THURSDAY, MAR. 6, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, In 2019, a company called BusPatrol tried to sell Bill de Blasio’s istration on a system of school bus traffic enforcement cameras that target drivers who ignore the stop signs that swing out during pick-ups and drop-offs.  The city Department of Transportation wasn’t interested and BusPatrol’s quest appeared […]

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 5, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, Mayor Eric Adams is in D.C. to testify at 10 a.m this morning before the House Oversight Committee as one of four “sanctuary city mayors” in what’s expected to be a brutal grilling from Republicans. But Adams stands apart from fellow Democratic mayors Michelle Wu of Boston, Brandon […]

TUESDAY, MAR. 4, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, Republicans in D.C. are crafting a bill to cut spending and use the savings to pay for tax cuts that could reduce aid to New York by tens of billions of dollars, blowing huge holes in both the state and city budgets. The result could confront both the […]

MONDAY, MAR. 3, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 following a report that found he had sexually harassed multiple women, officially declared himself a candidate for mayor of New York City on Saturday, ending months of speculation. Cuomo released a 17 plus-minute video declaring his candidacy Saturday […]

Dear New Yorkers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is set to reopen an immigrant detention facility in Newark that will nearly double the agency’s capacity to detain people in the New York City region, the agency announced in a press release late Wednesday evening. That means big business for the private prison contractor, The GEO Group. […]

Dear New Yorkers, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s road show in of congestion pricing made a stop in Midtown Wednesday at an MTA board meeting — after her in-person pitch last week to President Donald Trump. Vowing that New York “will not be steamrolled” by the White House’s attempt to shut down the vehicle-tolling plan by […]

Dear New Yorkers, A revised commissary contract the Adams istration said would protect Rikers Island detainees and their families from excessive charges has instead had the opposite effect: it’s locked in many prices that are substantially higher than those at local stores, a survey by THE CITY has found. In 2023, THE CITY exposed the […]

Dear New Yorkers, Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel, the first stop for tens of thousands of migrants arriving in New York City, will close by the end of June, Mayor Eric Adams pledged Monday.  Over the past two years, the Roosevelt Hotel became a symbol of the city’s migrant crisis — and has drawn the ire of […]