Karen Yi (@karen_yi) 's Twitter Profile
Karen Yi

@karen_yi

covering poverty @wnyc & @gothamist. adjunct @columbia. past life @StarLedger @asburyparkpress @sunsentinel. miami forever 🌴

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A trip to Puerto Rico, comedy club tickets, memoir promotion via Equinox: A glimpse into the Adams 2021 fundraising tactics, some of which are under scrutiny. New from Brigid Bergin gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…

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The preeminent New Jersey political boss, George Norcross, has been indicted for running a criminal enterprise that used extortion to promote his vast business & political empire--AND HE IS SITTING IN FRONT ROW OF PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING HIS INDICMENT youtube.com/watch?v=RdNyZr…

Josefa Velásquez (@j__velasquez) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rents on New York City’s roughly one million stabilized apartments are going up starting this fall. gothamist.com/news/nyc-board…

Nancy Solomon (@nancysolomon2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A quick update on the Norcross indictment in the feed! We’ll have a real episode to drop soon…hopefully. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dea…

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.Urban Pathways which houses formerly homeless NYers is trying to cut down on avoidable ER visits which cost 8x as much as a doctor's visit -- by hiring nurses. ER visits are down 50%. gothamist.com/news/er-visits…

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Swing and a miss: Trump and Biden spent more time talking about golf than child care Child care: 22 seconds. Golf: 56 seconds. 🫠 19thnews.org/2024/06/trump-…

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside, even if shelter space is lacking. apnews.com/article/suprem…

Ann Choi 최주연 (@annjychoi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Data after data shows how finding an apartment NYC is only getting harder. "Even people who never used to think about housing that much because it wasn’t so bad for them are now screaming from the rooftops,” said Alicia Glen. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Nancy Solomon (@nancysolomon2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tonight you may wonder why the #empirestatebldg is red. Happy 100th birthday, WNYC! So proud to have spent my last 13 years as part of the venerable New York and New Jersey institution.

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NEW: Those massive, metallic Link5G towers aren’t actually providing 5G coverage, more than 2 years after the first of thousands was installed in the Bronx w/Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky for Gothamist-WNYC 🎙 gothamist.com/news/nycs-mass…

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Homeless New Yorkers are spending fewer days in city-run shelters on average than in the last decade Karen Yi reports. What’s behind the shorter stays? Migrants. gothamist.com/news/average-s…

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"I see the people in shelters and I feel bad that they're there. And it's my turn now to be in a shelter" 4 tenants on the brink of eviction want to join a lawsuit against the Adams admin for blocking laws expanding access to housing vouchers w/Karen Yi gothamist.com/news/theyre-ab…

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NYC's social services agency will soon begin slashing safety net benefits to the lowest-income residents if they fail to meet work requirements, according to an email obtained by Gothamist. Latest by David Brand gothamist.com/news/nyc-will-…

Samantha Maldonado (@sssmaldo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just over a year after George Joseph & I published the 1st story in a series on how predatory investors target heirs of property in gentrifying NYC neighborhoods, the state made changes to the law to better protect those homeowners. It's now in effect! thecity.nyc/2024/07/23/hei…

Karen Yi (@karen_yi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bringing a little joy to the WNYC 🎙 airwaves today: scenes from a Coalition for the Homeless summer camp for kids. "Camp made me feel centered and like, joyful," one camper said. "I'm a goofy girl, everybody likes me. And I'm a Taurus," another said. gothamist.com/news/this-summ… Coalition for the Homeless

Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky (@jeffwilen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We've got a very cool thing up on Gothamist today - a super-granular map of gun violence in NYC, down to the block level, contextualized by brittany.kriegstein's tenacious reporting and her painstaking accounting of every New Yorker killed by bullets in 2024. gothamist.com/news/new-york-…

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Public perception & political rhetoric often suggest that crime and gun violence are rampant across NYC but data shows otherwise: Just ~4%~ of the city's 120,000 blocks account for nearly all shootings. Stellar work by brittany.kriegstein & Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky gothamist.com/news/hot-spots…

Jessy Edwards (@jessyednews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

8 months ago Samantha Max & I started reading 700+ lawsuits alleging sexual assault by NYC jail staff. One name kept appearing: CO Champagne. But it wasn’t in city records. Our investigation into ‘Champagne’ & what his accusers say officials allowed: tinyurl.com/2cjys2p4

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Breaking up with NYC: parents with young kids are fleeing the city due to rising childcare and housing costs. Karen Yi spoke to several families who’ve left or are contemplating it. gothamist.com/news/families-…