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wohoo, congratulations!

What’s to Come at ‘Rental Ripoff’ Hearings? Tenant Hotline Staff Hear It All Longtime workers at a tenants’ rights hotline say stories from callers have only gotten more extreme in recent years.

The Mamdani administration wants to know what NYC renters deal with.

A tenant hotline gets an earful from hundreds of callers each week.

“People call us, and we’re sort of the first line of defense.”

www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/26/r...

Bellevue Hospital a De Facto Homeless Shelter, as Winter Storms Test City Outreach Dozens of unhoused people have been staying in a warming center at the public hospital for weeks on end and haven’t had any contact with homeless services.

Bellevue Hospital’s south lobby is one of the city’s official warming centers, a temporary place for anyone in need to wait out the cold. But many people there who spoke with THE CITY said they’d been living in the lobby for weeks, with no end in sight.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/25/b...

Property Taxes in NYC are a Mess. Here’s Why Even Renters Should Care. They’re the engine of the city’s budget, but unequal and outdated. Here’s your guide on how property taxes work — and how they affect everyone, not just owners.

Everyone in NYC is talking about property taxes!

Hardly anyone understands the system, but there's widespread agreement the outcomes are inequitable.

We've got a guide to help you make sense of it all, and learn why you should care, even if you don't own property.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/25/p...

What Happens When You Call for Help for New Yorkers Out in the Cold Special protocols kick into gear when the temperature is below 32 degrees.

btw - mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has been urging new yorkers to call 311 if they see someone who could use some help getting inside. but what actually happens when you dial 311? how can you check in with your unsheltered neighbor yourself? this explainer covers some of that: shorturl.at/2EJ32

How Unsheltered New Yorkers Face Down the Cold: ‘It’s Survive or Die’ Some unsheltered New Yorkers say they prefer the freedom of the streets. Others say they have not been asked in.

it's gonna get reeeeeally cold outside again this weekend, and i'm thinking again about the four unsheltered new yorkers who so generously shared with me what it's been like to navigate this cold spell. so ICYMI: www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/30/c...

thank you for reading!! 🌱

Meet the Parks Seed Seekers Who Cultivate Spring in the Cold At a Staten Island plant nursery, Parks Department horticulturalists nurture the nubs of future plants and trees through hard winter, rebooting life’s cycle.

A hopeful story about the diligent horticulturists at the NYC parks dept's Plant Ecology Center and Nursery on Staten Island.

Always read @haidee.bsky.social for thoughtful, humane reflections on life in NYC! From @thecity.nyc

Exhibition Detail - MOFAD Discover MOFAD, the museum where food is culture™, upstairs at 55 Water Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York.

all of those!! and i am also dying to check out the exhibit of nyc street vendor history at MOFAD! www.mofad.org/exhibition-s...

Trump Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador Citing agreements with the three countries, Department of Homeland Security attorneys at 26 Federal Plaza are now asserting that immigrants have no right to apply for asylum in the United States.

NEW: The request to ‘pretermit’ is an effort to toss a person’s asylum claim, leaving them defenseless against deportation to a country they are not from and may have never even entered before: Honduras, Ecuador and Uganda.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/18/a...

Private Management Promised to Fix Public Housing, Yet Hundreds of Violations Linger Get THE CITY SCOOP, our free morning newsletter.

An investigation by THE CITY has found more than 14,200 housing code violations in RAD developments since January 2021.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/10/n...

people arrested in nyc under the current trump admin are also far more likely to be deported than those arrested during the biden admin

more data findings here: www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/05/i...

Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling.

“I considered myself a strong person, a resilient person, but I’ve never gone through something like this... Leave your family out of nowhere, the uncertainty of what’s going to happen to you."

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/26/i...

BLESS!! impulse poster purchases for the newsroom encouraged!!!

On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.

"I was trying to help my mom,” said 13-year-old Jayleane, shaking, as tears streamed down her cheeks. “I saw they were pulling her hair. They had the gun in front of me. I was scared.”

@datawrapper.de!! you can do SO much with it.

Mamdani Makes History With Victory in Mayor’s Race More than 2 million New Yorkers cast a ballot in a high-stakes election that smashed recent turnout levels.

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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Explore How Different New Yorkers Voted for Mayor See how voters turned out for Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in every neighborhood in the city — and by income, housing and transit preference.

you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:

DMing you!

DMing you!

hey hey! the info on age and registration comes with from data the BOE sends out to a distribution list at the end of every early voting day. what i analyzed based on income is drawn from the census - i reallocated numbers statistically from the census tract geography to the election district one

First pass at the chaotic scene that just happened in Lower Manhattan.

Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

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Dear friends, especially those in journalism & fellow New Yorkers, while I appreciate the comic gesture, going forward please desist from sending me bags of Sour Cream & Onion potato chips.

I done already done had Herr's.

In lieu of chips, you can donate here: donorbox.org/nycdonate

icoooonic chipsss. i vote go insane for your sister! yum!

(and @katiehonan.bsky.social, of all people? what was the expectation?!?)

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

brb, gonna start asking all my aunties now why my chinese new year red pockets never came in a bag of chips

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

‘They’ve Gone Off the Map’: Fear Drives Immigrants Away From Clinics NYC Care enrollment declines for the first time, as doctors warn that New Yorkers worried about their immigration status are avoiding care out of deportation fears.

‘They’ve Gone Off the Map’: Fear Drives Immigrants Away From Clinics www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/12/i...

While other cities like LA are being put through outdoor ICE raids, NYC is the nation's capital of ICE immigration courthouse arrests, new data analysis shows.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/11/2...

NYC Is the Nation’s Capital of Immigration Courthouse Arrests, New Data Analysis Shows Half of all immigration courthouse arrests earlier this summer were in Manhattan, as the Trump administration has mostly kept ICE enforcement off of the streets, in stark contrast to Los Angeles and o...

Numbers run by @haidee.bsky.social & @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reflect remarkable contrast between ICE in LA (immigration raid spectacles on the streets) and NY (arrests at court or office check-ins). Sparing NYC's mayor a mess as he runs for reelection.