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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
2 years
Justin Clark was an endearingly strange and uncommonly brilliant human being who immersed himself in the study of psychedelic drugs. How did he develop an addiction to obscure dissociatives? My story for New York Magazine:
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Christopher Robbins
2 years
had to check in on my favorite benchless train station during the xmas rush
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Christopher Robbins
2 months
Here is @katie_honan confronting @NYPDDCPI with evidence that the chain he wielded to imply that “outside agitators” barricaded Hamilton Hall is a common bike lock that @Columbia itself sold to their students
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4 months
“We’re a bunch of New Yorkers trying to take back this public space and make a message.”
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Christopher Robbins
1 year
"The NYPD is arresting, on average, four people who are trying to film the police, every single day." Including this adorable dog named Harvey!!!
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4 years
"I literally talk to people all day long who live in their Hamptons house, who used to live [in NYC]," Governor Cuomo says, in explaining why he cannot support a billionaire's or millionaire's tax
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3 years
If you’re wondering why you’ve been stuck in a car on the Williamsburg Bridge for an hour: The NYPD is checking every vehicle coming into Manhattan for any possible infractions
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
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> @GovKathyHochul just said she decided to kill congestion pricing because the owner of this Midtown diner said his New Jersey customers weren't going to....drive into his Midtown diner anymore?
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Christopher Robbins
2 years
The NYPD arrested and jailed a cyclist for fixing a driver's illegally obscured license plate. "They're basically conspiring with drivers to obstruct their plates."
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
2 years
NYT DealBook conference at the end of the month gonna be interesting
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
1 year
MTA buses are about to get the power to ticket basically every bad driver on the streets
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
4 years
SoHo somehow got even cornier
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
2 months
Here is @NYPDDCPI telling reporters it was a "joint decision" to not inform press than an officer accidentally fired his Glock handgun during the raid of @Columbia . Did @NYCMayor weigh in? "This is a police department incident, why are you bringing in the mayor?"
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Christopher Robbins
1 year
if the newspaper I worked for ran this front page I'd be fucking livid but that's just me
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Christopher Robbins
4 months
"I'm not here today to talk to you about numbers" @GovKathyHochul told New Yorkers when she announced a National Guard deployment into the subways. Some relevant numbers:
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Christopher Robbins
27 days
Don't tenants already pay "the price" in the form of...broker fees? 🤔
@nick_garber
Nick Garber
27 days
. @corcorangroup has custom shirts
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
4 years
Governor Cuomo unveiled a new line of NY-branded hand sanitizer, NYS Clean. It's made by Corcraft, a state company that uses prison labor, and pays prisoners an average of 65 cents an hour
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Christopher Robbins
1 year
"Since 2011, I've been monitoring protests. This is the first time they ever decided to go after me. So I was like, whoa, the game just changed right now."
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1 year
"I already regret not intervening, and I'm not sure why I couldn't. Part of it was shock. Part of it was everyone being so focused on getting the police there. There just was not a lot of compassion for the person lying on the floor, not breathing."
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
4 years
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams is here, and got shoved back by NYPd on bikes
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
2 years
For @Curbed I took a stroll around Hoboken to figure out how they've managed to avoid a single traffic fatality in four years
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
3 years
Got laid off from  @Gothamist / @WNYC today. Grateful for the work I was able to do, for my wonderful colleagues, and for my time as a  @SAGAFTRANY shop steward. Please do send any work leads my way!
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Christopher Robbins
9 months
The BQE is flooded, neighborhoods are flooded, the MTA is literally telling people to not take the train, but New Yorkers have yet to hear from their mayor today
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Christopher Robbins
1 month
FWIW, the same New Yorkers polled in April who said they didn't support congestion pricing, 44 percent (!) also said "I really don't go to Manhattan"
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Christopher Robbins
3 years
This driver took off his license plates so he could park in the bike lane, then screwed them back on when he came out of the store. Whatta town.
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
4 months
New Yorkers use OMNY to get on the bus. MTA cops board, asking everyone for proof of payment. MTA cops fail to verify OMNY payment using gadgets. New Yorkers get kicked off bus. @MaxRivlinNadler has the story (The MTA denies this is even happening)
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
4 months
"We have to push back on this narrative that the city is out of control," @NYCMayor , who is one of the biggest purveyors of this narrative over the last two years, just told reporters
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Christopher Robbins
1 month
Here's the full diner exchange at the end of the press conference, rush transcript from me
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
9 months
If you are sitting in NYC traffic honking your horn repeatedly, you should have to get out of your car, put on a diaper, and poop your pants because you are a little bitty baby who needs his diaper changed wah wah
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
1 year
Those gross viral videos on the subway literally exist to turn our brains into mush, so that we keep staring at the screens when actual ads appear. Whatta town.
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Christopher Robbins
1 year
"He essentially called us petulant children. Called us detached people. But we were protesting him because we're not detached, we're conscious of the things he's doing and how he's harming our city”
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Christopher Robbins
2 years
How badly does @NYCMayor want city office workers back in the office 5 days a week? Workers with cancer and risk of severe COVID are having their hybrid schedule requests denied.
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
2 years
Eric Adams won on a public safety platform. This is public safety
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Jake Offenhartz
2 years
Two teenagers drowned on Rockaway Beach last night, along a stretch of beach that the city has elected not to staff lifeguards at this summer. One witness recalled talking to a victim’s friend, who was frantically searching for a lifeguard
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Christopher Robbins
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@katie_honan @NYPDDCPI @Columbia And here is @NYPDDCPI doing what I did not hear during the press conference, which is confirming that "outside agitators" were in fact arrested inside @Columbia 's Hamilton Hall. No word on how many, or who, or what criteria for "outside agitator" is.
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
2 years
The MTA also loses hundreds of millions of dollars every year to drivers who evade tolls but for some reason the Post et al don't complain about them as much
@RezaC1
Reza Chowdhury
2 years
@errollouis @nypost The MTA states its losing $119M per quarter due to fare evasion. That's $1.32M per day. @ $2.75/ride that's a minimum of 480,808 rides that are not paid for each day. @ 320 summons per day, the chance of getting caught is .0666% for people evading the fare or 1/1503.
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
13 days
At maybe the biggest MTA board meeting in recent memory, while officials are talking about how the congestion pricing pause will hurt the agency, the camera suddenly pans to boardmember and congestion pricing foe David Mack, who appears to be...sleeping?
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
2 months
If the NYPD wanted to be transparent, they would release the body camera footage of the officers who raided Hamilton Hall. Instead, they release this heavily edited footage they added background music to
@NYPDDaughtry
NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry
2 months
Let’s take an inside look at how your @NYPDnews officers safely & professionally restored order at @Columbia & @CityCollegeNY yesterday, after school officials requested our assistance in dispersing unlawful encampments on their campuses & persons barricaded inside their
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
3 years
@petersterne Cop told me they were “looking for anything out of order—tags, window tints”
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Christopher Robbins
1 year
Santos fleeing 100 Centre
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
4 years
A thorough, sickening account of police brutality during the George Floyd protests in NYC. This is what the NYPD and @NYCMayor called "restraint":
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
1 year
FWIW: Late last fall, I asked all five NYC DAs if "organized retail crime" was a problem they've been encountering. Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, said no. (Queens and SI didn't respond)
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Christopher Robbins
6 years
Very happy to report that the digital staff at New York Public Radio, including @Gothamist reporters, are now a part of @sagaftra
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
2 months
This video of @katie_honan debunking @NYPDDCPI 's bike chain claim has been viewed 1 million times
@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
2 months
Here is @katie_honan confronting @NYPDDCPI with evidence that the chain he wielded to imply that “outside agitators” barricaded Hamilton Hall is a common bike lock that @Columbia itself sold to their students
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1 year
A group of NYC Democrats are sponsoring a landlord-backed bill in Albany that would be, in the words of one housing analyst, "a total disaster for rent-stabilized housing"
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Christopher Robbins
1 year
The NYPD's press office can tweet out a photo of a rag stuffed into a Topo Chico bottle but they can't be bothered to assemble any factual details on an SUV that flipped into Riverside Park on a busy spring Saturday
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Christopher Robbins
3 months
Lotta cars parked on City Hall grounds today for the Council’s stated meeting. Took a photo of one with a Blue Lives Matter flag before a member of the security detail told me I couldn’t be there & that “people don’t like it” when you photograph their cars…
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
4 years
> @NYCMayor calling for an "immediate investigation" of the Capitol Police's response to the Trump mob, criticizes leadership. The investigation into his own police department for their treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters took 6 months and no leadership changes were made.
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
“If people are feeling there’s a kind of militarism going on, that’s not acceptable.” — @NYCMayor , 12 hours ago
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Jake Offenhartz
4 years
Riot cops just cleared Washington Square Park, arresting one person because he has a speaker playing Fuck The Police, and swinging batons at a teenager. Because the park closes at midnight
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
"What [Cuomo] should recognize is that this pandemic is not a typical business cycle downturn...If you designed a form of economic punishment to single out working class and poor people and absolve all responsibility of the rich people, this would be it"
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Christopher Robbins
8 months
Notably, @GovKathyHochul did not tell the Buffalo Bills that they needed to "live within their means" when they asked for $1 billion in public subsidies
@JonCampbellNY
Jon Campbell
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"I'm not raising taxes in our budget this year," Hochul told reporters today. "Taxes are high enough in the state of New York, and we have to live within our means."
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Christopher Robbins
2 years
The driver was not given a summons for having an illegal plate. When I asked the NYPD about why they did this, they responded with a basic narrative of what happened, only they referred to the driver as the "victim."
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
5 months
God Smites Remote Learning After Eric Adams Denies NYC Kids a Snow Day
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Christopher Robbins
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Eight months after @NYCMayor talked about a list of haters that keeps in his office, @NYCMayorsOffice now says there is no such list : (
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Christopher Robbins
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How will state lawmakers who oppose congestion pricing raise $1 BN for the MTA? @DavidWeprin : "You'll find out in a week" So, lawmakers are scrapping a plan that had years of public review/debate & replacing it with one hashed out behind closed doors
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Vaughn Golden
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Assemblyman David Weprin says legislature is working on implementing a payroll tax before the end of the week and that there are “other proposals” New Yorkers will “find out about”. Lawmakers are trying to end session for the year by tomorrow…
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
"The governor should be sympathetic to that argument, and he should use that to make the case that the wealthy have an obligation to share in the burden that has been unfairly imposed on minorities and people of color and the poor and the working class."
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Christopher Robbins
2 years
The mountains of garbage bags waiting for collection that clog our curbs and sidewalks and serve as edible yurts for millions of rats are now as much of a NYC institution as the dollar slice and 24-hour subway service. How did this happen?
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
An NYPD undercover accused Jawaun Fraser of stealing his wallet. Fraser, 18, was sent to prison for 2 years. Fraser and his attorneys later found out that his arresting offices had been sued dozens of times for false arrests. @michaelhayes reports:
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Christopher Robbins
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In @UFT 's lawsuit against congestion pricing, they claim that the cost of driving from Staten Island into Lower Manhattan "would increase to approximately $74 a day," including gas, parking, etc. Which is a lot. Except...this is what Staten Island drivers currently pay!
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
4 years
The NYPD Commissioner and the Mayor's Office didn't bother showing up to a City Council hearing on police oversight yesterday. So New Yorkers spent hours testifying about their own experiences with the NYPD. Absolutely scathing account from @macfathom
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Christopher Robbins
2 years
grateful this story was one of our most-read of 2022. look at all these delightful blog posts!
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Christopher Robbins
1 year
None of the powerful leaders who helped block the Fordham Road busway in the Bronx live in the Bronx. Most live in the suburbs. Some have incomes that are 20x the average Bronx bus rider. One apparently has a personal driver.
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Christopher Robbins
1 month
I just asked the @MTA this. They declined to answer and referred all questions to @GovKathyHochul
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Aaron W. Gordon
1 month
The MTA Board cannot back away from Congestion Pricing now. It would violate the 2009 Public Authorities Reform Act that explicitly stated the MTA board is an independent body and should be making all decisions with the MTA's fiscal responsibility its primary concern.
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
Arrests on Broadway
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4 years
YES
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Christopher Robbins
1 year
here's critic @Jo_Livingstone talking about why the New York Times might be running so many stories that elevate anti-trans narratives
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Christopher Robbins
1 year
hey @NYC_DOT @NYCMayor why not do car-free streets every weekend?
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Christopher Robbins
2 years
Cars should have an internal horn in the driver's face that is just as loud or louder than the external horn
@DefectorMedia
Defector
2 years
Should cars have another horn on the back? (No.)
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Christopher Robbins
1 year
All of the requests the MTA received for exemptions/discounts from congestion pricing Number 1: "Artists"
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Christopher Robbins
5 years
I think this is my record for Most Insane Found NYC ATM Receipt
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@ChristRobbins
Christopher Robbins
4 years
> @MikeBloomberg ordered the city's Law Department to fight the federal stop and frisk lawsuit until the day he left office. His press representatives argued it was the right thing to do. Now they're all working on his 2020 campaign
@MikeBloomberg
Mike Bloomberg
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I have apologized for taking too long to understand the impact of stop and frisk on Black and Latino communities. I inherited stop and frisk. In an effort to stop gun violence, it was overused. I cut it back by 95%. I should have cut it back sooner.
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Christopher Robbins
1 year
The anti-congestion pricing protest at the base of the Queensboro Bridge has been taken over by this crew
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Christopher Robbins
5 years
Asked if NYC keeps any data to show that throttle e-bikes favored by immigrant delivery cyclists are more dangerous than pedal-assist used by Amazon and others, @NYCMayor says "I've got something better than data. Common sense." #bikenyc
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Christopher Robbins
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NY lawmakers, for 9 hours: Here's data showing that bail reform had no real impact on crime. Lobbyist for prosecutors: "You cannot deny that the release of hundreds of car thieves, burglars, drug dealers...had an obvious impact on crime in New York."
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
This is a mayor who was elected on a platform of reforming the NYPD, making it more accountable and transparent, gaslighting the public about what is happening on the streets of his city
@jangelooff
Jake Offenhartz
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Brian Lehrer describes police violence this week, and asks @NYCMayor : Do you acknowledge that those things happened and say the NYPD acted wrongly? "I don’t have information that tells me that." De Blasio has this info because his press secretary witnessed it. He's lying, again
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Christopher Robbins
4 months
Nothing to see here, just the former chief of staff to @NYCMayor living part-time at a 5-star resort in Florida, eating caviar for breakfast, vibing with the mayor's criminal defense attorney at Cipriani
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Christopher Robbins
3 months
Dog more scared of @nycemergencymgt phone alert 20 minutes after the earthquake than the actual earthquake
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Christopher Robbins
5 years
@SofiaBNewman hi Sofia, I'm a reporter with Gothamist. When you get a minute, could I ask you a question or two about this? chris @gothamist .com
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Christopher Robbins
2 years
There’s still no bus lane to get Q70 passengers to La Guardia faster but there is this
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
We’re in the East Village, 2nd Ave and 11th
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
"One of the Crown Heights tenants, who asked that her name not be published, said she was recovering from emergency brain surgery when the landlord and maintenance worker barged into her room."
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Christopher Robbins
2 years
I'm thrilled to launch a journalist-owned publication with a group of terrific reporters who are also wonderful human beings
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
Manhattan
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Christopher Robbins
3 years
We were supposed to be three months into NYC congestion pricing. Instead...
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
Reminder: the NYPD hosted one of these large indoor gatherings a few weeks ago
@erinmdurkin
Erin Durkin
4 years
The sheriff's office and NYPD will be cracking down in large indoor gatherings, @BilldeBlasio says
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
Joel Rivera, a Black trans organizer who has been leading these marches for weeks, was arrested last night and lost her shoes. She said the NYPD offered her manila envelopes. Rivera was released early Friday with a ticket for possessing a bullhorn
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Christopher Robbins
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"We're debasing ourselves as a legislative body to provide cover to a clueless governor," one source in the Assembly told Hell Gate. "Congestion pricing is a law and you can’t just ignore it because a poll made you nervous. What are we even doing here?"
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Christopher Robbins
7 months
ICYMI: here is the resume submitted to @NYCMayor from the owner of Zero Bond, to be considered for a position on the Met Board.
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Christopher Robbins
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ICYMI: In 5 days, the Adams administration is going to replace an award-winning community composting site with a parking lot
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Christopher Robbins
5 years
"Asked whether the person had been charged, a police spokesperson responded: 'It's not a crime to open your car door.' The spokesperson later clarified they were 'joking around.'" #VisionZero #bikenyc
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Christopher Robbins
4 years
> @NYGovCuomo has been governor of the state of New York for nine years
@JimmyVielkind
Jimmy Vielkind
4 years
As always, @NYGovCuomo wants to channel protests into action. Here is his “positive reform agenda”
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