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Impact Update June 28, 2022

In early 2021, THE CITY exposed that Manhattan’s first state-sponsored COVID vaccine center, in Washington Heights, was almost exclusively being patronized by people living outside the neighborhood, with many arriving by car from the suburbs and wealthy Manhattan neighborhoods. As a result of our reporting, the state started prioritizing access for residents of the heavily working-class area. A year later, Columbia University Medical Center found a sharp rise in the share of Black and Latino patients getting shots at the site.

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Impact Update April 7, 2022

Hours after THE CITY inquired about how Edu Hermelyn, the spouse of the Brooklyn Democratic Party’s chair and a county party leader, had secured a $190,000 job at the city social service agency despite a law barring political officials from government jobs, Hermelyn quit his city position.

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Impact Update March 21, 2022

An associate of Mayor Eric Adams, Carlo Scissura, was not appointed to head the city Economic Development Corp. after THE CITY exposed evidence he was advocating for the city to buy pricey property from a client without disclosing that he was a paid lobbyist.