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OMNY complaints mount as the MTA works out bugs

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…

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Are you traveling over troubled city bridges?

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…

The terrible truth about Sherita, Brooklyn’s billboard dino

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…

An NYPD arrest, no charges — then the Feds sent them to El Salvador 

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…

Cuomo silent on whether he’d work with Trump

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…

Trump cuts off budding CUNY scientists from aid

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…

Cuomo penalized $622K for coordinating with PAC

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…

What we found in the FBI’s search warrants for Eric Adams 

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…

Trump arts cuts hit city cultural groups

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…

The city Super PAC dumping money into a Bronx Council race 

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…

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.…

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,…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Staten Island buses lag behind other boroughs

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, For Staten Islanders lined up for MTA buses outside the St. George Terminal on a recent evening, the occasional announcements sound all too familiar. “There will be no S40 for this boat,” a voice said over a loudspeaker. A…

New Yorkers mourn the “Pope of the People”

TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our . Dear New Yorkers, Catholics across New York City mourned the death of Pope Francis on Monday, praising him for his welcoming message of love and inclusivity as leader of a changing church in a changing world.  “Until the last day of his…

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