I’ve been refreshing both election results and the play by play Gameday feed of the Mets game. I’m giving up on one of them for the rest of the night. Sigh.

Happy last day of school from PS 152 in Queens where students and their school mascot “Roary” are singing Katy Perry’s “Roar”

“If you want to take Lucy, just take me, too,” Lori Ann said. “I’m not leaving my baby.” silive.com/news/2025/06/e…

This fall, a Bronx elementary school will launch the first Albanian transitional bilingual class to be offered by a New York City public school: ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

.Zohran Kwame Mamdani 56, Andrew Cuomo 44, in three rounds of RCV

It’s the first day of Summer Rising. Kids I spoke to out front are psyched for field trips and playing with their friends. The academic section of the day… they’re a little less psyched about that.

out of office, down the shore

Mets batting practice for my mom’s birthday AND she got a pic with her favorite player!! #LGM and happy birthday Mom!

BREAKING NEWS: Baby girl coming late November! It’s been a long road to get here so this is nerve-wracking to share, but we’re so excited and thankful.

The DOE's new policy on cell phones has passed the PEP, by a vote of 14 yes votes, 1 no, 1 abstention. The policy largely leaves it up to each school to determine how to store any cell phones collected, but sets guidelines on implementation, exceptions and discipline.

NEWS: The percentage of specialized high school seats going to Black and Hispanic students this year declined from 2024. 3% of seats at specialized schools went to Black students, down from 4.5%. And 6.9% of seats went to Hispanic students, down from 7.6%. Story to come shortly

For the last several years, this data was release in mid-June. Before that, it went out in April. I (and others) have been asking about it for weeks, and today it was abruptly released on a very busy news day, in the middle of a dangerous storm.

The DOE released this data just hours after we asked why they were dragging their feet: chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/0…

Toby is helping out with weather this morning. My dog Pumpkin welcomes Toby ! NY1 has a doodle gang ! This is Jillian Jorgensen 's pup