Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon
@davecolon.bsky.social

It's hard to get a gym without paying a broker, so I get it

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comMamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friendsThe choice of location has scrambled NYPD training operations, angering a police union and a Republican lawmaker.

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Streetsblog NYC
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The MTA suspended its fare evasion unit, known as the EAGLE Team, after its officers allegedly beat up a random passenger who had paid the fare. buff.ly/k7IAMul

buff.lyEAGLE Down: MTA Pulls Fare Enforcement Agents From Bus System - Streetsblog New York CityThe MTA has removed fare enforcement agents from the city’s sprawling bus network after a pair of high-profile incidents where agents assaulted passengers, and will not restore the so-called EAGLE…

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Jason Concepcion
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ill be fucking their little tri-corn hat wearing asses up. founding fathers never saw brazilian jui jitsu. Never saw muy thai. im putting ben franklin in a kimura.

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon
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A group of transit wonks wants the MTA to say dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto and institute automated train operation on the Interborough Express nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/21/a...

nyc.streetsblog.orgAutomatic For The People? Transit Group Presses Case For Automated Interborough Express - Streetsblog New York CityA group of transit wonks wants the MTA to say domo arigato, Mr. Roboto and institute automated train operation on the planned Interborough Express.
Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon
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You can’t say that when this photo exists

Vital City@vitalcitynyc.bsky.social

You've seen LinkNYC kiosks and towers around New York. But have they actually delivered on their promise? Cornell Tech's Michael Samuelian thinks the decade-long experiment has been a failure. www.vitalcitynyc.org/link-nyc-kio...

vitalcitynyc.orgLet’s Be Honest. LinkNYC Has Been a Failure.Why the de Blasio-era experiment was the wrong model and what we should do about it

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Jordan
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KAT instantly in foul trouble doing the dumbest shit you've ever seen we are SO FUCKING BACK

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Nick
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People should put more respect on the first ever NBA Double

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon
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The first team in NBA history to win the NBA Finals and the NBA Cup

TSN@tsnofficial.bsky.social

The Knicks have officially raised a banner for their 2025 NBA Cup championship 👀 They were previously the tournament's only winners to not feature a NBA Cup banner in the rafters.

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon
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The land around Penn Station is a crucial piece of the ongoing effort to renovate the station, but will it get swept up in a federal takeover, turn into a new neighborhood or just kinda sit there untouched? nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/20/w...

nyc.streetsblog.orgWhat's Going To Happen To The Land Around Penn Station? - Streetsblog New York CityNew York's power over the land around Penn Station is colliding with Amtrak’s desire for tax revenues to fund President Trump’s renovations.

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Streetsblog NYC
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The bike lane on Central Park West sticks out as the only protected route around the perimeter of Central Park, leading cyclists who want a safe route around the 843 acre greenspace to use its increasingly-crowded drive instead. buff.ly/MZPr81U

buff.lyEyes On The Street: Central Park is Long Overdue for Protected Bike Lanes Around Its Perimeter - Streetsblog New York CityNew York City installed a one-way protected bike lane along Central Park West seven years ago, and hasn't touch the park's perimeter since.

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Kevin Duggan
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DSNY cops parked their agency cars in a bus lane with red/blue lights flashing and plastic bags concealing their plates, while they went to grab food. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/16/g...

nyc.streetsblog.orgGarbage Cops Parked Cars in Bus Lane With Covered Plates - Streetsblog New York CityA group of cops employed by the Department of Sanitation parked their city-issued vehicles in a bus lane and blocked their license plates with plastic bags in order to evade bus-lane tickets while the...

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The New York Groove
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did you know the Franklin Ave. shuttle used to connect to the beach AND to a brewery a block away from Ebbetts Field? AND that it's been saved from death time and time again by its neighbors and fans? read on for the toot scoot's surprisingly drama-filled backstory nygroove.nyc/franklin-ave...

nygroove.nycToot, scoot & boogie: The Franklin Avenue shuttle survives thanks to its fansBrooklyn's little train that could is getting a well-deserved party.
Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon
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Finally, the worst Newgrounds had to offer gets some modern graphics capabilities

Bradford William Davis@bwd.bsky.social

“Poornography” is an essential and, sadly, durable concept for filtering the media we consume, including, also sadly, video games. really strong essay from @andrejgee.bsky.social

substack.comVideo Game ‘Hood Warfare 2’ Is Anti-Black “Poornography”Last week, anonymous game developer Trapstar Games released Hood Warfare 2, one of the most racist games I’ve ever seen.

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Don’t blame me, though, I voted for Dave Colon instead of Eric Adams in 2021 just so I could say that I did

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon
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Gonna do a classic "Two things as one thing" bit: The next CEO of New York Public Radio should be a carriage horse gothamist.com/news/new-yor...

gothamist.comNew York Public Radio CEO steps down after 8 months on jobChief executive Christy Tanner is resigning after just eight months at the helm. New York Public Radio is the parent organization for WNYC and Gothamist.
Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to abolish NYC's horse carriage industry — a critical breakthrough in a decadeslong, politically fraught effort to ban the tourist attraction. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comMamdani and City Council strike deal to ban NYC horse carriage industryThe deal marks a major breakthrough in a long-running effort to outlaw the industry. It is also likely to inflame Mamdani’s relationship with a powerful local union.