When THE CITY learned on the Friday before Labor Day that was investigated by NYCHA’s federal monitor.
Impact Update
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.
Impact Update April 27, 2022
Reporters Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Josefa Velasquez won the 2022 James Beard Award for Investigative Reporting for their series of stories on the working conditions of delivery workers in New York City.
Impact Update April 25, 2022
LAist used THE CITY’s “Meet Your Mayor” software code to build a voting guide for LA’s 2022 mayoral election.
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.
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.
Impact Update Sept. 23, 2021
drivers’ poor pay and grueling working conditions to public attention.