CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

One day after being appointed as Zohran Mamdani's City Hall director of appointments, Cat Almonte Da Costa has tendered her resignation in response to her offensive tweets about Jewish people surfacing. Statement from her and Mamdani:

A find from my files: Andrew Cuomo (then governor) asking Eric Schneiderman (then attorney general) to investigate the Manhattan DA and NYPD’s handling of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Schneiderman resigned two weeks later following his own assault allegations.

"I'm telling you reality, all right? In my opinion." The NY Editorial Board interviewed a leading local conservative media, business and politics player and by the end of the hour my fact-focused nerves were worn ragged.

Please welcome @forward.com's incoming editor-in-chief, @alykatzz.bsky.social!

Making news, my next chapter: I'm going to be the next editor-in-chief of @forward.com. Thrilled and inspired to be joining the incredible folks there to lead great Jewish journalism at this critical moment.

I hope the world we’re in keeps making Arthur L. Carters: people driven to achieve economic success and then spend the dividends on journalism that elevates community and collective responsibility to make a better world. He lost millions publishing The Nation! RIP.

Adams says it wasn't the indictment or the Trump admin's abandonment of his corruption charges that doomed his re-election bid. Rather, "We were not receiving the support we needed from our media in this city.” He describes the case, inaccurately, as a "leg-room case." ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

New from the NY Editorial Board, an ad hoc council of journalists (including me) who grill local candidates and power players: An interview with Patrick Gaspard on Mamdani, Obama and the art of balancing outsiderness and the inside game.

Are the AI platforms not trained to read music notation and repertoire? A screengrab of a sheet music PDF I found on my computer drew a blank from ChatGPT, Google and Perplexity, which all returned variations on this. (I Googled the filename; it's a Bach piano sonata.)

Fresh data on ICE deportations of New Yorkers as they accelerate, by @haidee.bsky.social.

The saga continues.

Until a few weeks ago, most immigration arrests in NYC were happening at appointments in the Manhattan federal building or immigration offices. That's over: we're now in the randomly-grabbed-while-out-getting-coffee stage of lawless enforcement. From @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Latest newsletter from a leading NYC housing market commentator begins: "Despite 'wealth flight' headlines about the next NYC Mayor Mamdani, current data show no evidence of a high-end exodus, and NYC’s luxury segment remains active."

Getting right to work.

As if they stepped out of a tabloid headline: cops take over a former subway station newsstand at West Fourth Street. @jmartineznyc.bsky.social on the NYPD's latest underground outpost.

One notable consequence of Zohran Mamdani appointing some 400 people to his mayoral transition committee is that those individuals have been directed not to speak to media and it is making it challenging for journalists to find informed expert commentators, not even for inside info, just on policy.

The left-flank challengers to @ritchietorres.bsky.social and @repespaillat.bsky.social, Dalourny Nemorin and Darializa Avila-Chevalier, both rose up through legal services worker organizing and a local of the union driving it, @uaw.org.

Governor Cuomo is back.

Everyone is on message these days.

Gotta see it to believe it.

While state officials were courting a talented cannabis grower to join the legal market, her uncle was a former top DEA official who threatened her for growing plants at home. Then police and firefighters swarmed her house in a raid that would shatter her family. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/20/g...

This Brooklyn woman got caught in New York's extremely messy legal cannabis industry launch and saw her family wrecked because of it. A wild read from @rosalindadams.bsky.social.

Inside City Hall night for me on @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social gabbing with @errollouis.bsky.social and Gerson Borrero about Mamdani, Schumer, congressional challengers and the MIA mayor. This hour and again at 11. Tune in!

Can the Adams administration simply designate a property a park? Hell no, say affordable housing developers who are now suing the Adams administration over Elizabeth Street Garden.

Spoiler: NYPD not getting defunded.

"There's a notable absence here of the person at the apex of the pyramid" said the judge in the Eric Adams corruption case, in sentencing an underling who funneled illegal funds to the mayor's election campaign.

This case was the test of whether a past Brooklyn DA would pursue child sexual abuse in Orthodox Jewish communities. Years later, a new DA is advocating for a reduced sentence. Story from @reuvenblau.bsky.social.

The City Council and Mayor Adams are in escalating battle over laws mandating billions in additional city spending on rent subsidies. What will Mamdani do? I don't believe he has weighed in yet.

An NYPD judge recommended dismissing the disciplinary case of an officer who killed a man in 2016, b/c the prosecuting agency lacks jurisdiction over off duty acts. But the cop’s attorneys got him indemnified in a civil suit by arguing the shooting was police conduct www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/10/n...

New York is not immune from Trump White House pressure. The state just OKed an underwater natural gas pipeline in exchange for lifting a blockade on an offshore wind project, coincidentally on the day that Elise Stefanik announced her run for governor against Kathy Hochul. Over to you, New Jersey.

The WFMU Record Fair, which takes place once a year, is a truly spectacular event.

What's an Eric Adams administration official to do with just a little more than a month left on the clock? Take a taxpayer-funded trip to Puerto Rico where potential future employers abound. By @katiehonan.bsky.social

Updated records show Mike Bloomberg gave more than $13 million to efforts to boost Cuomo and attack Mamdani, including the group that tried to link Mamdani to 9/11.

I’m of the opinion that these problems can be solved, but there’s no point in pretending they aren’t real problems

Mamdani says he'll pay for free buses and free child care with new taxes on rich people and corporations. Meanwhile billions of dollars in budget deficits loom for New York, with federal spending cuts making the picture much worse and threatening social programs we already have. Ugly details here.

This is fun. Interview, à la Subway Takes, by the one and only @katiehonan.bsky.social.

It was predictable that many liberal Zionists would oppose anti-Zionism’s “political normalization” in the NYC mayoral race. The more surprising story of the campaign is not liberal Zionist opposition to Mamdani, but their support, @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes. jewishcurrents.org/mamdani-crea...

The model of downwardly mobile members of the PMC energizing/leading a detached, discontented mass to the left is fully in operation here. And it's nothing to apologize for.

Striking how Brooklyn accounts for both the top 5 Mamdani (blue) and top 5 Cuomo (purple) districts

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.

Aside from some heavily Jewish areas of Manhattan and the Bronx, the Cuomo-Mamdani map is not so different from the Trump-Harris map. projects.thecity.nyc/election-res...

Another view here, fyi, from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social: www.electionatlas.nyc/maps.html#!N... You can choose from 20 demographic/electoral map filters (or combinations of any of them), direct comparisons to 2021, and overlays to show subway routes, NYCHA sites, and City Council districts.

See how your neighborhood voted and what kinds of New Yorkers voted for each mayoral candidate, thanks to @haidee.bsky.social ! www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/e...

New Yorkers said yes to four citywide ballot measures Tuesday night, approving a slate of proposals intended to reshape how the city approaches affordable housing development. buff.ly/xKX5mwS

In his victory speech, Zohran Mamdani shouts out Richard, a taxi driver he went on a hunger strike with. “My brother, we are in City Hall now,” he said. Revisit the story from Nov. 2021, including Mamdami’s quote which is quite striking in this moment. www.thecity.nyc/2021/11/03/n...

A deep data dive, neighborhood by neighborhood, into the NYC mayor's race results.

NYC to Cuomo: it turns out that “No” really does mean “No.”

We have a winner.

Want NYC mayoral election results tonight? @thecity.nyc has you covered. Stay tuned here for a precinct-by-precinct map and more. Epic work coming from @haidee.bsky.social. Polls close at 9!