Dana Rubinstein
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Reporter at The New York Times. Drop me a line here: [email protected]. You can also find me here: https://t.co/N9EHOVWaD8
New York, NY
Joined November 2009
"The Capitol Police made more arrests on each of the first three days of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in September, 2018, than they did yesterday."
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Queens Republican district leader arrested for taking part in U.S. Capitol siege: feds
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"I'm Gandhi-like. I think like Gandhi. I act like Gandhi. I want to be like Gandhi." - @nycmayor, at his flag-raising for India (his 44th)
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"He called the Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, who is Black, 'a gap-toothed wildebeest' and referred to former President Barack Obama as a 'Muslim savage.'".
Exclusive: A top NYPD official was accused of posting racist comments online. And not just any official: He runs the office combating workplace harassment. By @WRashbaum.@alanfeuer .
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Amid a spike in Covid cases in NYC, @nycmayor today announced "the lifting of the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for New York City public school proms.".
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Inbox: Yang has filed to open a campaign account for mayor, which will enable him to raise money — and spend it.
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"More recently, in December, Mr. Cruz had attacked a Democrat, Mayor Stephen Adler of Austin, for taking a trip to Cabo while telling constituents to 'stay home' during the pandemic."
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It has been 58 days since NYC saw a pedestrian fatality -- the longest time without one since since the city began tracking in 1983, per testimony of DOT Commish Polly Trottenberg just now.
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As of today, 75 percent of all adults in NYC have received at least one dose of the vaccine, de Blasio announces today.
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On NY1 this morning, the mayor is again refusing to say precisely how many protestors he believed to be "outside agitators." Is it half the protestors? It is a quarter? @patkiernan asks. "Pat, I don't think that matters," @nycmayor says.
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Columbia University, which has a $14B endowment, gives the neighboring Morningside Park. "about $2,500 a year in contributions"
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"the Veterans Administration plans to offer counseling to Afghanistan vets who will experience the trauma of losing their Afghan comrades to beheading by the Taliban."
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"Fuck you asshole," says a passerby to @NYCMayor, in addition to some other indecipherable stuff, at this morning's availability. He responds: "She said I'm messing with homeless people, you know that? One should be happy if someone wants to make love to them.".
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"If anyone was caught off guard," they had to have been living "under a rock," says @nycmayor on 1010 WINS, in response to criticism that he failed to communicate effectively with the public in advance of the storm.
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"They left one prisoner strapped to the gurney while lawyers worked to remove a court order. They executed a second prisoner while an appeal was still pending. They hired private executioners and paid them in cash."
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Does the NYPD's unwillingness to wear masks, despite the mayor's insistence that they must, indicate the NYPD doesn't respect the will of the mayor?, asks a Reuters reporter.
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As we drove through the Hugh Carey tunnel onto the FDR last night, the following question occurred to me: Are any major pieces of infrastructure in NYC named for women? No, right?.
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"'You’re writing me a ticket for what? You cannot have a playground and not have bathrooms.’”
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"I'm immune to hecklers," says the mayor, who does not appear to be all that immune to hecklers. "All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success".
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Not sure I've ever seen a more scathing comment from the normally staid Independent Budget Office
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They already do in NYC. .
I think teachers should be given preference for the vaccine if it helps us reopen schools more quickly.
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"If the governor’s unilateral action controls the MTA, what is the point of having a fiduciary board at all? That may be the real $15 billion dollar question."
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"God could not immediately be reached for comment."
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"We're ready and you should be as well," says @nycmayor at 11:43 a.m., many hours after the deluge began.
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New York City reports no protest-related upticks in Covid-19
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On CNN this morning, Kathy Hochul promises to sit down with the mayor of New York City, incoming and outgoing, to collaborate on Covid-19 response (which would be a change from the current dynamic).
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"But the weathered photo of Officer Venable had not actually spent decades in the mayor’s wallet. It had been created by employees in the mayor’s office in the days after Mr. Adams claimed to have been carrying it in his wallet." Amazing story by @emmagf
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“According to an email obtained by Gothamist, the city’s human resources department waited until noon to let city employees know that their agencies may in some cases allow them to work from home.”
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New York City has lost someone who loved it dearly and understood it well.
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"Keep looking over your shoulder" - patrolmen's union to the deputy majority leader of the NY state senate.
Keep looking over your shoulder, Mike. You had to bring in your billionaire buddies and your Pres/VP candidates to barely squeak by. How much did you spend per vote? And how much will you have to spend after voters suffer through 2 more years in #NoBailNY?.
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"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has turned down tribal epidemiologists’ requests for data that it’s making freely available to states."
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LIVE: Kathryn Garcia was able to narrow the gap so substantially with Eric Adams because more of Maya Wiley's votes went to Garcia, after Wiley was eliminated -- in this still-PRELIMINARY ranked-choice tabulation, which does not yet include thousands of absentee ballots.
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109 - the number of MTA workers who have died from Covid, MTA chairman Pat Foye just announced. Vast, vast majority work in the subways and bus divisions.
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"As reported by Suetonius, the Michael Wolff of ancient Rome, he never forgot a slight, slept only a few hours a night and married several times, lastly to a woman named Milonia."
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Last night, the governor and MTA warned New Yorkers about these floods. Has the mayor spoken yet?.
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Three percent of New Yorkers tested for coronavirus are now testing positive, Mayor de Blasio says, up from 1 percent a day or two ago.
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After ten years, it looks like the city might finally be getting a professional soccer stadium, with @el_belson
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"They made a list of more than 30 celebrities including Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift & Billy Joel to appear in their ad campaign to 'inspire hope' about coronavirus, but they ended up with only Dennis Quaid, CeCe Winans & Hasidic singer Shulem Lemmer."
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“I wasn't actively involved in local politics and I was living in New York, and as you know, New York is so blue that there isn’t that much to be engaged with, politically,” Yang said.
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Quietly released on Trump day.
NEW: @NYCMayor is ordering most city agencies to slash their budgets by another 4% on top of his two belt-tightening directives from last year. “I know that achieving this. will not be easy,” Adams’ budget chief wrote in a letter to agency heads today.
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The first donor to Lis Smith's Comeback PAC for Andrew Yang is Jeff Yass, a billionaire and (disenchanted) Republican donor out of PA. He gave $500K. (:
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"Attorney General Letitia James gets the highest approval of any elected official in New York, with 61 percent of voters approving"
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And the first speaker at the mayor's Juneteenth celebration after the National Anthem is. Jenifer Rajkumar:
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Yang, who has run what is arguably the most active in-person mayoral campaign in NYC, has Covid
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I wonder if City Hall ever hired that 'extreme weather coordinator' they promised to in 2021, after Hurricane Ida:
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During a speech on women's health this morning, @nycmayor says New Yorkers are too afraid of saying the word "vagina".
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Eric Adams is his own favorite NYC author, and Malcolm Gladwell
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“We have no minimum standards whatsoever, no medical services, no recreation, no religious services or law and library services,” one detainee, Reginald Wiggins, 58, said. “We have not had an officer on this unit in three weeks. I am in fear of my life.”
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After Asking Americans to Sacrifice in Shutdown, Leaders Failed to Control Virus
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"This wonderful, beautiful, grand democracy" extolled by second graders, "but not by some here" - Schumer.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo is holding a press conference in NYC, apparently about NYC, without the NYC mayor.
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The Board of Elections appears to h ave taken down its ranked-choice tabulations from earlier today
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"It was an effective, important program." -- Bill de Blasio, confirming that he is cutting $65 million from Fair Fares.
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Part of me has begun to wonder if the mayor is auditioning for a post-mayoral gig on MSNBC
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Man surrounded by cacti in undisclosed location that bears no resemblance to NYC delivers lecture about crime in NYC to Breitbart readers.
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“Rachel Atcheson, a close adviser, told me, without complaint, that under Adams’s influence she now sleeps with her mouth taped shut, “in order to force myself to breathe through my nose.””
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A timely discussion, from Jim Dwyer’s Subway Lives
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On CBS, Kathy Hochul says her lieutenant governor will definitely be from New York City, and she'll announce it after she becomes governor (on August 24).
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"You cannot demonize dissension" say Andrew Cuomo, who drummed Andy Byford out of office because he dared to differ with him.
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“We were many before the rubber tappers and the prospectors came to kill all the Juma people. Back then, the Juma were happy. Now there is only me.”
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In which the NYPD -- on its official account -- again lobs personal attacks against a member of the NYC press corps.
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My favorite thing about NYC Health and Hospitals chief executive Mitch Katz's frequent Zoom appearances is his apparently deep-seated interest in death
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Today, @andrewyang proposed free subway fares for Memorial Day week, as a way to boost the economy. He didn't reach out to the MTA beforehand, according to the MTA, whose response was not particularly positive.
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The mayor will announce that that NYPD will start enforcing the subway's code of conduct — no longer will open drug use, smoking, sleeping, or aggressive behavior will be allowed.
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“The reality is people have always lived in basement apartments in New York City. They will continue to live in them unless we can wave a magic wand and put over 100,000 units online tomorrow.”
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It’s often said that one has to separate church from state, says the mayor's closest adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, at the New York Public Library today. "We have an administration that doesn’t believe in that. [The mayor] is definitely one of the chosen.".
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The mayor and the transportation commissioner, who have the power to dramatically improve bus speeds in NYC, are appearing at a rally calling for faster bus speeds
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Federal prosecutors investigating Mayor Eric Adams and his campaign’s ties to Turkey issued subpoenas in July for records related to 5 other countries. w/ @WRashbaum @mrothfeld
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"I looked at the video. And someone needs to remind former Mayor Giuliani that falsely reporting a crime is crime," @nycmayor to @michaelgartland, about @RudyGiuliani's claim he was attacked on Sunday.
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The Whitestone Republican Club, unbowed — and apparently of the belief that those who abide by public health protocols during a historic pandemic are "paranoid zombies in hazmat suits"
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Kathy Hochul, Cuomo’s No. 2, Quietly Prepares to Step Into the Limelight
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"Since 2016, it has been legal for. Barcelona, to take control of properties that have been left without tenants for more than two years. The cities can then rent them as affordable housing for a period of between four and ten years." via @citylab.
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"One path was made by someone walking in a straight line for a mile and a half. Another shows a mother setting her baby down on the ground. Other tracks were made by children."
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"A woman is now in critical condition after being shot in the chest on Capitol grounds"-CNN reporter.
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"The invaders may be full of contempt for a system that they think doesn’t represent them, but on Wednesday they managed to prove that it does.".
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There are whales off Rockaway today. And all is not lost with the world.
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"'No mayor in the history of this city has been accessible, more approachable, more on the ground than I have,' Adams said recently, which every political reporter in New York knows to be untrue." - @errollouis .
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The Working Families Party calls on @NYGovCuomo to resign, citing his "reign of fear, harassment, and intimidation"
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“How can you think of punishing someone with prison for telling the truth? Polish prosecutors do not punish antisemitic views but will punish a journalist? It’s crazy.”
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"The memo appeared to be a dagger aimed squarely at New York" (Imagine hating your birthplace so much)
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"Next week, the vaccine will be here in New York City," de Blasio says.
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“I asked them to please take my son off the ground,” she said. “He’s been there since 1:47 this afternoon.”
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In which the official voice of the nation's largest municipal police department uses its social media to denigrate one of New York City's finest reporters.
We thank @NYDailyNews for correcting the record. The men and women of the NYPD work tirelessly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 12 months a year to protect the City of New York. It is a shame that Harry "Deceitful" Siegel refuses to recognize that.
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The mayor goes on to say "One professor poisoning a classroom of students" is just as bad as 50.
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"Good morning, Mr. Mayor. I hope you're doing better than your Red Sox." - reporter to de Blasio.
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sources: WFP endorsing all three candidates considered palatable to progressives: First, Scott Stringer, second, Dianne Morales, third, Maya Wiley.
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I still don't understand why the argument against indoor dining in restaurants doesn't also apply to indoor lunch-eating in schools.
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Our kids "start their day going to the corner bodega buying cannabis and fentanyl and sit in the classroom and try to learn," says @NYCMayor (reprising a talking point from Tuesday, which @ChristRobbins handily disputed .
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