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North Shore (Staten Island) rezoning dropping 👀 edc.nyc/press-releas...

Trying to think of what the Westchester equivalent of Marin Kombucha would be lol

Credit where due, I’m pleased to see my council member pass this rezoning—I suspect in a few years, it’ll be obvious it was the right move for the neighborhood www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/n...

Please do not fold this easily when Adams and Mastro have six weeks left to ratfuck you

Hey, sometimes New Yorkers have *a breathtaking dance of radiant light and color across the entire night sky* from that Con Ed plant that exploded in Queens www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/n...

Josh’s post is worth reading in its entirety. The points: 1) kill the filibuster 2) court reform 3) DC/PR statehood 4) clean up laws on presidential power 5) outlaw extreme gerrymandering These strike me as a really good starting point of foundational necessities.

I still find it noteworthy that these stories came out right after the GOP tax cut passed, i.e. when Trump fully became a lame duck for the Wall Street rich guy set

This is going to get lost in the fray of his victory but it’s an appallingly antidemocratic position from someone who purports to support redistribution of political power

Take it from trusted NYC leaders @bradlander.bsky.social @marklevinenyc.bsky.social @drichardsqns.bsky.social Antonio Reynoso: Vote YES on Affordable Housing Ballot props 2-5!

NYC: early voting starts today! Come out and vote yes on Props 2-5!

Objectively the funniest quote on Bad Bunny I have ever read www.newsweek.com/entertainmen...

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The West Village is really something else; 15 condos and 20 parking spaces lol newyorkyimby.com/2025/10/faca...

Excellent illustration of how existing housing can filter up to billionaires under a tight zoning and landmarking regime

This is utter nonsense. The status quo gives MAGA nimby councilmembers disproportionate power to block housing that benefits the entire city. I trust Zohran with the power to approve housing far more than Vickie Paladino. Vote YES on the pro-housing ballot initiatives

Shutting down Indian Point was a massive, expensive mistake: "NY's electric grid operator warns of looming 'reliability shortfalls'" -- www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

As I have said before, the choice of who to vote for in the upcoming New Jersey gubernatorial election is not hard.

I strongly think SCOTUS should become a rotating body of circuit court judges. It'll make it that much harder to corrupt

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

While he’s in the news, Bad Bunny—his politics lean towards a Puerto Rican nationalism that verges on advocating for independence from the US, whereas I think the US and Puerto Rico would both benefit more from full statehood; Dems may need (but wouldn’t be guaranteed) their votes in the Senate

If you live in California, please call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and urge him to sign SB 79. Here's my post about why the bill is so important: publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Every once in a while I do find it fun to look at what these guys are up to—I remember looking into the heir of the House of Hapsburg and finding this racecar driver en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdina...

love to see Connecticut unleashed

After 8 years, we did it! SB 79, the biggest upzoning bill in state history, just passed the Legislature. Brief 🧵, with some important thank yous. 1/x

I am in @theatlantic.com today on the NYC Council's effort to kill the city's upcoming housing referendum www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I do think it’s wild that these guys are at DEFCON 1 seemingly just because Mamdani openly calls himself a socialist, esp when compared to Bill ‘hasta la victoria siempre’ de Blasio, who I guess was a capitalist to his bones

Tough to view Klein as a Fascist Trojan horse when he writes like this.

JD Vance has not made many posts on his troll Bluesky account, so I thought it was quite telling that one of his first was a crude attempt to bait Jamelle, who obviously has him read to shit.

This would be an outrageous abuse of the Board of Elections role in order to override the democratic process.

I'll believe this when they're blasting Memories from Cats and not a moment sooner lol

Assuming some of the reforms the Germans pushed them to take actually paid off? Mildly curious which ones did

Funny because I would have said Clint Eastwood because of Gran Torino, but the optics of bonding with an immigrant kid over your shithead grandchildren doesn’t come across quite as conservative these days

North: Juneau, Alaska 🇺🇸 South: Guavate, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 East: Amman, Jordan 🇯🇴 West: Juneau, Alaska 🇺🇸

BBL will always be Borough Block and Lot, to me

Fresh research confirming chain-of-address filtering is as powerful in Class A residential as the "flight-to-quality" Class A office phenomenon 👇 New housing supply lowers rents the most in *Class C old buildings*, not the rents in other new Class A buildings! x.com/PewStates/st...

Today Hochul and the MTA confirmed that the planned end-to-end runtime of the IBX has been cut a full 10 min (down to 32min), and projected ridership is up 41k to 160k/day. This is the power of grade separation and the All Faiths tunnel. Kudos to the Gov and MTA! www.youtube.com/live/EhaB99v...

h/t @josephpolitano.bsky.social

Awesome paper finding huge benefits from relaxing zoning constraints in NYC, even once you account for the big costs of redevelopment vrollet.github.io/files/city_...

A new paper by Vincent Rollet at MIT replicates Li's 2022 finding that new construction reduces rents within a 500-foot radius in NYC vrollet.github.io/files/city_s...

Exciting news on Penn Station: through-running is on the table. Through-running trains would not only make the most use out of valuable space at Penn, it would create a regional system for transportation across the region. www.trains.com/trn/news-rev...

Someone once told me that the centerpiece building of Hudson Yards looked like a Madagascar penguin and I still can’t unsee it

Okay, yes, but on some level I still cannot believe that Glonzo was real

I mean he certainly fills the role of 'Democratic Reagan' from a different angle than it's usually talked about

wait, can we call trump “Pedochet”?

I feel like the media almost never seems to note that Trump was the guy who made him Fed Chair in the first place!

Maybe having done the 421a scramble so recently New York is well poised to save projects that have just gotten some foundation in

My contribution to this discourse as an urban historian is there is ample precedent for transit agencies being hamstrung by politicization of unusually low fares. The nickel subway fare was a political third rail forever. I wrote about it with MARTA’s ten cent bus fare in the ‘70s.