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Professional news — excited to announce that today is my first day covering city hall for @nypost!
It’s been over a year without a byline and I’m beyond ready to start digging in.
Let’s talk. Tell me what I should and (especially) what I shouldn’t know: [email protected]
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"Newspapers like this one and the Post don't deserve responding to these type of hit piece articles," Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says, responding to the piece on Instagram.
"It's called fundraising stupid. We just spent along with candidates $16 million dollars on this election cycle. Sports games are great ways to fundraise."
"The suite package was worth $13,800, but Heastie didn’t have to pay. The seats, food, and drinks were a donation from the hospitality and gambling giant Delaware North to the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee, or DACC, a group Heastie helps lead." @SamMellins
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"The suite package was worth $13,800, but Heastie didn’t have to pay. The seats, food, and drinks were a donation from the hospitality and gambling giant Delaware North to the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee, or DACC, a group Heastie helps lead." @SamMellins
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My view of the Tom Kean Election Night event since 7
Kean banned reporters from the event at the Olde Mill Inn in Basking Ridge, NJ
Attendees now leaving describe it as “somber,” “depressing,” “kinda grim” and “like a bad date - you know it’s gonna end but you don’t know when”
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Live Election Day and results updates from the NY Post team: nypost.com/2026/11/03/us-new…
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“It was a very big ‘welcome to the family,’” the staffer said. “They got everyone pizza. It was very congenial, they had conversations with everyone.”
Then "one editor was laid off, and at least four others in the sales, art, and copyediting departments"
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Big Queens media news. Schneps, which also owns @QNS has purchased the @QueensChronicle, per the Chronicle’s publisher.
qchron.com/opinion/editorial…
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At council hearing, @EricDinowitzNYC asks new head of Community & Ethnic Media office about what the city can do to bring back the Norwood News - no commitment /answer but its closure is from Montefiore, which said $211K/year was too much to spend on paper google.com/goto?url=CAESpwEB…
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Gov. Kathy Hochul, asked if she would entertain raising pay or changing outside income rules for state lawmakers before the end of the year:
"I haven't even thought about it yet."
After her 2022 win, lawmakers got a $32k pay increase.
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The NYS Democratic Committee transferred another $6.5 million to Kathy Hochul this month, new filing shows—bringing its support to $16.5M total.
This has been a useful setup for Hochul, since the party can take donations of up to $138,600 from individuals vs. $9K for candidates
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As the legal battle to determine who leads the party rolls on, Brooklyn Dems' executive committee received notice last night from AM Nikki Lucas – AM Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's handpicked successor – that she was setting a meeting for Oct. 27 to vote on two new rule changes.
“so many people discovering that the whole Internet is dry tinder and the only thing keeping it from burning is the fact that teenagers haven’t found the matches yet”
wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known:
404media.co/php2shell-black-…
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Sources: Big labor rally planned this weekend in Brooklyn Sunday with big name surrogates @ZohranKMamdani @NYHTC & @DC37nyc set to get voting members out for @KathyHochul.
Part of big kick off of Mayor-Gov stumping ahead of Nov. 3, first reported by @politicony
While the battle over the next Brooklyn Dems chair is still being duked out in the courts, Nikki Lucas is fundraising tonight as the “newly elected” chair
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Gov. Hochul says she plans to put more state $$$ to universal childcare in years to come — not ruling out tax hikes to do so.
"We're going all the way," she says. "Universal means universal, so I am committed to it... We'll make sure we have to do whatever it takes."
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New: Before indicting him on corruption charges relating to a hotel, the feds were investigating whether Frank Carone, ex-Mayor Eric Adams’ longtime adviser, took roughly $600,000 in bribes from 13 companies, several of which were seeking city contracts. politico.com/newsletters/new…
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Remember Eric Adams' "NYC is the ____ of America" bit?
Almost 100 years before Adams, Jimmy Walker (the other scandal-scarred nightlife mayor) had a remarkably similar hit joke.
Walker said NYC had more Irish than Dublin. Adams called NYC the Dublin of America.
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I loved learning about Lisle Lester and the long journey to get her ashes back home to Wisconsin thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/…
“It’s a ridiculous system that New York has, where the public thinks that campaign contributions are enforced, when in reality, for Albany’s fat cats, they’re not,” he said.”
New: Kathy Hochul's still benefiting from Antonio Delgado's aborted primary challenge.
We found 363 cases totaling $2.6M where Hochul refunded donations she got for that primary—then got the money routed to the state party, which sent $10M back to Hochul.
nysfocus.com/2026/10/15/hoch…
"True transparency cannot be achieved by cherry-picking what information the public should see and when it should see it. While FOIL laws give agencies leniency to act faithfully and consider volume and complexity, they were not intended to provide loopholes to stall or avoid meeting a statutory requirement. The law was named “Freedom of Information” for a reason." amny.com/law/op-ed-mamdani-a…
