Mayor Eric Adams hailed the reopening of the grand Astoria Pool on Thursday morning — but hours later, hundreds of New Yorkers were stuck waiting in line outside due to an ongoing shortage of lifeguards. Liam Quigley is on the scene gothamist.com/news/lifeguard…

A must read on Xylazine overdoses hitting Staten Island & the politics around harm reduction. “We are trying to keep people from losing limbs,” one outreach worker told THE CITY. thecity.nyc/2024/07/03/xyl…

“I pushed for press freedom in Hong Kong. The Wall Street Journal fired me.”Selina Cheng on the slow death of HK’s free press. @cjr Columbia Journalism cjr.org/first_person/s… via @cjr

When Eric Adams ran for mayor, he pledged to prioritize the repairs of what were then 89 broken-down public housing playgrounds. Yet the number of NYCHA playgrounds closed this summer has spiked to 117 out of a total of 695 playgrounds. thecity.nyc/2024/07/29/nyc…

When someone tells me they think a dataset will be quick to clean.

let’s talk about the elephant in the room… oh wait nvm

did you know? voting yes to this ballot item in november also means voting yes to letting the sanitation dept join NYPD and parks dept officers in enforcing street vending in city parks advocates charge that the question’s wording is “manipulative”: thecity.nyc/2024/08/06/ven…

In July 2022, New York City Department of Correction opened “de-escalation units” in almost every facility on Rikers Island to transfer detainees after fights or slashings. They were supposed to serve as a safer and healthier alternative to solitary. Few are now being used. thecity.nyc/2024/08/07/rik…

“I’ve gone through the cold, the heat, I’ve gotten so sick. I would love to have shelter, on Randall’s Island on a little cot, wherever it is.” Booted from the city's shelters under increasingly strict 30-day limits, migrants are setting up camp nearby. thecity.nyc/2024/08/07/ran…

Fatal overdoses in the NYC subway shot up by nearly 93% between 2021 & 2022, data reveals — far outpacing the # of such deaths elsewhere in the city. But those are the latest available numbers from nychealthy. W/ Ella Larkin Napack in THE CITY thecity.nyc/2024/08/12/sub…

FARE PLAY: MTA doubles ranks of private security guards posted near subway exits that officials call the “superhighway of fare evasion” NEW in THE CITY with Ashley Borja thecity.nyc/2024/08/14/mta…

The critically-acclaimed street vendor market at Corona Plaza in Queens is struggling. Its fate could impact the future of street vending -- now, largely illegal -- across New York City. gothamist.com/news/scaled-do…

Top City Hall attorneys helped lobbyists for Steve Cohen's Queens casino project draft state legislation they need to turn parkland into casinoland, according to documents we got from a FOIL request hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-st…

The Brooklyn district attorney upgraded charges against a former city parks worker accused of fatally shooting a homeless Venezuelan man — now alleging the killing was motivated by a hate for migrants. thecity.nyc/2024/08/21/mig…

First time in decades that HK journalists are convicted of sedition. A court ruled Stand News published articles that had “seditious intentions,” attacking the national security law and reviling Beijing. US calls verdict "direct attack on media freedom" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

.haidee chu on the post-Labor Day time where locals rule the beach. "...every single local will look at one another and say, ‘Now we can’t wait for September’ — and you will know a local by those words.” thecity.nyc/2024/09/03/roc…

Feeling seen thanks to this story from haidee chu thecity.nyc/2024/09/03/roc…

How does Richmond Hill, NYC's Indo-Caribbean neighborhood, also known as Little Punjab, feel about Kamala Harris? haidee chu hit the streets to find out Aunties and Uncles are abuzz, but the nabe has also trended GOP in recent years. thecity.nyc/2024/09/09/kam…