WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, You may have heard of independent expenditure groups — the city’s Super PACs — ing Andrew Cuomo, but some candidates for down-ballot races are also backed by big money. An IE group called Ending Homelessness & Building a Better NYC […]
Newsletter
Posted inNewsletter
The dog ate my birth certificate, and other REAL ID tales
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Days before the long-delayed deadline for travelers to show REAL ID-compliant identification to board a domestic flight, people lined up outside Room 133 of a building just north of City Hall, anxious to enter the Office of Vital Records. […]
Posted inNewsletter
Police brass vs. ex-NYPD podcasters
MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, On a recent Saturday night, the St. John’s County Sheriff’s office near Jacksonville, Fla. received a call from the NYPD about online threats that were made to a retired NYPD lieutenant now living in the area. Within five minutes, […]
Posted inNewsletter
Rent freeze promises from mayoral hopefuls
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, You may have seen that the Rent Guidelines Board this week said they want to raise the rent on New York’s rent-stabilized apartments. Meanwhile, half dozen candidates running for mayor say they want a rent freeze instead. Can they do it? That depends on the current mayor. But […]
Posted inNewsletter
Campaign Finance Board follows fraud evidence revealed by THE CITY
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, The city Campaign Finance Board has once again rejected Mayor Eric Adams’ request for public matching funds. And the board is significantly expanding its investigation into Adams’ political fundraising — following a trail of evidence revealed by THE CITY. […]
Posted inNewsletter
Cold war between Adams and public-sector unions gets hot
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, For over a decade, City Hall and public sector unions have been part of a t effort to achieve health care cost savings — culminating in a deal to force civil service retirees to switch to a cheaper insurance […]
Posted inNewsletter
It’s about to get easier to secure affordable housing.
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Congratulations, you won the New York City housing lottery! But not so fast: Before you can move into an affordable apartment, you have to provide a mountain of paperwork to you’re eligible. But now, that mountain may look […]
Posted inNewsletter
Do mandatory reporting laws hurt children more than they help?
MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, While working as a resident in a Bronx medical clinic a few years ago, Isuree Katugampala discovered how following mandatory reporting laws could lead to unintended consequences. The mother of a toddler had confessed to Katugampala that, on occasion, […]
Posted inNewsletter
Trump cuts vaccine research grants at CUNY
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2025 Dear New Yorkers, Dr. Denis Nash was at a conference in San Francisco last month when rumors began to swirl that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was canceling research grants awarded to universities to study vaccines. A day later, the NIH terminated a $3.3 million project led by Nash that […]
Posted inNewsletter
The NY gang member database that’s being shared with ICE
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, As President Donald Trump’s istration rounds up hundreds of immigrants it claims are gang and sends them to a Salvadoran prison, New York state is quietly feeding federal authorities information that could fuel the White House’s extrajudicial deportation […]