As Climate Week kicks off in NYC, an oil spill slicked up a busy stretch of First Avenue just a mile away from the United Nations. Bystanders say it started when an e-bike rider hit an oil delivery truck's hose laid over the bike lane. gothamist.com/news/oil-spill… via Liam Quigley

"It’s hard to deny that Mr. Adams’s tenure has become an object lesson in how corruption left unchecked can build on itself." A very useful overview by Noah Shachtman on the fallout from the Adams administration's numerous scandals: nytimes.com/2025/09/20/opi…

Perfectly reasonable headways on the C train this morning.

"A spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams originally told Gothamist that Ayala was 'spreading misinformation.'" gothamist.com/news/east-harl…

The Bronx is of course the only borough that's part of the continental United States. The rest of us, as well as City Island, are untethered from America as god intended.

A note of context: I recall covering Cuomo’s overnight subway shutdown five years ago during the height of the pandemic, which quite literally turned the MTA’s bus system into moving homeless shelters.

An angry Mayor Eric Adams just went after Chris Sommerfeldt for co-bylining this story about Jasmine Ray’s memoir, where she alludes to some sexual encounter in Brooklyn Borough Hall. He calls Chris “sick” nydailynews.com/2025/10/09/ada… The book excerpt:

"Defend NYC was founded by Jason Meister, a former Trump campaign adviser and insurance sales broker. A frequent political commentator, Meister told the New York Post that Jan. 6 should be a national holiday known as Patriot’s Day" politico.com/news/2025/10/1…

Comic Amy Schumer says on Instagram she voted for Cuomo. Her second cousin, Chuck Schumer, has so far declined to endorse anyone in the mayoral election.

A prize-worthy photo that captures the current moment. The child being menaced, a U.S. citizen, apparently was held by CBP for 5 hours while handcuffed in the back of a vehicle without ever being booked, read his rights, told why he was detained or allowed to contact his mother.

Coming this fall:

Six years ago, Cuomo forced the MTA to hire a “Chief Innovation Officer.” The guy he picked made more than $300k a year, was allowed to work remotely from Maryland and accomplished close to nothing. He was fired right after Cuomo resigned as gov. nydailynews.com/2021/10/17/mta…

Greetings from Rensselaer, where Gov. Hochul (not pictured) is about to announce Metro-North (the NYC commuter rail service) is expanding to Albany-Rensselaer. One round trip train from Grand Central to Alb-Rensselaer a day to start.

Metro-North will begin running a daily round trip train between NYC and Albany this spring. It'll mark the first time riders can travel between Grand Central Terminal and the Capital Region since the 1960s. via Jon Campbell gothamist.com/news/metro-nor…

the journey continues

He was asked about this directly at last week’s debate —.

Cherub in chief? A look into how Zohran Mamdani is working to manage concerns over his young age (he just turned 34) from Elizabeth Kim gothamist.com/news/mamdani-c…

The mayor's appointee on the MTA's capital plan review board already has the power to veto NYC Transit capital projects. But the execution of that work is the responsibility of the MTA Chair, who's appointed by the governor.

USDOT is establishing a "Beautifying Transportation Infrastructure Council." Trump administration writes "American infrastructure should be used to inspire and uplift American citizens." The big issue with U.S. transpo infrastructure isn't that it's ugly. It's that it's busted.

A lot of people keep forgetting that Eric Adams remains on the ballot despite halting his campaign. He's an incumbent with a base he cultivated over two decades who's likely to peel away a non-insignificant number of voters from Cuomo...