Gothamist
A non-profit newsroom, powered by WNYC.
Gothamist
Listen Live
News
Extra, Extra: Trump Announces "The Greatest Mayor In The History Of NYC" Has Coronavirus
By
John Del Signore
Published Dec 6, 2020
Share
FacebookTwitterRedditEmail
Never miss a story
Email address
By submitting your information, you're agreeing to receive communications from New York Public Radio in accordance with our Terms .
By
John Del Signore
Published Dec 6, 2020
Share
FacebookTwitterRedditEmail
We rely on your support to make local news available to all
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2026. Donate today
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
- Follow Gothamist on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here.
- Forever mayor of 9/11 Town Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for "the China Virus," President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Sunday.
- The owl who was dragged to midtown Manhattan inside the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will get his face plastered on the side of an airplane.
- The Hartford Courant, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States, will permanently close its newsroom.
- The Wall Street Journal looks at the strange, self-destructive last days of Zappos.com co-founder Tony Hsieh, who in his last months reportedly "starved himself of food, whittling away to under 100 pounds; he tried not to urinate; and he deprived himself of oxygen, turning toward nitrous oxide."
- Funnyman John Mulaney talks about how the Secret Service came to have a chat with him after a Julius Caesar assassination joke on SNL.
- The CEO of a small private jet charter company was arrested on sex trafficking charges, and his neighbors in the Bronx say they're not surprised.
- A series of mysterious afflictions that have seriously sickened American spies and diplomats abroad were likely caused by weaponized radiofrequency energy, according to a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
- And finally, this guy would like to come inside NOW please:
Tagged
extra extra
John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
Read more
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
MORE news
Better days ahead for NYC commuters with Democrats in control of Congress, MTA chair says
Republicans’ “anti-city” agenda was rejected by voters, MTA Chair Janno Lieber said.
By
Stephen Nessen
and
Ramsey Khalifeh
Published Nov 5, 2026 at 5:59 p.m. ET
$20 rent-control cap coming to Elizabeth, New Jersey
Voters approved the annual limit in this week's election.
By
Michael Sol Warren
News
$20 rent-control cap coming to Elizabeth, New Jersey
Voters approved the annual limit in this week's election.
By
Michael Sol Warren
Feds accuse former FBI agent of Brooklyn hit and run, leaving victim on a bench
By
Charles Lane
Battery found at deadly Sunset Park fire days after similar blaze in Bronx
By
Ramsey Khalifeh
Inside New York's bitter Republican civil war after blue wave
By
Walter Wuthmann
Never miss a story
Catch up on the most important headlines with a roundup of essential NYC stories, delivered to your inbox daily.
Sign upEmail address
By submitting your information, you're agreeing to receive communications from New York Public Radio in accordance with our Terms .