Reporter
Ethan Geringer-Sameth
Articles
- 'Wholly Unacceptable': City Council 'Deeply Concerned and Frustrated' with De Blasio Delay on Cuomo-Ordered Police Reform Plan
- Mayor's Fund Provides $62 Million in Relief to Immigrants, Food to Health Care Workers
- Covid Toll at State Psychiatric Facilities Has Remained Disproportionately High
- To Avoid More Cuomo 'Supplanting,' De Blasio Pushes for Direct Aid to New York City in Next Federal Package
- De Blasio Pledges Last Gasp Property Tax Reform Effort
- Democratic Mayoral Candidates Offer Ideas for Addressing Food Insecurity
- City Council Jumps Into Police Reform Action Amid De Blasio Delay in Meeting Cuomo Mandate
- Out of School and Out of Work, City's Disconnected Youth Have Steep Hill to Climb, Report Says
- Public Defenders Release Evaluation of Manhattan District Attorney Candidates
- 'Asking for Fairness from Washington,' Cuomo Presents Budget Vision with $15 Billion from Feds
- 7 Months Later, No Sign of De Blasio's Promised 'Racial Justice and Reconciliation Commission'
- Why Didn't New York's Hardest Hit Communities Receive Covid Vaccine Priority?
- De Blasio Excuses for Slow Vaccine Rollout Contradict Prior City Statements of Readiness
- ‘Forsaken Land:’ City and State Officials Mum on Covid Vaccination Plans for Incarcerated New Yorkers and Correction Officers
- 'Shameful': No Sign of City's Long Overdue Plan for 250,000-Plus Disconnected Youth
- New York City Sees First-Ever Balance Among Early, Absentee & Election Day Voting
- The Status of $6.5 Billion in Federal Covid Aid to New York City and State as End-of-Year Spending Deadline Looms
- Breaking Down Final 2020 Vote Tallies Across New York City
- Essential Workers Continue to Struggle for Covid-Related Workers' Comp and Death Benefits
- New York Hospitals Brace for a Second Covid Wave. Are They Ready?
- As Federal Covid Aid Dried Up, Hunger Soared in New York City, Report Shows
- City Says Medical Supply Stockpile Nearly Complete; Healthcare Workers Wonder If It'll Be Enough
- New Yorkers Celebrate Biden Victory, Defeat of Trump
- After Large Participation and Long Lines in 2020, What Changes Could Improve Early Voting in the Future?
- Tracking Voter Turnout in the 2020 General Election in New York
- De Blasio Reups 2016 Board of Elections Reform Plan in 2020
- Amid Another Poorly-Run Election, Top New York Officials Point Fingers, Offer Plans, or Say Nothing
- Absentee Voters Must Now Be Allowed to 'Cure' Their Ballots Under Certain Circumstances; Here's How It's Supposed to Work
- New York City Covid Spending Tops $4 Billion, Virtually All Covered by Federal Funds
- 51,000 Workers at 1,200 Sites: Board of Elections Scrambles to Prepare for General Election
- Stringer Plan Calls for Revamping City Workforce Development, Including Free Community College
- City-Solicited Recommendations Offer Strategies for More Inclusive Workforce
- Without Random Testing, New York City and State Address Covid Outbreaks with Blinders
- NYC Board of Elections Misses Deadline for Cuomo-Ordered Needs Assessment
- Efforts Launched to Encourage Early Voting and Avoid Absentee Ballot Headaches
- When Can New Yorkers Expect General Election Results? City and State Officials Give Different Answers
- Sign By the Red X: New York Election Officials Unveil New Envelope to Ensure More Absentee Votes Get Counted
- State Inaction Means New York City Won't Launch Online Voter Registration Before 2020 Deadline
- City's Supervised Release Program Has Positive Impacts Without Increases in Missed Court Appearances or Rearrest Rates, Report Finds
- As General Election Approaches, Mixed Results for Efforts to Ensure More Votes Get Counted
- Randomized Testing Would Best Assess Covid Spread, Epidemiologists Say, But New York Isn't Doing It
- Jury Still Out in Several Investigations of NYPD's Protest Policing
- Under New Body Camera Policy, NYPD Still Controls the Video and the Narrative
- New Machines May Help With Early Voting But Advocates Say They Could Undermine Ranked-Choice Voting
- Board of Elections Presents Plan for 2021 Implementation of Ranked-Choice Voting
- Can New York Officials Deliver November Election Results in a Timely Fashion?
- New York Elections Administrators Lay Out Immense Challenges, Uncertainty Ahead of Fast-Approaching General Election
- As New York Looks for Smoother General Election, Long List of Voting Reform Bills Awaits Governor’s Signature or Legislative Action
- After Intake Pause, City's Supervised Release Program Set for Large Expansion
- De Blasio Critical of Controversial NYPD Arrest of Protestor; Shea's Stance Unclear
- Little Support for De Blasio's Claim that Court Shutdown is Driving Gun Violence Surge
- The NYPD's Facial Recognition Policy Leaves A Lot of Leeway the Department Says It's Not Using
- Push Is On for 10 Bills to Strengthen Absentee Voting and More Ahead of Fall Election
- Voters Should Be Able to Track Their Absentee Ballots, Lawmakers Say
- A Month After Historic Curfew, Many Unanswered Questions About How City Policed Protests, Looting
- Police Commissioner Repeatedly Contradicts Mayor on NYPD Reform
- Board of Elections Misses Deadline for Planning Ranked-Choice Voting Implementation
- De Blasio Breaks with His Police Department as Council Passes Surveillance Transparency Bill
- Challenges, Uncertainty Abound for CUNY System and Its Students, Faculty and Staff
- Electeds Negotiate Uneasy Peace with Police During Tense Brooklyn Standoffs
- Voting Absentee is Complicated; How to Make Sure Your Vote Counts
- After the Apex, Nurses Look Over the Uncertain Coronavirus Horizon
- De Blasio Delay Plus Pandemic Means Property Tax Reform Appears Off the Table This Year
- Front-Line Workers Must Prove They Contracted Coronavirus on the Job to Receive Workers' Comp
- Pandemic Reinforces De Blasio's Inaction on School Desegregation Recommendations
- Immense Change for City Agency Tasked with Bulk of Coronavirus Response Spending, Government Workforce Shift
- Police Patrols Promised to Combat Anti-Semitism Arrived to Enforce Social Distancing, Orthodox Leaders Say
- De Blasio, NYPD Remain Vague About Social Distancing Protocols Amid Backlash Over Racial Disparities in Enforcement
- New York City Could Receive $5.3 Billion from First Four Federal Coronavirus Packages
- A Decade of Voting in New York City: 21% of Registered Voters Didn’t Cast a Single Ballot; 3% Voted Every Time
- Communities Hit Hardest by Coronavirus Outbreak Have Had Lower Voter Turnout: Report
- Coronavirus Death Toll at State Psychiatric Facilities Climbs Quickly
- 10 Dead, Hundreds Infected as State Psychiatric Facilities Become Another Crisis Point in Coronavirus Outbreak
- A 'Human Rights Tragedy' Unfolding - Part II: The ER was Their Only Source of Care Before the Pandemic Hit
- A 'Human Rights Tragedy' Unfolding - Part I: Racial Bias and Life-Saving Care During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- The State Legislature in a State of Emergency
- As They Issue Dire Shortage Warnings, Neither State Nor City Has Plan for Ventilator Triage
- Amid Outbreak Volatility, City Takes Steps to Stabilize Human Services Nonprofits That Constitute Much of Social Safety Net
- 'Open' Government Amid an Outbreak
- Employee in Lower Manhattan Building Home to Several City Agencies Tests Positive for Coronavirus
- NYPD Watchdog Set for Personnel Boost as Voter-Approved Mandate Begins
- Initial Report Shows Benefits and Challenges of NYPD Body Camera Program for Police Watchdog
- Key Details Emerge for How Ranked-Choice Voting Will Work in New York City
- ‘We Put Them in the Jewish Community to Protect Our People’: City and State Add Permanent Security Cameras to Combat Rise in Anti-Semitism
- City to Codify Office of Food Policy and Require 10-Year Food Plan
- City's $20 Billion in Contracting Takes Another Step into Modernity
- Push Begins to Educate New Yorkers About Ranked-Choice Voting Ahead of 2021 Implementation
- Ballot Set for Queens Borough President Special Election After Unprecedented 'Lottery'
- Commission Releases Long-Awaited Recommendations for Fairer City Property Tax System
- Council to Examine Persistent and Growing Violence Plaguing City Jails
- After Court Rulings, Unclear Future for Push to Restrict State Legislators' Outside Income
- Final Signature Allows Implementation of Cuomo-DiNapoli Agreement to Restore Certain Contract Oversight Powers
- Cuomo's Missing Ethics Agenda
- As Cuomo Proposes Expansive Equal Rights Amendment Favored in Senate, Assembly Again Passes Narrow Version
- Three Democratic Leaders in Albany, Three Different Positions on Altering Bail Reforms
- State Senate Set to Move Automatic Registration Amid Early 2020 Voting Package
- Ahead of 2020 Elections, Cuomo Signed Affidavit Ballot Bill That Roiled Queens DA Recount
- 6 Years of De Blasio Dodging and Delaying Property Tax Reform
- More Than 49,000 Parolees Have Had Voting Rights Restored Under Cuomo’s Executive Order
- City's Property Tax Reform Delay Threatens Promise to Pursue Essential Changes in Albany
- What to Watch for When the City's Property Tax Commission Finally Issues Its Report
- Deadly NYPD Shooting of Officer and Civilian Tests New Body Camera Footage Policy
- State Senate Looks Ahead to Complicated Task of Property Tax Reform
- NYPD's New Agreement with Police Oversight Board Promises Better Access to Body Camera Footage
- With Push from Cuomo and Funding from Vance, New York College-in-Prisons Program is Flourishing
- Turnout, Ballot Questions, & Dropoff: How New York City Voted in 2019
- Legislature Evaluates Inaugural Early Voting Period in New York, Looks Ahead to Daunting 2020 Election Year
- Immigrant Advocacy Group Releases 2020 New York Policy Agenda
- Oversight Board Stymied by NYPD Denial of Body Camera Footage Requests
- New NYPD Body Camera Footage Policy Raises Questions About Editing
- After Ballot Proposal Spending, Council Member Eyes Expansion of Independent Expenditure Disclosure
- Vast Difference in NYPD Provision of Body Camera Footage to District Attorneys Versus Police Watchdog
- First Deputy Mayor on Next Steps for Voter-Approved 'Rainy Day Fund'
- As Election Proceeds, Affidavit Ballot Bill at Center of Queens Controversy Continues to Languish
- Police Union Spends on Ads to Defeat Ballot Question 2
- De Blasio Dodges Questions About His Stance on Ballot Proposals
- Civilian Complaint Review Board Refutes Police Union's 'Myths' About Ballot Proposals and Its NYPD Oversight Work
- Where Top City Officials Who Appointed the 2019 Charter Revision Commission Stand on Its Proposals
- The Fine Print On Your Ballot That Isn't Fine Print
- Do New Yorkers Know About the Ballot Questions They Can Answer This Fall?
- Police Officers Union Launches Campaign to Defeat NYPD Oversight Ballot Measure
- Questioning Jails Plan, Advocates Seek ‘New Deal’ to Address Homelessness
- There are NYPD Oversight Measures on the Ballot - How Significant are They?
- In Its First Year, Early Voting May Give Glimpse of Modern New York City Election
- City Planning Chief on De Blasio Administration's Zoning for Growth, and the Need for More Housing in the Suburbs
- With Under a Month To Go, Board of Elections Mum on Shift to Electronic Poll Books
- 2019 Charter Revision Commission Seeks to 'Tweak,' Not Upend City Balance of Power
- Push Launched to Get Voters to Choose Ranked-Choice Voting
- 2019 Mayor’s Management Report Gives Snapshot of Government Services, City Trends
- Food Policy Agenda on Menu at City Council Hearing
- One Promising Reform with Rare Support from Both the City and Board of Elections, But Little Movement
- New York's Election Administration Accountability Vacuum - Part II: Partisanship, Patronage & Potential Fixes
- New York's Election Administration Accountability Vacuum - Part I: 'Bad Choices at Every Step'
- New York City is Waist-Deep in a School Desegregation Conversation - How Did We Get Here?
- The City’s Pouring Money Into Trash Basket Pickup, and Complaints of Overflowing Bins are Dropping
- State Campaign Financing Commission Holds First Public Meeting
- City's Promised Plan for Quality-of-Life Issues Yet to Materialize
- An Old, Unfair System: New York City's Property Tax Conundrum - Part III - The City's Bottom Line
- An Old, Unfair System: New York City’s Property Tax Conundrum - Part II - Deep and Complex Inequities
- An Old, Unfair System: New York City’s Property Tax Conundrum - Part I - Taking on the Difficult Task
- Campaigning for Congress, Torres Touts City Funding Secured for Development Outside Council District
- Cautious Optimism Among Reformers After State Public Campaign Financing Commission Named
- In End-of-Session Scorecard, Progressive Coalition Grades State Legislature on First Year of New Democratic Power
- De Blasio Reps Sought to Kill Police Accountability Measure
- Legislators Search for Common Ground on Expansion of Equal Rights Amendment
- Stuck on Marijuana Legalization, Could Lawmakers Offer a Referendum as Cuomo Suggested?
- City Council Expected to Pass Bill - with Controversial Amendment - Raising Cap on Public Matching Funds for Campaigns
- Rikers Commission Study Finds Local Jails Have No Impact on Property Values or Crime Rates
- Approved by City, ‘Culturally Responsive’ Charter School Alleges State Bias Against Plan to Expand
- With 500 Candidates Expected for 2021 Election Cycle, Campaign Finance Board Starts Early Outreach
- Effort Launched to Elect LGBTQ Members to City Council
- Johnson Unveils Criminal Justice Agenda with Focus on Reducing Jail Population
- De Blasio Fundraising Exposed Grey Area for Ethics Board
- Experts Point to Anxiety, Short-Sightedness and Political Climate in Amazon Deal Demise
- Council Hearing Highlights Big Gaps in City Planning Processes
- More Like a Presidential Year: Report Details Extent of 2018 New York Voter Turnout Boom
- 'Community Preference' Lawsuit at Center of Affordable Housing, Segregation Debates
- Takeaways from New York Presidential Primary Voting
- Homeowners Stand to Gain in Areas to be Rezoned, If They Can Keep Their Homes
- Debate Over Best Path to Affordable Housing Development Continues