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Matthew Chayes

@chayesmatthew

Used to cover crime. Now I cover politics. Trying to learn the difference. @newsday.

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Henry Rosoff(@HenryRosoff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING:
Exclusive PIX11 News/Emerson College Polling poll in special election to replace George Santos.
It is a crucial race being watched nationwide this election year.

Tom Suozzi (D) Tom Suozzi: 45%
Mazi Pilip (R) Mazi Melesa Pilip: 42%
Undecided: 9%

MORE:
pix11.com/news/local-new…

BREAKING: Exclusive @PIX11News/@EmersonPolling poll in special election to replace @MrSantosNY. It is a crucial race being watched nationwide this election year. Tom Suozzi (D) @Tom_Suozzi: 45% Mazi Pilip (R) @maziforcongress: 42% Undecided: 9% MORE: pix11.com/news/local-new…
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Alyssa Katz(@alykatzz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Eric Adams celebrated his most recent birthday in an illegally built giant party shed at the Bronx restaurant owned by his police commissioner's brother. FDNY and building depts call it a hazard and so does the landlord trying to evict. GregBSmith thecity.nyc/2024/01/18/eri…

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Joe Anuta(@joeanuta) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This animated short narrated by Mayor Eric Adams is worth a watch... Incredible these intense efforts to lobby against the How Many Stops Act are coming ~after~ it has already passed with a veto-proof majority.

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Keri Blakinger(@keribla) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: The county agreed to a $1.75-million settlement with Pico Rivera mother who accused sheriff’s deputies of doing 2 illegal cavity searches - one so forceful she started bleeding - while looking for drugs.

latimes.com/california/sto…

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Newsday(@Newsday) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A new 1,100-page U.S. Federal Highway Administration manual includes a proposed ban on “humorous,” “obscure” and “popular culture” references on electronic road signs by 2026, saying “nonstandard syntax” may be misunderstood and create hazards. nwsdy.li/47AF1cT

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Sally Goldenberg(@SallyGold) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: Over 6 months Mayor Eric Adams paid his fundraiser $181K - a shocking sum. She’s no longer his fundraiser following FBI raid into her home but is still w/ the campaign. By Jeff Coltin:

politico.com/news/2024/01/1…

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David J. Meyer(@dahvnyc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Another must-read from police corruption guru Noah McClain, who points to court documents that show NYPD cops are probably holding onto expired placards by reporting them as stolen. placard corruption nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/01/15/cop…

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Newsday(@Newsday) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tom Suozzi earned nearly $700,000 in salary and consulting fees in the private sector in 2023, according to his new House financial disclosure form. The bulk of his compensation — $535,000 — came from consulting fees listed under “Suozzi Consulting.” nwsdy.li/4aTsx2Z

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Chris Sommerfeldt(@C_Sommerfeldt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Speaking at a DOC graduation ceremony, Mayor Adams says 'people are trying to take away your power and authority to do the job right.'

'But...you have a God damn mayor that believes in what you're doing, and I will fight like all hell to be with you,' he says.

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The NYPD kicked reporters out of police headquarters and into a trailer out back, calling it a move 'toward greater NYPD transparency.' Now it's making reporters sign new regulations barring them from going back inside HQ to report without a minder. hellgatenyc.com/want-to-report…

The NYPD kicked reporters out of police headquarters and into a trailer out back, calling it a move 'toward greater NYPD transparency.' Now it's making reporters sign new regulations barring them from going back inside HQ to report without a minder. hellgatenyc.com/want-to-report…
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Susan Edelman(@SusanBEdelman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Paguaga recounted:
--the Chancellor and the Mayor hired each other’s significant others to serve as Deputy Mayor and the “Senior Adviser to the Deputy Chancellor of School Leadership.”
--A DOE leader was promoted and her husband was subsequently hired at Tweed.
--Raises were…

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Carrie Melago(@carriemelago) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sweet or sour idea? NYC officials limited school bake sales back in 2010 for health reasons. Now, the ed department wants to bring them back -- to stave off budget woes. chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/0…

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Jason Beeferman(@JasonBeeferman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Mazi Melesa Pilip is facing a court-issued subpoena, owes up to $250,000 in federal taxes along with her husband and owns between $30,002 and $150,000 in Bitcoin.

If elected, it's unclear if she'll take her first paycheck in Bitcoin like Mayor Eric Adams did politico.com/newsletters/ne…

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Newsday(@Newsday) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Friday's cover: Growth in school property taxes on Long Island and statewide will be capped at a maximum 2% for the third year in a row, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said. nwsdy.li/3RYjF3u

Friday's cover: Growth in school property taxes on Long Island and statewide will be capped at a maximum 2% for the third year in a row, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said. nwsdy.li/3RYjF3u
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Jeff Coltin(@JCColtin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rep. Jerry Nadler just wrongly said that Mayor Adams announced 'he’s reversing all anticipated budget cuts for the NYPD, the FDNY and likely the library, school and other social services programs as well.'
That way overstate's yesterday's announcement, and gets the facts wrong.

Rep. Jerry Nadler just wrongly said that Mayor Adams announced 'he’s reversing all anticipated budget cuts for the NYPD, the FDNY and likely the library, school and other social services programs as well.' That way overstate's yesterday's announcement, and gets the facts wrong.
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Graham Rayman(@graham_rayman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: NYPD detective who cleared over $150,000 in salary in 2023 busted for shoplifting $160 of merchandise from Long Island Home Depot. Was assigned to Police Commissioner Edward Caban's office.
nydailynews.com/2024/01/10/lon…

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Matthew Chayes(@chayesmatthew) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mayor Adams is lowering his estimate for the room-and-board costs for NYC’s foreign migrants: to ~$10B from $12B through the upcoming fiscal year.

Mayor Adams is lowering his estimate for the room-and-board costs for NYC’s foreign migrants: to ~$10B from $12B through the upcoming fiscal year.
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Gwynne Hogan(@GwynneFitz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'We made sure you had blankets, pillows, we even put on a movie for the kids,' says NYC Health + Hospitals Dr. Ted Long, speaking at press briefing today about Floyd Bennett Field shelter evacuation last night.

here's what cafeteria looked like:
thecity.nyc/2024/01/09/flo…

'We made sure you had blankets, pillows, we even put on a movie for the kids,' says @NYCHealthSystem Dr. Ted Long, speaking at press briefing today about Floyd Bennett Field shelter evacuation last night. here's what cafeteria looked like: thecity.nyc/2024/01/09/flo…
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Tim Marchman(@timmarchman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: In new Netflix doc, Eric Adams promotes diabetics not taking their meds and instead reversing the disease with veganism, as he claims he did. In his 2020 book, though, he says he did take his meds. Spokesperson won't say which version is correct. vice.com/en/article/g5y…

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