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Eric Adams tries yet again to score public matching funds
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Far behind in the latest polls, Mayor Eric Adams is once again suing the Campaign Finance Board, the agency that keeps denying his requests for millions of dollars of public matching funds. The new case, filed Friday in Brooklyn…
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Their brother’s keepers: How two top Adams officials helped their sibling succeed
MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, When then public schools Chancellor David Banks made a stunning, on-camera endorsement of a for-profit firm, it did not come about completely out of the blue. As it happened, 21st Century Education had made a prescient behind-the-scenes investment by…
Arrests ground to a halt at immigration court this week. Why?
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, For the first time since masked agents started staking out the hallways of 26 Federal Plaza’s immigration courthouses in late May, attorneys monitoring the building this week said they didn’t witness a single arrest over the course of a whole day, Monday. After witnessing anywhere between five to…
Eric Adams aide pleads guilty in campaign fundraising conspiracy
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Campaign fundraiser Mohammed Bahi played a key role in the now-dropped federal case against Mayor Eric Adams, based on evidence showing that Bahi coordinated with a donor to funnel illegal contributions to Adams’ campaign in order to unlock public…
Undocumented patients stop showing up for medical care
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, In a quiet exam room at a clinic in Harlem, the absence of some patients speaks louder than any diagnosis. For months now, Dr. Chanelle Diaz, a primary care physician with roots in immigrant health, has noticed a troubling…
NYC is the nation’s capital of immigration courthouse arrests
MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, When the Trump administration dramatically ramped up arrests of immigrants across the country this late spring — targeting workplaces and public parks, for example — mass protests greeted their raids. In Los Angeles, Trump deployed the National Guard and…
A sixth corruption suit against the NYPD and Adams
FRIDAY, AUG. 8, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, A former top NYPD lawyer has filed suit against the department and Mayor Eric Adams alleging she was fired for supporting disciplinary action against a longtime friend of the mayor who was the force’s top uniformed chief. Amy Litwin, who headed the Department Advocate’s Office, claimed her ouster…
Prison Suicides in NY More Than Doubled Last Year
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, In a sign of a deepening mental health crisis behind bars, the number of people who died by suicide in New York State prisons more than doubled in the past year, according to newly released data obtained by a…
Food rescue saves the day for pantry customers following federal funding cuts
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, The sudden elimination earlier this year of a federal emergency food funding program took the operators of pantries and other providers for food-insecure New Yorkers by surprise. Many have responded by bringing in surplus from the Hunts Point Produce…
How scammers drained millions in cash from youth debit cards
MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, For a brief moment, the most desired card in the city was not a flashy metallic number with limitless credit — but it performed like one. In early July, street scammers were in hot pursuit of debit cards issued…
Summertime flooding, again
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, How’d your block fare in last night’s rain storm? If you were in East Flatbush, you may have seen nearly a foot of flood water, or perhaps you saw the Clearview Expressway become a river in Eastern Queens. Yet other parts of the city that typically flood in…
Notorious Bronx intersection slated for long-stalled safety improvements
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, The intersection of East 177th Street, Devoe Avenue and East Tremont Avenue is notoriously dangerous to pedestrians and drivers alike — yet long-promised reconstruction to corral traffic and add safety features never materialized. The road to repair began Tuesday,…
Adams contributions rejected again — including ones first flagged by THE CITY
TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Campaign finance officials could not verify the billing address of more than 200 credit card contributions Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign has submitted for public matching funds, raising questions about the true source of many of his donations. In…
City probation agency “a hot mess” as violations spike and staffing dwindles
MONDAY, JULY 28, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, The city Department of Probation is understaffed, overworked and plagued by a revolving door of top officials under Commissioner Juanita Holmes, according to multiple veteran officers and the union leader representing rank-and-file employees. A City Council hearing today will…
Trump admin sues over ‘sanctuary city’
FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, Citing the recent shooting of a law enforcement official this week, the federal government has sued New York City over its sanctuary city statutes. The suit, filed in the Eastern District of New York on Thursday, alleges the city’s policies, which forbid cooperation with civil immigration enforcement in…
New ‘donors’ say they never gave to the mayor’s reelection
THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Just weeks after the Trump administration won dismissal of illegal campaign fundraising charges against Mayor Eric Adams, it appears that his reelection effort was at it again. In May, the campaign once more accepted funds from individuals who appear…
Trans people have a chance to get passports in a reprieve from Trump order
WEDNESDAY, July 23, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, On day one back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on “defending women from gender ideology extremism” and “restoring biological truth” — requiring that government-issued IDs only acknowledge male or female and match the bearer’s sex…
The First Look Inside ICE’s Makeshift Lockup in Manhattan
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Two videos provide the first public glimpse inside the shadowy detention rooms on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, a Manhattan building also housing immigration courtrooms. They show men crowded in one locked room, sleeping on make-shift bedding…
$241 million jail bed unit at Bellevue sits empty
MONDAY, JULY 21, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, It was originally budgeted to cost $130 million. Then the price tag soared to $241 million. Finally, a new jail bed unit in Bellevue Hospital for seriously ill detainees from Rikers was ready to open in January. But months…
FDNY’s troubling use of facial tech
FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, A policy from 2020 says the NYPD may not use Clearview AI, a widely used facial recognition database that matches surveillance images with billions of pictures compiled from social media and other sources. But that didn’t stop detectives from using the platform to identify and arrest a pro-Palestinian…
Police barricade a bustling Bronx public plaza
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Roberto Clemente Plaza sits at the heart of The Bronx’s busiest commercial district, known as The Hub — and it’s become the most visible site of The Bronx’s opioid epidemic, with people often using or seeking drugs while receiving…
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