Finally! The Leon Panetta speech America was thirsting for at 9:50 pm

It’s Happy the Bronx Zoo elephant right? That’s why she hasn’t been seen

The 600 middlemen who administer $9 billion in Medicaid funds for home care workers do NOT like Hochul's plan to streamline the system Executive pay at some of them: $3.4 million, $4 million. Hmmmm...thecity.nyc/2024/08/23/med…

Most Recent Detainee to Die on Rikers Sought Medical Care the Day Before His Death by Reuven Blau Anthony Jordan sought additional medical attention on Monday for an undisclosed problem. He was sent back to his unit. thecity.nyc/2024/08/23/rik…

According to Arrow's invoices to NYC, hundreds of security guards at migrant shelters were showing up like clockwork at exactly 7am Paper records obtained by THE CITY GregBSmith tell a vastly different story thecity.nyc/2024/08/26/mig…

I’m both a huge tennis fan & nyc fan and this is embarrassing and unacceptable. Citi Field and the Billy Jean National Tennis Center are not wheelchair accessible by public transit. #USOpen thecity.nyc/2024/08/29/us-…

Journalism leadership kids came to school today to set goals and make plans for the paper. Among lots of other things, they talked about the ways they’re inspired by THE CITY to make a “how to column”. Highly recommend being a journalism teacher to NYC kids.

.THE CITY filed a FOIL to find out the top violators of the city’s Paid Sick Leave law. The measure simply requires five paid sick days to firms w/five or more employees. The law has been in effect for a decade. Mike Bloomberg and Christine Quinn opposed it. A short history 🧵

A sobering report from Greg David @thecity about how NYC is losing (has long lost?) the claim to be the fashion capital of the world: thecity.nyc/2024/09/04/new…

A completely fascinating look at how the mass graves at Hart Island actually work (a grid of caskets going up from 150 per grave to 200) -- and what's at stake by Gwynne Hogan thecity.nyc/2024/09/04/har…

NYC Is Burying More Bodies in Each Hart Island Mass Grave thecity.nyc/2024/09/04/har…

There are 756 billionaires in the US, and two of their scions are 1 match away from meeting in the US Open final, a tournament open to players globally. I need some kind of analysis of that.

There's a bill stalled in Senate to regulate deadly ebike batteries that have killed 31 NYers. Ds & Rs back it. Firefighters back it. Mayors & Grubhub & Doordash back it. But Ted Cruz is holding it up — for a reason that has nothing to do with batteries thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/e-b…

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Just called the numbers listed for Chief John Chell to figure out if some reporting was accurate about today's federal activity and got his wife by accident. Chief calls me back and I explain why I'm calling He hands the phone to DCPI Sheppard, who calls me a "fucking scumbag."

Adams' 1st Deputy Mayor, NYPD Commish, Chancellor of Education, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, one of his closest advisors, his top fundraiser, his Asian affairs director, an official in this international affairs office... have all been raided by Feds thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/fbi…

All of Mayor Adams' confirmed and potential 2025 challengers offering similar messaging in light of the latest FBI searches and device seizures targeting top members of his administration.