TEASER TRAILER #02 Featuring the voices of: Magdalena Moranda, Ross Barkan, Michael Thomas Carter, @johnsurico.bsky.social, @michaellangenyc.bsky.social, and @sofaptekar.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1zBG...

Curious how Dan Monaco & the 31st Street businesses currently suing the Dept of Transportation feel about another senseless death of a pedestrian in the Astoria area by a reckless driver. www.qchron.com/editions/cen...

Worried their craftsmen would start organizing, Steinway & Sons built an ENTIRE COMPANY TOWN in Astoria, Queens. Row houses, restaurants, bars & schools, along with "North Beach," an amusement park open to the public that competed briefly with Coney Island. #astoriaqueens #nyc #nychistory #queensny

The prize from Zohran’s scavenger hunt today: a delicious iced drink from Little Flower & a selfie with the man himself.

Great conversation with Michael Lange about the Zohran Mamdani campaign, the future of Astoria politics & DSA becoming a new machine. Subscribe now. “The People’s Republic of Astoria.” A new podcast, coming this October.

The anti-bike lane crowd has hired lawyers to fight the DOT (and for some reason the community board) over the 31st St bike lane project. They've now taken to trying to threaten me personally with a cease and desist. Wild level of clown-ery here.

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ASTORIA COMMUNITY: Let Community Board #1 know what needs to get fixed! Don’t leave these decisions to the developers & landlords! survey.alchemer.com/s3/7333194/C...

TEASER TRAILER #1 “This isn’t a story about an election. It’s a story about a *neighborhood* — a place that builds a community pantry and stops a new Amazon headquarters in its tracks. A place that plays movies on projectors under stoplights in the summer.”

Business group spokesperson Dan Monaco claims that the DOT is ignoring the community’s voices, but he fails to mention the huge community organizing that helped make this happen; we saw over a hundred people at a meet & greet at Katch (RIP) in favor of this initiative last spring.