‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people have packed into locked rooms and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.

Federal immigration flaks repeatedly claim there's nothing to see on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza. Videos and @thecity.nyc data analysis say otherwise.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/v...

Ex-Deputy Mayor Phil Banks pushed NYPD to assign a crony with zero financial background to a money laundering unit called "El Dorado." Asked why he wanted the gig, the crony said the unit's name "sounded cool."
www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/08/f...

As Rikers Population Surges, Correction Department Bid to Add Beds Stalls Despite a growing number of detainees, the city’s jail oversight board rejected a request to expand dorm capacity — leaving officials scrambling for alternatives.

Facing a spike in inmate population, NYC Corrections come up empty in their request for more beds.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/08/r...

Can Zohran Mamdani’s Free Bus Promise Get Out of the Parking Lot? The plan has a high cost — and he’ll need Albany to get it done.

A reality check from @thecity.nyc re: Democratic mayoral nominee Mamdani's "free buses" promise.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/08/z...

Union Group Backing Adrienne Adams Is Secretly Funded by DoorDash Competent New York, founded by municipal union DC 37, has spent nearly $300,000 on ads boosting the City Council speaker’s campaign for mayor, but its only recorded contribution comes from the food de...

Independent expenditure committee backing Speaker Adrienne Adams for mayor claims it's a union-backed, but doesn't mention big $$ contribution from DoorDash @clauirizarry.bsky.social
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/d...

E-Bike ExChange: City Offering New Rides and Batteries for Bad Ones Transportation and fire officials were on hand for the launch of the program in Washington Heights Thursday. The FDNY commissioner said it was “like trading in a Kia for a Mercedes.”

City launches program providing new e-bikes and safety tested lithium-ion batteries to get their untested unsafe batteries that had triggered hundreds of fires and 33 deaths off the street.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/12/e...

Operators of ‘Grabba’ Tobacco Sweatshop Charged With Wage Theft, Reckless Endangerment In a 74-count indictment, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez charged HotHead Grabba, its owner and top managers in connection with alleged wage theft and health hazards in a tobacco sweatshop empire.

Wage theft. Sweatshop conditions. Brooklyn DA files criminal charges against HotHead Grabba owner & managers over dangerous work conditions exposed by THE CITY & @clauirizarry.bsky.social
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/04/b...

Almost Every NYPD Cop Charged with Excessive Force During the George Floyd Protests Escaped Serious Punishment A review by THE CITY reveals that only five cops cited in the most extreme cases substantiated by the CCRB received significant discipline, and that 10 disciplinary cases still haven’t been resolved a...

The NYPD's aggressive response to 2020 George Floyd protests against police brutality triggered more than 1,000 complaints of excessive force. Five years later @yoavgonen.bsky.social finds only a handful of cops received any type of serious punishment.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/03/n...

Adrienne Adams Wins Mayoral Matching Dollars, Cuomo Again Docked For Alleged Coordination With the primary weeks away, the Council speaker secures $2 million in her first public funds, while the former governor had $675,000 clawed back over a big-money group's ads that allegedly echoed his...

The Road to City Hall: Speaker Adams gets some good news from the city Campaign Finance Board. Ex-Gov. Cuomo not so much.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/30/a...

MTA Approves Millions More for OMNY Chatbot in Buggy System As complaints mount about the new tap-and-go cards for buses and subways, transit officials have approved $13 million extra for AI help services — on top of a nearly $600 million original contract.

YTDAW: MTA set to spend millions more to firm that designed the glitchy OMNY fare payment system that's triggered 100s of complaints.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/28/m...

Remembering Tom Robbins, Journalist Who Crusaded for New Yorkers in Need A stint on THE CITY’s investigations team capped a career exposing the corrupt and the criminal on behalf of tenants, workers and incarcerated people.

One of the true stars of the New York City press universe @tommyrobb.bsky.social is gone. Words cannot describe the loss, or what our city will be missing going forward. We at @thecity.nyc did our best to convey his amazing legacy:
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De Blasio Sued City Hall and Lost. Here’s How Much It’s Costing Us The former mayor apologized to New Yorkers and agreed to pay for his past NYPD protection on the presidential campaign trail. But taxpayers still paid to defend a "meritless" lawsuit he filed to avoid...

Ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio finally agreed to pay the city $320,000 for his misuse of an NYPD detail during his fantasy White House bid. But @thecity.nyc discovers taxpayers are still on the hook:
www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/21/d...

Feds’ Files on Eric Adams Reveal Uzbek Influence Campaign That Yielded Election Cash FBI agents probing the mayor surface text exchanges with a proxy of the central Asian government — with Adams demanding contributions while boosting a repressive regime’s image.

Fed documents show how a proxy for the Uzbeki government choreographed straw donations to purchase the legitimacy of the Office of the Mayor to sanitize his human rights-challenged nation.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/21/e...

NYCHA Paid Out Millions to Bribe-Paying Contractors Implicated in Corruption Takedown An investigation by THE CITY finds contractors who publicly confessed to paying thousands of bribes to Housing Authority staff were subsequently awarded hundreds of no-bid contracts. NYCHA says it had...

Investigation by @thecity.nyc finds since a big corruption takedown last year NYC Housing Authority has awarded millions of $ in contracts to vendors who admitted bribing dozens of Housing Authority supers
www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/16/n...

Wheelchair User Trapped at Rehab Sues NYCHA for Accessible Apartment Susan Bourne was disabled by a stroke in 2013. Instead of making her apartment accessible, NYCHA has waged a yearslong campaign to evict her.

Inside the Looking Glass Alternative Universe of New York City public housing
www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/07/w...

Judge Dismisses Eric Adams Corruption Case Judge Dale Ho’s decision to dismiss the charges “with prejudice” means the Trump administration cannot bring them again — removing leverage it sought over the mayor.

Judge tosses NYC Mayor Adams' corruption case, but also charges Trump Justice Department's intervention to aid its immigration deportation campaign "smacks of a bargain."
www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/02/m...

Eric Adams Has Made Zero Effort to Challenge His Campaign Matching Funds Denial The mayor claims he’s “fighting” to get $4 million in public dollars the city Campaign Finance Board declined to provide in light of his corruption indictment. But three months in, his campaign has ye...

Early this week Mayor Adams said he was "fighting" to get matching funds denied to his campaign back in December. Three months later THE CITY finds zero evidence of this "fight."
www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/28/e...

City Contracts Commissioner Resigns Suddenly, Latest Adams Appointee to Bow Out Lisa Flores was one of Eric Adams’ first appointments, in charge of tens of billions of dollars of business with nonprofits and private vendors.

NEW Another top aide to NYC Mayor Eric Adams exits: chief procurement officer Lisa Flores suddenly puts in her papers. Other top aides have hit the road, some after law enforcement inquires, others protesting Adams' deal with Trump re: dismissing his criminal case.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/22/l...

Trump Organization’s Criminal Record Clouds Its Bid to Reclaim Wollman Rink A board controlled by Mayor Eric Adams has ultimate say on the Central Park concession — and must find a “satisfactory record of business integrity” for whichever firm operates it next.

Obscure NYC board controlled by Mayor Adams would have to approve Trump Organization's bid to run Wollman Rink - and confront the company's criminal and civil judgments.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/20/t...

City Jail Population Surpasses 7,000, Headed in Wrong Direction for Close-Rikers Plan By law, the city will be legally barred from using Rikers jails after 2027, but the move-out can happen only if there are less than 5,000 people behind bars.

Boro-based jail goal to close Rikers Island by 2027 has a capacity for 4,100. Jail census just surpassed 7,000 for the first time since pre-pandemic. @reuvenblau.bsky.social explains why.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/20/r...

Trump Org Presses Eric Adams for Wollman Rink Rights After City Hall Spurned $120M Nonprofit Gift The Central Park Conservancy offered $120 million to run the skating oasis. City Hall instead solicited bids just days after the election — handing the president a prized opportunity while Adams’ lawy...

NEW Trump Organization pushing Mayor Adams' team to operate Wollman Rink after mayor's office blows off $120 million Central Park Conservancy offer to replace and run it. Meanwhile Adams' awaits OK of Trump Justice Department dismissal of his criminal case...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/15/t...

Jesse Hamilton Forced Real Estate Firm to Assign Broker Pal to City Account, Suit Alleges The Adams ally, his real estate buddy Diana Boutross and former Adams advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin all vacationed together in Japan — and had their phones seized by law enforcement when they returned.

NEW The longtime pal Eric Adams put in charge of city leases pushed a brokerage that helps the city on those multi-million $ transactions to assign a friend he called "my broker" to handle those leases.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/13/j...

Tech Startup Gets on Fast Track to Install Sidewalk EV Charging Towers After Hiring Eric Adams’ Power Broker Gravity Technologies is preparing to plant “trees” to juice up city agency vehicles, with help from the lobbying firm founded by the mayor’s former chief of staff, Frank Carone.

Tech firm pitching fast charging EV hubs put on fast track after hiring former top aide to NYC Mayor
www.thecity.nyc/2025/01/27/g...

Board of Elections Docked Director 15 Days Instead of Recommended Termination for Harassment Michael Ryan remains in his job after getting a break from the board, whose chair was officially responsible for tackling gender discrimination at CUNY.

After documenting top city election official's sexually inappropriate and racially biased harassment of 2 women staffers, Dept. of Investigation recommends he be fired or resign. City elections board docks him 15 days pay, but keeps him on the payroll.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/01/08/b...

Thousands of New Apartments on Brooklyn’s Waterfront? Not So Fast, Say Some Local Leaders Some members of a task force weighing the Brooklyn Marine Terminal’s future question whether scaling back one of the borough’s last remaining industrial areas is necessary or wise.

Will Brooklyn's Gold Coast expand? First came DUMBO, then the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Now comes a plan to reimagine deteriorating waterfront piers with housing & commercial development. But of course, there's a catch.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/01/08/b...

Board of Elections Director Made Racial and Sexual Remarks to Female Employees, City Probe Found The Department of Investigation recommended in November that Michael Ryan resign, but months later, he’s still there.

NEW NYC Dept. of Investigation calls on NYC Board of Elections head to resign after accusing him of creating hostile work environment for 2 women staffers
www.thecity.nyc/2025/01/07/b...

NYC Mayor Adams' lawyer today asks the judge in the mayor's bribery/fraud case to move a scheduled Friday court appearance to AFTER Jan. 20th. Not sure if that's at all related to President-elect Trump's musings about maybe pardoning Adams but who knows?

Bill Banning Off-Brand E-Bike Battery Sales Passes Congress, Spurred by New York Tragedies Federal budget package includes long-delayed measure to prevent fires that have killed and injured hundreds, steered by Schumer, Gillibrand and Torres.

Law barring sale of volatile e-bike batteries that are NOT safety certified passes Senate w/ support from Sens. Schumer & Gillibrand.
www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/18/e...

Adams Campaign Declines to Answer Key Auditor Queries as Criminal Case Looms Even as they asked for public matching funds, the mayor’s team ignored pressing questions from the Campaign Finance Board on who paid for what, newly released records show.

NEW Eric Adams' team acknowledges it declined to answer certain questions by an oversight panel about 2021 fundraising activities because it would become evidence in his upcoming criminal campaign finance fraud trial
www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/17/e...

Eric Adams Campaign Denied Public Matching Funds, In Blow to Reelection Bid Campaign Finance Board declares the mayor’s conduct, including indictment allegations of fraudulent fundraising, as likely “conduct in violation of the campaign finance law.”

Panel that decides who gets public matching funds deals big blow to Mayor Eric Adams campaign which was hoping for millions more taxpayer $
www.thecity.nyc/2024/12/16/e...