Our team will be descending upon Albany this week to cover Governor Hochul’s 2025 State of the State. Here's what we'll be watching. nysfocus.com/2025/01/13/202…

For the past year, Willow Higgins and I have been looking into NY’s conviction integrity units. They promised justice for the wrongfully incarcerated. But our investigation, in collab w/ New York Focus and Columbia Journalism School Investigations, shows they have fallen short. 🧵

*New New York Focus investigation: Striking guards and prisoners rights activists alike have called for the ouster of New York’s prison commissioner. A year and a half of reporting reveals how Daniel Martuscello III, his family, and their patronage network rose to power. 🔗below

It’s 3 AM local time in Gaza, and there are more than 100 bombings across the strip. We have all woken up because it feels like a strong earthquake. The Israeli government has decided to resume this genocide and break the ceasefire.

NEW: A Pro-Israel group has raised about $80,000 for seven NYC Council Candidates. But the candidates didn’t disclose the fundraising help — a potential violation of campaign finance law.

Pro-Israel Solidarity PAC is back, raising over $80k for NYC council candidates — none of whom disclosed the help, in potential violation of campaign finance law. (Several of the donors have also maxed out giving to Cuomo.) 🔥 by Chris Gelardi, Julia Rock nysfocus.com/2025/03/20/new…

Intermediaries are systematically underreported (see: Adams, Eric) and this is great reporting promoting transparency:

The seven City Council candidates who didn't disclose around $80,000 funneled through Solidarity PAC may have broken the law.

SCOOP: Andrew Cuomo's campaign failed to disclose its bundlers, and set up fundraising webpages incorrectly telling donors that their gifts were eligible for public matching funds. nysfocus.com/2025/03/20/and…

"Late in the budget process, we heard from families in NYC about a looming crisis, about the availability of child care vouchers. So we stepped in to address it." — Governor Kathy Hochul Proud of Julia Rock for uncovering this and reporting on it for weeks before anyone else did.

NEW: The new state budget gives $350 million in child care funding to NYC if the city matches with its own money. Even if the city doesn't want to, the fine print could force its hand: The state is requiring the city to spend at least $328 million on the program anyway.

Congrats to New York Focus climate reporter colinreports.bsky.social, who won a New York Press Club award for his reporting on New York’s missed climate deadlines. 🏆 Read the story: nysfocus.com/2024/06/19/new…

The pro-Israel fundraising group Solidarity PAC announced its endorsements for the upcoming NYC elections. New York Focus revealed that the group has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars against DSA- and WFP-backed state and local candidates. Read our reports below.

the pro-israel solidarity PAC has funneled hundreds of thousands to opponents of dsa- & wfp-backed candidates several candidates endorsed here failed to initially disclose it as an intermediary, violating campaign finance law all reported first by Chris Gelardi and Julia Rock

NEW: As attorney general, Andrew Cuomo launched a lawsuit to protect 100,000 New Yorkers who'd been victims of shady debt collectors. Documents obtained by New York Focus suggest that the settlement changed nothing for the majority of people it was supposed to help. story below

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

NEW: This spring, several New York county jails quietly joined joined the Trump administration’s immigration detention network. So far this year, they've held almost six times as many ICE detainees as they did all of last year. nysfocus.com/2025/09/16/ice…