WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, When Andrew Yang won endorsements from an array of Brooklyn-based Hasidic Jewish sects before the 2021 Democratic mayoral primary, his campaign touted that as a possible game changer that could put him over the top in a tight […]
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The Money Race, and Finding Your Sample Ballot
In this week's election newsletter, we look at fundraising totals, a forum on AAPI issues and more.
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The tour guide showing the history of Muslims in New York
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, The history of early Muslims in New York is invisible in lower Manhattan today, but a tour guide has made it his mission to bring Little Syria to life — starting with the first free Muslim settler in Manhattan, […]
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‘Big, beautiful bill’ = big hole in NYC’s budget
FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, The Republican tax and spending bill that ed the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday would punch a hole as big as $20 billion in the $254 billion state budget enacted just weeks ago. And it could force more than […]
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Your Borough’s Mini-Mayors on the Ballot
In this week’s election newsletter, we break down the borough president races, and what Kathryn Garcia's been up to.
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The special interests spending big on City Council races
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, In New York’s campaign finance system, corporations are not people. While there are caps on how much money individuals can give to campaigns, there’s no limit on what companies can give to independent influence groups — which in turn […]
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OMNY complaints mount as the MTA works out bugs
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Subway and bus riders are fuming over OMNY glitches that billed them late, kept them from tapping through turnstiles and has them enduring lengthy waits for customer service. Vanessa Campos, 28, told THE CITY that she was charged 18 […]
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Open Newsroom: A Talk on Property Fraud, Deed Theft and Speculation in Brooklyn
THE CITY met with New Yorkers in Bedford-Stuyvesant to facilitate a conversation between people seeing property challenges firsthand and advocates and experts working to combat the issue.
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Are you traveling over troubled city bridges?
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Drivers heading to LaGuardia Airport or CitiField may not know it, but they could face greater concerns than missing their flight or the first pitch. On a single stretch of highway in Queens, seven parts of roadway or ramps […]
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The terrible truth about Sherita, Brooklyn’s billboard dino
MONDAY, MAY 19, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, About 25 years ago, people ing a drab industrial stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn started noticing a hand-painted billboard that looked both of the place and out of this world. “Attention LANDLORDS,” it said, followed by an offer […]