Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

LISTEN: Don’t Bet Against Mamdani

Mayor Zohran Mamdani explains his first preliminary budget during a City Hall press conference,

Zohran Mamdani’s first political endorsement since becoming mayor predictably didn’t pan out, but Lindsey Boylan wasn’t the candidate he’s betting his political capital on.  The FAQ NYC hosts discuss all that and much more, including why bringiing casinos to New York is such a terrible idea, what’s so good about bodega cats and bad about […]

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Video Appears to Show ICE Agent Tasing Man Multiple Times Ahead of Bushwick Hospital Standoff

An ICE agent appeared to tase a man several times while another agent tried to forcefully drag him out of his car as the man screams in pain and begs for help, as captured in a video obtained by THE CITY. ICE agents later took that man to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center for medical treatment, […]

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He Survived Japanese Occupation and Mao’s Cultural Revolution. At 93, He’s Fighting NYCHA.

90-year-old Qiong Zhong and her 93-year-old husband Jin Tao Wu sit in their Chelsea Addition NYCHA apartment

Jin Tao Wu has survived Japan’s invasion of China, the rise of the Communist Party and the massacres of the Cultural Revolution.  Now, thousands of miles and many decades later, the 93-year-old sits in a beige-walled public housing apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, confronting what he sees as the biggest crisis of his life. The […]

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Three Rikers Deaths, Similar Failures: Officers Off Post, Medical Care Bungled

Criminal justice reform advocates protest against detained people dying on Rikers Island Island,

One detainee was found dead with 66 pills in his cell. Another lay in distress for five minutes during an apparent overdose before staff administered Narcan. A third was left locked in his cell, unsupervised, for nearly half an hour as he spiraled into a medical crisis. Those were some of the damning findings outlined […]

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Staff at Justice-Focused Nonprofits Launch Union Push

Nonprofit worker Caleb Knight talks about leading a union drive at the Fortune Society

Hundreds of case workers, career coaches and housing specialists at two prominent nonprofits serving recently incarcerated people announced they plan to unionize on Friday morning, May Day, looking to join the ranks of scores of workers in the education and social services sector who’ve organized in recent years. Approximately 600 employees at the Fortune Society […]

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