Brigid Bergin
Articles by Brigid Bergin
Brigid Bergin is an award-winning senior reporter on the People and Power desk. She is fiercely committed to telling stories that help people engage and support democracy. In 2022, she hosted a live, ten-week call-in politics show ahead of the midterm elections called The People's Guide to Power. Brigid's reporting in 2017 included some of the first coverage of a political newcomer now known as AOC. In 2016, she broke the news of a voter purge in Brooklyn just days before New York’s presidential primary, triggering city, state and federal investigations. Brigid also guest hosts The Brian Lehrer Show and All Of It. She graduated from the University at Albany and the CUNY Newmark School of Journalism. Got a tip? Email [email protected] or Signal 917-723-4719.
This is the first beached whale reported in the NYC area this year.
Councilmember Joann Ariola’s departure is the latest example of a trend in the Republican Party.
The new office will be led by Renita Francois, who served in the de Blasio administration's Office of Criminal Justice for years, a source familiar with the plan told Gothamist.
De Blasio said in an interview that he would have never thought to appeal to Trump as Mamdani has.
The mayor will march with the NYPD commissioner up Fifth Avenue.
Comptroller Mark Levine agreed with Mamdani that the city budget faces a significant gap.
After telling voters during the campaign that he’d skip “many parades,” Mamdani has begun choosing when to march.
As talk of nationalizing elections picks up steam, state law serves as a bulwark for voters.
The decision overturns a lower court order to redraw the district represented by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis before the midterm elections.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pitch to Trump for a giant Queens housing plan is getting a mixed response from local elected leaders who represent Western Queens.
Sources tell Gothamist that Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke with President Donald Trump about reviving a plan to build 12,000 housing units over the railyard in Sunnyside.
This marks the mayor’s second meeting with the president.
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