Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Pepper Spray and Broken Bones: Inside the Battle Over Delaney Hall
On Thursday afternoon, the wives of detainees on a work strike at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark started to receive frantic calls. Guards were beating men with batons and deploying pepper spray in one of the units, they said. “They were all screaming, but I could hear him say, ‘They’re hitting me. […]
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LISTEN: Did This Muslim Troublemaker Help Found New York?
Anthony Janszoon van Salee and his wife Geitje were always feuding with neighbors and authorities, who put them down as the Turk and a whore and who kept putting them on trial before they were finally exiled from Manhattan — only to become the biggest landowners in what’s now Brooklyn, with descendants who married into […]
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Mamdani Budget Leaves Out Key Program for Low-Income New Yorkers
A program that has helped connect tens of thousands of New Yorkers to federal, state, and city benefits is under threat after it wasn’t earmarked for any funding in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s latest budget proposal. NYCBenefits launched in 2023 and works with three dozen providers across the city to help low-income residents through every step […]
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City Agency Abused Emergency Power to Separate Children from Their Parents, Lawsuit Alleges
Two parents and their children sued the Administration for Children Services in a federal class action lawsuit Thursday, alleging the agency “abused” its emergency powers to separate them without approval from family court. State law generally allows emergency removals in situations where the time spent seeking removal orders from a judge would endanger a child. […]
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THE CITY becomes The City Reporter
NEW YORK, NY (May 29, 2026) – The leading nonprofit newsroom covering New York City has changed its name to emphasize the importance of professional journalists in an age of algorithms and artificial intelligence. Founded in 2019 as THE CITY, the 25-person media outlet has won multiple awards for its coverage of politics and society […]
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