previously @ The City Reporter (@thecity.nyc) + The Nashville Banner💗 Substack for fun: https://substack.com/@lillysabellahttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mnsrstz3ck2athis culminates into my final story @ The City Reporter + I am so honored it is a co-byline w/ Greg! [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Jun 2026 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnsrstz3ck2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mnsrkt2l6s2l"People and vehicles will be restricted from West 30th to West 35th streets between Sixth and Eighth avenues starting at 4 p.m., according to the NYPD. Only people with game tickets, a train ticket, some sort of credentials, or other authorized reasons will be let in..." https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/08/knicks-trump-traffic-security-madison-square-garden-nypd/08 Jun 2026 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnsrkt2l6s2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mnsrcfzuoc2o“'Somebody is going to get killed,' said Lori Richmond, 49, an illustrator whose building has been struck by sheet metal ducts and plastic buckets plummeting from the future jail. 'How many times are they going to get lucky that this did not fall on somebody?'" https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/08/brooklyn-jail-debris-workers-injuries-rikers-osha/08 Jun 2026 22:48 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnsrcfzuoc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mni2cnh44c2rCheck out our summer newsletter made by the summer lovers on staff! I love this time of year when the nights are shorter, the breeze is warmer and the city gets a little wilder. If you want to be in the know about what's happening this season pls subscribe! https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/summer-the-city/04 Jun 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mni2cnh44c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mnhzlq2g2s2m"Long, who died from AIDS in 1984, came down to Coney Island and installed his custom-built features in the system at the bumper car place and arcade. Disco clubs largely shut down in the 1980s, unlike Eldorado, which now boasts Long’s only remaining system in New York City." https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/04/el-dorado-auto-skooter-bumper-car-coney-island/04 Jun 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhzlq2g2s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mnhxn76ua22l🤞❤️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jun 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhxn76ua22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mnfhznwbvs25"Throughout the years and among all categories, Black women outranked every other demographic in the number of pregnancy-related deaths, with Black mothers in Brooklyn suffering the most overall." https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/03/maternal-mortality-death-rates-mothers-childbirth/03 Jun 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnfhznwbvs25https://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mnff53t5gk2j"The planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions this project will displace 'is equivalent to removing half of the cars from New York City’s roads annually,' Rose from Hydro-Québec said." https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/03/champlain-hudson-power-express-electricity-canada/03 Jun 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnff53t5gk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mndi6qfsg22o"East New York — the first time the city had used a new tool called mandatory inclusionary housing that forced developers of market-rate apartments to include a percentage of affordable units — turned out to be a model for how to use rezoning to create more housing..without spurring gentrification." https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/02/affordable-housing-east-new-york-zoning-brooklyn/02 Jun 2026 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mndi6qfsg22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mnaf2enolc2l"'I feel very exploited at the situation,” she said. “I can’t tell you the level of disappointment. You’re talking about a life-changing experience.'" https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/01/adu-development-apartment-housing-zoning-adams/01 Jun 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnaf2enolc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mmywfa4fds23"Unlike other items people throw out once they have no use for them ... people who vape told THE CITY they often hold onto the disposable devices long after they are usable, letting dead vapes without enough juice or battery to use accumulate in what is colloquially known as a 'vape graveyard.'" [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 May 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmywfa4fds23https://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mmywdbaqcc23"Hochul successfully weakened the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, by replacing a target of cutting emissions 40% from 1990 levels by 2030 with a new goal of 60% by 2040. A change in the way the state accounts for methane emissions makes it easier to hit those goals." [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 May 2026 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmywdbaqcc23https://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mmywamc56k23"Mamdani mobilized his supporters quickly. About an hour after his MS NOW appearance, his campaign solicited donations on behalf of Avila Chevalier, texts obtained by THE CITY show." [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 May 2026 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmywamc56k23https://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mmyvzrolr223Woot woot https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/05/29/the-city-is-now-the-city-reporter-new-name/29 May 2026 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmyvzrolr223https://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mmx2tpzplc2vLoved the Q+A so much w/ Suzanne Reisman, who runs tours focused on the city’s sanitation history: “'Do we really have a garbage and rat problem, or do we have a people problem' ... We’re giving the rats everything they could possibly want and more. They’re so grateful to us for that." [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 May 2026 22:25 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmx2tpzplc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mmx27hgoh22l"The 'Aycee' offers small rooms with free Wifi, air conditioning and not much else for $220 a night. The ads do not mention the SRO tenants living down the hall who are fighting eviction. On a recent day, THE CITY watched as SRO tenants and hotel guests passed each other in the hall." https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/28/times-square-sro-landlord-hells-kitchen-garratt-kennedy/28 May 2026 22:13 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmx27hgoh22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/lillysabs.bsky.social/post/3mmu3pe4wzc2c“'If you let him out swag you on this, we will never hear the end of it,” Neely said of the former mayor. “We demand those eight cents.'” https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/26/mamdani-library-budget-eric-adams/27 May 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:uynjoya2pcbiouffraso7vox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmu3pe4wzc2c