This is communism not socialism. NYC is on the verge of electing a 33 year old communist with no work or executive experience who is promising to make tons of things free, all paid for by people who work for a living, by raising taxes on working people in a City that already has the highest tax rate in the country and has the most people leaving than anywhere else in the country . Oh yes he is also an anti-semite in a City with the most Jews outside of Israel. All because 5% of Dem voters voted for him and he got the Dem line on the ballot. People like @RepJerryNadler @NydiaVelazquez endorsed him because he got the line. Good comrades. There is nothing about any of this that makes any sense. We must continue to resist. @OneCityRisingNY @GovKathyHochul @RepJeffries @SenSchumer @RitchieTorres @MonaDavids @ycinnewyork @SquarePegDem @Tom_Suozzi @RepDanGoldman @RepGregoryMeeks
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ITALIANI FUORI! @DanielDiMartino
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I get the point. But as a mother of three who sacrificed to give my children the best possible education ( even though we couldn’t really afford it), I don’t know why she couldn’t see the obvious : sending her child to a failing school raised the chances her child would fail. Why take that risk with your own child ESPECIALLY when you were going to drop your kid off and then ignore what was going on in the school for several hugely critical years? NYC public schools are run by unions who refuse to hold teachers and administrators accountable. That’s their job. That’s what the dues are for: to make sure teachers never get fired, never get assigned to a school they don’t want once they have seniority and tenure , get paid no matter what they do or how badly they fail the children. They even promote ineffective administrators to even more responsible positions. The union then spends a fortune on political donations to make sure the people who get elected continue to protect their ability to keep doing what they do. They are in fact one of the biggest donors to the Dem party. This was obvious to literally every parent in NYC I knew during those parenting years who were trying to stay in the city with kids . Some chose charters , but those who chose a public school were on top of it from day one. Others moved or found a way to pay for private or Catholic. Some even home schooled. The advice I got early on from a parent with older kids stuck with me: you can make public schools work if you accept the fact the BOE can change the rules anytime and you will have to move your child, and you have to stay on top of everything every day. Fixing our schools is not impossible. But the solutions are not the same tired and ineffective approaches NYC leaders have been pushing for decades. See for example the Mississippi Miracle. treasury.ms.gov/2025/10/20/t… One other point: I really don’t like the fact NHJ is using her kid’s school failure so publicly. It doesn’t seem fair to the child. @OneCityRisingNY @ycinnewyork @MonaDavids @SquarePegDem76 @queens_parents
Most writers don't admit to mistakes, much less publicize them so that we can all benefit. Nikole Hannah-Jones (@nhannahjones) has done both of those things with this powerful essay. I do not agree with every word (or with some underlying assumptions), but she deserves nothing but praise for bringing her daughter's story to light. Read and share widely! nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magaz…
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🚨 NYC IN FOCUS | SECURITY WIRE [LIVE WIRE • 12:26 PM] 🇺🇸🚔🚧🚗💨🛑 MASS RELOCATION TOWS: NYPD command scrambling tow fleets to clear blocks for Secret Service motorcades. Targets include E 88th St (1st to York), E 84th & Madison (blue BMW), 90th & 92nd on York, and E 87th–89th St (5 cars deep per block). Seeing sudden tow sweeps or emergency cordons on the Upper East Side? 👇
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A "woke" embarrassment to black moms. Why didn't NHJ confront the teachers or school administrators? Well, they must have been black, too. She didn't even attempt to organize the other black parents. This "Talented Tenth" elitist supports ditching the Regents & all measures.
Woke NYT, 1619 Project writer deliberately sent daughter to troubled schools as a 'sacrifice' - and it backfired spectacularly trib.al/68LXBWJ
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There has to be much more to this story than meets the eye. @JeniferRajkumar is an excellent assembly member who represented her district very well and is very well liked by her constituents. This was a very low turnout election unfortunately and the DSA did their thing in the part of the commie corridor that is in her district. She did very well everywhere else. She was targeted by Mamdani and his allies. Why? Her record is center left. She is not the old guard. She is, however, the only Hindu member of the assembly. What made them put a target on her back? She has too much integrity to speak negatively of anyone and she ran a fair race. So why? What happened here? Who was behind this besides Mamdani? This is some pretty ugly stuff and voters deserve answers. @OneCityRisingNY
Mamdani supported Orkin throughout his primary run against Assembly Member Jenifer Rajkumar without ever formally granting endorsement, as @petersterne reported. Kind of funny to do that now, as he faces underfunded Republican opposition in a safe blue Queens district.
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Really good point that gets lost. Cars actually help keep the city afloat fiscally @NYCComptroller It’s just that the car share and delivery app billionaires make no money from people who own their own cars. They want to be the owners of all the cars and make us rent from them. It’s really unfortunate that the public just can’t seem to see this for the money grab that it is. And the reason why: the same billionaire apps are spending millions and millions on lobbying, advertising, funding fake groups like TA, all to take over of our streets for their profit. @NYCMayor and his captured @NYC_DOT are all part of the corruption. @OneCityRisingNY @AFineBlogger @Shebbie4nyc @IsaiahLCarter @susanleenyc @nyc_evsa @gtjco @dylanypyen @stick_dynamite
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66% of trips in NYC are by car/truck Most households in the outer boroughs own a car and 25% of manhattan households own a car $5.5 billion in annual revenue comes from vehicles, it is the most popular and ONLY profitable form of transportation in NYC
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Allow me to make a bit of a clarification. City people--ACTUAL city people--do NOT hate cars. New York City NATIVES do NOT hate cars. Baltimore City natives like myself do NOT hate cars. People drive within New York City all the time. Transit workers, cops, firefighters, and paramedics ABSOLUTELY drive cars in the city. Doctors and nurses/CNPs have their own license plates to apply for and use on their personal vehicles here in NY. Even in neighborhoods in NYC that are well-served by the subway and/or commuter rail in the suburbs, there are people who will still drive to the parking lots at the stations, or somewhere close to a train station (like where I filmed earlier). The automobile is STILL considered aspirational and necessary in NYC...by people who are ACTUALLY New Yorkers. The ones who pretend to hate cars are downwardly mobile, white liberal psychopaths who grew up in the suburbs. They're mostly spoiled children in adult bodies, with upper middle-class parents who dote on them like they're still in third grade or some shit. These assholes don't really hate cars. They hate freedom of individual movement, outside of THEIR control. Keep in mind, these are people who called the cops on Black homeowners grilling and sitting out on their stoops...then made TikToks of themselves on their stoops. THAT is who the modern gentrifier is. THAT is who actually hates cars here.
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City people hate cars for some reason and think taking them away will not have a strong consequence.
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Honestly @NYC_DOT really really hates people who live and work here.
Park Avenue redesign moves ahead, city plans leafy walkway and 2-way bike lane gothamist.com/news/park-aven…
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Why are families leaving? Here is a clue. nitter.net/maria4dist6/status/210… @OneCityRisingNY
A decade ago, NYC had over a million students in the public schools. This year we have 885,000. Projected to decline by another 150k over next decade. That drop has left 219 schools with enrollment of less than 200 students each. Some are so small they can't even field a sport team. This is not sustainable. As painful as it is, there is going to have to be some consolidation of schools with sharply declining enrollment.
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New York City voters: Charter revisions are boring and inside baseball but this year Mamdani’s comrades are rousing a couple of real doozies that need your attention. Prop 1-4: These are very dangerous charter revisions that move us toward authoritarianism faster than you can say Karl Marx. To explain, it’s not just that the socialists want to turn the streets over to car share and delivery apps, as they have done in socialist cities elsewhere, but it’s how they want to do this. They want to eliminate community input. For those of us who’ve been involved in every street fight these last 10 years or more, it’s like the occupying army came in and said it will be no more talking of how this will go down. The streets belong to us now and we’re going to do whatever we want with them . It’s our way or the highway. Goodbye community board input. Goodbye community groups, @FDNY @NYPDnews @NYPDCommAffairs So vote NO on 1-4. The last thing we want to do is concentrate power over our streets in a DOT run by people beholden to special interest billionaire car share and delivery apps. They want to make NYC and especially Manhattan their piggy bank. So if you cannot afford a garage and all the taxes and tolls ( most working people cannot) the only way in and out will be to pay an app or take unsafe, unreliable public transit. That may work for some people but not for families, the elderly, disabled, pet owners, first responders, healthcare, workers, and others who work long shifts and early or late hours. Huge impact on safety too as NYPD and FDNY will be cut out of the loop. The street takeover is a top reason why families are fleeing NYC for the suburbs and red states. I raised 3 kids in Manhattan and if this was the direction of NYC when my kids were born I would have been out of here too. Imagine 3 small children and all the gear to visit grandparents, attend sport events, pick them up from school when they had to stay late and missed the bus, or just take an affordable weekend trip to get out of the dense city ? I couldn’t have done it without a car. #5 will be covered separately. The idea was proposed by @NYCComptroller The cynic in me says it was put on the ballot to provide cover for 1-4. We will look into it . @OneCityRisingNY @gtjco @dylanypyen @nyc_evsa @AFineBlogger @stick_dynamite @MelanieUSA1 @saveournabes @savetheuws @katiewr31413491 @Shebbie4nyc
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summary for anyone interested: Prop 1) - Rework of “private use of public space” process (mostly outdoor dining) - removes public hearing process and newspaper notice requirement - replaces councilmember veto with agency heads - shortens application from 8 months to 2 months Prop 2) - removes mandatory hearings from small city contractors, replaced with written consent - mayoral office can delegate contractor approvals to agencies Prop 3) - removes requirement for DOT to consult with NYPD and FDNY for street safety projects, bus lanes, and bike lanes - removes ULURP process for city selling of small plots of land Prop 4) - The DOB, DEP, and DOT must cooperate to build one single permitting system where all permits can be sent and received - waterfront construction jurisdiction is transferred to the DOB - renames Borough superintendents to borough commissioners (?) Prop 5) - requires NYC to have rainy day reserves of at least 12% of yearly revenue unless “compelling fiscal need”
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NYC has created non-ADA compliant: ✖️Open Streets ✖️Floating bus stops that are a horror ✖️Residential blocks that deny access for emergency vehicles Protecting human rights requires action. We must build accessibility into our decisions from the beginning, remove existing barriers, and include people with disabilities in shaping solutions. Creating an accessible society is a shared responsibility. nycaccessforall.org
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The Manhattan Institute couldn’t be more needed and more relevant. @OneCityRisingNY
We have officially filed a lawsuit against the New York City Mayor’s Office for unacceptable delays in providing documents related to Mamdani official Ana Maria Archila's attempt to meet with Iran’s UN ambassador. Our public records request sought information on scheduling records for Archila over a six month period. We filed this request on July 9. Four days later, on July 13, the Mayor’s Office notified us that we could expect the response around January 11, 2027. Our lawsuit asks the court to declare the Mayor’s Office’s response unlawful, order it to produce the requested records within five days, and award the attorney’s fees and costs permitted by New York's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). More broadly, the case asks the court to enforce a modest rule: before City Hall makes a requester wait six months, it must have a request-specific reason for doing so. city-journal.org/article/new…
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See!!????!! We all knew something like this would happen. He cannot help himself. His arrogance is epic. And so is hers. @OneCityRisingNY
Why the fuck are these two laughing?!?
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I have to say looking at the clip in full I have to give AOC the award for the smirkiest smirk at the most inappropriate moment for a smirk. It’s practically a high five kind of smirk. IMHO. I mean does she not realize where she is and what’s going on around her? Just doesn’t care?
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Pete Alonso’s comeback 9th inning HR to bring it to extras might be the first time to ever get a standing ovation from… the other team His 300th HR in his NY return!
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I spent more than 40 years as a teacher, and I remember September 11, 2001 like it was yesterday. Today, roughly a third of Americans weren’t even alive when those attacks happened. Teaching 9/11 should not depend on the politics or personal preferences of an individual teacher. Every student should learn what happened, who we lost, the heroism we witnessed, who attacked us, and how that day changed our country. If we expect young Americans to become informed citizens, we have to teach them their history. 9/11 belongs in the curriculum. Period. Any teacher offended by the idea that students should be taught about 9/11 is proving exactly why it needs to be required. And if a legislator supports a law requiring every teacher to teach it, the problem is not the legislator. We have forgotten far too much already. Just look at some of the people we elect, the things we now excuse, and the causes people take to the streets to defend, including those who openly celebrated the murder of Americans after 9/11. Never forget means teaching the next generation exactly what happened.
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Join me on FBN’s Wall Street for conversations with: 🇺🇸 Frank Siller of @Tunnel2Towers 🇺🇸 @SenMcCormickPA on the heroes of Flight 93 🇺🇸 Brandon Lutnick on Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost 658 employees that morning Their stories must never be forgotten. Watch this weekend on @FoxBusiness. #September11 #NeverForget #TunnelToTowers #Flight93 #FoxBusiness
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And also these two know that cameras and eyes are on them all the time and the service was being covered extensively by dozens of media . Why choose that moment for a good laugh?
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