claudia irizarry aponte
labor reporter @thecity.nyc; teaching, CUNY Newmark; lajeña; very well-rounded and practically perfect
- NEW: Striking NYC hospitals set to resume bargaining tonight and tomorrow as nurses' strike nears fifth day www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/15/b...
- As I'm literally always saying: Politics ain't beanbag! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/n...
- Delivery Apps Have Stolen $550M From Workers By Changing How Customers Tip nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/13/d...
- Back to work today after a week off! Here’s a small sample of what I’m looking forward to covering in 2026 for @thecity.nyc. If you want to discuss all this and more this year, I’d love to hear from you. Wherever you work in NYC, I want to hear your story. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/05/2...
- I’m also covering the ongoing nurses’ strike. If you’re a manager, a nurse on the picket line, or working inside the hospital currently, I want to hear from you. My email is cirizarry@thecity.nyc or DM for Signal. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/12/n...
- SCOOP: City Comptroller Brad Lander is for the first time auditing a troubled health fund that pays for city workers’ health benefits, @thecity.nyc has learned www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/22/c...
- In audio obtained by THE CITY, District Council 37 executive director Henry Garrido railed against the Comptroller’s probe as “outrageous,” “unprecedented” and a “political stunt.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/22/c...
- pete with that O's hat... abominable
- Oh no they have MLB.tv wrapped now
- the industrial revolution and its consequences www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
- A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
- Starbucks Agrees to Pay Workers $38 Million to Settle Scheduling Law Probe www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/01/s...
- There's another left-leaning organization with a three-letter acronym whose rank and file members are eager to primary House incumbents and build on recent electoral successes by the left -- and it's not the DSA. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/24/a...
- Exclusive footage of today's meeting in the Oval Office: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ8D...
- New in THE CITY’s merch store: our very own chip clip. Not recommended to hold dollar bills. www.teerico.com/products/the...
- The 'Godmother' of Weed vs Her Uncle, the DEA Agent www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/20/g...
- politics ain’t beanbag www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
- girl who is going to be ok
- 🤮
- yuck! blech!!
- Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...
- Election over, back to our regularly scheduled programming
- "A Manhattan Supreme Court judge on Thursday rejected a petition from a mysterious advocacy group to toss the city’s new self-funded health plan for municipal workers, administered by EmblemHealth and UnitedHealthcare." — via @clauirizarry.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/e...
- 30ish minutes till polls close in NYC. Wine, beer and light snacks (popcorn and pretzels) are on the house at Cuomo HQ. The wifi password contains the year 2026 — because that’s the year the next mayor will be sworn in, I’m told
- In Washington Heights, handyman Juan Carlos Montoya was electrocuted trying to deploy a pump in the building’s flooded boiler room. Friends remembered the father of 5 as gregarious and generous, and loved treating neighborhood kids to candy. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/31/f... @smaldo.bsky.social
- Council Spent $1.5 Million on Anti-Ballot Measure Mailers Despite Electioneering Ban www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/31/a...
- According to Naveed, “Mr. Adams said Muslims were experiencing hate because they had failed to adequately condemn Hamas.” “‘I don’t know the difference between a Palestinian, Pakestinian, Arab, Muslim, I have no idea,’ the suit also quotes the mayor as saying.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/n...
- The worker who fell to his death at the Gateway tunnel site last week recently worked a 35-hour shift, as construction managers race against the clock to finish the project on time, @gothamist.com reports gothamist.com/news/worker-...
- Mamdani’s Forest Hills Stadium event marked the first time Ron, 55, ever attended a political rally: “This guy excites me… Getting more money from the rich and kind of funneling down – I think it’s a good thing. It’s going to be very hard, but why wouldn’t we try it?”
- The leader of a Bronx mosque who hosted Cuomo last month “completely” condemns his remarks yesterday suggesting that Mamdani would have cheered 9/11, saying his comments evoked painful memories of anti-Muslim backlash. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/c...
- Cuomo’s legal team got the OK from a judge to depose the therapist of one of his sexual harassment accusers, who is known to the public as Trooper 1. Last week, the same judge revoked a subpoena his legal team sent to Trooper 1’s mother. gothamist.com/news/andrew-...
- As of June, Cuomo’s legal bills cost NY’s taxpayers $19 million and counting www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/02/c...
- Inside prison, George Santos reunited with his former campaign manager and riffed about gold bars with Fred Daibes and Wael Hanna, US Sen Bob Menendez’s co-conspirators. nymag.com/intelligence...
- 🚨 🗣New York is getting a new professional baseball team next year
- A NY demolition company agreed to pay $1.4 million after the AG's office found it systematically denied workers compensation, and harassed and intimidated workers who did file claims for their injuries -- even offering $5,000 bounties for any leads. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/a...
- "Vote for Cuomo — and make America great again!"
- On the road with Andrew Cuomo's biggest fans, from Bloomingdale’s to a Queens union hall www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/10/c... w/ @smaldo.bsky.social
- On the road with Andrew Cuomo's biggest fans, from Bloomingdale’s to a Queens union hall www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/10/c... w/ @smaldo.bsky.social
- THE CITY obtained audio from a private meeting with union leaders ahead of a key vote to advance the new proposed health plan impacting 750,000 workers and retirees. The leaders of several prominent unions forcefully opposed the cost-saving plan. More here: www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/m...
- Moments before Mayor Eric Adams and other city officials gathered for a press conference, debris continued to fall from the building. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/01/n... w/ @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social and @fractenberg.bsky.social @thecity.nyc
- ICYMI: Brooklyn Defenders concocted a union-busting scheme that involved offering a lighter workload to an employee in exchange for replacing the ALAA-UAW with a so-called "sham" union friendly to management's interests, according to a complaint from ALAA www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/19/b...
- i repeat
- yuck
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- BREAKING EXCLUSIVE 🌐 new photos of the infamous potato chip bag, feat. the actual potato chips. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/25/w...
