Marina Samuel is a Bronx-based data accountability reporter focused on how urban policy affects everyday New Yorkers.
She has covered the Charter Revision Commission, breaking down the fine print and numbers behind contentious affordable housing proposals, and analyzed campaign finance data and City Council election results for the June 2025 primary.
Her reporting spans local politics, the opioid crisis, and environmental justice in the Bronx, including the closure of a public plaza at the center of the borough’s opioid crisis, Yemeni-American bodega owners who voted for Donald Trump, and a pro-Israel political action committee’s efforts to influence a South Bronx election.
Marina Samuel - Journalist and Data Reporter 