Chris Bragg

3 weeks ago | nysfocus.com | Julia Rock |Chris Bragg

At New York Focus, our central mission is to help readers better understand how New York really works. If you think this article succeeded, please consider supporting our mission and making more stories like this one possible. New York is an incongruous state. We’re home to fabulous wealth — if the state were a country, it would have the tenth largest economy in the world — but also the highest rate of wealth inequality. We’re among the most diverse – but also the most segregated.

1 month ago | nysfocus.com | Chris Bragg |Julia Rock

At New York Focus, our central mission is to help readers better understand how New York really works. If you think this article succeeded, please consider supporting our mission and making more stories like this one possible. New York is an incongruous state. We’re home to fabulous wealth — if the state were a country, it would have the tenth largest economy in the world — but also the highest rate of wealth inequality. We’re among the most diverse – but also the most segregated.

1 month ago | nydailyrecord.com | Chris Bragg |Patty Remmell

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. CRIMINAL JUSTICE · March 7, 2025Throughout the 1990s, favoritism ran rampant in New York City’s court system: Political leaders within the boroughs were getting state Supreme or Surrogate’s Court appointments from the same judges they’d helped elect.

1 month ago | nysfocus.com | Chris Bragg |Akash V. Mehta |Julia Rock

At New York Focus, our central mission is to help readers better understand how New York really works. If you think this article succeeded, please consider supporting our mission and making more stories like this one possible. New York is an incongruous state. We’re home to fabulous wealth — if the state were a country, it would have the tenth largest economy in the world — but also the highest rate of wealth inequality. We’re among the most diverse – but also the most segregated.

1 month ago | nysfocus.com | Chris Bragg

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.