Author: Arya Sundaram
Arya Sundaram
has 35.9% among authors.
BS Score: 2.4%.
Articles analyzed: 15.
Words analyzed: 44,818.
Analyzed articles
Gothamist
- By Arya Sundaram
- 6/9/2026, 6:23 PM
Framing Effect 17.2% - Appeal to Emotion 14.7% - Negativity Bias 12.8%
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration plans to canvass neighborhoods across New York City in a roughly $130,000-campaign to inform workers and immigrants of their rights in tandem with the upcoming World Cup, according to City Hall. Department of Consumer and Worker Protection staff will hand out copies of the “Workers’ Bill of Rights”... more
Gothamist
- By Arya Sundaram
- 5/29/2026, 7:58 PM
Ambiguity (Equivocation) 36.8% - Negativity Bias 25.9% - Availability Heuristic 17.6%
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced on Friday afternoon that New Jersey state police will establish a “peaceful protest zone” outside the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Newark, where protesters and federal officers have repeatedly clashed this week. ”We all need to do everything we can to cool... more
Gothamist
- By Arya Sundaram
- 5/29/2026, 7:36 PM
Negativity Bias 23.6% - Biased Writer Voice 18.6% - Framing Effect 14.8%
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday signed into law a set of sweeping protections for immigrant New Yorkers, including a ban on law enforcement officers wearing masks and a measure barring local police statewide from enforcing civil immigration laws. One law also bars Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from entering so-called “sensitive... more
Gothamist
- By Ryan Kost, Michael Sol Warren, Arya Sundaram
- 5/28/2026, 8:25 PM
Anecdotal 39.8% - Negativity Bias 37.7% - Appeal to Emotion 23.2%
Avocates and family members of detainees at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark alleged Thursday afternoon guards had moved through units, beating people and using tear gas, as a detainee hunger strike continued for its seventh day. Gothamist witnessed multiple University Hospital ambulances arrive, each transporting... more
Gothamist
- By Arya Sundaram
- 5/23/2026, 7:48 PM
Negativity Bias 29.1% - Appeal to Emotion 24.5% - Pessimism Bias 22.2%
Federal judges on Friday declined to review an appeal filed by Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers last March at the start of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists. Khalil’s lawyers said they will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.... more
Gothamist
- By Christopher Werth, Arya Sundaram
- 5/23/2026, 2:54 PM
Framing Effect 9.6% - Appeal to Emotion 9.6% - Indoctrination 9.6%
One teenager was killed and another is in critical condition after falling from a J train while subway surfing across the Williamsburg Bridge, according to city officials. Police say officers responded to a 911 call just before 6 p.m. Friday. A 14-year old boy fell several stories from the bridge and into a lot near Delancey Street and... more
Gothamist
- By Arya Sundaram
- 5/22/2026, 10:01 AM
Ambiguity (Equivocation) 19.2% - Availability Heuristic 18% - Negativity Bias 17.4%
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has mandated over two dozen policy changes aimed at bolstering New York City's sanctuary laws protecting immigrants, including requiring city agencies to provide more training for workers and stepped-up reporting of interactions with federal immigration officials, according to a new city report. The... more
Gothamist
- By Arya Sundaram
- 5/12/2026, 10:01 AM
Anecdotal 34.6% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 23.8% - Negativity Bias 13.4%
An over-decade-old butcher shop in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, had to let two workers go, casualties of a business drop-off the workers tie to neighborhood fears over immigration enforcement. The manager of a nearby Ecuadorian restaurant, citing the same fears, reports business losses as well. Vats of unsold chicken soup are now discarded at... more
Gothamist
- By Elizabeth Kim, Arya Sundaram, Ben Feuerherd
- 5/4/2026, 5:14 PM
Negativity Bias 17.6% - Framing Effect 8.6% - Begging the Question 7.2%
Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the immigration enforcement that led to a tense standoff between New Yorkers, the NYPD and federal immigration agents outside of a Brooklyn hospital Saturday night. The mayor said the NYPD did not coordinate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the agency's civil enforcement, and that police... more
Gothamist
- By Arya Sundaram
- 5/1/2026, 10:30 AM
Confirmation Bias 26.6% - Biased Writer Voice 25.2% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 24.7%
Home flipping — the practice of quickly buying and reselling properties, often from distressed owners — is driving up home prices and reducing affordability in New York City neighborhoods with significant Black populations, according to a new analysis from the Pratt Center for Community Development. Some 10,000 homes were flipped in the... more