For the journalists and editors out there, there's some really great job openings at THE CITY, including my former position reporting on the NYPD and city government www.thecity.nyc/jobs-interns....
If you have any questions about it feel free to DM me 3/3
I'm also leaving what I know to be one of the best jobs in journalism, at one of the best and warmest publications on the planet. Can't say enough good things about the people and the work at THE CITY over these past seven years. It's what journalism should strive to be 2/3
Some professional news: After 20+ years reporting on NYC government, I'm joining it as comms director for Council Speaker @speakermenin.bsky.social. Grateful to the speaker and council for the opportunity 1/3
DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.
“There is nothing in the annals of New York political history quite like the scandals that enveloped Adams and his administration — and that’s saying something."
The @thecity.nyc's obituary on the greasy, scandalous reign of the Eric Adams administration, in New York City
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/24/e...
Use of force by members of the NYPD surged 20% last year to 11,746 incidents — a record high since the department began detailed record-keeping on the issue in 2016, according to a police department report quietly posted online in recent days. — @yoavgonen.bsky.social
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/23/u...
We're hiring! THE CITY is looking for our next executive editor, two other editors, a finance associate and spring intern. Take a look:
do you know a young journalism student who may want to work with me in the spring? we're looking for a full-time paid intern!
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
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Happy #GivingTuesday! Got space in your heart for fearless local journalism? Support our nonprofit NYC news site. We report on City Hall, immigration, NYCHA, transit — and share “how-to” guides to help New Yorkers survive (and thrive!) in the Big Apple.
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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
She grew award-winning strains and was poised for a legal cannabis license. Instead, a massive police and FDNY raid — triggered by her vindictive ex-DEA uncle — left “the Godmother” facing felony charges. @rosalindadams.bsky.social deep dive into the family saga.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/20/g...
Tip your local reporters, please! (Every bit helps.)
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VIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids
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VIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/19/q...
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.
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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.
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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...
“Also Wednesday, the commanding officer of the Strategic Response Group — an NYPD unit that Mamdani has vowed to disband as mayor — filed for retirement, according to department documents shared with THE CITY.”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/05/m...
At just 34 years old, Zohran Mamdani culminated a meteoric political rise Tuesday by scoring a decisive victory in a polarizing mayoral election.
He will become the youngest mayor in over a century, the first Muslim to lead New York City.
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much love to the thousands of people googling and finding our ballot proposal explainer right now, same energy as the kids doing their homework in the hallway before class 🫶 🫶 🫶 🫶
More than 732,000 New Yorkers have already turned out to cast their ballots, accounting for nearly 14% of the more than 5.3 million registered voters in the city, according to THE CITY’s analysis of the latest city Board of Elections data.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/02/e...
Pedicab driver died by suicide in an NYPD holding cell amid a bruising police crackdown on the industry
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/30/p...
A 15-year-old kid riding an e-bike being chased by a police car ran a stop sign and got struck by a bus in Queens. His death stayed unreported for over a year
This story about Melissa DeRosa allegedly threatening Cornell's funding after an undergrad dared to ask her about Cuomo's sexual harassment allegations is not gonna do anything for this crew's reputation as frothing bullies.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
