WKCR reports that all student press is being escorted away from Hamilton Hall, leaving nobody to document whatever goes down there

Our first pass of tonight, with Gwynne Hogan on the scene at Columbia University where reporters are supposed to be - thecity.nyc/2024/04/30/nyp…

.Benny Polatseck, a staffer in Mayor Adams' office, has deleted this tweet.

LABOR PAINS: MTA brass hears from pregnant bus drivers suing over work accommodations

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Disciplinary Trial Date Set for Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, NYPD’s Highest Ranking Uniformed Member thecity.nyc/2024/04/30/jef… Yoav Gonen

A state pilot program to legalize basement apartments seems to include a lot of neighborhoods without basements and exclude a lot of neighborhoods with basements.

Puzzling!

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What celebrity would you LEAST want to hear reading MTA alerts?

It's gonna happen...

More Celebrity Voices and Promo Spots Coming to Subway Stations and Trains

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I’m honored to be a finalist for the 2024 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists for my coverage of Biden’s Gaza policy

Thank you to those who’ve taken risks to share information & analysis the public deserves, to my incredible editors HuffPost & to my audience. Keep reading!
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1/ Last June, Gov. Hochul announced a $200 million public-private fund to finance legal dispensaries run by New Yorkers most impacted by drug laws. But THE CITY obtained documents that show the state signed off on a lopsided deal benefitting private equity. 🧵

Very important piece from Rosalind Adams in THE CITY on how Hochul essentially prioritized private equity over social equity when it came to building out dispensaries for justice-involved entrepreneurs

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Absolutely wild. The terms of NY’s dispensary program piles a ton of financial risk on small retailers — many of them victims of the war on drugs — while the private equity firm providing the start-up capital gets a FIFTEEN percent return on $50 million guaranteed by the state.

After months of denying Rosalind Adams FOIL requests & even saying the doc didn't exist, we got the Chicago Atlantic cannabis contract

The details are🚨🚨🚨

Fantasy $ projections, sky high interest rates, taxpayer-funded guarantees for private equity

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This is the easy-to-understand breakdown of the new Good Cause law I've been looking for!!

Two more workers packaging HotHead Grabba have filed wage theft complaints & describe sweatshop conditions to claudia irizarry aponte

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Bad political news for Mayor Eric Adams: 'In all five of the city’s boroughs, likely voters overwhelmingly disapprove of Adams’s job performance. Even in his strongest demographic, black voters, Adams’s approval rating is net negative.' manhattan.institute/article/pollin…

To clarify why we don't say 100+ students in headline, there are staff, faculty and alum also involved in the demonstration, presumably vast majority are students but I'm still waiting for Columbia University to confirm how many suspensions.

Just as point of comparison, in 1970 Yale Prez Kingman Brewster threw open university doors to protesters against Black Panther trials

In 1974 a committee reported on it & here is an interesting passage that cuts across many ways speech is debated today, from left & right.

For THE CITY, NYPD confirms 108 arrests thus far, Columbia says anyone who participated is suspended, though they haven't confirmed #'s. By 2pm police had cleared the lawn of protesters, though hundreds more have since set up in another portion of lawn.

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NEW: When I told Bo Dietl I was a @POLITICO reporter and asked about his work for Mayor Eric Adams' legal defense trust, he told me: “You like to suck dick? Go suck dick somewhere,” then hung up. Two hours later, the trust fired Dietl. w/ Joe Anuta politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

Second retired Sgt. from mayoral unit sues Adams adviser Tim Pearson, claims Pearson said re Bronx migrant shelter project: '...People are doing very well on these contracts. I have to get mine. Where are my crumbs?”
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