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Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg A blizzard of outside spending on ads, including a spot that linked Zohran Mamdani to 9/11, failed to move voters and may have even backfired.

A story about setting millions of dollars on fire: www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...

Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee According to an employee with knowledge of the system, the password to the Louvre's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre" at the time of the robbery last month.

It’s ok now because they updated it to “Louvre1789”

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Episode 455: The Kismet and the Anxiety of Street Photography Podcast Episode · FAQ NYC · 11/05/2025 · 48m

Delighted to share the latest LIT NYC podcast with you. With political activism rising in NYC, Harry Siegel and I sat down with Ben Fractenberg - Visuals Editor of @thecity.nyc to talk about street photography and protest photography. @fractenberg.bsky.social
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Crowd of Mamdani. supporters overflowing on Steinway in Astoria, @thecity.nyc

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.

See how each neighborhood voted in Mamdani's historic win:

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/m...

Five Months of Fear, Fury and Heartbreak at 26 Federal Plaza As masked agents arrested immigrants in and around immigration courts, The City has been there to document what's happening.

Here's part of what's at stake in this election. THE CITY has been documenting immigration arrests in and around 26 Federal Plaza since the spring.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/03/5...

If anyone’s looking for their pineapple top, it’s currently on the tracks at Bowling Green.

Does Dan Smith know about this dude?? Is there gonna be a turf battle?

More to come, but confrontation still ongoing with the masked agents trying to leave Canal Street and a spontaneous crowd of counter protesters.

Portfolio: The Trap at 26 Federal Plaza Every day in downtown Manhattan immigrants arriving for routine hearings are targeted by ICE agents and taken from their families.

Very powerful and important work by Stephanie Keith: nymag.com/intelligence...

Federal Raid Outside Row Hotel Migrant Shelter Rattles Residents In what appears to be a first under the current Trump administration, federal agents targeted migrants just outside a shelter.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/17/r...

Partial Collapse at Bronx NYCHA Building Marks Start of Heat Season Investigation focuses on the boiler room, after explosion wrecks 20-story chimney but leaves no injuries.

Partial Collapse at Bronx NYCHA Building Marks Start of Heat Season www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/01/n...

Mayor Adams Is Playing '3D Chess' in Longshot Re-Election Run, He Says Lagging poll numbers haven’t stopped Adams from touting “one of the most exciting campaigns” ever.

MAN OF VISION: Mayor Adams sez he’s playing “3D Chess” in reelection bid
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Hizzoner touts “strategy” in “one of the most exciting campaigns” ever in NYC

⬇️ Quite the tale from @katiehonan.bsky.social — and a heck of a @fractenberg.bsky.social snap ⬇️ www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/25/e...

Amtrak Police Arrests Surge at Penn Bathroom Cruising Spot Federal law enforcement turned a person they arrested in the transit hub directly over to ICE.

Amtrak Police Arrests Surge at Penn Bathroom Cruising Spot www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/24/a...

“Our neighbors are disappearing. We cannot permit this to continue.”

www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/18/d...

Eric Adams’ Long Shot Bid Is Still Scoring Support From These Megadonors Developers seeking City Hall approvals are delivering as much as $250K each to the Empower NYC spending group.

“The fact that somebody comes in after we spend all of this time writing this application? To have somebody come in and dump a big pile of money and blowing everything up, it’s like, ‘Come on!’”

www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/16/e...

Quite the lively building

Eric Adams Advocate Fired from City Job After Posts Critical of Charlie Kirk Community liaison Tony Herbert referred to the shooting of the right-wing activist on X as “karma,” while suggesting Kirk was a “racist.” He also called the killing “unfortunate.” He was terminated Th...

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Latest @yoavgonen.bsky.social scoop

“Unfortunately he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but everyone has to make the decision when the call of duty comes,” said retired doorman Bobby Amos about childhood friend and FDNY member. “I come out of every year to pay my respects.”

Excited to announce the launch of my AI, "Gronk," which will remind you to "give it 110 percent" and just take things "one game at a time."

Now that I've hit the big time I'd like to say I'm also available to photograph money-filled Cheetos and Utz bags.

Adams Campaign Denies Reports He’d Take a Job With Trump, Drop Out of Mayoral Race The Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa also said he’d stay in the race, despite apparent efforts from the White House to clear the field for a Cuomo-Mamdani showdown.

NEW: Adams Campaign Denies Reports He’d Take a Job With Trump, Drop Out of Mayoral Race
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Exclusive | Inside the $2.5M NYC loft where The Blue Öyster Cult recorded one of its most famous albums This 39 Pearl St. lair has more than just musical history — but also one tied to the paint industry, too.

Come on @nypost.com, how is this lede not, "Don't fear the realtor."???

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“Not my first rodeo.”

-Me at my second rodeo

Best-seller book ideas:

Tuesdays with Maury Povich

The Secret 2: Twice the Secrets, Half the Price

The Spy who Spied on Spies

Every Brody Poops, The Unauthorized Adrien Brody Biography

Crash Test Dummies for Dummies

How to Make $1 Million with Just Two Rich Parents

Montana morning walk ✨

happy to announce i've evolved from attention whore to attention ethical non-monogamist.

I had it in the bag...

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.

Just when you think it can't get any crazier, an Eric Adams crony hands CITY reporter @katiehonan.bsky.social a potato chip bag stuffed with cash...

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

There really is an award for everything.