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Drama at the MTA

Covering the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is never dull, but this week was a doozy.

NYC’s New 5G Monolith Is ‘Bridging the Digital Divide’ With Free Wi-Fi For Exactly One Bronx Block

"The mayor is gonna come out here and say oh, we’re giving you Wi-Fi? You walk away half a block and it’s gone.”

July 27, 2022

ICE Just Abruptly Moved Dozens of Immigrant Detainees From NY to Mississippi

The transfers came after immigrant detainees at the Orange County Jail in Goshen, New York, complained about rotten and unappetizing food, racial insults by guards, limited medical care, and a lack of access to their lawyers.

July 26, 2022

Supermoon Fishing on the Gowanus

Our OnlyFins columnist contemplates the Gowanus Canal.

Waiting For a Celebrity Autograph in Times Square to Feel Something

What I learned from standing outside "Good Morning America" for three hours, waiting for my favorite CW celebrity to emerge.

What’s With All the Municipally Branded Streetwear?

Residents of a relentlessly branded city are buying into a publicly funded New York.

New Yorkers Need to Get Over Their Fear of Sharks

Does your government currently treat any other threat to public safety with this kind of boneheaded zeal?

July 25, 2022

From the Bronx to Coney Island Overnight, On a Bike

One July night, New York’s bike warriors came out to play

July 23, 2022

Photos: How New Yorkers Are Keeping Cool Against the Backdrop of Certain Environmental Collapse

City residents are hitting the Big Apple’s beaches, pools, and parks to find some much-needed chill as the planet burns.