The MTA has quietly cut bus service in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan by 10% due to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pause of congestion pricing, the transit workers union and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams allege in a new lawsuit. gothamist.com/news/mta-cut-b…

BREAKING: A global internet outage is affecting airlines, banks, media and offices from the U.S. to Australia. apnews.com/article/micros…

"What I think is happening internally is this government is slowly collapsing," Scott Stringer said likening Adams' audit troubles with how he runs City Hall. Audit of Mayor Adams' 2021 campaign sparks call for reform gothamist.com/news/audit-of-… via Gothamist

Meet NYC's newest gringo-bot gothamist.com/news/nycs-talk…

More extraordinary reporting about what doesn't happen when someone alleges sexual assault at Rikers Island. Tune in later this morning to The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast as I interview Jessy about her reporting. And call or text us to share your stories about what happens at Rikers: 212-433-9692

THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR NUTCRACKERS!!! Bahar Ostadan and I have the latest on the day drinking beat:

🧵In the ~2 years I’ve been reporting on opioid settlements, a frequent frustration I’ve heard is that ppl directly affected by the crisis want more say in how💲is spent. Ed Mahon, Henry Larweh & I investigated how often they're getting that say: kffhealthnews.org/news/article/o…

I’ll be on The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast with Brigid Bergin this morning talking about evictions, car booting and why NYC marshals made a record-high $19.5M in profits last year gothamist.com/news/evictions…

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Me and my colleagues at Gothamist & @wnyc spent the last 10 months poring over 100s of lawsuits filed last year by women who say they were sexually assaulted by city employees while they were held at Rikers Island. My final story is out today. This is what we found, a 🧵:

Adams silent on guards accused of sexual abuse at Rikers as calls for action grow buff.ly/3XtUhGA

my favorite new york social code is when a lone person needs to get a stroller up the subway stairs. nearly instantly, a stranger picks up the other end of the stroller, helps carry it up, then departs as quickly as they appeared. no words are exchanged. eye contact is minimal.

Sunday’s subway shooting touched several noteworthy trends in NYC. First, facts have changed multiple times since police first shot 2 bystanders and an alleged fare evader. The knife “recovered” was NOT the knife that sparked the shooting. gothamist.com/news/man-sough…

There have been 2 NYPD shootings within 48 hours where police tried to use a Taser first and it "didn't work." It turns out, NYPD Tasers fail 40% of the time gothamist.com/news/tasers-fa…

Thanks to Amanda Rozon, Jazmyn Blackburn and Oyster for walking us through it on @wnyc this morning! gothamist.com/news/how-to-fo…

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“Ian Bassin, a democracy expert, calls these moves ‘anticipatory obedience’: fear by owners that if Trump wins he could take vengeance on companies that cross him.”

"Everybody has a voice for radio." Good stuff here. I love the NPR book - great fundamentals in this excerpt of the new edition: current.org/2024/12/new-ed…