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Yoav
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DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.
January 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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“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."
Eric Adams Reigned Over a Run of Scandal Not Seen Since Boss Tweed
The mayor’s corruption indictment capped a string of criminal charges, FBI raids and abrupt resignations that destroyed his popularity and took down his crony-laden palace guard.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The @thecity.nyc's obituary on the greasy, scandalous reign of the Eric Adams administration, in New York City

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Eric Adams Reigned Over a Run of Scandal Not Seen Since Boss Tweed
The mayor’s corruption indictment capped a string of criminal charges, FBI raids and abrupt resignations that destroyed his popularity and took down his crony-laden palace guard.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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
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Use of Force By NYPD Officers Surged 20% Last Year
The 11,746 incidents of use of force in 2024 by police officers marked the highest number since detailed record-keeping began in 2016.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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!
Editorial Intern - Spring at THE CITY
Editorial intern THE CITY is seeking candidates for a full-time paid intern for the spring of 2026 focusing on general assignment and breaking news, features and on-the-street reporting. The Organizat...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say

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ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
he father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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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
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.
www.thecity.nyc
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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...
The ‘Godmother’ of Weed vs. Her Uncle, the DEA Agent
Cannabis officials courted a rising pot star to join New York’s legal market. Then a stunning police raid upended everything and shattered her family.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Tip your local reporters, please! (Every bit helps.)

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November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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VIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids

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November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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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...
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.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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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.
Brooklyn DA Backs Reduced Sentence for Notorious Child Molester
The office of Kings County District Attorney Eric Gonzalez argues the original 103-year sentence for Nechemya Weberman was excessive. His victim objects.
www.thecity.nyc
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Immigrant Affairs Assistant Commissioner Posted Anti-Muslim Mamdani Meme
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Immigrant Affairs Assistant Commissioner Posted Anti-Muslim Mamdani Meme
A spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams said his office condemned the post by a staffer, who is still employed by City Hall.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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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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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…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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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

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NYPD Commissioner to Decide on Review Board Jurisdiction in Case of Cop Involved in Fatal Shooting
As Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani aims to expand the power of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, Commissioner Jessica Tisch has to determine whether to support a judge’s ruling in a fatal shooting case.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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“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...
Mamdani Gets Vets of Previous Mayoral Admins to Lead Transition
Four women who worked under Mayors Adams, de Blasio or Bloomberg were named, as was former FTC Chair Lina Khan.
www.thecity.nyc
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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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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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.
www.thecity.nyc
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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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 🫶 🫶 🫶 🫶
Your Guide to NYC’s Ballot Questions for 2025
Voters will weigh in on housing reforms, a change to election years and an Olympic Sports Complex in upstate New York.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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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...
4 Early Voting Takeaways, By The Numbers
Newly registered voters, like the ones who helped power Zohran Mamdani to his primary win, turned out in droves — while voters who aren’t registered with a party were much less likely to vote early.
www.thecity.nyc
November 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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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...
Pedicab Driver’s Death Amid NYPD Crackdown Rattles a Freewheeling Industry
Musa Cetin hanged himself in a police precinct cell as the pedicab industry, known for blaring music and tourist scams, is snared in sweeping NYPD enforcement.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
yoavgonen.bsky.social
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
October 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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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.

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‘Watch Yourself’: Top Cuomo Advisor Melissa DeRosa ’04 M.P.A. ’09 Berates Undergrad Who Probes Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Allegations
Melissa DeRosa ’04 M.P.A. ’09, secretary to former governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) berated a Cornell undergraduate student at a Oct 1. Cornell Political Strategy Group event after asking about Cuomo’s ...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM