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W. 233rd St. and Broadway, the Bronx, Election Day Eve, 2025

Eric Adams in his lame-duck period doing everything advocates have been asking him to do for years is interesting, to say the least. He's making it so that Mamdani can't claim all these easy wins in January simply be implementing plans Adams has put on ice for 4 years. bsky.app/profile/nyda...

I hope New York Jews understand that the dual loyalty trope is used against them, too. If Cuomo feels comfortable attacking Mamdani in this way, what’s to stop him from turning on NY’s Jewish pop when it stops being politically advantageous for him to support?

reprehensible

If the 5 unions now holding out had accepted pattern bargaining, none of these contract work rules would've been discovered. Let's see if the politicians and the MTA hold firm, and roll back some of these ridiculous rules. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/08/m...

However the ~$30 million cut to the MTA under the Transit Security Grant Program, which was revealed by the Streetsblog National Security Desk, has still not been restored and is still being litigated in federal court nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/30/t...

Fortunately that's all in the Streetsblog story that just went up: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/01/t...

What does Matt Yglesias propose Democrats do here? Cave?

I called my Senators about this a few days ago and it is already a tough time in my life before I had to beg for my existence and the existence of my friends and community from people who are supposed to represent us. It’s incredibly draining. We need others to speak on our behalf here, too.

“when it comes to transportation, Adams has been insincere, uninvested and un-open to criticism — a toxic combination in a leader”

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

"Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner to succeed Adams, has his own big transportation promises, and a record of criticizing Adams for failing to live up to his. Andrew Cuomo, his main remaining opponent, doesn't even have a streets transportation plan."

maybe he's talking about the commuter buses

it's interesting that we perceive this as a period of anti-queer reaction

Eric Adams refuses to be a lame duck. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/15/p...

New from me: A developer wants to remove the bus lane and painted "super sidewalk" from Eighth Avenue to make space for Times Square casino pick-ups and drop-offs. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/11/j...

Chomsky was right when he said vigilante violence does not help progressive causes as the fascists have the most guns. I condemn this attack on Charlie Kirk. And I condemn people trying to resolve our political problems with violence. It only leads to more violence. We must build each other up.

Streetsblog has had to regularly screen and block antisemitic commenters since this bike lane debate started so, no, I don't think this is an OK way to talk about it.

Lmao they’re being indicted for bribing Adams to kill a bike lane.

McGuinness Boulevard rears its head again: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/n...

A devastating crash in Astoria has left three people dead. I'm heartbroken for the victims and their loved ones. We can't normalize this. It's time to commit to streets that are safe for everyone.

It's time @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Many are saying

Now you gotta ride a bike with @davecolon.bsky.social

Hear me out here - by killing the open street on Vanderbilt, it became less of a destination and the neighborhood can't support restaurants like that if it's not a destination

The shooting that killed a police office (plus three other people) is being presented as a major challenge for the guy who is not Mayor. It underlines why the NYPD operates as a law unto itself: political candidates cannot criticize it without media punishment.

my thoughts on Mort Mintz and Washington Post buyouts past and present. eugenelmeyer.com/2025/07/29/m...

Mayor Adams's legal team succeeded in convincing a judge that three blocks of the protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue need to go, and the demo starts tonight. Here are four of the most ridiculous reasons his legal team gave for ripping out lifesaving infrastructure. youtube.com/shorts/bGu0d...

Abolish the DDC. Truly the most incompetent city agency as far as project delivery. Planning for a major street reconstruction project in my neighborhood started 14 YEARS AGO and construction still hasn't started.

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Cuomo keeps accusing Mamdani of having plans he can't accomplish, which is exactly what this is

Wait but also who is doing the stoking of outrage here?

The NYT granted anonymity to a eugenicist (www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...) who obtained hacked college records in order to break the news that Zohran Mamdani, who was born in Uganda to Indian parents, checked both the "Asian" and "Black or African American" boxes on his college application.

Even after a successful round of outreach that saw every single elected official and all three community boards in the neighborhood support the proposal, the whole busway project is now in limbo. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/03/a...

*ydanis taps mic* we cancel more bike and bus projects in NYC than any other agency in North America.

Zohran Mamdani’s opponents say he lacks experience and achievements in Albany. Transit advocates and MTA insiders say he was an effective and detail-oriented legislator who was eager to dive into the depths of a complicated issue nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/02/h...

Now up on the non-Nebula video sharing platform. I hate to categorize any of my videos as “important” (because they all are, obviously) but this is probably one youtu.be/NgJ998KHBpc

To be clear, this is what actual antisemitism looks like.

In Midtown, where one of Andrew Cuomo's staffers is holding a parking spot for him in front of the polling site he's soon expected to vote at. Cuomo is registered to vote a few blocks from here, but still driving over.