one of the best things I’ve witnessed – has died at 103. Decorated WW2 veteran whose marriage lasted 81 years. Tribute to a life well-lived: app.com/story/news/l...

A freight train derailed in North Bergen last week, spilling a bunch of plastic pellets. But one of the derailed cars was carrying hazmat, and first responders say a lack of information at the scene left them confused about what they were actually dealing with. gothamist.com/news/nj-dera...

trees as cooling infrastructure! this is a fascinating story from @smaldo.bsky.social:

First in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social: The mayor will announce a $2.4 B commitment to add heat pumps to 20k NYCHA apartments, 10k gas stoves, and 45k with efficient lighting and plumbing. But there’s $1.2B of funding yet to be identified amid budget uncertainty->

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new investigation for @starledger.bsky.social, I spoke with several families at the Jersey bayshore over fears contamination is linked to cancer diagnoses. So far: 41 cancer cases. Most are near a town’s old, improperly-capped and heavily-cited dump. h/t @karinpricemueller.bsky.social

Couple pieces of news out of last night’s debut Ask Governor Sherrill call-in show First: Sherrill says FIFA needs to help pay for World Cup transit. Otherwise she’ll approve fare hikes — possibly as high as $100 for trips between Manhattan and MetLife on game days gothamist.com/news/nj-gov-...

Crews in New Jersey are assembling a pair of custom-built machines that will dig out the first new set of Hudson River train tunnels in more than a century: gothamist.visitlink.me/lRgDyV

NJ Gov. Sherrill says FIFA should fund World Cup transit — would OK $100 train tickets gothamist.com/news/nj-gov-...

Mejia, Hathaway face off in special NJ election, setting stage for congressional midterms gothamist.com/news/mejia-h...

NJ Transit CEO gets power to raise World Cup fares by fiat gothamist.com/news/nj-tran...

NJ went all-in on wind power in 2022. This year, Gov. Sherrill says maybe someday. gothamist.com/news/nj-went...

Update: the public hearing scheduled for tonight on this situation was cancelled last minute after Hudson Regional Health was granted a temporary restraining order www.nj.gov/health/news/...

New twist for the Christ Hospital saga in Jersey City -- Hudson Regional Health is floating reopening and relocating the facility, going so far as to try and withdraw its application to close the place* *reminder that it did close the place already, breaking state law gothamist.com/news/owner-o...

Nothing boring about this: Big honking digging machines get built in New Jersey gothamist.com/news/nothing...

BREAKING: Banner parent company to buy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, staving off newspaper’s closure

NJ newsrooms are dying and shrinking, but is government funding the answer? gothamist.com/news/nj-news...

Happy Local News Day In NJ, local news is harder to find than ever. The NJ Civic Information Consortium has handed out millions in grants to help startups off the ground. That efforts been largely funded by the state, but Gov. Sherrill's budget plan cuts that money. gothamist.com/news/nj-news...