Gwynne Hogan
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Reporter covering Brooklyn for @THECITYNY. Past lives at @wnyc/ @gothamist, DNAinfo NY. @newmarkjschool alum - DMs open. Email: [email protected]
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Joined September 2012
Assemblywoman Diana Richardson says she was pepper sprayed while peacefully protesting in Barclays plaza #GeorgeFloyd
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Here’s Full video of Assemblywoman Diana Richardson speaking Earlier outside Barclays Center.
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SCOOP: An NYPD officer fired their gun inside Hamilton Hall during the Columbia raid on Tuesday, Manhattan DA confirms.
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Neely's father Andre Zachery speaks to reporters saying he misses his son. "The system is rigged," he says.
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In the building where I'm currently blocked in by police, they won't let me out despite showing many of them my NYPD press pass, students chant as more are lead away in zip ties who'd been blocking "Hinds Hall"
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Row of students link arms and sing in front of "Hinds Hall," as police surround campus, still quiet inside.
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NYPD making aggressive arrests of Black Lives Matter demonstrators near City Hall, just now. It's MLK day.
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Goood morning NYC, back at #OccupyCityHallNYC where dozens of NYPD have lined up adjacent to occupied public plaza. Mood is tense.
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Bus driver Yasmin Rowe honks in support, says she was we thankful to the @TWULocal100 refused to transport protesters last night. “We don’t work for the NYPD,” she said.
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I was denied entry at both gates after showing press credentials, begged with guards about the merits of 1st amendment , called a bunch of numbers which nobody answered, had my boss do the same, but ended up having to find my own way in, hopefully that won't happen again!.
Columbia Journalism School is committed to a free press. If you are a credentialed member of the media and have been denied access to campus, please send us a DM. We will facilitate access to campus.
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Behold the NYPDs brand new Game Truck, coming soon to a block near you. Bunch of video game consoles inside.
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As city officials urged New Yorkers to stay home in pummeling rains, migrants whose 60-days had run out were still forced out of a Bushwick shelter, just the same. "Give us until the morning. But no. We were here for 2 months, why not one more night?”.
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"Shoot Those Motherfuckers,” and “Run Them Over” Overheard On NYPD Scanner During Monday Night’s Protests via @gothamist.
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arrests begin, starting with line of faculty who had been protecting students
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Many police officers without masks, these protesters asked if they wanted extra but officers said no. All protesters I’ve seen have masks on.
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The NYPD is now confirming the shooting during the Hamilton Hall raid at Columbia occurred, two days and countless media appearances later, where no mention of it was made. Their full statement below: .
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Karen Flaherty is dressed for a funeral, says the acquittal was the last nail in the coffin.
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PEople are rattled but still don’t see any minor injuries, and most were able to Jump out of way, people still marching now.
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it’s calm for a bit, then police press up onto sidewalk, seems like to get a kid who is flying a drone, but hard to say; the drone is circling overhead.
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Asked what he would say to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Smalls says, “We wanna thank Jeff Bezos, cause while he was up in space we was signing people up.”.
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Outside Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn nurses are demanding more personal protective equipment.
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"This is not the ebola virus," Cuomo says, adding the panic is unwarranted, "only 8 of the 142 were hospitalized. the others are at home like they have the flu.".
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Just a few sidewalk trash cans of raw meat to start the day.
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Lots of body cameras are not blinking tonight. Ie they are not turned on.
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Police now have riot shields, something like milk splashed on police
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Outside PS 17 in Williamsburg, kids chant, “we support asylum seekers but not on school grounds.”
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marchers begin to retreat, corrections buses lines up beside them someone throws something behind and crowd chants No NO NO
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Protesters gathered in Tompkins Square calling for an end to Mayor Eric Adams’s homeless encampment sweeps. One activist says he went into the shelters for a few nights to understand why no one in the park will go in one - “I wouldn’t wish that shit on my worst enemy,” he said.
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Elbert Powers helped convince marchers to retreat instead of rush the barricade, says he’s tired of seen people killed.
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Got muted immediately after asking why @NYGovCuomo leaked Boylan's personnel records and reportedly circulated a letter saying she was backed by Trump supporters, @JonCampbellGAN did you get muted? Governors office had said they would start allowing us follow up questions. .
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Seems like the truce to pass through into Manhattan is off.
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Another was pinned to ground with arms behind her back, she’s up now and was put in police van.
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View from Williamsburg bridge, FDR is at a full standstill, multiple cars trapped in oily waters.
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Police now trying to clear the public plaza threatening arrests of those who don’t leave.
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Black lives matter marchers gathering now in Times Square to mourn killing of Daniel Prude in Rochester, they’re met by counter protesters.
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Outside the Sheraton in Midtown where homeless men are being moved out after a year, some got notice last night, “I’m trying not to cry,” one man tells me.
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Anyone else feel like their brain is melting out of their ears?
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It's my last week at WNYC and Gothamist. For 6+ years, I had a front row seat watching New Yorkers in some of their darkest and brightest moments, through fires, floods, outbreaks, and uprisings. So grateful I got to witness, and to share your stories with listeners all over.
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Mourners chanting O’Shae Sibley’s name, emerge from a vigil in Chelsea.
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very tense as protesters arrive on steps of Tweed Courthouse
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officer is thanking people for remaining peaceful, fist bumps a marcher.
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It’s official, Amazon has its first unionized warehouse in the company’s history. “Today the people have spoken, and the people wanted a union,” Chris Smalls says.
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police bring bikes up onto plaza to push protesters in onto Flatbush Ave
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Dep. Commissioner of Public Information for NYPD Tarik Sheppard says, "there has been no credible threats to any particular group, or individual coming from this protest or any other.".
Watch as NYPD executives make a law enforcement announcement updating the media on ongoing protests.
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Chants of “I don’t see no riot here, why you got that riot gear”
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Sanitation workers arrived to clear an East Village encampment, now police have arrived and the street has been blocked off. Activists and NYCLU here keeping watch.
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Plaza almost entirely cleared, but he ring of people protecting the encampment also getting taken away in zip ties.
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Police are making the guy with the big Trump flag cross the street apart from anti-Trump protesters.
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“What would it take to get you off the streets, an outreach worker ahead of a line of police officers attempting to clear the encampment, “housing!” She shouts “we need housing.”
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NYPD confirms they gave the man seen getting jumped by the Guardian Angels on live camera a summons for dis con. for trying to disrupt a live broadcast. No shoplifting charge, as Sliwa claims.
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“This is not fucking Propsect Lefferts Gardens, this is fucking Flatbush,” speaker says.
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.@NYPDnews commissioner Dermot Shea now describing the officer who broke a young woman’s arm who was cursing him off. “Boy, that was an amazing amount of restraint.”.
Spitting "Agitator" Says NYPD Broke Her Arm During Protest Crackdown, As Mayor Insists Police Are De-Escalating via @gothamist.
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Happens again around the corner, some try to pull the boards of a store, another intervenes with a fire extinguisher, and they put their bodies in front of the store to protect it. “This is not the fight,” one chants.
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Scoop: With Surge In Number Of New Yorkers Dying At Home, Officials Suspect Undercount of COVID-19 Related Deaths via @gothamist.
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Check. Out. This. Pantsuit: Woman Dressed as 1990s Hillary Clinton Votes in Greenpoint
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Two groups of pro and anti Trump demonstrators, there’s name calling in both sides like, “we say guilty,” “go to Venezuela, leave” “he’s your president bitch,”
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They just arrested a photographer Stephanie Keith and are taking her into police van.
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Hit me up with all your Brooklyn musings, no tip is too small or too big! Ghogan@thecity.nyc.
1/ @THECITYNY is thrilled to announce that Gwynne Hogan (@GwynneFitz) will join our newsroom’s borough reporting team and cover Brooklyn.
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The Manhattan DA has dropped the felony burglary charges against seven CUNY staff and students who were arrested inside a campus building they briefly occupied.
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crazy gig alert 🚨 ‼️.
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“Sage’em our girl, sage em. get them evil spirits out,” a lady on her stoop chants in support of this demonstrator who is smudging sage at police
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Police and sanitation clearing an encampment under BQE in Williamsburg, CO of the 9th Kathleen Fahey tells me it’s part of mayors new initiative, announced over the weekend.
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This stay tuned episode where @PreetBharara and @NinaTotenberg talk about how she broke Anita Hill story is straight journalism 💥💥🔥🔥fire.
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And @Dianne4NYC in the crowd.
At Barclays, @mayawiley has taken the mic, pledging to take a billion dollars out of the NYPD budget. She’s shouted down by someone in an ACAB t-shirt: “George Floyd did not die so you could be elected. That’s fucking shameful. Abolition and nothing less.”.
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In Newark, activists are protesting @vmas and Mayor Ras Baraka’s handling of city’s water crisis.
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Reporters told to back up or risk arrest, police dismantling the tent encampment now, more arrests.
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While students pray at one end of the plaza police enter through back entrance LRAD plays while line of faculty hold a line.
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More arrests as police in riot gear move into the plaza.
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Stand-off ends for now, rest of crowd are now marching south.
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With 142 COVID-19 cases statewide, Cuomo says. "well actually that puts us ahead of Washington.".
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Very humbled to be named @NYNewswomen journo of the year, feeling immensely grateful to all the hundreds of people who've shared their stories with me over the course of the year, often in the most difficult of circumstances, and also that the work found a home at @THECITYNY.
The Newswomen’s Club of New York Announces 2023 Front Page Award Winners.The Front Page Awards, presented since 1937 by the Newswomen’s Club of New York, recognizes journalistic excellence among women. Link in bio for winners and ticket sales!
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“A lot us might get hurt,” says organizer talking to the row of white people who’ve been marshaled to the front.
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Lenny, the first voter of the day walking out of this polling place on the Lower East Side, says he voted for @yuhline bc he likes how she represented him in the assembly. Second voter of the day went with @MondaireJones. Anything could happen folks!
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Protesters gathering for Jordan Neely on the Broadway Lafayette platform a week after his killing here.
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