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we analyzed more than 15k flight records to get a sense of how the nypd uses its helicopters. we found that under mayor eric adams they're flying more than any period over the past five years, leaving the city more and spending more money on operations bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
New York City is bringing back a stream it buried more than a century ago. I wrote about the ambitious, decades long effort for @CityLab
🎁: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
NYC has a ton of green sidewalk scaffolding. There’s more than 300 miles of it on the city’s streets, enough to encircle Manhattan 10 times.
The city is looking at ways to beautify the structures and keep them from languishing on its streets: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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DHS could spend billions converting warehouses into ICE detention centers. Communities involved are unprepared, underequipped and largely unwilling.
A must read from @FolaAk for @BW: bloomberg.com/features/2026-…
What happens when ICE wants to build a massive detention center in a place with scarce water and no police department?
I went to a rural Pennsylvania town that’s gripped by confusion, frustration and anger: bloomberg.com/features/2026-…
There are significant hurdles to that plan, namely that water is scarce because the town is coming out of its worst drought in decades. It is next to their only daycare, and they don’t have emergency services capacity to play host. bloomberg.com/features/2026-…
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Ultra-rich buyers are consolidating New York townhouse apartments into giant single-family homes. Some are buying two, even three adjacent townhouses to build a franken-home.
The Manhattan mega-mansion is the status symbol for the second Gilded Age:
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ICE has spent ~$700 million on warehouses that it want to turn into immigration detention centers. We have the addresses, the deeds and the sellers for you
W/@sooo__phie and our deportation inc team: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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The Big Beautiful Bill allotted more than $170 billion to immigration enforcement — a sum which surpasses the annual military spending of every country on Earth, except for China and the US.
@FolaAk joins @svaneksmith and @chafkin on the Everybody's Business podcast to discuss the costs of ICE and of hunting down and detaining undocumented workers bit.ly/4dgCkBI
NEW: ICE has spent at least $172 million this month on warehouses that it plans to convert into immigration jails
W/@sooo__phie & team
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The new sites are part of a plan to convert up to 23 of these buildings into massive detention centers. If executed, it would be the largest expansion of immigration detention in history
NEW: The Trump admin is eyeing a massive expansion of its immigration detention capacity. It’s looking to convert up to two dozen warehouses into massive detention facilities, some of which could hold more than 5,000 people.
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Democrats push for an investigation of dealings between Trump officials and immigration contractors via @FolaAk
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Fabulous reporting by Rachel Adams Heard @racheladhe & Fola Akinnibi @FolaAk. They seem to have worked with @Kaylakshea to tell the devastating story of a daughter who lost her father to ICE and deportation. Many stories on data center towns; here's one on ICE town
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NEW: We followed one man through the deportation process. 129 days, 6 facilities, 3 flights.
For the first time, we've calculated what his experience cost taxpayers (1/2) w/ @elena___mejia @irencs @FolaAk: bit.ly/3KfNInl
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Our scoop was confirmed by @business: "Shomrim, a nonprofit news organization in Israel, reported earlier Tuesday that the US was planning a large base in the Gaza area to oversee the ceasefire. It cited Israeli officials who saw the preliminary plans." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
NEW: The US Military is laying the groundwork for a 10,000 person temporary base “near Gaza,” according to an internal contracting document obtained by @business.
Read more here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
W/the great @sooo__phie and team
In response to our reporting @PressSec said the story is “based on a single piece of paper produced by random people within the military,” adding that the plan has not been “considered or approved” by the highest levels of the US gov’t
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ICE is laying the groundwork for a privately run “call center” that would help state and local law enforcement agencies with 287(g) agreements track down unaccompanied immigrant children w/ @FolaAk and @sooo__phie
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