“They’re cutting off access to lawyers for these children, but they need lawyers now more than ever”: 20K unaccompanied migrant kids nationwide could lose access to legal help today when a US contract ends (via @gwynnefitz.bsky.social for @thecityreporter.nyc) www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/31/u...

Inside the NYC Courtroom Where Detained Children Face Deportation Without Attorneys

Around 20,000 unaccompanied minors nationwide are set to lose legal services when the federal government ends a contract Friday. One NYC immigration court shows us what that will look like.

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“Clown is kind of hot and popular right now.” for the Pride edition of our summer newsletter, @haidee.bsky.social spent time with the queer clowning community of Brooklyn:

For Queer New Yorkers, Clowning Makes Space to 'Tell the Truth'

The LGBTQ+ clown community in Brooklyn is growing, matching a trend for the art in other cities.

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When Erica Hill heard New York Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns speak about how he felt his late mother’s presence during the NBA Finals, it really resonated. So much so it inspired her to host a watch party at her mortuary in Greenpoint. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/10/k...

How Karl-Anthony Towns’ Grief is Helping Knicks Fans

“KAT knows the ones we love never really leave. So do we,” said a Brooklyn memorial space hosting New Yorkers on game day.

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NEW PIGEON WHO DIS besties, THE CITY is now The City Reporter extra extra read all about it!

THE CITY Is Now The City Reporter

New name, new pigeon, same award-winning journalism for all New Yorkers.

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our summer newsletter is so good this weeeek! @haidee.bsky.social interviewed a rat-and-trash tour guide, and we've got a very thorough beachcast sign up to get it! (it comes out every Thursday afternoon)

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Our team spent months tracking hundreds of street arrests by ICE across the New York region through federal court records. Here’s what we found: 🧵 projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a...

We Found 430 ICE Street Arrests in the NYC Area. More Than 93% Targeted Latinos.

An investigation by THE CITY, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented populat...

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My colleagues @rosalindadams.bsky.social @haidee.bsky.social and I at @thecity.nyc spent the past several months tracking hundreds of ICE street arrests across the region through federal court records..🧵🧵 projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a....

ICYMI: I made an interactive map for yall to explore all the cherry blossom, magnolia and crabapple hotspots across NYC! 🌸 with @lillysabs.bsky.social! bonus: there's also a tool in here to search how your neighborhood ranks in terms of flowering tree density www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/08/s...

The Mamdani administration wants to know what NYC renters deal with. A tenant hotline gets an earful from hundreds of callers each week. “People call us, and we’re sort of the first line of defense.” www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/26/r...

What’s to Come at ‘Rental Ripoff’ Hearings? Tenant Hotline Staff Hear It All

Longtime workers at a tenants’ rights hotline say stories from callers have only gotten more extreme in recent years.

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Bellevue Hospital’s south lobby is one of the city’s official warming centers, a temporary place for anyone in need to wait out the cold. But many people there who spoke with THE CITY said they’d been living in the lobby for weeks, with no end in sight. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/25/b...

Bellevue Hospital a De Facto Homeless Shelter, as Winter Storms Test City Outreach

Dozens of unhoused people have been staying in a warming center at the public hospital for weeks on end and haven’t had any contact with homeless services.

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Everyone in NYC is talking about property taxes! Hardly anyone understands the system, but there's widespread agreement the outcomes are inequitable. We've got a guide to help you make sense of it all, and learn why you should care, even if you don't own property. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/25/p...

Property Taxes in NYC are a Mess. Here’s Why Even Renters Should Care.

They’re the engine of the city’s budget, but unequal and outdated. Here’s your guide on how property taxes work — and how they affect everyone, not just owners.

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it's gonna get reeeeeally cold outside again this weekend, and i'm thinking again about the four unsheltered new yorkers who so generously shared with me what it's been like to navigate this cold spell. so ICYMI: www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/30/c...

How Unsheltered New Yorkers Face Down the Cold: ‘It’s Survive or Die’

Some unsheltered New Yorkers say they prefer the freedom of the streets. Others say they have not been asked in.

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A hopeful story about the diligent horticulturists at the NYC parks dept's Plant Ecology Center and Nursery on Staten Island. Always read @haidee.bsky.social for thoughtful, humane reflections on life in NYC! From @thecity.nyc

Meet the Parks Seed Seekers Who Cultivate Spring in the Cold

At a Staten Island plant nursery, Parks Department horticulturalists nurture the nubs of future plants and trees through hard winter, rebooting life’s cycle.

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NEW: The request to ‘pretermit’ is an effort to toss a person’s asylum claim, leaving them defenseless against deportation to a country they are not from and may have never even entered before: Honduras, Ecuador and Uganda. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/18/a...

Trump Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador

Citing agreements with the three countries, Department of Homeland Security attorneys at 26 Federal Plaza are now asserting that immigrants have no right to apply for asylum in the United States.

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An investigation by THE CITY has found more than 14,200 housing code violations in RAD developments since January 2021. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/10/n...

Private Management Promised to Fix Public Housing, Yet Hundreds of Violations Linger

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people arrested in nyc under the current trump admin are also far more likely to be deported than those arrested during the biden admin more data findings here: www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/05/i...

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The latest ICE arrest data crunched by data wiz @haidee.bsky.social who found 70% of people arrested by ICE in NYC had no criminal arrests or convictions, a much larger share than the rest of the country. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/05/i...

“I considered myself a strong person, a resilient person, but I’ve never gone through something like this... Leave your family out of nowhere, the uncertainty of what’s going to happen to you." www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/26/i...

Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge

Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling.

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"I was trying to help my mom,” said 13-year-old Jayleane, shaking, as tears streamed down her cheeks. “I saw they were pulling her hair. They had the gun in front of me. I was scared.”

On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens

The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.

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At just 34 years old, Zohran Mamdani culminated a meteoric political rise Tuesday by scoring a decisive victory in a polarizing mayoral election. He will become the youngest mayor in over a century, the first Muslim to lead New York City. buff.ly/7kOwKhb

Mamdani Makes History With Victory in Mayor’s Race

More than 2 million New Yorkers cast a ballot in a high-stakes election that smashed recent turnout levels.

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you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:

Explore How Different New Yorkers Voted for Mayor

See how voters turned out for Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in every neighborhood in the city — and by income, housing and transit preference.

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First pass at the chaotic scene that just happened in Lower Manhattan. Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

Dear friends, especially those in journalism & fellow New Yorkers, while I appreciate the comic gesture, going forward please desist from sending me bags of Sour Cream & Onion potato chips. I done already done had Herr's. In lieu of chips, you can donate here: donorbox.org/nycdonate

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brb, gonna start asking all my aunties now why my chinese new year red pockets never came in a bag of chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

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‘They’ve Gone Off the Map’: Fear Drives Immigrants Away From Clinics www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/12/i...

‘They’ve Gone Off the Map’: Fear Drives Immigrants Away From Clinics

NYC Care enrollment declines for the first time, as doctors warn that New Yorkers worried about their immigration status are avoiding care out of deportation fears.

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While other cities like LA are being put through outdoor ICE raids, NYC is the nation's capital of ICE immigration courthouse arrests, new data analysis shows. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/11/2...

Numbers run by @haidee.bsky.social & @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reflect remarkable contrast between ICE in LA (immigration raid spectacles on the streets) and NY (arrests at court or office check-ins). Sparing NYC's mayor a mess as he runs for reelection.

NYC Is the Nation’s Capital of Immigration Courthouse Arrests, New Data Analysis Shows

Half of all immigration courthouse arrests earlier this summer were in Manhattan, as the Trump administration has mostly kept ICE enforcement off of the streets, in stark contrast to Los Angeles and o...

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helloooooo, new Summer & THE CITY drops this afternoon! this week's edition is a great one from @katiehonan.bsky.social about the long-running municipal softball league for government workers trivia: which agency plays as "the Greenbacks"? subscribe!

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Family Reunions for Mexican Immigrants Persist in the Shadow of Immigration Enforcement W/ Documentedny.org

Mexican Relatives Kept Apart for Years Meet Again in NYC, Despite ICE Crackdowns

The reunions, held away from view and not publicly advertised, bring together undocumented immigrants with family they haven’t seen in decades.

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