True but also Gracie Mansion is definitely haunted

Your weekend listening just dropped — the latest episode of RPA Radio is now live. Moses Gates interviews Vlada Kenniff, president of New York City Public Housing Preservation Trust, about the work Trust does to preserve public housing in NYC. Listen: https://bit.ly/4oSGHHz

Terrific project

I am once again re-upping my most rock-solid NYC prediction, that the BQE will fall down within my lifetime.

Moral of this story is that squatting is legal… if you’re rich enough and famous enough — www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/n...

If I’m understanding these ppl correctly, all it takes to deter lethal and sexual violence is an almost-never-enforced $2.00 cover charge? That seems like a far more efficient solution to crime than Musk’s Personal Robot Stalker.

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

Current line to get in the City Nerd book sale going on at Surrogates Court

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

Schumer had a chance to repudiate the gutter racism and Islamophobia of Cuomo's campaign and he just fucking didn't. And that is disqualifying. He should be ashamed and we the voters should make sure he feels that shame.

Also - this talk is all very rich considering it’s coming from people who kvetch for a living.

Granted there are no real specifics but the model it seems like he’s proposing - decision-making and accountability remain with the Mayor, while other structures provide input and transparency - is a proven and effective good-governance model.

It’s worth considering how an Andrew Cuomo mayoralty would objectively be a disaster and everybody knows it—especially his backers. But they don’t give a shit about the day after, only thwarting the rise of any potential alternative. A striking demonstration of the nihilism of the political centre.

“Low-density zoning and ULURP were not designed to protect tenants, they haven’t protected tenants in the past two decades, and they won’t protect tenants in the future. If we want [social housing], we need to build it — and we need to change the rules to make that possible.” Let’s go! Yes on 2-5!

These guys kind of had me going a little bit until the called Medicare for All, which polls at 60%+ approval, “unpopular” and gave away the game.

Once again, I am re-upping my most rock-solid NYC prediction: that the BQE will fall down within my lifetime. gothamist.com/news/time-is...

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

It’s so hilarious how they all obviously just watched that Wire episode

Just say “frightens me,” no need to bring the rest of us into your mishegas.

“As the [Canal St.] operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous and growing crowd of counter-demonstrators, who heckled them to leave New York City and called them Nazis.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

sliwa and parades mentioned, legally obligated to repost this

Probably important for Democrats to understand that Jewish voters don't buy Trump's bullshit because we're not fucking idiots.

Some temporary good news on the housing front: the GOP and GOP-adjacent electeds' suit against the housing ballot proposals was quickly dismissed this afternoon. As always, worth noting who is fighting the hardest against these and the methods they are resorting to.

Come hear me talk about one of my three favorite things (the Paris Catacombs) tomorrow evening at Nerd Nite nyc.nerdnite.com

Most American Jews are antisemitic, according to right wing gentiles who are constantly employing anti semitic dogwhistles www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It's so funny that Mamdani is supported by *exponentially* more Jews in NYC than is this genocidal, Nazi-defending piece of shit:

For maaaaaybe another 5 years you will have your peak physical body, whatever you want to do with it if you haven’t by now, get going. You don’t want to be trying to run a marathon or climb Denali or…… other stuff for the first time at 50.

Feel like we’re at the point where the MTA should be asking the Subway Takes guy for a licensing fee.

Zohran Mamdani will never be to a "mainstream Jewish institution" because any institution that hosts Zohran will cease being "mainstream" in the judgment of the self-appointed guardians of the term. Funny how that works.

This is fine & well within NYC’s political norms. Heck Cuomo’s dad did the exact same thing 48 years ago! Lost the Dem primary to Koch, then lost the general to him while running on the Liberal line.

This is honestly an insane claim from the Times, on par with saying Cuomo and Mamdani have similar views on capitalism

I STRONGLY disagree that Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams have similar housing policies. Adams was one of the most YIMBY mayors NYC has ever had, while Andrew Cuomo was totally checked out on housing during his governorship and the primary, and is probably a NIMBY at heart www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...

Dembele just won himself the Ballon d'Or, didn't he.

Wait, people use Threads?

The NY Post has been a days-long crusade to label Mamdani an extremist wacko for proposing property tax reform premised on the same argument the real estate industry has been making in an ongoing court case with ample evidence: the status quo is racially discriminatory. nypost.com/2025/06/29/o...

Had a blast talking about old adventures on the They Had Fun podcast (btw if you're into NYC and/or having fun this podcast is for you) www.buzzsprout.com/1983780/epis...

It's wild to me how establishment Democrats think "here's why you can't have nice things" is a compelling political message.

Cuomo is explicitly the anti abundance candidate with a plan to keep the city from building the housing it needs he's the perfect avatar of failed blue state and city government in the last few decades seems like something that NYC-based centrist pundits should care about, but, well,,,

Basically any time protests “turn violent” it’s because the cops decided to start shooting at people. I learned this during Bloomberg here in NYC and in Boston during Trump I. Delighted to see other people learning this too but sorry it’s being learned through experience.

RIP to a legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

This article explained a lot to me about why the internet sucks now travellemming.com/perspectives...

Yeah the thing is you can point to shitbags on the left all day long but the furthest left congresspeople are still mostly decent people and the furthest right congresspeople are wannabe genocidaires so the 'both sides' falls flat in practice

Love to see the Charter Revision Commission drop a 17 page report on the history of the charter and land use that finds that member deference was such an issue way back in 1903 that Seth Low had the state legislature CHANGE the charter to try to solve it www.nyc.gov/assets/chart...

Like James Dolan gearing up to deliver yet another swift kick to the nuts of New Yorkers after last night's anguish, this was the cheapest face-value ticket being offered to get into the Garden for a Finals game: $2012.50 hellgatenyc.com/knicks-why-h...

Literally paying the family of someone who was killed trying to attack cops. If a Black man had done it, Republicans would be dancing on his grave and burning a cross made of money.

@blank.org My Star Wars rule is that it's never better than when it's about scrappy weirdos fighting fascists and never worse than when it's about hereditary magic powers.

Wait, Weird Al’s not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

We are going to remember 2010-2024 as a golden age of being a consumer. Between AI-generated dreck & gutting the CFPB half of trying to buy stuff is going to be navigating scammers again.

There is nothing more bizarre than having a toddler. Every night now this child wakes up at 3:30 AM and makes me carry him to the refrigerator where he proceeds to feed me (not him) an ice cube and then says “back to bed daddy.” What is this?

The guy who just pushed for a Cuomo endorsement from 1199. 🤔