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07/14/2026
NYC’s currently listed Criminal Court judges handled 443,014 arraignments between January 2021 and December 2025. Overwhelmingly, those released were not rearrested before their case resolved.
While the overall rearrest rate is low, it varies widely from judge to judge. And these judges aren’t elected. They’re appointed by the sitting NYC mayor to 10-year terms, which means one mayor can reshape the bench. Mayor Mamdani alone is expected to appoint or reappoint 48 of these judges in his first term.
Tracking this now matters, because the landscape is about to change. As Rikers Island heads toward closure and is replaced by four smaller borough-based jails with far less capacity, pretrial release faces new pressure.
Setting a baseline today is how we’ll tell a real shift from noise later.
Sources: NYS Courts / DCJS Pretrial Release Dashboard; NYC Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. Full data and methodology in bio.
The City is hiring someone to run point on fixing the BQE triple cantilever.
$250,000, eight staffers, and an impossible task.
Start the work and you own every closure, every detour, every year of it. The ribbon gets cut long after you’ve left office. All of the blame, none of the credit.
Applications officially open! 👍
NYC’s largest office to residential conversion was found to be at risk of collapsing this morning.
Two columns buckled inside 235 East 42nd Street, the old Pfizer HQ becoming 1,600 apartments. No injuries, but the flagship of the conversion boom just became a MAJOR cautionary tale.
He sold his entire stock portfolio to buy two rent stabilized buildings in Brooklyn. Here’s why that’s a really bad idea.
Did River Ring deserve a carve out in the NY State budget?
In NYC, there are almost as many millionaires as there are New Yorkers without a home.
The DSA built a movement on comparisons like these, and the inequality behind them is real. Too much at the top, too little at the bottom is a clean, simple, and powerful story.
Tomorrow is the test: ten candidates on the ballot, and a referendum on how far the DSA can go.
Spirit Airlines is bankrupt and its top assets are up for sale, including its 22x LaGuardia flight slots worth $87 million.
They almost never come up for sale, and in this case, the highest bidder might not even get them.
06/10/2026
Is the Hampton Jitney a good business? Better than you’d think: a $3.3M operating surplus, no public subsidy, and a near-monopoly for bus service to the East End.
But! The real story is why it exists. The LIRR’s electric trains stop short of the East End, leaving a slow, infrequent diesel crawl to the Hamptons that made a bus service viable.
06/10/2026
Is the Hampton Jitney a good business? Better than you’d think: a $3.3M operating surplus, no public subsidy, and a near-monopoly on the East End.
But the real story is why it exists.
The LIRR’s electric trains stop short of the East End, leaving a slow, infrequent diesel crawl to the Hamptons that a bus easily beats.
The MTA is piloting 30-second audio ads in its stations.
But for what? Ads barely dent a $21 billion budget.
The MTA says rider reaction decides whether they stay. So please join me in making some noise: tell them this is a horrible idea. Feedback form in bio.
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