the sanitation dept took over street vendor enforcement from the consumer affairs dept last april. here what's happened since: ticketing went down citywide. except in the bronx. 1/

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NYC cleared 8,000 homeless encampments in last 2 years with NYPD present nearly every time. Most happened in lower Manhattan -- one site was swept 199 times. Listen WNYC 🎙 to hear from those impacted by these sweeps gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…

How it feels to bring a packed lunch to work

Another reason I 🩷 poetry month on @wnyc: because one of our listeners sent in a poem referencing former NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission commissioner David Yassky.

Impact!!! Go Jessy Edwards and Samantha Max!

Here's a closer look at that 6 p.m. shake.

The U.S. Geological Survey preliminarily said the aftershock, which was felt in parts of NYC and NJ, measured 4 in magnitude.

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Wow that was the biggest aftershock yet! Just southeast of the initial quake epicenter, USGS estimates.

I went to check the seismometer display in the NYS Museum to see what the earthquake looked like, and it’s … not on lol.

USGS is reporting a small aftershock just a few miles down the road from the initial quake. Just 2.0 magnitude, prob barely noticeable to most.

NEW: city investigators are scrutinizing billions of dollars in spending by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration on the migrant crisis, and they’ve hired one of the world’s biggest accounting firms to help ferret out any fraud, waste, or abuse (via Gothamist) gothamist.com/news/nyc-inves…

Katz out of the bag! It’s an inconceivable truth that Matt Katz made a podcast about searching the world for his father. Listen to it.

Only two eps in and I’ve laughed, cried, gasped aloud and been jumpscared by a cardboard cutout of Billy Joel. A must listen:

Days after the The Markup/THE CITY broke the story of NYC's hallucinating chatbot, Mayor Eric Adams defended the tool, promising the city was ironing out the kinks. So it's still online.

Today, it suggested I serve rat-nibbled cheese to customers at my hypothetical cheese shop