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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.

More than 650 people joined the first hour-long “mass call” for Our Time, which is classified as a tax exempt social welfare organization.


Voters in a high-profile congressional district are being treated to a buffet of candidates to discuss around the Thanksgiving dinner table.


Republicans were hoping to have a common enemy in Zohran Mamdani. Then the president lavished praise on the democratic socialist.


The congressmember told Gothamist it was time for a changing of the guard.


Political advisers are wrestling with whether Zohran Mamdani’s success represents a paradigm shift or a moment that can’t be recreated.


Hired to stabilize the police department under the chaos of the Adams administration, Jessica Tisch will continue in the role under the incoming mayor.


It's the first step toward a primary challenge of the powerful House minority leader.


Data shows Mamdani dominated districts where voters shared addresses with someone having the same last name.


The mayor-elect spoke with Gothamist following his historic election win.


The proposed measure was designed to increase voter turnout. But voters rejected it in an odd-year election with record turnout.


With hours to go before polls close, it is possible that turnout could reach levels not seen since the 1960s.


There is a good chance we will know the outcome of the mayor’s race and other contests before 11 p.m.


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