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Metro politics reporter @nytimes.com jeff.mays@nytimes.com Find me here: bsky.app/profile/jeffcm…

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@jeffcmays.bsky.social @JeffCMays May 5, 2024

When he was a teenager, @EddieGibbsNY killed a man, he says, in self-defense. Now, as a state Assemblyman, he works to help the currently and formerly incarcerated. This is a story about remorse, atonement and second acts: nytimes.com/2024/05/04/nyr…

www.nytimes.com He Went From Prison to Politics. Now He Helps Others Get a Second Act. (Gift Article) Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs of East Harlem has used his experience to help people reinvent themselves, including a high-flying 1990s rapper who went to prison for murder.

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Archdiocese of New York Finalizes $800 Million Sex Abuse Settlement w/ @mayaaking nytimes.com/2026/11/05/nyr…

www.nytimes.com Archdiocese of New York Finalizes $800 Million Sex Abuse Settlement The agreement, with 1,300 people who said they were abused by clergy and lay leaders, might help America’s foremost Roman Catholic archdiocese avoid bankruptcy.

@jeffcmays.bsky.social @JeffCMays Jul 22

After City Council speaker @JulieMenin criticized his administration about the handling of the Legionnaires deaths, Mayor Mamdani said the outbreak seems to be coming under control. 82 people have gotten Legionnaires and five people have died.

@jeffcmays.bsky.social @JeffCMays Jul 19

“The tension is not centered on the ethnicity or race of the candidates supported by the D.S.A. — many are Black and Latino. It is more about the group itself: A 2021 national survey of D.S.A. members found that the group was 85% white, a decrease from 2013 when 96%” were white.

Phara Souffrant Forrest Verified account @phara4assembly Jul 19

Would it kill @JeffCMays to mention that a @nycDSA member has represented Medgar Evers for the last 6 years? And that she happens to be a black CUNY grad and a lifelong Crown Heights resident? These takes are getting stale very quickly.

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@jeffcmays.bsky.social @JeffCMays Jul 8

Ahead of a news conference with @NYCMayor and @GovKathyHochul on their roadmap to improve bus service, TWU workers have set up a picket line. “Hochul’ no friend to labor,” they’re chanting.