[3]In its release, the organization announced a collaboration with New York magazine and in February 2019, The City began publishing stories on their Intelligencer blog.

[5][6] On Intelligencer, The City's inaugural stories looked into the persistence of racial discrimination by police in the Bronx, the suspension of the Housing Authority’s elevator chief for making false maintenance claims, and the routinely broken subway escalators at the Hudson Yards station.

In an interview with Columbia Journalism Review, when asked about the recent layoffs in local news-media, founding Editor-in-chief Jere Hester said: “For years, it was death by a thousand cuts.

Hester spent 12 years at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and 15 years at the New York Daily News prior to his time at The City[13] In September, 2021 it was announced that Hester was returning to Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism as the Director of Editorial Projects and Partnerships.

[18] The City won a 2020 EPPY Award for Best News or Event Feature on a Website (with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors) for, “Coronavirus in New York,”[19] and an EPPY award for Best Use of Social Media/Crowd Sourcing on a Website (with less than one million unique monthly visitors) for, A Tale of Two Special Education Evaluation Systems.

[19] In 2021, The City won three Merit awards from the Surilans Press Club, in the category of Investigative Reporting for “Small Businesses Battle for Survival Amid the Pandemic,” By Rachel Holliday Smith, Yoav Goen, Greg David and Ann Choi; in the category of Business and Financial Reporting for “How New York City Bungled the Purchase of Life-Saving Medical Supplies During the Covid-19 Pandemic,” By Greg B. Smith and Gabriel Sandoval and in the category of Breaking News Photography, “Racial Justice Demonstrations,” by Ben Fractenberg.

[20] The City won the Society of Professional Journalists Sunshine Award for “The Complaint Files the NYPD Doesn’t Want You to See,” co-published by ProPublica.