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Meet the Parks Seed Seekers Who Cultivate Spring in the Cold At a Staten Island plant nursery, Parks Department horticulturalists nurture the nubs of future plants and trees through hard winter, rebooting life’s cycle.

A hopeful story about the diligent horticulturists at the NYC parks dept's Plant Ecology Center and Nursery on Staten Island.

Always read @haidee.bsky.social for thoughtful, humane reflections on life in NYC! From @thecity.nyc

Exhibition Detail - MOFAD Discover MOFAD, the museum where food is culture™, upstairs at 55 Water Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York.

all of those!! and i am also dying to check out the exhibit of nyc street vendor history at MOFAD! www.mofad.org/exhibition-s...

Trump Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador Citing agreements with the three countries, Department of Homeland Security attorneys at 26 Federal Plaza are now asserting that immigrants have no right to apply for asylum in the United States.

NEW: The request to ‘pretermit’ is an effort to toss a person’s asylum claim, leaving them defenseless against deportation to a country they are not from and may have never even entered before: Honduras, Ecuador and Uganda.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/18/a...

Private Management Promised to Fix Public Housing, Yet Hundreds of Violations Linger Get THE CITY SCOOP, our free morning newsletter.

An investigation by THE CITY has found more than 14,200 housing code violations in RAD developments since January 2021.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/10/n...

people arrested in nyc under the current trump admin are also far more likely to be deported than those arrested during the biden admin

more data findings here: www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/05/i...

Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling.

“I considered myself a strong person, a resilient person, but I’ve never gone through something like this... Leave your family out of nowhere, the uncertainty of what’s going to happen to you."

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/26/i...

BLESS!! impulse poster purchases for the newsroom encouraged!!!

On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.

"I was trying to help my mom,” said 13-year-old Jayleane, shaking, as tears streamed down her cheeks. “I saw they were pulling her hair. They had the gun in front of me. I was scared.”

@datawrapper.de!! you can do SO much with it.

Mamdani Makes History With Victory in Mayor’s Race More than 2 million New Yorkers cast a ballot in a high-stakes election that smashed recent turnout levels.

At just 34 years old, Zohran Mamdani culminated a meteoric political rise Tuesday by scoring a decisive victory in a polarizing mayoral election.

He will become the youngest mayor in over a century, the first Muslim to lead New York City.

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Explore How Different New Yorkers Voted for Mayor See how voters turned out for Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in every neighborhood in the city — and by income, housing and transit preference.

you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:

DMing you!

DMing you!

hey hey! the info on age and registration comes with from data the BOE sends out to a distribution list at the end of every early voting day. what i analyzed based on income is drawn from the census - i reallocated numbers statistically from the census tract geography to the election district one

First pass at the chaotic scene that just happened in Lower Manhattan.

Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

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Dear friends, especially those in journalism & fellow New Yorkers, while I appreciate the comic gesture, going forward please desist from sending me bags of Sour Cream & Onion potato chips.

I done already done had Herr's.

In lieu of chips, you can donate here: donorbox.org/nycdonate

icoooonic chipsss. i vote go insane for your sister! yum!

(and @katiehonan.bsky.social, of all people? what was the expectation?!?)

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

brb, gonna start asking all my aunties now why my chinese new year red pockets never came in a bag of chips

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

‘They’ve Gone Off the Map’: Fear Drives Immigrants Away From Clinics NYC Care enrollment declines for the first time, as doctors warn that New Yorkers worried about their immigration status are avoiding care out of deportation fears.

‘They’ve Gone Off the Map’: Fear Drives Immigrants Away From Clinics www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/12/i...

While other cities like LA are being put through outdoor ICE raids, NYC is the nation's capital of ICE immigration courthouse arrests, new data analysis shows.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/11/2...

NYC Is the Nation’s Capital of Immigration Courthouse Arrests, New Data Analysis Shows Half of all immigration courthouse arrests earlier this summer were in Manhattan, as the Trump administration has mostly kept ICE enforcement off of the streets, in stark contrast to Los Angeles and o...

Numbers run by @haidee.bsky.social & @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reflect remarkable contrast between ICE in LA (immigration raid spectacles on the streets) and NY (arrests at court or office check-ins). Sparing NYC's mayor a mess as he runs for reelection.

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helloooooo, new Summer & THE CITY drops this afternoon!

this week's edition is a great one from @katiehonan.bsky.social about the long-running municipal softball league for government workers

trivia: which agency plays as "the Greenbacks"?

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Mexican Relatives Kept Apart for Years Meet Again in NYC, Despite ICE Crackdowns The reunions, held away from view and not publicly advertised, bring together undocumented immigrants with family they haven’t seen in decades.

Family Reunions for Mexican Immigrants Persist in the Shadow of Immigration Enforcement W/ Documentedny.org

‘They’re killing us’: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions inside NYC holding site Immigrants complain of cramped conditions, inadequate food and bathing facilities and sleeping on concrete floors.

NEW: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions at ICE holding cells in NYC.

No showers or changing clothes. Sometimes only one meal per day. Over 100 people in small rooms. Sleeping on benches, the floor, or sitting up, due to lack of space.

gothamist.com/news/theyre-...

omg youre here!!

oh my, so many kind words in a day! thank you!! 🙈