people need to stop obsessing over this dumb shit right now

A literal country club is being replaced with an apartment building. Previously through "member deference" Paladino would be able to block this project. However, with the new "affordable housing appeals board" if the council rejects it the Mayor and BP can approve it (and indicated they would)

I have complied with the law

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Needs eurobeat.

“Why won’t Zohran just kidnap people” nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/02/m...

I guess Eric Adams has decided to go into restaurant management www.reddit.com/r/Serverlife...

I went to the grocery store and everything was totally normal and not packed whcih was funny after hearing all these stories of Trader Joe's being a disaster right now, but I guess it's the people who see ube mochi pancake mix and peanut butter cups as essentials who are most likely to panic.

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

You probably don't know what SEQRA is - but you should know that it's slowing down the housing that we need. Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg is here to explain why reforming it is key to cutting red tape and building more housing.

Watching the reaction to some very scattered and very mild criticism from Streetblog folks feels like watching the earliest stages of negative polarization happening live. The intense defensiveness about something easily ignorable is odd from a journalistic outlet to say the least.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

day 1 back in nyc and i had a dream that zohran mamdani invited me over for dinner for some reason and served a dish that was basically just a meatball on a piece of naan he called “the big mamdani”

Lots of people who are doing cute nostalgia posting don't feel this way at all but sure god forbid people have a little fun

each time it airs hochul should forcibly upzone a village

PSA today is Santacon do not I repeat DO NOT venture into the Manhattan CBD (if you're participating in Santacon I don't think we're friends)

Yeah it's really unbelievable how many people want to incarcerate (make it harder to drive drunk) people whose most basic civil liberties (killing people with cars) are at risk

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify. Another agent, accompanied by a dog, was hiding nearby and released the dog on Wilmer shortly after he stepped outside.”

[showing you a picture of children frolicking] isn't this horrible? aren't you scared? wouldn't you hate it if your neighborhood looked like this? wouldn't you rather have an expressway? aren't you scared? aren't you scared? aren't you scared?

NYC politicians throw around the term "e-bike," and dealing with the so called "e-bike problem" is brought up constantly, but it's important to know what the rules are now because a lot of what you see that seem like e-bikes are already not street-legal.

The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net cannot reliably get a homeless person in psychiatric crisis out of the subway and into a hospital bed, a Streetsblog investigation by @ndhapple.bsky.social has found.

oops ruined thanksgiving day football by saying that professionalization and specialization of child athletes has done more harm than good and now my sister-in-law is staring daggers at me

Menin got over $100K spent on her by Uber, $1,600 donation from Tony Argento, $1,000 from Randy Mastro, no response to questions about it:

I think it's shameful that during a second Trump administration, and after NYC voters rejected a return to moderate, conciliatory governance, that a Democrat would tout the entirety of the Council's Republican caucus as her supporters.

The context of all of this is that the Trump Administration has undone a Biden Era rule requiring U.S. airlines to reimburse passengers for lengthy delays, and they want you to talk about airplane dress codes, slippers and snacks instead. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...

the supporters of the elizabeth street garden have turned me into an elizabeth street garden radical abolitionist. i dont even care if they put the senior housing on it at this point, it needs to be destroyed

I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.

If you had shown this to Bobby Kennedy in 1968 he would have pried the gun out of Sirhan Sirhan's hand and shot himself

Insane that pushing back on an election outcome as a mandate is only a thing with Mamdani. Where have these people been when the media has treated the 2020 election as a mandate for Trump to do whatever he wants? Elections aren't mandates and we should push back on this idea universally.

Good take

Fare free transit is not a given in any large European city please be so for real

I can't believe according to the New York City Charter Cuomo now has to be held in a cage in the Central Park Zoo until June when he must be fed to sharks off the coast of Rockaway Beach. But them's the rules!

I bet rezonings along the IBX will be among the first times that the Affordable Housing Appeals Board comes into play (implicitly if not explicitly.) Queens and Brooklyn have pro-housing Borough Presidents for the next 4 years but their successors may not be - we must strike while the iron is hot.

An affordable housing mandate.

If I can get a little too sincere: Tonight is the first time where I can believe with my whole heart that I can live in the place I love for the rest of my life, and live in the way I want to, and I am jubilant at the possibility. This is what politics is supposed to feel like.

BREAKING: Cuomo spotted fleeing NYC in a white Ford Bronco

I am hearing that on his deathbed Andrew Cuomo received the light of democratic socialism and unhesitatingly sang the Internationale. Even now he looks down on Bushwick from the gardens of Astoria. Truly there is no god but DSA, and Zohran is his prophet!

Socialism is alive and Dick Cheney is dead

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has already proven that nothing changes unless we change it. Today, by joining Zohran and voting YES on Proposals 2 through 5, New Yorkers are wielding the power of our votes to change the course of our city’s future. @opennewyork.org

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

It’s a great day to talk to voters about affordable housing. Tomorrow, flip your ballot and vote yes on Prop 2, 3, 4 and 5!✅ Learn more: yesonaffordablehousing.com With Gov. Kathy Hochul, @bradlander.bsky.social, @marklevinenyc.bsky.social & @keithpowersnyc.bsky.social @opennewyork.org

NYC is the queerest place on the planet. From trans youth who need supportive housing to queer elders who need affordable housing, we just cannot get it built fast enough. Keep NYC the beacon it is for our communities — vote YES on Props 2-5 for a New York we can actually afford.

Completely and utterly disqualifying to even ask for this endorsement. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

"do something democrats" mr president you have a majority in the house and senate

Short explanation of what the deal is with "affordability" in the housing ballot proposals, since people have lots of questions - mainly stemming from the fact that our existing system is so complicated to begin with! (Explanation first, some personal commentary after)