It's now the 2nd-wettest September on record in NYC - over a foot of rain! 12.72" as of 10am, according to NWS New York NY stats, and a couple inches more to come. Record is 16.85" in 1882. Also the 8th-wettest calendar month ever recorded. nytimes.com/2023/09/29/us/…

It's now the 2nd-wettest September on record in NYC - over a foot of rain! 13.74" as of 11am, according to NWS New York NY stats. Record is 16.85" in 1882. Also 5th-wettest calendar month ever recorded. (correcting earlier error that said 10am not 11am)

Here's how we covered the rainiest September ever, 1882, after a day when over 6" fell. Allegedly, all that rain left the city incredibly clean:

Puebla rolls out the red carpet for Mayor Eric Adams

Incredible tale by julieturkewitz of a Venezuelan mother, her 7-year-old daughter and the contradictions of US immigration policy nytimes.com/2023/10/24/wor…

weather stat: total rainfall in last month on weekends (Fri-Sun): 8.77" on weekdays (Mon-Thur): 0.02" % of rain in last month that has fallen on weekends: 99.8%

"My legacy is not how many bike miles I do. My legacy is not how many bus miles I do." - @nycmayor addressing a crowd of transportation department employees at 55 Water Street today, per a recording shared with me

BREAKING: FBI New York searched the Brooklyn home of Mayor Eric Adams chief fund-raiser, Brianna Suggs, a lobbyist who is deeply intertwined with efforts to advance the mayor’s agenda. w/William K. Rashbaum Dana Rubinstein nytimes.com/2023/11/02/nyr…

Amazing dive into the system that is failing homeless people with mental illness in NYC, over and over, with tragic and violent results. By Amy Julia Harris & Jan Ransom nytimes.com/2023/11/20/nyr…

In his latest letter directing city agencies to slash costs, the mayor's budget chief is demanding 20 percent cuts to asylum seeker costs:

Eric Adams’s Top Fund-Raiser Is Out Amid F.B.I. Scrutiny and Raid (and she's got a new lawyer, raising the possibility that her interests could be in conflict with the mayor’s.) w/ Michael Rothfeld William K. Rashbaum nytimes.com/2023/11/28/nyr…

NEW: #NYC Comptroller Brad Lander has made good on his threat, which we reported on first in September, to revoke Mayor Eric Adams Eric Adams' blanket authority to issue emergency contracts to migrant service providers. nytimes.com/2023/12/04/nyr…

THREAD: The The New York Times published a look at the city's response to the migrant crisis, a piece that focused on NYC and but ignored the role of the federal gov’t or other cities/states dealing with this.

"As snow swirled down after midnight on Tuesday, about three dozen migrants, including two families with children, huddled on the sidewalk under thin blankets outside a city office in Brooklyn." by Andy Newman nytimes.com/2024/01/17/nyr…

After Dana Rubinstein & I wrote about a NYC migrant family who moved to Suffolk Co. w/ 1 year free rent thru a state program, County Suffolk County Executive Edward Romaine said the move may have violated his exec order: 'Suffolk County is not, nor will it be, a sanctuary county.’ nytimes.com/2024/02/25/nyr…

today's earworm brought to you by 2 little kids in a brooklyn homeless shelter music-therapy class: nytimes.com/2024/04/28/nyr…

According to the NYPD patrol guide, officers must use “only the reasonable force necessary to gain control or custody of a subject.” nytimes.com/2024/05/19/nyr…

Nice New York Post 'exclusive.' Perhaps 'the Post has learned' about the explosive 2023 showdown by reading Dana Rubinstein's NYT reporting last year: nytimes.com/2023/12/26/nyr…

Quite a story about one of the mayor's appointees to the Rent Guidelines Board: "Cases like the ones Smyth took up against Nuñez are legally baseless, but often, the threat itself is the point." curbed.com/article/christ…