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THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, In New York’s campaign finance system, corporations are not people.  While there are caps on how much money individuals can give to campaigns, there’s no limit on what companies can give to independent influence groups — which in turn […]

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Subway and bus riders are fuming over OMNY glitches that billed them late, kept them from tapping through turnstiles and has them enduring lengthy waits for customer service. Vanessa Campos, 28, told THE CITY that she was charged 18 […]

TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Drivers heading to LaGuardia Airport or CitiField may not know it, but they could face greater concerns than missing their flight or the first pitch. On a single stretch of highway in Queens, seven parts of roadway or ramps […]

MONDAY, MAY 19, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, About 25 years ago, people ing a drab industrial stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn started noticing a hand-painted billboard that looked both of the place and out of this world.  “Attention LANDLORDS,” it said, followed by an offer […]

FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, The deportation of 19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez Flores to a megaprison in El Salvador earlier this year set off a huge firestorm when it was first reported by Documented because the Venezuelan had no criminal record and a pending asylum application. But a previously unreported interaction that took place […]

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, In only 24 hours, tens of thousands of people have taken our quiz to find out which mayoral hopeful they best match up with.  Some of the candidates’ responses were unexpected: for example, Andrew Cuomo was the only one […]

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, The Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) s the pursuit of advanced degrees by students in the biomedical field. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the program offers tuition assistance, mentorship, registration to professional conferences, and […]

TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Andrew Cuomo may have to forfeit more than $600,000 in public matching funds, the New York City Campaign Finance Board announced Monday, because the CFB has reason to believe that his campaign inappropriately coordinated with an independent expenditure committee […]

MONDAY, MAY 12, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, A trove of documents from Mayor Eric Adams’ now-defunct criminal case released late Friday reveals the extraordinary steps the mayor and his aides took to keep their communications secret. Seeking search warrants, the FBI told judges they needed to […]

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, Kirstin Kapustik was on her way home after a Friday night performance of Trisha Brown Dance Company at The Joyce Theater when her evening took a turn for the worse.  Kapustik, the company’s executive director, got an email from the National Endowment for the Arts informing her that […]