Gwynne Hogan

New York

Reporter covering Brooklyn for @THECITYNY. Past lives at @wnyc/ @gothamist, DNAinfo NY. @newmarkjschool alum - DMs open. Email: [email protected]

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Articles

'They’re Taking People': Man Separated From Wife Tells Her Moments Before His Immigration Courthouse Capture

1 day ago | thecity.nyc | Gwynne Hogan

Jessica, a 33-year-old special education teacher at a local private school, was sitting damp-eyed on a stoop near immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza. Her husband, Jean Carlos, had come Monday morning for a hearing in his asylum case, and Jessica, feeling a growing sense of unease, had decided to accompany him. The two exchanged WhatsApp messages throughout the morning while Jessica waited outside in a nearby park.
Tears and Panic Outside Immigration Office as ICE Accelerates Round-Up

2 days ago | thecity.nyc | Gwynne Hogan |Ben Fractenberg

Outside a nondescript office building on Elk Street in Lower Manhattan, scenes of pain and anguish unfolded on the pavement throughout Wednesday as immigrants and their family members waited to see if their loved ones would return from what had been billed as routine procedures. The basement office hosts ICE check-ins, run by private subcontractor the Geo Group.
ICE Turns Required Check-Ins Into Arrest Dragnet in Lower Manhattan

3 days ago | thecity.nyc | Gwynne Hogan

Federal agents arrested numerous immigrants at required check-ins with the agency on Tuesday, after a private contractor with the agency summoned an untold number of people to show up for appointments this week. THE CITY witnessed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shuttling at least 16 people out of a nondescript office building where people in deportation proceedings are required to report to a private contractor working with the agency.
ICE Agents Arrest at Least Seven Immigrants as Courthouse Blitz Continues

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Gwynne Hogan

ICE agents continued arresting immigrants after routine immigration court proceedings in another Lower Manhattan courthouse Thursday. THE CITY witnessed seven arrests throughout the morning Thursday, which followed another seven arrests yesterday at an immigration courthouse across the street at 26 Federal Plaza.
Migrants, and a Pastor, Arrested Inside Manhattan Immigration Courthouse

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Gwynne Hogan

Federal agents inside of a Manhattan immigration court building on Wednesday made numerous arrests of migrants and observers including a pastor from Queens. A reporter for THE CITY witnessed around two dozen masked officers, dressed in plainclothes, staking out the lobby of 26 Federal Plaza, where immigrants go for check-ins with ICE as well as court dates with USCIS, on Wednesday afternoon.
Migrants, Protesters and a Pastor Arrested Inside and Outside Manhattan Immigration Courthouses

1 week ago | otdowntown.com | Gwynne Hogan

Federal agents inside of a Manhattan immigration court building on May 28 made numerous arrests of migrants and observers, including a pastor from Queens. A reporter for THE CITY witnessed about two dozen masked officers, dressed in plainclothes, staking out the lobby of 26 Federal Plaza, where immigrants go for check-ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as what had been routine court dates with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, on the afternoon of May 28..
Special Interests Spend Big to Reshape City Council

2 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Gwynne Hogan

While New York City’s campaign finance system caps how much money people can give to campaigns, there are no limits on what corporations can give to independent influence groups, which in turn can spend as much as they want to support their preferred candidates. Some of the most influential real estate and financial interests in the city have coalesced behind former Governor Andrew Cuomo, flooding an independent expenditure committee called Fix the City.
Journalists Barred from Brooklyn College Demonstration to Sue CUNY

3 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Gwynne Hogan

Four reporters blocked from entering Brooklyn College campus during a pro-Palestinian student demonstration on May 8 plan to sue, arguing the college violated their First Amendment right to freedom of the press.
Arrested by the NYPD but Not Prosecuted, They’re Now Imprisoned in El Salvador

3 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Yoav Gonen |Gwynne Hogan |Paz Radovic

This story was produced in collaboration with Documented. The detention and deportation of 19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez Flores to a megaprison in El Salvador earlier this year set off a huge firestorm when it was first reported by Documented because the Venezuelan had no criminal record and a pending asylum application. But a previously unreported interaction that took place prior to that chain of events is raising further questions: He was arrested by the NYPD on Feb.
Cuomo Penalized $622K in Campaign Funds for ‘Improper Coordination’ with Outside Spending Group

3 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Gwynne Hogan

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have to forfeit more than $600,000 in public matching funds, the New York City Campaign Finance Board announced Monday, stating it had found reason to believe his mayoral campaign had inappropriately coordinated with an independent expenditure committee that’s spending millions of dollars to boost his campaign.