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Adams Locks In Big Apple Connect Through 2028, One Day Before Oversight Hearing

The renewal locks New York City into well over $100 million in costs for the controversial program.

Zachary Groz   ·   September 29, 2025
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Asylum Seekers in Panic Over Trump’s Unclear $100 Fee

The Trump administration’s lack of clarity about when and how to pay new fees sparked chaos and misinformation among immigrants with pending asylum applications.

Liv Veazey   ·   September 29, 2025
Whatever Happened With the State’s ‘Migrant Relocation’ Program?

The initiative to resettle asylum seekers outside New York City reached half the targeted number of familes. ICE has deported some participants.

Isabelle Taft   ·   September 29, 2025
The State Spent Millions to Resettle Asylum Seekers. ICE Is Arresting Them.

The Migrant Relocation Assistance Program helped families leave crowded shelters and put down roots. Trump’s immigration crackdown is upending that.

Isabelle Taft   ·   September 29, 2025
Climate Hawks Vow Election Showdown If Hochul Greenlights Gas Pipeline

Pipeline opponents say that approving NESE could bite Hochul in next year’s elections.

Colin Kinniburgh   ·   September 26, 2025
In Brief: New York’s Essential Plan

Massive changes are coming to the state’s comprehensive, low-cost healthcare plan.

Jie Jenny Zou   ·   September 26, 2025
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Five Sleepy Minutes With New York’s Jail Watchdog

Jails and prisons across the state are facing many crises. Someone should tell the Commission of Correction.

Chris Gelardi   ·   September 25, 2025
Half-Billion Dollar Casino Rescue Plan Hinges on Boom. Analysts Predict Bust.

Sullivan County is telling investors there will be massive growth at a Catskills casino resort, but its own consultants predict decline.

Chris Bragg   ·   September 25, 2025
Assembly Staff Receive Raises After New York Focus Reporting on Low Pay, Long Hours

The first significant pay increase in years could strengthen the office responsible for reviewing major legislation.

Sam Mellins   ·   September 23, 2025
‘We Must Escalate’: Arrested Legislators Call Out ICE and Albany

Three months after the state legislature ended session without passing immigration protections, 15 elected officials faced down arrest to protest ICE and state inaction.

Isabelle Taft   ·   September 19, 2025
Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up — Again

Electric bills in New York haven’t been this high for a decade, and they’re about to rise even more. Here’s why.

Colin Kinniburgh   ·   September 18, 2025
Insurance Said His Treatment Was Covered. Then They Sent a $17,000 Bill.

Thousands of New Yorkers have new health insurance from the company Leading Edge Administrators. One Massachusetts retiree’s battle with the company highlights the risks they face.

Sam Mellins   ·   September 17, 2025
5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into the Attorney General’s Conviction Review Bureau

A once-touted statewide conviction review unit lacks independence, authority, and transparency — and Albany hasn’t moved to fix it.

Willow Higgins and Curtis Brodner   ·   September 16, 2025
ICE Detentions in New York County Jails Have Exploded

So far this year, the state’s county jails have held six times more people for federal immigration authorities than they did in all of 2024.

Julia Rock and Isabelle Taft   ·   September 16, 2025
How New York’s Attorney General Lets Innocence Claims Slip Through the Cracks

Prisoners seeking help from the AG’s office have little chance of review. Here’s one applicant’s story.

Curtis Brodner   ·   September 11, 2025
New York’s Attorney General Wanted to Review Innocence Claims. Prosecutor Politics Got in the Way.

The attorney general’s conviction review bureau has investigated just a handful of innocence claims of the hundreds it’s received since 2012.

Willow Higgins and Curtis Brodner   ·   September 10, 2025
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‘No Arrests’: In New York, Some Police Can Drink, Drive and Avoid Charges

Officers in New York State crashed their official vehicles, hit other motorists and arrived to work reeking of alcohol. And yet, they sometimes evaded criminal punishment, an investigation found.

Sammy Sussman   ·   September 9, 2025
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How We Obtained 10,000 Police Disciplinary Records

The New York Times and New York Focus gathered thousands of files from around half of New York State’s nearly 500 law enforcement agencies.

Sammy Sussman   ·   September 9, 2025
Trump-Targeted Sheriff Did Not Rely on Sanctuary Law in High-Profile Case, Emails Show

GOP Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan blasted New York sanctuary policies during a June congressional hearing. Newly obtained emails tell a different story.

Julia Rock   ·   September 9, 2025
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Home Care Employer Walks Back Testimony, Fueling Concerns of Rigged $11 Billion Contract

A PPL vice president admitted pre-contract talks between the company and New York’s health department, after denying it under oath last month.

Sam Mellins   ·   September 5, 2025
Thousands of Young Immigrants in New York at Risk After Trump Ends Protections

New Yorkers are suing to reverse a Trump administration policy change that has upended the futures of tens of thousands of young immigrants.

Isabelle Taft   ·   September 4, 2025
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New York Immigrants Weigh Health and Hunger Against Deportation Risk

Trump’s immigration crackdown is having a chilling effect on New Yorkers’ access to public benefits.

Jie Jenny Zou   ·   September 3, 2025
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Prison Staffing Woes Leave Thousands Stuck in County Jails

After a strike led state prisons to stop accepting new prisoners, local jails have been left holding thousands of extra people.

Chris Gelardi   ·   September 2, 2025
New York Business Groups Rally Around Trump-Backed Pipeline

Business interests have launched a campaign to back National Grid’s demands for more gas, with fingerprints of the utility’s lobbying firm.

Colin Kinniburgh   ·   August 29, 2025
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Troubled Bronx Charity Continues to Receive Government Grants

New York lawmakers are giving more money to the Bronx Community Foundation, which has failed to spend it in the past.

Sam Mellins   ·   August 28, 2025
An insurance claim has first been stamped "approved," but then stamped "denied."
After Criticism, Home Care Employer Will Look for Better Health Insurance

Workers are currently forced to pay for insurance that many don’t want.

Sam Mellins   ·   August 27, 2025
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Trump Targets Bail Reform in Latest Threat to New York’s Federal Funding

New York’s bail reform law didn’t eliminate cash bail and hasn’t led to increased crime or recidivism. The Trump administration is still targeting it.

Chris Gelardi   ·   August 26, 2025
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Councilmembers Demand NYPD Halt its Public Housing Surveillance Expansion, Following New York Focus Reporting

“New Yorkers did not agree to trade their right to privacy for the promise of free internet,” key committee chairs wrote to city officials.

Zachary Groz   ·   August 25, 2025
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‘Complete Waste of Our Time’: Lawmakers Get Few Answers on Home Care Chaos

The company in charge said they would explore other insurance options.

Sam Mellins   ·   August 22, 2025
Advocates Float Contempt Ruling for New York Prison Agency

The Legal Aid Society alleges that DOCCS declared an overbroad emergency to keep incarcerated people locked in their cells for upward of 20 hours a day.

Chris Gelardi   ·   August 20, 2025
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New York Lawmakers Are Scrutinizing Home Care. We’ve Got Questions.

With a hearing on New York’s troubled home care program set for Thursday, here are five questions we’d like answered.

Sam Mellins   ·   August 19, 2025
Mayor Eric Adams standing in front of an apartment building.
Has Mayor Eric Adams Built More Affordable Housing Than Bloomberg and de Blasio Combined?

The New York City mayor made the claim during a press conference in late July.

Ferdi Ferhat Özsoy   ·   August 19, 2025
Brooklyn Power Broker Files Raft of Lawsuits for Doctor Tied to Alleged Fraud

Frank Seddio is representing Jules Parisien in over 500 cases — despite the physician’s history of insurance fraud allegations.

Chris Bragg   ·   August 18, 2025
Progressive Lawmakers Urge Special Session to Address Trump’s Cuts, Breaking from Top Democrats

Whether legislators should return to Albany this year to tackle historic cuts to Medicaid and food assistance has become a thorny political question.

Jie Jenny Zou   ·   August 14, 2025
‘Zombie Debts’ Refuse to Die, Haunting New Yorkers for Decades

Fraud and falsehoods often don’t stop debt collectors from pursuing their targets for years.

Sam Mellins   ·   August 14, 2025
Is Shoplifting Decriminalized in New York?

First-time offenders might receive community service, but penalties may be severe.

Ferdi Ferhat Özsoy   ·   August 13, 2025
Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch at a press conference
Five Unanswered Questions About Eric Adams’s Expanded Surveillance at NYC Public Housing

Big Apple Connect, the mayor’s flagship free internet service for public housing residents, is quietly being used to expand the NYPD’s real-time, remote surveillance. Here’s what we still don’t know about the clandestine program.

Zachary Groz   ·   August 12, 2025
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Adams Quietly Uses Free Internet at NYCHA to Expand Police Surveillance

The Adams administration is using its flagship broadband program to give police real-time access to NYCHA camera feeds — without telling anyone.

Zachary Groz   ·   August 11, 2025
Did New York City Record Its Lowest Number of Shootings and Homicides in the First Half of 2025?

There were 351 shooting incidents, 413 shooting victims, and 149 murders during the first half of the year.

Ferdi Ferhat Özsoy   ·   August 9, 2025
Major Pipeline Moves Closer to Approval in New York as Critics Decry ‘Bargain’ with Trump

Public comments are closing soon for an underwater pipeline project that sprang back to life this spring after talks between Hochul and Trump.

Colin Kinniburgh   ·   August 8, 2025
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