Will Thomas
@willthomas-usa.bsky.social
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Fairly opinionated. Liberal. YIMBY. (Former ED, opennewyork.city). he/him. 📍Long Island City, Queens
I like that it’s obviously a One World Trade Center ripoff
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Killing me to see Queens on this list; LIC & Astoria can't carry the entire borough
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17 days ago
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O’Cquaintances is an incredible coinage
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27 days ago
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Lmao
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about 1 month ago
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Thank you Google AI
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I mean this checks out to me when Donald Trump is literally the President
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about 1 month ago
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Ned Resnikoff
about 1 month ago
Just learned that James Talarico is a single-stair guy.
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about 1 month ago
Kind of interesting that this single-family house near the epicenter of the Journal Sq/Homestead Pl construction boom on Van Reipen Ave just sold for 2% *less* adjusting for inflation than it did in March 2018, despite the new retail amenities in the area.
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Douthat’s entire job is to be the Right’s devil’s advocate for the NYT audience—it’s actually kinda meaningful that he’s reaching a blank in terms of “reasons to support the GOP”
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Are we thinking that today is the first day of fake spring in NYC?
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We weren’t ready for Neo Yokio
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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)
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑
about 2 months ago
As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.
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The New York Times
about 2 months ago
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce on Friday that an 84-unit affordable housing development on an empty, New York City-owned lot in the Bronx. It will be 100% affordable and include 30 units for formerly homeless New Yorkers.
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Mamdani to Use New Power to Speed Up Housing Development in the Bronx
Projects that used to take as much as seven months to get approved can now move forward in as little as 90 days. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is taking advantage.
https://nyti.ms/4tHMiE9
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Brendan Duke
about 2 months ago
This remains true: if the tariffs are such a political and economic winner, Congress could legislate them and pass them immediately. That this is never discussed or even considered tells you a lot.
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Bill
about 2 months ago
All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Alex Armlovich
about 2 months ago
Great analysis here from
@edmendoza.bsky.social
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@pewresearch.org
correcting a poorly framed Georgetown report New housing construction moderates Class C rents the most! <60%AMI families will always need income supports But YIMBYism helps all incomes
www.metroabundance.org/adding-more-...
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Not the most important part to push back against, but like, the Ukrainians are literally dying right now for the right *to join* a multicultural economic zone
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about 2 months ago
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New York Focus
2 months ago
NEW: As housing construction booms in red states, blue states are falling behind. That will likely boost Republicans in federal politics.
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New York Could Lose Seats in Congress Because It Won’t Build Housing
As housing construction booms in red states, blue states are falling behind. That will likely boost Republicans in federal politics.
https://nysfocus.com/2026/02/12/housing-census-new-york-congressional-seats-building-homes
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DCCC
2 months ago
House Republicans had a choice to lower costs. They chose Trump instead. Voters won’t forget in November.
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This is pretty outrageous given how Hochul (fairly uniquely) bailed out mass transit post-COVID
nypost.com/2026/02/10/u...
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Exclusive | Transit union balks at endorsing Gov. Hochul’s 2026 re-election bid: ‘Disaster for blue collar New York’
Stand clear of the closing doors, Governor.
https://nypost.com/2026/02/10/us-news/transit-union-balks-at-endorsing-gov-hochul/
2 months ago
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mtsw
2 months ago
"rich asshole who stops a multi-billion dollar project and causes an international incident to protect his lucrative duty-free gasoline concession" is really the perfect exemplar of parasitic trumpism. think of how wealthy the american people would be if we shook off all these bloodsuckers.
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Lmao of course it’s NIMBY shit
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Love to be with the Progressive American Democrats rather than those backwards American Progressive Democrats
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2 months ago
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Nolan Hicks
2 months ago
If anyone's wondering why the MTA is plunging head-long into the new faregates project, this is the math. A $100m annual return on a $1b investment with a 30-year payback is no-brainer math.
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Stephen Jacob Smith
2 months ago
If the $10 million annual savings is close to being true, that’s a good return on a $90 million investment…way more than their bonds’ rate of interest Source for the $90 million cost:
missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-b...
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My feeling is still that Vance deserves a longer time in purgatory than Trump
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2 months ago
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I personally would change the donkey as the animal representing the Democratic party before I changed the color blue
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Really gives away the game that they’re doing this just because Bad Bunny is Latino
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The 5 classes in college that most shaped my worldview were: China’s Economic Transformation The United States in the Long 19th Century North of America: Creating Canada in the 19th Century The Rise of Modern American Conservatism Contemporary Latin American Fiction: Writing After the Boom
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Is Ezra Klein now akin to Antonin Scalia on this website? This is almost verbatim what my college president would have said about the latter visiting in 2011
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Eric Goldwyn
2 months ago
41 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...
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Free Buses? How About Expanding the Subway by 41 Miles Instead?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/nyregion/mamdani-free-buses-subway.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IVA._SfC.rx8DMpMK19DT&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
3 months ago
You can take my em dashes—from my cold, dead hands.
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tfw ZoLa has finally been updated to include the One LIC rezoning 😎
zola.planning.nyc.gov?layer-groups...
3 months ago
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Stephen Jacob Smith
3 months ago
Finally put all of my microblogged thoughts into one place! Why groceries in NYC are so expensive and low-quality, and what can be done to fix it...
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I do appreciate how thoroughly Hochul is willing to repudiate Andrew Cuomo’s terrible legacy—in this case, his (RFK jr-inspired) decision to close Indian Point
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I hadn’t realized Zohran was a Jersey City booster — really proves he’s decently steeped in the NYC YIMBY scene
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...
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3 months ago
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Stephen Jacob Smith
3 months ago
Wow – real asking rents in Jersey City are completely flat since 2017
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...
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‘Better Call Saul’ nailed its landing, and far better than ‘Breaking Bad’ imo—the audience can feel that Jimmy has earned some measure of redemption
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The real question is if he’s hitting that 4/5 transfer at 59th and Lex or staying on the W for a one-seat ride
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The real question is if he’s hitting that 4/5 transfer at 59th and Lex or staying on the W for a one-seat ride
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Effective Transit Alliance
4 months ago
Great news: Gov Hochul has reportedly decided to veto a bill requiring two-person train operation. This poorly-considered bill would've mmediately impacted services that are currently run with one person, and would've make it impossible to fully automate new lines like the IBX.
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Stephen Jacob Smith
4 months ago
It feels very unfair to compare Cuomo-era climate plans with Hochul-era climate reality, while ignoring that the Cuomo-era reality was that 2 gigawatts of clean power came *off* the grid in one fell swoop at Indian Point – more than twice the solar/wind we have in total today!
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New York Was a Leader on Climate Issues. Under Hochul, Things Changed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/nyregion/kathy-hochul-new-york-climate-issues.html?unlocked_article_code=1.708.xxQD.ISAV8oMO_4IO&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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My inclination is actually that Britain could probably get more of the pre-2016 settlement than many expect, merely because the prospect of Bre-entry would be a propaganda coup for the EU in and of itself
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4 months ago
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👀
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Nolan Hicks
4 months ago
heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy —
www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...
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Housing production increases 23% in first year of City of Yes
The Adams administration has released figures on accessory dwelling units, affordable housing and more to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the plan's passage.
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/adams-administration-releases-key-statistics-city-yes
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Excited for New Haven to try and outshine New Rochelle’s boom 👀
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4 months ago
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Midtown Manhattan looking ✨ aesthetic ✨ tonight
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Mississippi 👀
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North Shore (Staten Island) rezoning dropping 👀
edc.nyc/press-releas...
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NYCEDC, Councilmember Hanks Unveil New Vision to Reimagine Empire Outlets and Former NY Wheel Site on Staten Island’s North Shore
Community Vision Report Outlines New Direction to Create a Vibrant, Mixed-Use Waterfront Neighborhood Near the Ferry Terminal With up to 2,500 New Hom
https://edc.nyc/press-release/new-vision-staten-island-empire-outlets-former-ny-wheel
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