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That’s no earthquake.
Thursday, May 14, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, The biggest earthquake to rock the borough of Brooklyn took place more than 140 years ago, when chimneys were toppled and sailing ships jostled by a quake that’s now estimated to have reached 5.0 on the Richter scale. Residents of…
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How landlords are evicting ‘Good Cause’ tenants
Wednesday, May 14, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, The 2024 Good Cause Eviction law was intended to protect tenants in market-rate apartments from exorbitant rent increases and arbitrary decisions on lease renewals. But written into the law is a get-out clause, allowing landlords who cite an intent to…
NYC’s World Cup bonanza dreams are falling flat
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, A month before the first World Cup soccer match takes place at Met Life Stadium across the Hudson River, only 25% of the available rooms in New York City hotels have been booked for the six weeks when matches will…
Landlords of Inwood fatal fire building were sued 16 times
Monday, May 11, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Just days before a blaze at 207 Dyckman St. in Inwood killed three, city housing inspectors issued the landlord a dozen code violations, including one for a non-functioning self-closing apartment door. Firefighters later discovered severe fire damage in eight apartments…
No rent freeze yet
Friday, May 8, 2026 Dear New Yorkers, Will stabilized tenants see a rent freeze this year? After a first vote from the Mamdani-majority rent board last night, we still don’t have a straight answer. The Rent Guidelines Board left the door open for a rent increase despite the new mayor’s promise to keep prices flat…
The magic number for NYC builders
Thursday, May 7, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, A new trend has overtaken New York City’s residential real estate market: 99-unit buildings. You may have noticed a 99-apartment project springing up in your neighborhood — dozens are in the works in parts of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. How…
State’s major job miscount
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, It’s an especially critical time to know the outlook on the city’s economy and job market. But a new economic analysis says the state Department of Labor’s numbers on jobs — particularly home health care jobs — have been inaccurate…
Feds appear to tase man screaming for help
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 Dear New Yorkers, 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…
93-year-old NYCHA holdout survived communism
Monday, May 4, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Jin Tao Wu survived Japan’s invasion of China, the rise of the Communist Party and the massacres of the Cultural Revolution. Now, the 93-year-old sits in a public housing apartment in Chelsea, confronting what he sees as the biggest crisis…
Dog poop in Council crosshairs
Friday, May 1, 2026 Dear New Yorkers, Here’s a poop scoop for you: The City Council wants to curb your dog. Legislators introduced a package of bills yesterday aimed at helping the scourge of dog poop that intensified during weeks of feces-strewn snow piles this winter. Remember that? The four bills focus on outreach and…
Biggest bus-lane blockers exposed
Thursday, April 30, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has promised to make city buses faster (as well as free), but there’s a literal obstacle in his way: UPS trucks. More than 25,000 of them, actually. That’s the number of times the shipping giant was flagged…
Mamdani’s Magic Fails
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Last night showed the limits of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s electoral mojo after his candidate to represent parts of Manhattan’s West Side in the City Council was effectively trounced by the Democratic establishment’s choice in a closely watched special election. Carl…
How NYPD shot down gang database reforms
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 Dear New Yorkers, At a recent press conference announcing a sweeping takedown of rival gangs notorious for their wild shootouts across public housing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch made the unsolicited point of praising the NYPD’s controversial gang database. “Yes we certainly did use the criminal group database as…
A watery grave for Colin Jost’s ship
Monday, April 27, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, It’s been years since comedians Colin Jost and Pete Davidson bought a retired Staten Island Ferry. Now, it’s an albatross — and a punchline. Their idea to turn it into a venue has gone nowhere, and it’s racking up massive…
Big biz’s battle with Mamdani has a problem — its workers
Friday, April 24, 2026 Dear New Yorkers, The Partnership for New York City, which represents 300 of the city’s largest businesses and is under new leadership, has taken an aggressive stance against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s priorities, like tax increases on the wealthy and corporations. But a number of the employees who keep these companies humming…
The fight over a Brooklyn brownstone
Thursday, April 23, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, The struggle to keep a Brooklyn grandmother in her family home escalated on Wednesday when police arrested Councilmember Chi Ossé as he protested her possible eviction. Ossé was pulled to the ground and handcuffed, face-down, during a confrontation over the…
Devilish details on pied-à-terres
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Gov. Kathy Hochul has said the new tax on NYC’s pied-à-terres will apply to properties worth $5 million. But she and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, also backing the idea, have yet to say how exactly that value will be calculated. And…
To fight heat, an ambitious new plan for a bigger tree canopy
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, On a breezy Monday morning on a quiet corner of Queens, 11 leafy new neighbors arrived on a truck, fresh from a nursery in Kansas City. Elm, red maple and cherry trees — some with pink blossoms — would be…
Abandoned ferry’s new life as sea creature haven
Monday, April 20, 2026 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, It once schlepped people and cars on Rhode Island. Then it flirted with becoming a floating beer garden before being unceremoniously left adrift in the East River’s Anable Basin. Now the Prudence Ferry is eyeing a second life — as an…
Outside NYC’s ‘sanctuary city,’ local cops collude with ICE
Friday, April 17, 2026 Dear New Yorkers, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s new proposal for a law limiting cooperation between local police departments and federal immigration authorities in the absence of “probable cause” of a crime is being criticized by state lawmakers pushing a more sweeping bill for not going far enough — and by Republicans for…
The mysterious New York budget
Thursday, April 16, 2025 Today’s SCOOP is brought to you by our members. Dear New Yorkers, Each spring, Albany lawmakers decide how to spend hundreds of billions in public money in a famously opaque budget process. The state’s budget is bigger than those of most countries, and exceeds that of every state except California. At stake…
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