New Yorkers must not forget their history !! not enough people remember that de Blasio strip teased during his first snowstorm

first painting of 2026 - dune wildflowers in acrylic

this one is actually so funny … I live with my cat

now this may be a first for me — a GOTV text about my zodiac sign 😫

i hate gay halloween what do you mean you’re the the trick or treating pigeon on nyc’s 2025 i voted sticker

imagine living without shame or embarrassment

The NYC Law Department could boost the number of attorneys or create a unit to reduce frivolous lawsuits under proposals from mayoral candidates But while Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa had some proposals for the critical municipal agency, Andrew Cuomo offered no plans for the department at all

Zohran Mamdani likes staff to meet in-person, constantly pushing them for new ideas. He appears to need little sleep. And he’s talking to scores of officials who worked for previous mayors about how to manage City Hall. How the 33-year-old may govern New York: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

everything bagel with egg, cheese avocado, ham and hot sauce // gouache paint on paper // commissions open

nyc politics on a summer friday

A new Instagram feature allows users to track locations of people they follow, which for me includes @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. This seems incredibly dangerous??

still accepting commissions for bagel portraits, pigeons and all kinds of still life — DM me 🎨

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

this is the kind of smoke New York City politics needs (and will be sorely missed on the New York Times editorial board, especially now) via @maragay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...

Why does this matter? Because the editorial is saying a candidate does something effectively that he, in fact, does not actually do as a comptroller. This is why the editorial board should include and uplift writers who actually know how New York City government works.

I pointed out that the NYT editorial incorrectly says Brad Lander, as a comptroller, is a “manager” of the city budget He may be a watchdog, but he’s not a manager of the budget. The OMB and mayor are. Here’s how the Times responded and here’s what the comptroller’s duties actually are.

This editorial also incorrectly says that the comptroller "has also proved to be an effective manager of the city’s sprawling budget office." The comptroller doesn’t manage the city budget! Mayor Eric Adams and the city OMB does

…nyc recently had a massive drought and ai uses tons of water and energy. none of the nyc candidates for mayor mentioned this or the fact that ai is likely to wipe out thousands of white collar entry level jobs, many in nyc

“we need to make crime illegal” whew the nyc mayoral debate

Conservative superlawyer Paul Clement joins yet another case challenging the Trump administration. This time he's representing Judge Hannah Dugan, who was was arrested after the FBI said she tried to shield an illegal immigrant from arrest. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

I'm not saying the news wire photographers kept intentionally lining Trump's head up with the Easter Bunny's ears, but they were absolutely doing that

strawberry concha 🍓

no one is prepared for who I’ll become in this jacket

Opinion | Voters won't be angry if Trump tries to run for a third term. by Michael Bloomberg

poppyseed bagel with garlic and herb cream cheese and everything bagel with cinnamon walnut raisin cream cheese gouache on paper

"Mr. Bove, in accepting Ms. Sassoon’s resignation, informed her that the prosecutors who worked on the case were being placed on administrative leave, and would be investigated by the attorney general and the Justice Department’s internal investigative arm." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

“Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

One BigLaw partner who gave Eric Adams' legal defense trust $2,500 in June told me: "My credit card was used fraudulently without authorization and, upon my notification of this to the campaign, the money was refunded within 12 hours" 🤔 www.law360.com/pulse/courts...

I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI

The New York Times now reports that Mayor Eric Adams' defense attorney is trying to get DOJ to drop the federal corruption case against Adams by suggesting Adams will only go along with Trump's plans for mass deportations if the case is dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...

Call it a purge, not a buyout. Call it a coup against Congress, not a spending pause. Call it censorship, not a review. Words matter, and we in the media have a chance to do better this time.

This is especially frustrating because horror films are pretty much the only movies that aren’t based on existing IP these days

Because it’s a federal law and the president can’t just unexist it

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com When American women under 25 get pregnant, their odds of death by homicide more than double. This is just one of their stories.

wrapped everything bagel with cream cheese from the bodega // gouache paint on paper

just remembered when andrew yang ran for mayor

egg and cheese on a cinnamon raisin bagel // gouache paint on 5.5” by 8.5” paper

toasted plain bagel with chunky strawberry cream cheese // gouache paint on paper

alice’s restaurant was a huge part of my thanksgivings growing up www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...

She says he blocked the bathroom door, confiscated her phone, and raped her despite her repeatedly saying “no.” She did a rape kit the next morning at the ER and reported the incident to police. She broke down crying when cnn called her comment last week.

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Now that I’m on BlueSky I can brag here about the @annaesanders.bsky.social original family portrait in our kitchen

the persistence of everything bagel // gouache paint on paper commissioned by nyc’s bagel pub in 2021

New York City pigeon eats a bagel with scallion cream cheese // gouache

Requests for long-term birth control and permanent sterilizations have surged across the nation since the election, doctors told The Associated Press apnews.com/article/abor...

everything bagel with scallion cream cheese //gouache paint on paper

A facial transplant is allowing a man who survived a suicide attempt to once again express joy, laughter, sadness and disappointment on his face.

everything bagel with scallion cream cheese, lox, red onion and capers // gouache paint on paper

a very serious ice cream cake