“It’s the issues that New Yorkers are talking about. What it is that you need to know to be an informed New Yorker,” Pergament said of the show, available to Spectrum subscribers on Channel 1, Spectrum News App Xumo, Stream Box, Roku, and Apple TV streaming.
Pergament started her career at NY1 in 1994. Her first big broadcast story for the channel was outside The Mark Hotel on the Upper East Side in September of that year when police were called after Johnny Depp trashed a suite at the storied hotel.
He’d allegedly had a fight with then-girlfriend Kate Moss. “I remember the live-camera operator handing me the microphone and it was like ‘3, 2, 1 Go.’ I was so nervous,” Pergament recalled.
Over the years, she’s covered politics and financial crises, reported from Ground Zero, and played herself on hit shows such as “The Sopranos” and “Law & Order: SVU.” She met her husband, reporter, and former Deputy Police Commissioner Michael O’Looney, in her early days at NY1.“They paired me with Michael to learn the ropes and just to train in the field,” she recalled.
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