Jonathan Custodio, Author at THE CITY

The PAC End Homelessness and Build a Better NYC has people canvass for Council candidate Wil Lopez inn March.

Campaign 2025

How the Head of a Super PAC Tried — and Failed — to Remove Every Opponent From the Ballot

May 16, 2025, 4:16 p.m.May 16, 2025, 4:16 p.m.

An outside group has spent more than $200K backing Council candidate Wil López, not counting dark money that paid for the unprecedented blizzard of court cases seeking to clear the field of other candidates.

Queens College neuroscience student Labiba Aziz does research work at the school’s Stress in Pregnancy lab.

CUNY

Trump Cuts Off Budding CUNY Scientists From Mentorship and Aid

May 14, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 14, 2025, 10:46 a.m.

The Trump istration has cut off that has sustained a teaching model that for decades has been instrumental in catapulting students into careers as scientists. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) s the pursuit of advanced degrees by students in the biomedical field, who […]

Candidate Clarisa Alayeto in a campaign image stands on a street wearing a blue cardigan, blue and white button down shirt and long loc'd hair.

Campaign 2025

Judges Reject Ballot Attack From Big-Money PAC in Bronx Council Race

May 7, 2025, 1:17 p.m.May 7, 2025, 2:52 p.m.

Clarisa Alayeto will remain on the ballot for the Democratic primary next month after fighting off a legal challenge from a deep-pocketed independent expenditure group backing her opponent.

South Bronx Council candidate Will López had campaign posters posted to small-business windows at The Hub

Campaign 2025

Wall Street Mogul Pours Additional $650K Into PAC ing Council Candidates

April 25, 2025, 11:56 a.m.April 25, 2025, 11:56 a.m.

Michael Jenkins, founder of the financial firm Jane Street, has been putting big money into contests that usually have much lower spending caps.

Health

CUNY’s Research on Vaccine Misinformation Halted by Trump istration

April 24, 2025, 6:09 p.m.April 25, 2025, 12:25 p.m.

Sixty other CUNY projects have also received stop-work orders from the National Institute of Health, according to a letter from the chancellor.

Hunts Point

A ‘Blue Highway’ Is Cruising to Hunts Point

April 23, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 22, 2025, 5:56 p.m.

A new marine freight barge at the country’s largest wholesale fish market could reduce congestion and air pollution.

Hunter College’s Thomas Hunter Hall has classic gothic architecture.

CUNY

CUNY Approves $35 Million For Hunter College Building Upgrades

April 19, 2025, 10:00 a.m.April 21, 2025, 5:30 p.m.

Targeting HVAC systems in a building that can be too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter, the renovations are part of a broader university plan to get its aging buildings back into good repair.

A rendering shows baseball and soccer fields inside a redeveloped Kingsbridge Armory.

EDC

Losing Bronx Armory Developer Sues, Claiming Political Interference in Bidding Process

March 31, 2025, 6:31 p.m.April 1, 2025, 9:59 a.m.

Agallas Equities alleges that EDC had told them they’d won the coveted contract only to abruptly reverse course and give it to a rival.

Hunter College community a Lower Manhattan protest calling the release of Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention.

CUNY

CUNY Posts Modified Palestinian Studies Jobs After Gov’s Removal Order

March 25, 2025, 10:27 a.m.March 25, 2025, 1:10 p.m.

New faculty position listing no longer references "settler colonialism, genocide and apartheid" after Gov. Kathy Hochul directed Hunter College to remove the post “to ensure that antisemitic theories are not promoted in the classroom.”

The Bronx

Quieter New NYPD Shooting Range in the Works

March 17, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 17, 2025, 9:04 a.m.

A decades-in-the-making project to replace the noisy, open-air facility on Rodman’s Neck that’s irritated City Island for decades took a big step forward this week.

Jonathan Custodio

How the Head of a Super PAC Tried — and Failed — to Remove Every Opponent From the Ballot

Trump Cuts Off Budding CUNY Scientists From Mentorship and Aid

Judges Reject Ballot Attack From Big-Money PAC in Bronx Council Race

Wall Street Mogul Pours Additional $650K Into PAC ing Council Candidates

CUNY’s Research on Vaccine Misinformation Halted by Trump istration

A ‘Blue Highway’ Is Cruising to Hunts Point

CUNY Approves $35 Million For Hunter College Building Upgrades

Losing Bronx Armory Developer Sues, Claiming Political Interference in Bidding Process

CUNY Posts Modified Palestinian Studies Jobs After Gov’s Removal Order

Quieter New NYPD Shooting Range in the Works

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