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New York has its first official breakdown of what share of people are hospitalized for COVID vs. how many are hospitalized with incidental COVID. In NYC it's 49% for COVID, everyone else just happened to test positive.
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It's happening: NYC food delivery workers are on their way to getting a minimum wage + expenses, reaching $23.82 an hour.
@clauirizarry
has details.
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Just watching a smart woman spar capably with Gov. Cuomo for an hour on full public display is worth the entire Cynthia Nixon candidacy, win or lose.
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Amazing sleuthing here by
@samrabiyah
, who found signs that landlords may simply be quietly removing apartments from rent regulation and hoping no one will notice. He noticed.
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NYPD arrested one of NYC's finest photojournalists while she was on the job tonight.
They just arrested a photographer Stephanie Keith and are taking her into police van.
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Scientists testing NYC sewage say COVID is possibly spreading, and mutating, among rats and dogs. From
@19Documenting
@BrownInstitute
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NYC is auctioning off millions of surplus COVID supplies for pennies. The ventilators de Blasio commissioned for $12 million? Sold as scrap metal for $24,600. Never used.
@Gregbsmithnyc
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Now it makes sense why
@BilldeBlasio
launched a run for Congress: He comes out ahead either way. By ending his campaign he's now free to spend the money raised to retire past debts.
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Before everyone starts drafting left-wave takes on the NY primary results: the candidate breathing down Rep. Yvette Clarke's neck has an MBA and is in favor of charter schools. Overall message is frustration with institutional Democrats.
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"It took days and weeks for us to fully understand the magnitude of this" — Mayor de Blasio on CNN. Who's "us"?
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Posted in Midwood, Brooklyn, a Jewish enclave where Trump won many precincts in 2016.
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$21 million later, not a single soul used the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal field hospital built in a no-bid contract with a Texas emergency-construction company.
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The real estate industry sources quoted here skirt an uncomfortable (for them) likely factor in plummeting multimillion-dollar Manhattan apartment sales: Treasury's anti-money laundering requirement that LLC cash buyers disclose their identities.
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Well look here: A D.C. federal judge finds that a big 2010 dark money spender improperly failed to disclose donors because it was, quite obviously, running political ads. Thanks to
@CREWcrew
lawsuit.
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Personal news: I'm heading to
@TheCityNY
, where I'll be a Deputy Editor, working with an enormously talented crew devoted to deep reporting on NYC. Saying goodbye to my brilliant
@NYDailyNews
and editorial board colleagues will be tough after an exhilarating 4+ years.
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Eric Adams celebrated his most recent birthday in an illegally built giant party shed at the Bronx restaurant owned by his police commissioner's brother. FDNY and building depts call it a hazard and so does the landlord trying to evict.
@Gregbsmithnyc
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RIP my longtime corner pizza genius Dom DeMarco. Thank you for the love served on a paper plate.
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Trump promised $10k to Twin Towers Fund after 9/11. Howard & Robin said so on the air. NYC has no record of it.
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New York seriously lagging in getting COVID vaccines administered, in the bottom 10 states.
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Some NYC public high schools are informing us families at the last minute (after an already-delayed start) that all in-school learning will in fact take place on kids' electronic devices because of staffing shortages and those are my entrails you see on the sidewalk behind me.
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Hochul has been renewing her COVID emergency powers month after month and no one is stopping her.
At
@timesunion
@ChrisBragg1
has an astounding report about Tebele's recent level-up: $300K in family donations to
@GovKathyHochul
coinciding with selling the state $637M (!) in home COVID tests during Omicron surge. No bid under gov's emergency powers.
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This happened in my neighborhood and is heartbreaking. People think of New York City as progressive and tolerant, but many parts are anything but.
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A posthumous column by
@figue32bj
, who sublimely integrated the roles of labor intellectual and organizer and made a vast difference in working people's lives. Such a loss.
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Even when a wealth of evidence points to the crime of illegal eviction and tenants plead with the NYPD to act, landlords aren't getting arrested. Devastating digging here from
@ithakore
, via
@IRE_NICAR
Journalist of Color Fellowship.
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So actually...1 in 10 rent stabilized apartments could be vacant. New data provided by
@NYCHousing
exclusively to
@samrabiyah
@THECITYNY
says nearly 89,000 stabilized units were empty last year. Just wow.
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Since
@NYCMayor
and
@NYPDShea
seem stumped on a journalist's question of the number of NYPD officers of color, here's a breakdown from
@Gregbsmithnyc
of leadership ranked Captain and above.
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Don’t look away from the lives of NYC food-delivery workers trying to eke out a living while fearing getting caught in the curfew or conflict.
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Numbers from head of
@NYCHealthSystem
: 54 in public hospital ICUs with COVID now vs. 970 at the height of the pandemic. "Cases, huge increase. ICU, tiny increase."
Says he's worried most immediately about infections sidelining hospital and clinic staff.
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The NYC gap between unvaccinated and vaccinated COVID case and hospitalization rates, which had been running 10-to-1, is becoming a widening chasm...and these numbers are as of only December 18.
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Threshold, crossed: More NYC residents have received at least one vaccine shot than have tested positive for COVID.
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"Police tried to arrest her, the crowd tried to de-arrest her, then the African-American boy was arrested instead"
http://t.co/8BPQRVD7vz
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300,000 ipads for NYC public school students via Apple and T-Mobile, school officials just announced.
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All eyes on the key question: Why did Eric Adams fly back to NYC after his fundraiser's Brooklyn home got raided by the FBI?
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Another wall falls to the virus: Methadone users in NYC, who forever have had to go to clinics for their doses, are getting direct delivery via
@nycHealthy
.
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After 30 years of living in Brooklyn, I finally made it to Defonte’s sandwich shop in Red Hook and the experience (enhanced by eating in the shipyard park behind Ikea on this beautiful day) is just ecstatic. Eggplant parm.
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He?
"God told me I was a feminist when he gave me three daughters," Cuomo says.
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Not just nursing homes: NYC jails didn't count multiple people who caught COVID in custody and then died in hospitals in their official fatality tally,
@THECITYNY
&
@columbiajourn
find.
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The rapidly growing self-storage industry has no consumer watchdog. Fines and fees abound, and people with little to their names but the possessions within are losing everything. From
@RosaGoldensohn
.
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New York, city of mansions. An Upper West Sider studying historic preservation decided to count how many apartments were lost when owners decided to create one residence out of many.
@rachelholliday
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Just in time for
@AndrewYang
's pledge to end a billion-dollar tax break for Madison Square Garden, the owner of the Knicks & Rangers launches a NYC elections spending committee. James Dolan's people wouldn't tell
@RosaGoldensohn
how much he plans to spend.
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Personal datapoint: I have not gotten on my bike after watching Robyn Hightman die on 6th Avenue in June. That's two fewer cyclists, me and my daughter. It's scary out there.
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New NYC household garbage pickup numbers are out, and continuing to shrink: Manhattan saw a 20% drop in April over a year earlier. In the West Village, Soho and vicinity, tons collected are down 32%. Folks are fleeing, or belt-tightening, or, yes, dying.
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View out my window. Yes, this neighborhood (just not my building complex) votes red, but this is the first year in memory that lawn signs are popping up for a governor’s race. Anyone care to share a Hochul sign photo if you spot one? It’s like searching for a rare Pokémon.
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Truth warrior
@ShaunKing
slays hateful fake news.
Huckabee apologizes for saying ‘Jewish liberals’ daubed swastika to smear Trump
#USElection
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Just three blocks from this spot a car jumped the curb and hit pregnant me in 2006. The child born four days later walked by the scene of this collision this afternoon. The continual mayhem on city streets has to stop. My heart is with the boy’s family.
JUST IN: a 10-year-old boy is dead after a car mounted the sidewalk, ran him over as he was waiting by the bus stop, continued to drive, and hit scaffolding.
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Quite a striking difference between correctional plans in NY (tear down jails, build jails in new locations) & LA (tear down jail and build mental health facility/ies in its place).
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We now learn that the Con Ed spill that put 30,000 gallons of electric transformer oil in the East River three years ago released PCB chemicals into the water. Yet NY's environmental agency is shielding company pollution & enforcement records from view.
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Renters are amassing mountains of debts that will lead to evictions and judgments. While homeowners get a subsidy to borrow via the mortgage interest deduction. Different transactions, of course, but this highlights the need and opportunity for tenant aid.
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The monster Trump real estate tax-evasion story also provides ammunition for NY tenant advocates fighting to end rent increases premised on major capital improvements made by landlords, often padded, as the Trump family's plainly were.
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There is no fundamental right to personal privacy in business ownership. That is a fiction that Hochul and the legislature are agreeing to in order to shield LLC owners from public view. They'll have to make one more amendment: Change the name, since this is no "Transparency Act"
New York *will* create a database that lists the beneficial owners of LLCs, but you (the public) just won't be able to look at it.
Hochul signed the LLC Transparency Act late yesterday, but not before she got the Legislature to agree to keeping the database private.
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Please promote the hell out of NYC's new 911 texting service...the safety of domestic violence victims may depend on it.
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HUD launching "an internal taskforce to combat waste, fraud and abuse," as announced by the spokesperson who said the Carsons had nothing to do with the $31,000 dining room set except for those emails showing they picked it out.
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Not just any possible crimes; specifically, procuring false immigration papers to employ undocumented workers.
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Plus: Sam and
@rachelholliday
teamed up to tell you how to check your own apartment's rent history, even if you've never signed a rent-stabilized lease.
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OMG election lawyer
@JerryGoldfeder
just said on
@NY1
that a full manual recount of EVERY VOTE is not outside the realm of legal possibility, "if that's the only answer to get an accurate result."
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Upshot of Cuomo's announcement of school shutdowns in areas with rising COVID numbers is that gathering for worship is a right with more protection than gathering for an education. Public schools have barely opened and are clearly not the culprit here, yet are closing.
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Downstairs from the
@NYDailyNews
newsroom, NY AG candidate Zephyr Teachout says she wants to work with other states to launch an anti-trust investigation into Google and Facebook, including how they affect local news.
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Went to meet friends at
@MuseumModernArt
. Greeted with a stampede of people fleeing. Museum being evacuated.
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City Hall didn't disclose, never mind attempt to justify this level of staffing — including two speechwriters — even in economically stable times. Now?
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Spotted:
@Dianne4NYC
shopping for bike gear at
@rei
in SoHo. She says it’s in preparation for a May 1 campaign ride.
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As a state senator, Eric Adams: 1. Thanked a bidder for a casino deal at his birthday party at which he raised campaign dollars from contenders, then 2. told investigators he didn't remember if any bidders were at the party.
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Another
@NYCMayor
relative joins the NYC payroll, this one married to the Adams brother who'd been barred from collecting a salary under nepotism rules. She left Virginia schools midyear to take the $150K-a-year job.
@yoavgonen
dug up details.
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The no-bid printing contractor screwed up, the NYC Board of Elections flops again, but New Yorkers, please keep your eye on the players who enable persistent underperformance: the Legislature, which historically *loved* low turnout to prop up incumbents.
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Uh, masks?
At the Police Academy today to address a historic recruit class:they will hit the streets of a city in crisis & if anti-cop pols get their way another class won’t follow them for some time.The message is simple:when our pols abandon us, the NYers we protect need us more than ever
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"Taxpayer-funded chaos": an astounding look from
@Gregbsmithnyc
at NYC's costly scramble for COVID gear back in March, resulting in storerooms full of expensive, basically useless items.
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NYC's police commissioner announces she's resigning. After
@nycmayor
pledged while campaigning he would appoint a woman to the role, and then noticeably constrained her power.
@yoavgonen
&
@katie_honan
are following the story tonight.
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In response to a new NYC minimum wage for food delivery workers, Uber Eats and DoorDash just made it harder to tip — and workers are saying their tips have already plummeted,
@clauirizarry
reports.
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Today is the first day my teen will be learning in a school building since March 2020. Final three months of ninth grade will be "Zoom in a room" one or two days a week, with no in-person instruction (if no shutdowns). They still couldn't wait to get out the door and go!
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Shout it from the front page: The Daily News endorses marijuana legalization.
It's time to end this reefer madness!
An early look at Friday's front...
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Alternate headline: Cops dread Jumaane Williams public advocate win
Jumaane Williams, councilman running for public advocate, was arrested in 2009 argument with girlfriend
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Among many acts of love and desperation in the two decades she has sought help for her mentally ill son, Justin Campbell, Clarissa Crader has done a phenomenal public service in making sure their agonizing story gets heard. I listened and wrote this.
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Something to read while in line for an in-demand COVID test in NYC: More than a third of city-run virus testing centers shut down not long before Omicron arrived,
@clauirizarry
@willcwelch
and
@GrenchPAN
report.
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Returned to Brooklyn today after a month upstate. Chanced the subway for a two-stop ride between two elevated stations. And would politely suggest that Gov. Cuomo shift some of his enforcement fire to his own MTA. Maskless riders galore despite a mandate.
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I’m on (free!) ride number 14 for the week on NYC subways and buses. Any more rides today, day 7 of 7, will also be free. This new unlimited-ride/fare capping system and its promotion campaign work. The free rides feel like a gaming achievement.
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Zeroing in on the New York kids' hospitalization numbers released by the state:
New hospitalization data out of NYS
HOSP RATE
12-18 years: 0.5/100,000
5-11 years: 0.3/100,000
0-4 years: 1/100,000
pediatric: 0.5/100,000
VAX EFFECT
--> In 5-11s, unvaxxed are 91% of hosp (get your child vaxxed, pls)
FOR/WITH
--> hosp "with" covid is 43% (no breakdown by age)
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Me trying to motivate the teen to get up for online school today: "Hey, guess what? Donald Trump is going to get impeached again today." It worked.
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The part of Cuomo's conduct I can't stop thinking about is that he made a big deal in 2019 about signing a law letting people prove workplace harassment merely by being ill-treated because of gender and then immediately violated it, per
@J__Velasquez
.
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An investigation, by me, into the online lending industry and its crusade to effectively do away with state caps on interest rates charged to consumers. Thank you to
@typeinvestigate
and
@theintercept
for backing the reporting.
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News! Good news! New York health department orders hospitals to let a (non-sick) spouse, partner or other support person into the delivery room, ending a lockout.
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Grateful for every last video clip y’all are sharing of New Yorkers celebrating in the streets, from here in COVID quarantine in a Trump-friendly corner of Brooklyn. Where it is eerily quiet.
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Since
@katie_honan
asked
@NYCMayor
about a possible nexus between early voting and COVID infections, one he dismissed: I voted last Saturday, after a 3 hour+ wait. This Saturday I got a positive COVID test. I'm fine, considering. But can't rule out voting as the virus source.
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Thinking about how different the NYC beach scenario might be if Mayor de Blasio were a swimmer and not a gym-machine guy. There's literally nowhere in NYC to swim for fitness.
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One City Council member broke down in tears when our reporter told him 435 people were confirmed dead of the coronavirus in just three zip codes in his district.
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Why does Flushing, Queens, have so many fewer virus cases than nearby and socioeconomically similar Corona?
@annjychoi
,
@J__Velasquez
&
@chrisychung
investigate two neighborhoods' strikingly different trajectories from the pandemic's start.
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If New York City were a state, it would be the least vaccinated in the country, with 9.5% of the population receiving at least one shot. Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico are also getting a higher share of people vaccinated.
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Less than 24 hours after
@THECITYNY
posted
@J__Velasquez
's story on the upper Manhattan vaccine center launched to address "inequity" but giving scarce doses to upscale suburban patients,
@nyphospital
says it will serve city residents only.
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Many are the days when I wish Wayne Barrett were still alive and reporting. This is definitely one of them. He dug into Rudy Giuliani‘s use and misuse of power like no one else.
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Please spare this thread conspiracy theories that data about incidental COVID in hospitals was suppressed before. Before vaccinations and especially in first wave, being in a hospital and having a COVID infection was a whole different and and more deadly ordeal for most people.
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If it hadn't been for the Weinstein watershed, the women speaking publicly about their experiences of violence with
@AGSchneiderman
likely would have maintained their silence. The culture of protecting powerful men is disintegrating.
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Careful, folks. There's no record of a Fred Trump mayoral exploration in the NY Daily News archive and the video's provenance is unproven.
How did I miss this ultra-racist ad cooked up for 1969 mayoral campaign that Trump's dad considered but dropped?
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[PRIMAL SCREAM]
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Mayor de Blasio used his private email account well into his first term, during a period of aggressive fundraising among favor-seekers and messages mysteriously missing from public-records releases.
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