Eric Adams is now as unpopular in NYC as Donald Trump. With the presidential election just 6.5 months away and the city's primary just 7.5 months after that, the mayor's running short on time to turn things around. My Sunday New York Daily News column nydailynews.com/2024/04/20/har…

If there's one thing New Yorkers could agree on, it's this. Baffling that local pols and the mayor don't seem interested in doing something good and special they'd be applauded for. nydailynews.com/2024/04/13/har…

“You got to have that rhythm.”

Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory . Congrats to writer Harry Siegel and Vital City!

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“A columnist is—or was—out endlessly, talking to people all over the city and writing every other day or even more frequently, climbing tenement stairs while giving a platform to people who’d otherwise be lost in the crowd.” Harry Siegel / Don Van Natta Jr.'s pick vitalcitynyc.org/articles/jimmy…

Our electeds can honor a great artist and New Yorker, and rename it the Sonny Rollins Williamsburg Bridge while he's still here to appreciate it.

🤔 “the traditional reliability we have needed from the media to tell our stories has diminished greatly”

NYPD Chief of Patrol The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast Harry Siegel Jake Offenhartz Listeners of WNYC 🎙 gave NYPD Chief of Patrol a bit of a hard time this morning, but not in the way I expected:

None of the callers complained about the police budget, rising arrest #'s or more officers on the trains. Instead, the main critique was the NYPD isn't doing enough

The NYPD's bosses, with the blessing of their ultimate boss, Mayor Adams, are pretending that writing critically about them amounts to slamming cops. Nope.

My Sunday Daily News column nydailynews.com/2024/04/06/sub…

This 1 star review of Portnoy's Complaint is one of the greatest pieces of literary criticism I've ever read

I invited NYPD Chief of Patrol on FAQNYC last week but he sadly declined

“The narrative will be devoid of dishonest narratives. Our team will… control
the narrative.”

Today: Maria Bustillos on Khan Academy's creepy little AI 'tutor,' and Harry Siegel takes us on a glorious exploration of acronyms, starting -- as so many things do -- with 'fuck' flaminghydra.com/issue-48/

fuck, Fuck, FUCK — new by me for Flaming Hydra flaminghydra.com/issue-48/

100 Percent. So well observed and written

If you've been meaning to chip in to help support local journalism, this is the perfect day to get it done ;-?

🎂FIVE YEARS of THE CITY, today!

This is a huge milestone, and I reflect on our work in the last 1/2 decade (!) I’m so proud that we’ve stayed true to our mission. None of us knew what we were getting into, but we were determined to dig deeper & be a true service for New York

calling Harry anti-cop simply makes it clear that you think any accountability is anti, while his writing makes clear he’s asking for better & this whole nonsense is only proving his point

“Hates the administration” is key here to me. NYPD Chief of Patrol and Mayor Eric Adams should come on FAQNYC to discuss this all.