Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Feds’ Files on Eric Adams Reveal Uzbek Influence Campaign That Yielded Election Cash
A Brooklyn businessman served as a proxy for the government of Uzbekistan to leverage Mayor Eric Adams’ stature as the leader of the nation’s biggest city to sanitize the regime’s tarnished image, law enforcement records reviewed by THE CITY allege. To curry the mayor’s favor, the businessman, Tolib Mansurov, allegedly arranged illegal straw donations to […]
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Cuomo, Who Cut Public Worker Pensions, Joins Mayoral Candidates Calling to Boost Them
As governor, Andrew Cuomo was the mastermind behind an unpopular reform approved in 2012 that slashed pension benefits for future public employees and raised their retirement age at 63 — while previously hired employees could retire at 62 and teachers at 55. Back then, Cuomo said the creation of the Tier 6 track put the […]
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OMNY Complaints Mount as MTA Still Working Out Bugs in New System
Subway and bus riders are fuming over OMNY glitches that billed them late, kept them from tapping through turnstiles — and have them enduring lengthy waits for customer service on the MTA’s new fare-payment system. Commuters have been caught off-guard in recent weeks by bugs that, in some cases, have charges showing up days late […]
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Open Newsroom: A Talk on Property Fraud, Deed Theft and Speculation in Brooklyn
A crowd of people came out in Bedford-Stuyvesant Monday to talk about a pernicious issue in the neighborhood: property fraud, deed theft and predatory real estate speculation. THE CITY newsroom, which has completed many investigations on the topic, led a community conversation, hosted by JPMorgan Chase at their Brooklyn Community Banking Branch in Bed-Stuy, with […]
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Under a Remediation Manager, Who Will Actually Control Rikers Island?
Over the past four years, an unlikely alliance of advocates for people behind bars and former Department of Correction commissioners joined forces to urge the federal judge overseeing Rikers Island to appoint an outsider to run it. They argued that it is impossible to turn around the beleaguered department without giving the person in charge […]
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