Shortly after news broke that the FBI had raided the home of Brianna Suggs, a chief fundraiser for Mayor Eric Adams, Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn jumped to the mayor’s defense. The longtime Adams supporter questioned whether he’d been unfairly targeted because of his race. “I’m concerned about whether these investigations are just targeting him because […]
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Posted inConey Island
Hurricane Sandy Devastated Coney Island 10 Years Ago. So Why Has NYC Added Almost 2,000 Homes to the Area Since?
Gleaming new high-rise towers, built to the latest standards, stand alongside older family homes, badly in need of retrofitting. Climate change puts both at risk — although on starkly different timetables.
Posted inCampaign 2021
Can Andrew Yang Become Mayor of New York Without Union Support?
At the end of a news conference in Brooklyn last week, THE CITY asked mayoral candidate Andrew Yang what he thought about using pattern bargaining to deal with municipal unions. “I’ll get back to you on that,” he responded before walking away to take selfies with passersby at Parkside Plaza, outside Prospect Park. The century-long […]
Posted inNYCHA
NYCHA Promises Apartment Repairs for Great-Granddaughter of NYPD Shooting Victim Eleanor Bumpurs
The city Housing Authority on Monday finally started tackling repairs long ago requested by the namesake great-grandchild of Eleanor Bumpurs, the NYCHA tenant gunned down by police in 1984 after complaining about apartment conditions. The swift action followed THE CITY’s report Sunday on the challenges facing Bumpurs’ kin more than three decades after NYPD Emergency […]
Posted inCoronavirus
In Emptier Manhattan, Low Census Responses Prompt Outreach to Those Who Left
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. Census organizers typically make a special effort to reach people who may have a hard time filling out their forms — often, people born in another country, who speak a language other than English or don’t have internet […]
Posted inCoronavirus
How NYC’s Emergency Ventilator Stockpile Ended Up on the Auction Block
This story was originally published by ProPublica. In July 2006, with an aggressive and novel strain of the flu circulating in Asia and the Middle East, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a sweeping pandemic preparedness plan. Using computer models to calculate how a disease could spread rapidly through the city’s five boroughs, experts […]
Posted inElection 2020
How New Yorkers Really Feel About Bernie, Mike and the Rest of the Presidential Pack
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. New York’s Democratic presidential primary won’t take place until April 28. But with 15 states holding party primaries in the coming week, including “Super Tuesday” on March 3, the presidential contest is heating up […]
Posted inEducation
A Quick Study on Mike Bloomberg’s Education Record as Mayor
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters As mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg was one of the most powerful people in American education. For more than a decade, he effectively controlled the country’s largest school system — a power […]
Posted inSocial Services
How Mike Bloomberg’s NYC Homeless Record Clashes With Campaign Promises
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg last month vowed to cut homelessness in half by 2025, if elected — doubling spending to $6 billion and guaranteeing rent vouchers for the “extremely poor.” “Mike will make […]
Posted inHousing
Eviction Drop Fuels Push to Expand Free Housing Help for Low-Income NYC Tenants
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Evictions dropped by nearly 20% last year in neighborhoods where low-income tenants received free, city-funded legal services, a new analysis found. The reduction came in 20 zip codes targeted by the city’s 2017 Right […]