Pinned post
Yes!! I start today at @nysfocus, with a statewide mandate and a fiercely committed and talented team of public service journalists. Find me at alyssa@nysfocus.com.
View quoted post on X
Alyssa Katz
@alykatzz
Power & Politics Editor, New York Focus
2.9K Following 14K Followers 16K Posts
Latest posts 5
I was so wowed by the new public rec center in Brooklyn that I quit my gym to join — then dove into what it would take to make such an extraordinary experience the norm, interviewing the officials who sweated the details and made it possible. vitalcitynyc.org/a-new-rec-cent…
www.vitalcitynyc.org A New Rec Center Comes to Play An ambitious new facility in Brooklyn pushes back on lightweight expectations about what’s possible. Don’t miss the last paragraph. The new landlord talks like he won the lottery. thecityreporter.nyc/2026/11/12/mam…
www.thecityreporter.nyc Mamdani’s White Knight for Troubled Buildings Has Dismal Record of Violations The city’s Housing Department said a landlord hailed by Mayor Mamdani was part of a group of building owners who had "turned deferring maintenance of rent-stabilized buildings into a profitable... Very sad to see this happen. Columbia Journalism Investigations was the successor project to the New York World, a local/data newsroom, similarly staffed, that I launched in 2011. @klombardi1 and the reporters did important work in what was a scarce training opportunity.
NEW: Columbia Journalism School shut down Columbia Journalism Investigations, a fellowship which paid recent graduates a $70,000 salary to investigate some of the world’s biggest problems and publish them in prestigious newspapers. columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/11/1…View quoted post on X
Cornell is facing another, earlier lawsuit alleging mishandling of sexual assault reports, this one from two female students who claim "At least five-ten others are known to have been sexually abused" by the same male student they allege assaulted them. nysfocus.com/2026/11/09/cor…
nysfocus.com Cornell Is Embroiled in Another Sexual Assault Lawsuit A newly uncovered 2023 lawsuit alleged Cornell University's Title IX office did not take repeated sexual assault allegations seriously.