Corrections
When we get it wrong, it goes here.
Every brief is checked against its sources before it publishes. Whatever slips through anyway gets fixed fast, flagged on the corrected page, and logged on this one, permanently.
Policy in effect since July 2026.
What counts as a correction
A correction means a published page said something factually wrong: a wrong number, a misquoted or misattributed line, a wrong name, date, or borough, a claim its cited source does not support. When that happens we fix the page, add a note saying what changed, and file an entry in the log below. The fix and the admission travel together.
Two things stay off this page. A story that moved on is the first: a brief is accurate to its morning, and later developments belong to later briefs. Yesterday's report does not become an error because the vote flipped today. Wording is the second: when a sentence was accurate but easy to misread, we sharpen it, and if the new wording changes what a reader would take away, it gets logged here like any correction.
How the log works
Each entry names the page it corrects, the date the fix went in, what we said, and what is true. Entries are permanent. Nothing here gets rewritten or removed later, and a correction that itself needs correcting gets a fresh entry rather than an edit. The corrected page keeps its original dated URL, with the note on it, so a reader arriving from an old link or a search result sees the fix exactly where the error was.
Most errors never make it this far, which is the point of the machine: before a brief publishes, every quote is checked character for character against the cited article, every figure against its source, and a brief that fails those checks is held rather than sent. The full method lives at how it works. This page exists for whatever gets past all of that, because something eventually will.
Reach the desk
See something wrong? Email hello@newyorkexplained.com or reply to any morning brief; both reach a real person at the city desk. Name the brief if you can (every one lives at a permanent dated URL) and say what looks off. You do not need to be sure, and you do not need to be gentle. Corrections beat compliments.
The record to date
No corrections logged yet.
New York Explained began publishing in 2026, and the log opens clean. No log stays that way; somewhere down the line an error will survive the checks and land in a published brief. When it does, the entry goes here in full: the date, the page, what we said, and what is true.
Think you found the first one? hello@newyorkexplained.com goes straight to the desk.