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The Fake Controversy Behind Little Italy’s ‘Exclusion’

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By Chris Gelardi Verified
| The Nation Verified
Society / July 23, 2026 The Fake Controversy Behind Little Italy’s ‘Exclusion’ The Italian American establishment’s hysterical response to Mayor Mamdani’s map of immigrant enclaves reveals a cynical politics of victimhood. Ad Policy AI slop depicting caricatured Italian thugs threatening NYC’s mayor. In May 1971, dozens of members of the Jewish Defense League filed into a Brooklyn federal courtroom.
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‘There’s an Urgency to It’: Eli Northrup Has a Plan to Push Criminal Justice Reform in Albany

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By Chris Gelardi Verified
| New York FOCUS Verified
BEFORE YOU GO, consider: If not for the article you just read, would the information in it be public? Or would it remain hidden — buried within the confines of New York’s sprawling criminal-legal apparatus? I started working at New York Focus in 2022, not long after the outlet launched.
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New York’s Prisons Are Stuck in Their Brutal Past, Independent Review Finds

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By Chris Gelardi Verified
| New York FOCUS Verified
BEFORE YOU GO, consider: If not for the article you just read, would the information in it be public? Or would it remain hidden — buried within the confines of New York’s sprawling criminal-legal apparatus? I started working at New York Focus in 2022, not long after the outlet launched.
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