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When he was a teenager, @EddieGibbsNY killed a man, he says, in self-defense. Now, as a state Assemblyman, he works to help the currently and formerly incarcerated. This is a story about remorse, atonement and second acts: nytimes.com/2024/05/04/nyreg…
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“Can anyone replace him in New York financially? The simple answer is no.”
Inside the retrenchment of one of New York's best known billionaires, and what it might mean for the Republican causes he's championed here >>
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After City Council speaker @JulieMenin criticized his administration about the handling of the Legionnaires deaths, Mayor Mamdani said the outbreak seems to be coming under control. 82 people have gotten Legionnaires and five people have died.
“The tension is not centered on the ethnicity or race of the candidates supported by the D.S.A. — many are Black and Latino. It is more about the group itself: A 2021 national survey of D.S.A. members found that the group was 85% white, a decrease from 2013 when 96%” were white.
Would it kill @JeffCMays to mention that a @nycDSA member has represented Medgar Evers for the last 6 years? And that she happens to be a black CUNY grad and a lifelong Crown Heights resident? These takes are getting stale very quickly.
Ahead of a news conference with @NYCMayor and @GovKathyHochul on their roadmap to improve bus service, TWU workers have set up a picket line. “Hochul’ no friend to labor,” they’re chanting.
Speaking on WFAN aboutNYC's pending heatwave, Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes a minute to say he's sick about the Knicks' Mitchell Robinson signing with the hated Celtics. Asked if Robinson's street sign will be removed, the mayor jokingly said he has to "take it back to the team."
City Hall is looking extra fresh for the @nyknicks championship celebration. Excited.
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What New York saw on Saturday was the version of the city Mamdani's campaign sold — an orange and blue, Sinatra-scored, swinging from traffic lights ad for city life. It was also a window into the tension between his vision and the work of making it real nytimes.com/2026/06/16/nyreg…
Speaking in Harlem, Mayor Mamdani saidbthe officiating at the Knicks game was a “crime” and the disparity of fouls between the Knicks and Spurs is proof. Asked if he blames Trump’s presence at MSG for the Knicks loss, the mayor says we had a “rough game.”
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Five months into his tenure, @NYCMayor has yet to appoint a head of @NYCEDC, as he tries to figure out the direction of an agency whose mission doesn’t neatly fit into his democratic socialist agenda. W/ @danarubinstein @JeffCMays @emmabgo
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What will economic development in New York look like under Mayor Mamdani? The lack of leadership of EDC, so far, raises questions. w/ @danarubinstein @SallyGold @JeffCMays nytimes.com/2026/05/29/nyreg…
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NEW: @ZohranKMamdani is seriously considering endorsing @DarializaforNY over @RepEspaillat in the tightening Upper Manhattan House race, despite telling Espaillat he'd back him last year. This would give her serious momentum. W/ @mayaaking:
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@NYCMayor said today of Walden's tweet, "I think that's just despicable. The idea that this passes for political analysis ... and that it passes for the norm of discourse, it is a reflection of where we are not just as a city, but as a country." 1/4
NEW: Rivals of @NYCMayor, unsuccessful in their efforts last year to block his rise, are trying again w/ a new group that’s raised over $1M and plans to run digital ads, file lawsuits and issue policy papers when its team disagrees with the mayor.
nytimes.com/2026/05/13/nyreg…
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NEW: Airbnb, which is all but illegal in NY, is trying again to break into the market, making a push in Black homeowner areas as the World Cup nears. But @ZohranKMamdani and @SpeakerMenin are all but certain to side with @NYHTC. W/ @mayaaking:
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The Archdiocese of New York has proposed paying $800 million to settle claims from the 1,300 people who say they were sexually abused as minors by priests and lay staff, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. w/ @mayaaking nytimes.com/2026/04/30/nyreg…
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NEW: @NYCMayor is floating stretching out payments into the pension system, which sources say would save more than $1B amid a $5.4B deficit.
@andrewsrein warns it’s kicking the can down the road to avoid cutting spending of any kind.
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Mamdani Enlists Philanthropists to Raise $20 Million for Child Care: nytimes.com/2026/04/16/nyreg…
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NEW: As New York leaders argue over whether to raise taxes on high earners to help solve NYC’s multibillion-dollar budget gap, Gov. Kathy Hochul has decided to push for a yearly tax aimed at second homes in the city that are worth $5 million or more. nytimes.com/2026/04/14/nyreg…
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“The voters wanted explicit language,” Ms. Tigani said. “They wanted clear, actionable goals that named race, that named racial inequities and that named solutions.”
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Mayor Mamdani dangled the threat of a property tax increase to force the state to tax the wealthy to close his looming budget deficit. But he angered two important constituencies; Gov. Hochul & Black middle class homeowners. w/@SallyGold @boreskes nytimes.com/2026/03/25/nyreg…
