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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · Nov 17

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 15m

Sierra Johnson, a 36-year-old Native American woman, was one of roughly 1,600 women to sue the state under the Adult Survivors Act alleging they were sexually assaulted in state prisons. She died while waiting for her lawsuit to be heard.

“It goes beyond just my own little life."

She Fought for Prison Abuse Victims, Then Died Waiting for Her Own…

Johnson was one of roughly 1,600 women to sue the state under the Adult Survivors Act alleging they were sexually assaulted in state prisons.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 1h

A controversial highway expansion in the Hudson Valley has been delayed after pushback from transportation planners and environmentalists, who argued that it isn’t necessary and would harm the local environment.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/14/h...

Hochul Hits Pause on Hudson Valley Highway Expansion

Reporting from New York Focus last year found that the project would save drivers six minutes max, at a cost of $1.3 billion.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: A controversial highway expansion in the Hudson Valley has been delayed after pushback from transportation planners and environmentalists.

Last year, New York Focus reported that the project would cost the state at least $1.3 billion and save drivers just one to six minutes.

Hochul Hits Pause on Hudson Valley Highway Expansion

Reporting from New York Focus last year found that the project would save drivers six minutes max, at a cost of $1.3 billion.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 22h

Have a round of drinks on New York Focus! Join us for a night of raffles and mingling for our 5th birthday party on Oct. 14 at Crystal Lake in Brooklyn. Tickets are $5 in advance.
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It’s Our Birthday! New York Focus Turns Five

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 22h

Join us at Crystal Lake to celebrate five years of independent, statewide, nonprofit journalism in New York — raising a glass to what the New York Focus community has accomplished together, and to all that’s ahead.

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 1d

Massive changes are coming to the state’s comprehensive, low-cost healthcare plan. Here's what you need to know. nysfocus.com/2025/09/26/e...

In Brief: New York’s Essential Plan

Massive changes are coming to the state’s comprehensive, low-cost healthcare plan.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 1d

You’re invited! Hang out with your favorite investigative reporters covering Albany at our 5th birthday party on Oct. 14 in Brooklyn.
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It’s Our Birthday! New York Focus Turns Five

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 2d

🥂 Drinks on us! Celebrate our 5th birthday Oct. 14 at Crystal Lake, Brooklyn — raffles, mingling & local journalism. $5 advance tickets.
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It’s Our Birthday! New York Focus Turns Five

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 3d

Some immigrants held in county jails are struggling to access legal advice, phone calls, and even their own court hearings.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/06/i...

ICE Detainees in New York Jails Can’t Talk to Their Lawyers

Some immigrants held in county jails are struggling to access legal advice, phone calls, and even their own court hearings.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 3d

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.”
nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 3d

New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/09/t...

Surprise Trump Move Will Upend New York Food Stamps

New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve been uncovering how New York works for five years. Help us continue to hold the powerful to account and donate today. nysfocus.com/donate

Help Us Uncover How Power in New York Really Works

New York's only statewide newsroom dedicated to holding Albany accountable.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Despite mounting evidence that a disbarred attorney stole client funds, Manhattan prosecutors have taken no action. nysfocus.com/2025/10/10/l...

She Says Her Lawyer Stole Her Money. She Can’t Get the DA to Return…

Despite mounting evidence that a disbarred attorney stole client funds, Manhattan prosecutors have taken no action.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 3d

🎉 Five years of watchdog reporting in New York! Join us Oct. 14 at Crystal Lake for drinks, raffles & a toast to the next five.
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It’s Our Birthday! New York Focus Turns Five

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: A lawyer might go to prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from three clients. That might be the tip of the iceberg — but other clients, like Pamela Brown, haven't been able to get government to listen.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/10/l...

She Says Her Lawyer Stole Her Money. She Can’t Get the DA to Return…

Despite mounting evidence that a disbarred attorney stole client funds, Manhattan prosecutors have taken no action.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 4d

Massive changes are coming to the state’s comprehensive, low-cost healthcare plan. Here's what you need to know. nysfocus.com/2025/09/26/e...

In Brief: New York’s Essential Plan

Massive changes are coming to the state’s comprehensive, low-cost healthcare plan.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 4d

In theory, the process that determines your energy bills plays out in public. In practice, watchdogs say, the key decisions are made behind closed doors.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/02/e...

Lawmakers Scrutinize Secretive Process Behind Energy Bill Hikes

In a state Senate hearing on spiraling energy bills, consumer advocates lamented the closed-door negotiations at the heart of New York’s ratemaking…

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 4d

New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/09/t...

Surprise Trump Move Will Upend New York Food Stamps

New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 4d

A surprise move by the Trump administration could result in hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers losing their food assistance benefits as soon as November — disrupting one of the country’s oldest safety net programs months earlier than expected.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/09/t...

Surprise Trump Move Will Upend New York Food Stamps

New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 4d

The ICE detention center near Buffalo has banned book deliveries, New York Focus has learned.

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.”
nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 4d

The 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...

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 4d

New York's maximum weekly unemployment insurance payment is going up from $504 to $869, starting next week.

This is the first increase in unemployment benefits in six years, New York Focus reported in May.
nysfocus.com/2025/05/08/u...

New York Will Boost Unemployment Benefits, Labor and Businesses…

The state will spend $8 billion to pay off its debt to the feds and increase unemployment benefits for the first time in six years.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 4d

The ICE detention center near Buffalo has banned book deliveries, New York Focus has learned.

One advocate says almost all the material at the facility is in English.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 4d

📰 Come hang out with our reporters! Our 5th birthday party is Oct. 14 at Crystal Lake, Brooklyn. Drinks, raffles & local journalism.
www.eventbrite.com/e/its-our-bi...

It’s Our Birthday! New York Focus Turns Five

Come celebrate with us!

www.eventbrite.com

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks. nysfocus.com/2025/10/09/t...

Surprise Trump Move Will Upend New York Food Stamps

New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.