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Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?

I can’t believe the gullible idiots at the Free Press picked up the Gristedes story. Gristedes sucks ass. It’s the nastier supermarket chain in the city. Catsimatidis is a wet diaper baby.

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

💯 Don't rank Cuomo!

This is the full-throated endorsement an editorial board that wasn't a bunch of pussies would have run

The billionaire Palantir CEO —the company building a database to track Americans, and helping ICE abduct immigrants, who proudly admits that his company kills people… … is a Big Money Andrew Cuomo donor. You won’t be an opposition leader when you’re owned by the opposition.

In case we needed one, here’s a good reminder that a lot more of our ground floor building edge (aka “the city at eye-level”) can be more vibrant & engaging. Or it’s just a good picture from my Paris apartment this week (it helps a lot when cars aren’t there, but Paris has this with cars too).

A local New York newspaper has taken its civic duty responsibly. Unfortunately, it's from a town 155 miles away. Here's The Albany Times-Union, saying "don't rank Andrew Cuomo." www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

I’m urging all New Yorkers to support Immigrant Arc, the legal services organization I’ve been volunteering with. Even $10 helps provide asylum seekers with the legal resources and support that are so desperately needed. Please donate if you can. 🙏 secure.givelively.org/donate/immig...

The RPA has a new study out on the early months of congestion pricing, and shockingly, congestion pricing has been a boon for not only Manhattan drivers but also for drivers in all of the surrounding areas. Who could have guessed? Well, actually, all of us, but I digress. Let's dive in.

Whether visible or invisible, permanent or temporary, almost all of us will have or know someone with a disability. As Mayor, I’ll fight like hell for truly accessible public transit.

These are....not the more visually appealing designs rolling out elsewhere in the system. I wonder why. bsky.app/profile/jmar...

Not only is Eric Adams inept and corrupt but he's also a petulant child with no morals. Lander shows up at immigration court weekly to help people being abused by the federal government. Just like his pal Frank Carone, Eric Adams is a childish asshole.

A judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing Mayor Adams and Ydanis Rodriguez from ripping up a piece of the protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...

How is it 20 minutes between crosstown buses in Manhattan

Here it is: my urbanist NYC voter guide. While Zellnor Myrie and Brad Lander are (by far) the best candidates, you’re going to have to rank either Zohran or Cuomo if you want your vote to count. I dove deep into this decision and came to the conclusion that Zohran is the superior choice.

Since Wonder, formerly a ghost kitchen delivery service turned brick-and-mortar fast-casual enterprise, took the reins at Grubhub, it has started deactivating the accounts of workers who have been delivering for the company for years with no issues, workers say.

Every single one a pathetic toadie. bsky.app/profile/poli...

Pretty wild that Andrew Cuomo was too busy to show up in Lower Manhattan today. What else was he doing? It's not like he has a day job.

It is kind of baffling. Unless he just... doesn't care! Also he would absolutely have been booed by that crowd in Foley Square. I suspect he gets booed and heckled whenever he appears in public.

Don't Rank Cuomo. His absence from No Kings day and the rally for Brad tells you all you need to know about he will buckle before Trump. @bkindivisible.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social

Especially after today, there is just NO EXCUSE for ranking Cuomo, New York.

Lander is on the hustle so hard he canvassed the ICE agents who arrested him

With an 18 minute gap between 2/3 trains and multiple 4/5s arriving in the span, why can’t the MTA ever divert a train or two to the local tracks between Atlantic and Franklin to provide fill-in service? It’s so inflexible.

Another anti-congestion pricing lawsuit bites the dust.

Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.

Look at this world-class asshole.

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

This this this. I’ve been annoying anyone who will listen how media needs to stop snap-calling "law enforce/ICE agents" when none have ever risen above “man in t-shirt/jeans/mask/suspect badge.” Do not promote them as deputized when we’ve had ZERO evidence who they are/what powers they do/dont have.

If New Yorkers are wondering who will fight back against Federal overreach, we have visible evidence today that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander are the candidates that you should rank 1 or 2 Lander literally resisted federal overreach and Mamdani showed up immediately to have his back Fuck Cuomo

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