THE CITY’s coverage of a policy barring homeless youth from resting at drop-in centers prompted city officials to engage with advocates on a new policy after initially declining a request for a meeting.

As the New York Times reported it, “Ms. Powlovich, whose organization represents the service providers, sought an emergency meeting for the following week. The city declined, she said. It was only after The City article in February that city officials finally agreed to meet.”

Philadelphia’s Billy Penn adopted THE CITY’s Meet Your Mayor quiz for their Philadelphia mayoral primary to show voters how well they aligned with each candidate on some of the top issues facing the city.

Launched in 2021, THE CITY developed Meet Your Mayor, an interactive guide and quiz that matches
New York voters with mayoral candidates who saw critical issues the same way they did. Over
250,000 New Yorkers, a quarter of the electorate, used Meet Your Mayor, spending an average of 13
minutes working through it. Following the success of Meet Your Mayor, THE CITY shared the code
and the editorial process behind the tool with LAist in Los Angeles andVote ATL in Atlanta. LAist’s adaptation served over 40,000 Los Angelinos in that city’s 2022 race.

Dina Buttner, who participated in THE CITY’S MISSING THEM Photoville installation said,

“I just wanted to reach out & let you know that my mom and I finally got to see the exhibit in Moore Homestead Playground on April 4th. It brought tears to our eyes. We stood there are read each and every story. What you all did for all of us who lost someone to Covid was absolutely amazing. You not only gave these individuals who suffered recognition but gave the families some sort of peace as these people couldn’t be with their families when they needed them the most and couldn’t even have proper burials that they all deserved. So thank you for honoring them. It meant a lot. I also like that it is right off Broadway. I joked that my Dad finally made an Off-Broadway Display. Again, what you did was great.”

Abigail Kramer won the Deadline Club Award for Science, Technology, Medical or Environmental Reporting for “THE CITY and ProPublica | Crisis Point: How New York Wrecked Mental Health Care for Kids.”

Claudia Irizarry-Aponte and Greg Smith were Deadline Club finalists for Newspaper or Digital Spot News Reporting for “Deadly Bronx Blaze Prompts Scrutiny of Open Door That Spread Smoke.”

Following THE CITY’s story about a collapsing unit in Rikers Island meant to protect trans women, the Legal Aid Society issued a statement on THE CITY’s findings.

“The Legal Aid Society, in response to reporting today from The City and New York Magazine featuring multiple former New York City Department of Correction (DOC) whistleblowers warning of growing transphobia in local jails under DOC Commissioner Louis Molina, called for ability from City Hall and for the adoption of critical reforms released this past August by the New York City Council’s Task Force on Issues Facing Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, Non-Binary, and Intersex (TGNCNBI) People in Custody.”

In response to THE CITY’s reporting on thousands of vacant rent-stabilized apartments, Open New York called on the mayor, Council, governor and state legislature “to take immediate actions to improve open data on vacant apartments and to fill vacancies with New Yorkers quickly and fairly.”

In response to THE CITY’s reporting on thousands of vacant rent-stabilized apartments, Open New York called on the mayor, Council, governor and state legislature “to take immediate actions to improve open data on vacant apartments and to fill vacancies with New Yorkers quickly and fairly.”

“Recent news articles have highlighted the challenge of vacant apartments in New York City and a frustrating lack of consensus regarding how many apartments are actually vacant and why.”

Diwali, the festival of lights celebrated each fall by Hindus and others, follow through on his campaign pledge to give students the day off.

After THE CITY exposed that tenant groups and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams held multiple rallies demanding action to limit so-called warehousing of apartments, while THE CITY’s findings popped up in public officials’ testimony advocating to toughen rent laws.

LAist used THE CITY’s “Meet Your Mayor” software code to build a voting guide for LA’s 2022 mayoral election.