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Cuomo claimed these NYCHA leaders endorsed him, but they say they never did.

Friday, June 6, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral campaign last month released a list with what it billed as endorsements from the heads of tenant associations at 27 NYCHA developments. But five tenant association presidents who appeared on the list told THE CITY they…

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Democrats debate as ICE splits more families

THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, A crowded stage of nine Democratic candidates for mayor faced off to debate last night, the first time former Gov. Andrew Cuomo had to face attacks from his rivals. How the next mayor should deal with the Trump istration…

ICE contractor summons immigrants, then arrests them

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, The immigration courthouse on lower Broadway has already been the scene of many Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests of people following their hearings, part of a national operation that has hit people applying for asylum. Now, just across the…

Few Cops Got Serious Discipline for George Floyd Protests Excessive Force

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Following the protests that erupted across the city five years ago after George Floyd’s death at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, the Civilian Complaint Review Board fielded more than 1,000 complaints of excessive force by of…

Inside Cuomo’s $19M legal war against his accs

MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, $19.4 million.  That’s how much taxpayers have spent so far to defend Andrew Cuomo and his staff in three lawsuits brought by women who allege they were sexually harassed by the ex-governor.  In just one case, known as Trooper…

ICE continues to arrest immigrants in courthouse blitz

FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, ICE agents continue to arrest immigrants after routine immigration court proceedings. THE CITY witnessed seven arrests by ICE yesterday morning, which followed another seven on Wednesday at an immigration courthouse across the street at 26 Federal Plaza. The Trump istration has said the arrests are part of a…

ing Tom Robbins, journalist and activist

THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Journalist Tom Robbins died at home in Brooklyn Heights on Tuesday night. He was 76 and left behind a powerful legacy as a journalist and activist — including through his work for THE CITY. Robbins, who ed our investigative…

Who will win the Orthodox Jewish vote?

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, When Andrew Yang won endorsements from an array of Brooklyn-based Hasidic Jewish sects before the 2021 Democratic mayoral primary, his campaign touted that as a possible game changer that could put him over the top in a tight…

The tour guide showing the history of Muslims in New York

TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, The history of early Muslims in New York is invisible in lower Manhattan today, but a tour guide has made it his mission to bring Little Syria to life — starting with the first free Muslim settler in Manhattan,…

‘Big, beautiful bill’ = big hole in NYC’s budget

FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, The Republican tax and spending bill that ed the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday would punch a hole as big as $20 billion in the $254 billion state budget enacted just weeks ago. And it could force more than…

The special interests spending big on City Council races

THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, In New York’s campaign finance system, corporations are not people.  While there are caps on how much money individuals can give to campaigns, there’s no limit on what companies can give to independent influence groups — which in turn…

OMNY complaints mount as the MTA works out bugs

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Subway and bus riders are fuming over OMNY glitches that billed them late, kept them from tapping through turnstiles and has them enduring lengthy waits for customer service. Vanessa Campos, 28, told THE CITY that she was charged 18…

Are you traveling over troubled city bridges?

TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Drivers heading to LaGuardia Airport or CitiField may not know it, but they could face greater concerns than missing their flight or the first pitch. On a single stretch of highway in Queens, seven parts of roadway or ramps…

The terrible truth about Sherita, Brooklyn’s billboard dino

MONDAY, MAY 19, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, About 25 years ago, people ing a drab industrial stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn started noticing a hand-painted billboard that looked both of the place and out of this world.  “Attention LANDLORDS,” it said, followed by an offer…

An NYPD arrest, no charges — then the Feds sent them to El Salvador 

FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, The deportation of 19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez Flores to a megaprison in El Salvador earlier this year set off a huge firestorm when it was first reported by Documented because the Venezuelan had no criminal record and a pending asylum application. But a previously unreported interaction that took place…

Cuomo silent on whether he’d work with Trump

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, In only 24 hours, tens of thousands of people have taken our quiz to find out which mayoral hopeful they best match up with.  Some of the candidates’ responses were unexpected: for example, Andrew Cuomo was the only one…

Trump cuts off budding CUNY scientists from aid

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, The Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) s the pursuit of advanced degrees by students in the biomedical field. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the program offers tuition assistance, mentorship, registration to professional conferences, and…

Cuomo penalized $622K for coordinating with PAC

TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Andrew Cuomo may have to forfeit more than $600,000 in public matching funds, the New York City Campaign Finance Board announced Monday, because the CFB has reason to believe that his campaign inappropriately coordinated with an independent expenditure committee…

What we found in the FBI’s search warrants for Eric Adams 

MONDAY, MAY 12, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, A trove of documents from Mayor Eric Adams’ now-defunct criminal case released late Friday reveals the extraordinary steps the mayor and his aides took to keep their communications secret. Seeking search warrants, the FBI told judges they needed to…

Trump arts cuts hit city cultural groups

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, Kirstin Kapustik was on her way home after a Friday night performance of Trisha Brown Dance Company at The Joyce Theater when her evening took a turn for the worse.  Kapustik, the company’s executive director, got an email from the National Endowment for the Arts informing her that…

The city Super PAC dumping money into a Bronx Council race 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, You may have heard of independent expenditure groups — the city’s Super PACs — ing Andrew Cuomo, but some candidates for down-ballot races are also backed by big money.  An IE group called Ending Homelessness & Building a Better NYC…

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