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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 15m

You guys aren’t gonna believe this but Tish James really did say “We did not receive official notice.  We heard about the cutting of MTA funds on Streetsblog“

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 25m

They’re all here to say “Thank you, Streetsblog”

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes you be sitting in federal court and a DOJ lawyer says something and you go oh shit oh hey there's the Constitutional crisis, what's up buddy nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/16/j...

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 2h

Streetsblog gets the goods: The story nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/16/j...

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 2h

That's right

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 3h

SHut up bitch

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3h

Some dismiss concerns about subway crime as baseless, the result of insufficiently hardened attitudes toward life in the “big city," Charles Fain Lehman writes. But if policy makers ignore people’s fears, they'll miss a chance to make transit better:

The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit

People will take buses and trains only if they feel safe while riding them.

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 3h

Famously, @dmey.bsky.social and I shared the news of this politically-motivated and illegal funding cut before New York State even knew about it, and that is why I think we deserve a cut of the money nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/30/t...

BIG ZERO: Trump Stiffs MTA in 'Sanctuary City' Tantrum - Streetsblog New York City

The federal government will deny the MTA millions of dollars in public safety funding because of New York's "sanctuary city" policies.

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 3h

Streetsblog National Security Desk gets action: Federal judge Lewis Kaplan has ordered the federal government to pay the MTA $33,898,500 in Transit Security Grant Program funds after the feds initially told the MTA it was getting $0

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 5h

ahahahaha ok this is good (and yeah I’m a filthy transplant)

Quiz: How much of a real New Yorker are you?

This quiz gets right to the heart of it: what makes someone a New Yorker or a filthy transplant

nygroove.nyc

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 4h

Okay but the book was good, and not just because I had a cameo

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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 4h

they're calling it the only quiz that has ever mattered.... nygroove.nyc/real-new-yor...

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 5h

This is good.

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 5h

Great night to be a in a pickup basketball league

Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 5h

The NYC mayoral debate is tonight and I strongly encourage the use of selective muting or even just logging off.

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 5h

This was my whole deal for a while after I got run over and was out of the wheelchair

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Olivia Bensimon @oliviabensimon.bsky.social · 5h

“Look at all these unemployed people” said a man as we walked down the four block long line for the MTA memorabilia sale in Coney Island (this man and other people, including me, are still lining up)

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 5h

So you think you're a real New Yorker huh? Well only the New Yorkerest will ace this new quiz from @nygroove.nyc nygroove.nyc/real-new-yor...

Quiz: How much of a real New Yorker are you?

This quiz gets right to the heart of it: what makes someone a New Yorker or a filthy transplant

nygroove.nyc

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 23h

Good thing they didn't trade Dadiet lol

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 1d

Bank of America is gonna put their best lawyer on the case

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 1d

Saw these guys at Wetlands when I was a teenager

garrett miller @garrett.bsky.social · 1d

skafriends, three friends in tropey ska checkerboard hats

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 1d

$6 is still a pretty good deal

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 1d

You know what else, there’s always a line at Wah Fung No. 1 Fast Food and I don’t know that all of them are voting for Zohran

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

It’s kind of incredible how badly every conservative in the city is filling their diaper with rage about Zohran over anything and everything. People struggling to get into a trendy restaurant? In New York? Must be communism!

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 1d

Skeets like this are why everyone likes me

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 1d

Every week or so, I find a new track from Big Thief's "Double Infinity" to listen to a lot. This is why it is the Album of the Year

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 1d

Me? I’ve greatly expanded my social circle since I started my life as a reporter. It might not be political though, it may be just cause I’m so charming

Defector @defector.com · 1d

Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you…

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wattznext @wattznext.bsky.social · 1d

"Did we meet on that Turkish Airlines flight last year?"

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