Katie has mastered a key part of reporting: Standing up to ppl in power. Good for her.

Ginormous biker gang breaking all kinds of traffic laws so they can assert their biker rights and inconvenience everyone. They don’t stop at the red lights and they didn’t have a police escort for their tour. How much longer are we going to be subjected to bike violence and bike

Wordle 1,189 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩A truly beautiful pattern!

Battle Brews Over Large Bank Opening in Famous UWS Building: Councilmember Brewer objects to a bank's leasing vacant commercial space in the Belnord even tho there's a 26% vacancy rate within 600 feet, or 2+ blocks, of the storefront on Broadway between 86th & 87th Sts.

How does Met Council, ostensibly an organization to help poor people, pay for the luxurious trips of city officials?

"Babe Ruth once suffered the humiliation of having the great Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators throw three straight fastballs past him. He asked the umpire if he had seen any of the pitches. “No,” replied the umpire. “Neither did I,” said Ruth, “but that last one sounded

Reggie Jackson struck out a staggering 2,597 times, most in the history of major league baseball, which goes back about 140 years. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, almost exactly half of Jackson. By contrast, Joe DiMaggio had just 369 strikeouts in his 13 illustrious years with

Very important point: Why does nyc have so many 99-unit buildings (&, by implication, why does nyc deliberately restrict housing supply?)

Wordle 1,190 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Athena!

UWS is amazing! Free furniture and artwork in front of brownstone, 125 west 75th street

Curbside treasure hunting is big risk, big reward. One time I found an antique suitcase owned by a famous journalist. Another time I found a bookshelf with bed bugs (not pictured).

New: NYC schools chancellor David Banks never obtained a conflict-of-interest waiver to meet with a vendor who hired his younger brother Terence Banks's consulting firm and went on to reap $1.4M in payments from DOE schools. nypost.com/2024/09/21/us-…

Yup I referred this to U.S. Department of Education IG, as this case appears to be a criminal use of federal funds for homeless students, involving forgery and fraud, replete with documentary evidence. Unclear why @nyc_sci did not do the same. nypost.com/2024/09/21/us-…

Both US Attorney’s Office and NYC Department of Investigation probing City Safe Partners, once owned by Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks, which scored $154 million contract in January to provide “emergency fire watch services” for ⁦NYCHA⁩ nypost.com/2024/09/21/us-…

Wordle 1,191 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩my third choice would have been cooler but oh well

"cuz I know he's Eye-talian and Eye-talians are always bothering women" definitely wouldn't be allowed today

"Have you seen the well-to-do Up and down Park Avenue? On that famous thoroughfare With their noses in the air"🥰

"Fighting Poverty!" (self description) while making $567K a year! As Ben Franklin said: Doing well by doing good.

Both were pretty great!🥰

ANGELA LANSBURY once recalled her daughter falling under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat who would pick her up from school and get her to steal money & food from her parents for him. Worried, Lansbury moved the entire family to Ireland. The ‘deadbeat’ was Charles Manson.