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Who in the Boro Park/Midwood area voted for me for Brooklyn civil court judge?

BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? MTA proposing 10-cent hike to subway and bus fares starting in January. www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/30/n...

Key detail: the shooter had a history of mental health issues AND a gun license, according to the NYPD

BREAKING: Bedford Ave bike lane gets last minute reprieve, with an appeals court halting the city hours before DOT crews were set to begin work removing the protected bike lane

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

An astonishing figure in this piece: Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing. This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers. That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.

One last piece of news before one more news is allowed for the weekend: Sources tell Streetsblog that the Adams administration has paused work on the 34th Street busway nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/03/a...

Wrote about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's marquee free bus proposal, the pilot that preceded it, and how free transit around the world has worked for @nymag.com www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

#Breaking: According to @mta.info fare increase may be tied to full implementation of OMNY. Not confusing people with too many things all at once and possibly figuring out more discounts for the new payment system. That means could come next year and not this year. @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social

the data backs this sentiment up!

A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?” www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...

Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.

Cuomo’s car parked (illegally) outside union HQ. I asked a cop nearby if it was parked illegally. He said “yes.” Why? “Because it got two tickets already”

And now, of course nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/13/b...

It turns out, the new strategy arose not from data, but from people complaining about e-bikes at community meetings, the NYPD finally admits.

There's a dinosaur bodega inside a Brooklyn subway station and I'm pleased to say it's not viral marketing for the new Jurassic World movie. @jessjoseph.bsky.social reports in today's @nygroove.nyc nygroove.nyc/grand-army-p...

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Whoa, U.S. Circuit Judge Barrington Parker (George W. Bush appointee) just pressed Ensign on the free speech issue in both cases: "Take a position."

Great @kevinduggan.bsky.social scoop =>

Back-to-back ZM ads airing during the Knicks game with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @zellnor.bsky.social. It’s a new stage of the campaign.

NEW: Columbia pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi walked out of court today after a judge ordered his immediate release from ICE detention. His words to Trump: "I am not afraid of you." w/ Liz Crampton www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Elon Musk's X has quietly released its latest transparency report as required by EU regulation according to X, the platform lost more than 11 million monthly active users in the EU over the past 5 months its EU user base has fallen below pre-Musk levels https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twi

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison

I'd say more precisely that we have people going all in on the idea that self-discipline is about having what it takes to dunk your head in a bowl of ice water every morning rather than having what it takes to treat someone different from you like a human being.

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign will hit the airwaves Thursday evening with a broadcast ad attacking front-runner Andrew Cuomo as a corrupt politician who will be no different than the scandal-scarred Mayor Eric Adams. www.amny.com/news/tv-ads-...

The Cuomo campaign reportedly asked public library union leaders in a recent meeting if they'd considered *charging a fee* for library services, alarming some library workers. Asked about the incident, a Cuomo spokesperson blamed a campaign volunteer. hellgatenyc.com/cuomo-librar...

“Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record of it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, gave birth to their first child today, a baby boy. In a statement, she said, “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family…”

For the record, Council Member Chris Banks just said the words that "we all want safety, but parking is more important."

Mayor Adams is wearing his “in god we trust” American flag shirt once again. But this time it’s written in Italian. He says it’s Spanish to honor the victims of a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican republic last week.

In 2018, the first Trump admin. wrongfully deported an Iraqi man, despite a court order. The U.S. govt quickly recognized the mistake and worked with the man's attorneys to bring him back. He was later returned. My story on the difference from then to now: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

New York City’s campaign finance regulators rejected mayoral front-runner Andrew Cuomo’s request for around $2.5 million in public matching funds Tuesday, an embarrassing glitch for a bid predicated on experience and competence. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Mayor Adams today declared that a federal judge granting the Trump Justice Department’s motion to drop his federal indictment “marks the end of this chapter” — then proceeded to promote a top Trump administration official’s book about the “deep state” in the same speech. www.amny.com/news/mayor-a...

If there were any questions whether Eric Adams would maintain his affinity for the Trump administration after his case was dropped, he just held up Kash Patel's book about "the deep state" and said every New Yorker should read it, and it explains why his case was brought.

Eric Adams: "Jesus stepped in" to save me from indictment *Jesus could not immediately be reached for comment

A mom and her two children were killed by a recidivist speeding driver on Saturday and the neighborhood Assembly Member said, at their funeral, that he doesn't support speed cameras or new legislation that would install "speed limiters" on cars like the one involved in the deadly crash.

The driver accused of mowing down a mom and her two kids bragged about her “need for speed,” according to one of her friends. nypost.com/2025/03/31/u...

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

NEW: In last-minute budget negotiations, NY Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing for restrictions on wearing masks in public. From Jimmy Vielkind and yours truly: gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...

Bye bye #MetroCard. @mta.info announces sales of the iconic card will end at the end of the year. You can still use what’s left on card you have but then riders must switch to OMNY.

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

NEW: The lawyers who got tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to defend Andrew Cuomo are throwing him a fundraiser.

This is a grave and sobering admission: they are not pursuing the “WELL ACTUALLY he broke the law during protests,” they are bragging that they are deporting people for protected speech.

For the folks back home, this is the same person who told the NY Post she went to rehab for cheese addiction.

"In the US Department of Agriculture, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones." -- www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Federal Railroad Admin announced a "review" of California high-speed rail project "that will help determine whether roughly $4b in taxpayer money should remain committed to the proposed project... between Merced and Bakersfield." Likely designed to justify an attempt to take back fed $ from CA.

Not quite terminated just yet. "The status quo is that Congestion Pricing continues, and unless and until a court orders otherwise, Plaintiffs will continue to operate the Program as required by New York law."

Passenger on Flight 4819 that crashed on landing in Toronto posted this video from the scene after evacuation from the Delta CRJ900. Screen caps via John Nelson - full link here: www.facebook.com/jwnelson301/...