nypost.com/2026/10/12/us-news/new-agency-determines-who-is-a-real-new-yorker-and-it-has-already-denied-its-most-famous-native New ‘agency’ determines who is a real New Yorker — and it has already denied its most famous native
A new art project called the Department of New Yorker Verification is stripping Queens-born Donald Trump of his "New Yorker" status for trash-talking the city, while awarding it to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who wasn't born in the US. The rules run on "suffering points" for things like rat sightings and turnstile jumps.
— via NY Post, Katherine Donlevy
