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...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteNEW: Mount Sinai Hospital fired three nurses via voicemail message on the eve of a massive ongoing strike. buff.ly/6X62qql
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteTrump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...
- 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...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteI don't think it's overstating things to say that Mamdani is stepping into a collective bargaining crisis. The city and unions are in court over billions of dollars each says the other owes.
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteThis is a big fiscal and political challenge for the incoming administration. Important reporting by @clauirizarry.bsky.social for @thecity.nyc on the Comptroller audit of the health fund that shows the piggybank is broken. Curious timing for its release. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/30/l...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteTerrific deep dive from @clauirizarry.bsky.social that helps explain the NYC Health Insurance mess/insolvency that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social inherits. @bradlander.bsky.social with a bombshell audit helps shed light on it all and big thanks to @thecity.nyc for the article. @alykatzz.bsky.social
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteNew year, new mayor, news. From @katiehonan.bsky.social & @clauirizarry.bsky.social.
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteFor my last Buying Power of the year, I wrote about one way to think about the divergence in consumer sentiment (bad) and behavior (free-spending) this year: It’s the YOLO economy, typified by the expanding popularity of services like Klarna and Affirm. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteIn a brief post shared with her 3.7 million Instagram followers, Malala Yousafzai looked back fondly on her travels to Egypt, Greece, Tanzania, and Ireland. She also wore an Eagles T-shirt in one of her photos. Go Birds. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/eagles-...
- 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...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteThe UAW is known locally for its left-leaning politics and justice-oriented members in academia and legal services. Now two of its rank-and-file members are mounting Democratic campaigns to the party’s left. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/24/a...
- 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...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteWASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
- Exclusive footage of today's meeting in the Oval Office: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ8D...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteThe funny thing about this meeting is that Mamdani didn't back down on a single policy point or anything he's said about Trump.
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteNEWS: The Trump administration is allegedly holding up files elsewhere too. Mahmoud Khalil is suing the Trump admin as it refuses to release files related to its coordination & communications with pro-Israel, anti-speech groups like Canary Mission in the lead up to his arrest last March.
- New in THE CITY’s merch store: our very own chip clip. Not recommended to hold dollar bills. www.teerico.com/products/the...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteShe grew award-winning strains and was poised for a legal cannabis license. Instead, a massive police and FDNY raid — triggered by her vindictive ex-DEA uncle — left “the Godmother” facing felony charges. @rosalindadams.bsky.social deep dive into the family saga. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/20/g...
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- The 'Godmother' of Weed vs Her Uncle, the DEA Agent www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/20/g...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponte"Never before has a government shutdown lasted long enough to unsalvageably ruin parts of the employment report, and this will be the first time in the survey’s 77-year history that the Labor Department will not publish an unemployment rate." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
- politics ain’t beanbag www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
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- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteVIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/19/q...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteWhile in Israel, Mayor Eric Adams released the key autumn budget modification with no warning, and no fanfare.
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteJust the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting. As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteWith the vote to release the Epstein files underway, let's revisit @annamerlan.bsky.social's piece breaking down just how the Trump administration ensured that the conspiracy theories surrounding the president's relationship with the convicted sex offender won't really end.
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteNew Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponte"If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot… teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else." - @warren.senate.gov www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteICE vs the clergy
- girl who is going to be ok
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- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteArticles like this one are why I make regular donations to @thecity.nyc and if you can afford it, I hope you make one too: www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/05/z...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteKyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteTrump getting booed at the Commanders game
- Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteif you can't handle journalists asking clarifying follow up questions you have no business managing reporters. go run a dick's sporting goods
- 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...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponte"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...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteZohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
- 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
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteA new proposal would require judges who hand down sentences or make detention decisions to conduct meaningful prison visits annually. The proposed change would be the first of its kind in the nation and mandate hundreds of in-depth judicial visits to state prisons. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/b...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteJust in: Zohran Mamdani says he's voting yes on ballot questions 1-5 and no on 6.
- 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...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteSafe Streets for All: Vision Zero in an Era of Immigration Crackdowns We were thrilled to welcome @nyccomptroller.bsky.social Brad Lander, Max Markham of Policing Project, and Ligia Guallpa and Antonio Solis of @workersjusticep.bsky.social for a panel moderated by @clauirizarry.bsky.social!
- 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...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponte“I’m poor. You got to think more about what and when and how you’re going to eat than you normally would.” NEW from @lauren-hartley.bsky.social + @thecity.nyc:
- 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?”
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteSCOOP: Brad Lander is telling allies he's planning to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteAcross the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/26/e...
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- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteThe former governor participated in a radio interview on Thursday where he laughed with the cohost about mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim, cheering on a future 9/11 attack against the city. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/c...
- 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...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteIslamophobia is front and center in the last days of the NYC mayor's race NEW from @yoavgonen.bsky.social + @clauirizarry.bsky.social:
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteWeeks after calling him "a snake and a liar," mayor preparing to leave Gracie Mansion amid scandal endorses ex-governor who departed Executive Mansion amid scandal.
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteTime for debate night bingo ✅ We're co-hosting the final NYC mayoral debate tonight with NY1 and WNYC. Let's play. (Psst, stream the debate for free here, no paywall or sign-in: www.thecity.nyc)
- 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...
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- 🚨 🗣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...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry apontethis is why the whole world, the whole thing and not just the united states, canada, japan, south korea, and a few countries in the caribbean and south america call baseball "the beautiful game"
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteCuomo (ex-HUD secretary!) sounded genuinely confused when my colleague @clauirizarry.bsky.social asked him about his stance on the housing ballot measures. (He's in favor of all three, his staff assured us.) Meanwhile Mamdani is still not saying how he'll vote. Here's why.
- "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
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponte"Vote for Cuomo — and make America great again!" A key part of Cuomo's path to victory in the mayoral race requires him to walk a tightrope when it comes to Trump — persuading voters he can stand up to the president while courting those who ardently support him. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/10/c...
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteSome of the most fervent volunteers for Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign are Republicans who voted for and still embrace Trump.
- 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
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteUPDATE: Emily Wilder was deported to Istanbul today, alongside many of the other flotilla participants, and is safe and hopefully heading home to LA shortly. Thank you so much for your advocacy. More coverage soon!
- Reposted by claudia irizarry aponteThe ICE detention center near Buffalo has banned book deliveries, reversing a policy that allowed detainees to obtain fantasy and romance novels, Sudoku puzzles, and English textbooks, New York Focus has learned. nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...
