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Maya Kaufman

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New York health care reporter @POLITICO . Send tips to mkaufman @politico .com. Instagram/Threads: mayabkaufman. DM for Signal.🕵🏻

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@mayakauf
Maya Kaufman
2 years
NEW: There are 1,000+ people on waiting lists for community-based programs catering to people with serious mental illness, per data I obtained. @NYCMayor , who issued a major mental health plan yesterday, told us he was unaware of the waitlists.
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Voters camped out last night to be the first to vote early today. Photo taken at 1:00 a.m. at Shenandoah Park. @MiamiHerald
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
BREAKING NEWS: Over 7,000 nurses across the Bronx and Manhattan will go on strike today after failing to reach agreements during overnight bargaining with Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center. @nynurses posted this on Instagram. #NYCNurseStrike
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2 years
Career news! 📢 I'm thrilled to be joining @politico @politicony to cover health care in New York. Today is my first day, so please help me celebrate by sending a story tip, leaking some documents or just saying hello: mkaufman(@)politico(.)com #MedTwitter #NurseTwitter
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Maya Kaufman
5 months
New York’s hottest club is the online earthquake discourse
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
EXCLUSIVE: Videos obtained by Patch show the moment two @NYCDHS police officers handcuffed, detained and searched a Queens man after he photographed them without masks, in what their own agency has called an "absolutely unacceptable abuse of authority."
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4 years
Huge if true. Working to independently confirm.
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Maya Kaufman
3 years
A professional news update: After two years reporting on the wonderful borough of Queens, tomorrow is my last day at Patch. I’m joining @CrainsNewYork to cover health care in New York City, starting later this month.
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
Astoria's 46th Street subway station has a new look in honor of Joe Biden's presidential inauguration today, courtesy of the artist @plannedalism .
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
In 2020, the city gave thousands of elderly NYCHA residents a free A/C. Last month NYCHA demanded they agree to start paying utilities or give back the A/Cs — otherwise, they could be evicted. Once @politicony started asking questions, NYCHA backtracked.
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@mayakauf
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1 year
SCOOP: An arbitrator has hit Mount Sinai with a $127,000 penalty for understaffing its neonatal ICU, which handles extremely sick babies. It’s a historic ruling in NYC, where @nynurses won strict staff ratios and enforcement measures after a 3-day strike.
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@mayakauf
Maya Kaufman
4 years
Article on coronavirus in Manhattan accompanied by a photo taken in Flushing, Queens.
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New York Post
4 years
First case of coronavirus confirmed in Manhattan
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1 year
When @CDCDirector was in Harlem last week, I asked if she plans to take action regarding ventilation as a #COVID19 protection now that cases are again rising, noting that she focuses on individual measures like masking and testing. Here's a transcript from our interview:
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@CDCDirector
Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH
1 year
Your questions on COVID answered! Here's what we know about #COVID19 right now and how to keep you and your family protected. ⬇️
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
I spent 6 months investigating systemic failures to help unhoused New Yorkers with serious mental illness—a small but disproportionately visible share of the homeless population. These are some of the Qs I have about @NYCMayor ’s directive today re: involuntary hospitalization.
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
Issuing a directive to transport more seriously mentally ill people to hospitals for evaluations, @NYCMayor said hospitals should stabilize patients then help them transition to community-based programs. But the data I obtained shows there is already way more demand than supply.
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Maya Kaufman
4 months
Yikes! New York City is seeing an uptick in cases of a disease largely associated with exposure to rat urine, per this @nycHealthy advisory that went out today.
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
ICYMI: When @NYCMayor rolled out a directive to involuntarily hospitalize people unable to meet basic needs due to mental illness, he touted a hotline NYPD officers could call for real-time guidance from mental health professionals. It’s gotten 0 calls.
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
[THREAD] For this story I spoke to more than 50 providers, advocates, academic experts, current and former officials, and New Yorkers who are currently or were recently homeless and have a serious mental illness. I also shadowed providers in the field. Here's what I found...
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
NEW: Two men, two decades apart. Two fatal shoves onto the subway tracks. Both were homeless, living with serious mental illness. Both had countless people try to help them. My investigation into New York's continuing failures to help its most vulnerable.
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Nick Pinto
3 months
You'd think something as basic as NYPD clearance rates—how often the cops actually make an arrest for a reported crime— would be easy to come by, especially since it's legally required to post quarterly reports. And yet... (Thx @JoyBergmann for the tip.)
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
Outside Mount Sinai Hospital, New York Attorney General @TishJames calls for @HealthNYGov to enforce the 2021 state law on hospital staffing. (Hospitals submitted staffing plans last year under this law.)
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@mayakauf
Maya Kaufman
2 years
Some career news: Wednesday is my last day at @CrainsNewYork . 💥🚨 I can't yet share where I'm headed, but I'll be taking on a new journalism job in the New Year after some much-needed time off ... so keep in touch!
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Maya Kaufman
5 years
This just in! 🚨 I am an official newslady with my first official NYC press pass.
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
SCOOP: When Mayor Eric Adams announced a directive to involuntarily hospitalize people unable to meet basic needs due to mental illness, he touted a 24/7 city-run hotline NYPD officers could call for guidance. It launched in January. But no one's used it.
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
Last year @NYCMayor said police would get "in-depth" training on his controversial directive to involuntarily commit people unable to meet their basic needs due to mental illness. Here's what the training actually is: A 15-min Powerpoint and 9-min video.
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Maya Kaufman
4 months
In other words, the NYPD press shop is significantly larger than most (if not all) of the local newsrooms that cover New York City.
@C_Sommerfeldt
Chris Sommerfeldt
4 months
@NYPDChiefPatrol DCPI has 86 staffers, NYPD officials at this hearing testify. Six of those individuals are assigned to handle the department's social media accounts, they say.
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
NEW: I investigated 25 years of hospital closures in NYC w/ @_gski . What we found: Closures disproportionately impacted areas that tend to bear the highest burdens of disease: poorer neighborhoods where the majority of residents are people of color.
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
NEW: Two men, two decades apart. Two fatal shoves onto the subway tracks. Both were homeless, living with serious mental illness. Both had countless people try to help them. My investigation into New York's continuing failures to help its most vulnerable.
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
ICYMI: The New York City Housing Authority threatened to evict tenants who received a free air conditioner under a 2020 city program unless they asked to have it removed or agreed to start paying monthly utility costs.
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Maya Kaufman
5 years
Let's turn away from the #QueensDA race for a second. Preliminary results for Queens civil court judge show @MaldonadoCruz19 has 62% of the vote against Wyatt Gibbons, the Queens Democratic Party's pick, in Queens' first contested civil judge election in *decades*
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
STRIKE UPDATE: Mount Sinai Hospital management agreed to come back to the bargaining table with @nynurses this afternoon after two days without negotiation sessions. NYSNA is also still negotiating with Montefiore and Mount Sinai Morningside and West.
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
Montefiore is reassigning @1199SEIU nurses from other locations to fill in for @nynurses who are on strike. A lawyer representing 1199 said that violates the union’s collective bargaining agreement with Montefiore. #NYCNurseStrike
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Maya Kaufman
5 years
A driver ran a stop sign and crashed into a cyclist riding along Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills this week, then got off scot-free, the cyclist says. And the whole thing was caught on video. #VisionZero
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Maya Kaufman
11 months
This is really important to note. The NYC Department of Health declined my requests to interview @NYCHealthCommr or an official from its TB control bureau for this story. In fact, the director of TB control emailed staff telling them *not* to respond to POLITICO's inquiries.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD
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NYC health dept employees "who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly." TB outbreak is worrying but so is the fact that our health officials are muzzled about it.
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Maya Kaufman
11 months
Meanwhile, tuberculosis cases in New York City are up 20% from the same time last year — putting 2023 on pace to be the city's worst year in a decade. As one expert told me, infectious disease spikes in NYC tend to be a bellwether for the rest of the U.S.
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
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A vaccine against tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, has never been closer to reality, and could save millions. But its development slowed after its corporate owner focused on more profitable vaccines
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
I appreciate a good Queens meme 😅 h/t @_mbiq
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
SCOOP: Elmhurst Hospital is already struggling to keep up with the COVID-19 pandemic, even though officials say the peak of the crisis has yet to arrive. Running at over 125% capacity, it's become the municipal hospital system's top priority.
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
The city's redesign of Queens Boulevard
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
NEW: Hundreds of students and alums from Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens are coming forward with stories of racist rhetoric by teachers & students that has been continually swept under the rug. For this story, I spoke to more than 20 of them.
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
“At a minimum, Adams should order a review of all the city agencies that interacted with Neely over the years… And then all of these officials should make the city’s $107 billion budget conform to the level of need.” ⁦ @errollouis
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
NEW: Rego Park residents are being terrorized by aggressive squirrels. At least 5 have been attacked. One woman went to the hospital after a squirrel attack so violent it left her arms and hands covered with bites and her snowy front yard soaked in blood.
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
BREAKING: NYSNA @nynurses has reached tentative agreements with @MaimoHealth and @RUMCSI . @nyphospital nurses have already started voting on their tentative agreement.
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
Maybe it would more easily recognize cones 😏
@nypost
New York Post
4 years
Ice cream truck keeps plowing into NYC street barrier
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Maya Kaufman
6 years
Here’s @dannyoconnor1 speaking on voter turnout. He’s going to have to keep campaigning for November’s midterms regardless of the results today - he called it like March Madness. @DispatchAlerts #OH12
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Maya Kaufman
5 years
SCOOP: Sen. @jessicaramos is spearheading an initiative with the MTA to get street vendors into empty storefronts in subway stations. A pilot will likely start with Corona vendors. More details to come.
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
NEWS: A patient of Montefiore's Family Health Center was found dead in the building's stairwell Monday. She'd been there for days. Current and former employees blamed a recent clinic consolidation, which they said has strained the center's capacity.
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Maya Kaufman
4 months
News🚨via today's afternoon Playbook: New York hospitals will be required to waive charges for patients who earn 200% or less of the federal poverty level, thanks to a new policy in the state budget being finalized now.
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Maya Kaufman
11 months
NEWS: Widespread vacancies and years of budget cuts have strained the capacity of NYC's tuberculosis control bureau. Meanwhile, cases are up 20% from the same time last year, per internal data. That rate would make 2023 the city's worst year in a decade.
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
SCOOP: @MontefioreNYC involuntarily reassigned @1199SEIU nurses from other locations to fill in for NYSNA nurses that are on strike, per letter I obtained. 1199SEIU's general counsel has sent Montefiore a cease-and-desist letter.
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
NEW: The Citi Field coronavirus vaccination site, whose opening was postponed due to supply shortage, will open Wednesday. -Half of doses will be reserved for eligible Queens residents -Half will be reserved for food delivery workers, TLC-licensed drivers
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
Breaking: New York state officials will allow masking requirements in health care facilities to lapse on Feb. 12, signaling an end to one of New York’s last remaining Covid-era requirements. @politicony
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
SCOOP: @nyphospital has suddenly hiked health insurance premiums to $1,500+ per month for retired @nynurses who are too young for Medicare. NYSNA claims the hospital is violating the union's new contract, which nurses ratified just this month.
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Maya Kaufman
5 years
Cool story, but seems familiar! I wonder if a local news outlet reported it a few weeks ago 🙃🤔
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
Someone just commented "the media needs to be contacted" on one of my news articles. 🙃
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Maya Kaufman
5 years
A new documentary by @soledadobrien follows CUNY college students as they "navigate financial hardship, housing insecurity and hunger in pursuit of their degrees." @MichaelElsenRoo
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@mayakauf
Maya Kaufman
5 months
A burst appendix. Gangrene. A gastrointestinal bleed. Mount Sinai Beth Israel keeps transferring out seriously ill patients with potentially life-threatening conditions who need procedures it no longer provides, frontline workers told me.
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
Updates: - @NYCHealthSystem requiring masks - @nyulangone won't require masks (exceptions: EDs, infusion areas, rooms marked as having immunocompromised patients), but staff who are unvaccinated or test (+) for Covid will have to mask - @MountSinaiNYC requiring visitors to mask
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
Breaking: New York state officials will allow masking requirements in health care facilities to lapse on Feb. 12, signaling an end to one of New York’s last remaining Covid-era requirements. @politicony
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
On assignment in Howard Beach, Queens — a great opportunity to finally try New Park Pizza. 😋
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Maya Kaufman
3 years
Today is my first day covering health care at @CrainsNewYork ! Please send story ideas, pitches and reading recommendations to maya.kaufman @crainsnewyork .com
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Maya Kaufman
3 years
A professional news update: After two years reporting on the wonderful borough of Queens, tomorrow is my last day at Patch. I’m joining @CrainsNewYork to cover health care in New York City, starting later this month.
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
This is New York City's health care system... I reached out to my PCP to schedule my annual. No appointments available until December. Should I find a new practice? Or is this common (and why)? What's been your experience with wait times for primary care? #medtwitter
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Maya Kaufman
5 years
Here at @arenasummit @5borofuture , which is helping coach progressive candidates who are running (or considering running) for NYC down-ballot elections. But first @HillaryClinton stopped by to hype up the crowd. @RaviMGupta
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
Today is my 1 year work anniversary @CrainsNewYork 🥳 I hope you’ll help me celebrate by: A) Sending me a story tip B) Sharing a reading recommendation (fiction or nonfiction) C) Both!
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Maya Kaufman
3 years
Are there any bars planning to show the NYC mayoral debate tonight? Asking for a friend 😎
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
Over a month ago, I wrote about maskless parties flocking to Astoria. I asked @NYCSHERIFF @NYCMayorsOffice what they were doing to ensure businesses were following reopening rules. They never replied. Now, Astoria & Steinway Street are trending.
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Maya Kaufman
6 years
The NYPD’s small, elite Collision Investigation Squad is supposed to investigate the city’s most serious crashes. What happens when it doesn’t? My story for @nytimes :
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
Details about these suspicious campaign donations to Brian Benjamin were public knowledge — thanks to @Cliff_Michel @THECITYNY reporting — months before @GovKathyHochul chose him as lieutenant governor. Including the donation in the name of a 2-year-old boy.
@georgejoseph94
George Joseph
2 years
Last year, @Cliff_Michel broke this story for @THECITYNY on several dubious campaign donations to Brian Benjamin’s state senate campaign. Still, Hochul elevated him to Lt. Governor. Now he’s been arrested:
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Maya Kaufman
3 years
NEW: In an oft-overlooked and little-known industry, blood centers have become major businesses that depend on a steady stream of product—one they collect from altruistic donors. My deep dive into the blood 🩸 industry, on the cover of @CrainsNewYork :
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
Mayor Bill de Blasio was driven to Astoria so he could ride the ferry.
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Maya Kaufman
4 months
A surprise visit by @NYCMayor today to drink the water from the tenant association office, not any of the apartments. Sheletha Hill, who was treated for symptoms of arsenic poisoning in March, told me she was disappointed Adams didn’t come to her apartment and try her water.
@Fabien_Levy
Fabien Levy
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. @NYCMayor decided to stop by @NYCHA ’s Jacob Riis Houses this afternoon and drink the water to show there are no issues. @NYCWater has some of the tastiest and safest water in the country.
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Maya Kaufman
5 years
@jkbjournalist I'm a proud former @MiamiHerald intern and even more so watching your incredible investigative work 🙌 cc @rickhirsch
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
FYI, @GovKathyHochul office is distributing N95-style masks at: -Grand Central Terminal -Penn Station -Fulton Center -Jamaica Station -Main Concourse of Port Authority Bus Terminal, South Wing -Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, Harlem -Roberto Clemente State Park, Bronx
@nycHealthy
nychealthy
1 year
UPDATE: Conditions will continue to worsen this evening and we expect more of the same tomorrow. Here's what New Yorkers need to know. See real-time air quality in NYC:
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
Exclusive 🚨 900+ people have applied to serve on a Queens community board — up 56% compared to last year. @QnsBPRichards attributes it to the new online-only application. Before, applications had to be notarized + dropped off in-person.
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
Socially-distanced cupcake delivery 🥳 There are so many talented home bakers in Astoria selling treats right now.
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Maya Kaufman
6 years
I've been informed that there is a *second* mandarin duck in the Prospect Park Zoo, spotted by @FrancescaToday on Saturday. cc @BirdCentralPark @juliarebeccaj @jenist
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Maya Kaufman
6 years
Former President Barack Obama @BarackObama is in Miami today to rally for @AndrewGillum @SenBillNelson . The crowd sporadically breaks out into cries of “bring it home!” Attendees have traveled from all parts of Florida. I met one woman who told me she’s been in line since 7 a.m.
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
When in Queens…
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Maya Kaufman
3 years
NEW from me + @ShuanSim : New York has eliminated the option for religious exemptions to its Covid-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. Religious exemptions that had been granted will be revoked.
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Maya Kaufman
5 years
The Queens DA's office has just released its database of NYPD officers with questionable credibility, the day before Thanksgiving. 🧐 This disclosure comes thanks to the efforts of @gideonoliver @georgejoseph94 .
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
NEW: Elmhurst Hospital has 63 ventilators. Of those, 54 were in use as of 9 a.m., per source briefed on inventory who asked to remain anonymous to speak candidly. Officials are moving ventilators there from other hospitals and think it'll be enough for the next 10 days.
@mayakauf
Maya Kaufman
4 years
Elmhurst Hospital has added 50 workers since Tuesday to deal with a deluge of critically ill coronavirus patients, @FranciscoMoyaNY tells me. These patients' conditions are deteriorating within hours of them being admitted. They are mostly Latino & local.
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
THREAD: After @politico released the Dobbs draft decision, NY lawmakers immediately introduced a bill (w/ @TishJames support) to create a fund for abortion providers & groups that help patients afford it. Then Hochul launched her own — only for providers.
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Maya Kaufman
3 years
The Anime NYC convention only required at least one vaccine dose and allowed attendees to come immediately after their first dose. These are the city's "Key to NYC" requirements for indoor events. Why not require full vaccination? @NYCMayor @NYCHealthCommr
@mayakauf
Maya Kaufman
3 years
BREAKING: A Minnesota man tested positive for the Covid-19 #omicron variant several days after returning home from New York City, where he attended the Anime NYC convention at the Javits Center.
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
BREAKING: NYSNA @nynurses reaches a tentative contract agreement with Flushing Hospital Medical Center @FHMC_NYC in Queens. Meanwhile, Maimonides nurses have voted to approve the tentative agreement they reached earlier this week.
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Maya Kaufman
4 years
My scoop about the squirrel attacks in Queens made it onto the @NYMag approval matrix 😯
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Maya Kaufman
5 years
Hey, NYC-based freelancers! 🚨 Patch wants your pitches for narrative features about New York City. We're paying per word. 💰 @studyhallxyz @WritersofColor @LGBTQWriters @NABJ @NAHJ @AAJA @DisabledWriters @newmarkjschool @columbiajourn #Binders Details:
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Maya Kaufman
3 years
Major newspapers like WSJ have the resources to double down on metro NY coverage in a way that local papers increasingly do not. It’s a shame to see WSJ go in the opposite direction. If WSJ can’t make it work, who can?
@maxwelltani
Max Tani
3 years
In an email this morning, WSJ EIC Matt Murray announced the paper is shutting down its "Greater New York" section on July 9, asking staff to apply for other jobs in the newsroom.
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@mayakauf
Maya Kaufman
5 years
UPDATE: An NYPD spokesperson just sent me the following statement. "Upon review of the video, the Commanding Officer of the @NYPD112Pct directed his officers to prepare a summons for failure to yield."
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Maya Kaufman
2 years
New York has spent decades shifting patients with serious mental illness from hospitals to community-based programs that offer multiple visits per week. As a result, demand *FAR* outpaces supply. There are 900+ people with serious mental illness in NYC waiting for a slot.
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Maya Kaufman
3 years
BREAKING: All @NorthwellHealth employees will be required to be vaccinated by Aug. 16 or be tested for Covid-19 weekly. "Those who fail to get tested in a timely manner will face adverse action that could progress up to and include termination."
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Maya Kaufman
11 months
Please spread the word: 📢 This story is part of a larger effort @politicony to investigate the impact of budget cuts and staffing shortages on health care and public health in New York City. Send tips to mkaufman[@]politico[.]com or DM me here for my number on Signal.
@mayakauf
Maya Kaufman
11 months
NEWS: Widespread vacancies and years of budget cuts have strained the capacity of NYC's tuberculosis control bureau. Meanwhile, cases are up 20% from the same time last year, per internal data. That rate would make 2023 the city's worst year in a decade.
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
Honored to be recognized as a Livingston Awards finalist for excellence in local reporting by @UMWallaceHouse for my work @CrainsNewYork probing New York's handling of mental health care for people experiencing homelessness and serious mental illness.
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Maya Kaufman
3 years
THREAD: Hospital workers across NYC are struggling to find beds for patients, with some now waiting more than 2 days for a spot. So, why are hospitals publicly reporting thousands of open beds?
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Maya Kaufman
1 year
NEWS: @CorrectionNYC is nixing a $17M program offering people on Rikers group sessions on everything from emotional regulation to financial literacy, part of @NYCMayor mandated budget cuts. Nonprofits that run the groups were “blindsided,” @thefortunesoc VP of programs told me.
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Maya Kaufman
5 years
"That rally wasn't for us." Residents of Queensbridge Houses, the nation's largest public housing complex, say they didn't know about the @BernieSanders rally this weekend in Queensbridge Park.
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