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NEW: Mamdani's messy, confounding, rushed rollout of his inaugural Pied-à-Terre Tax begs the question: is he working towards 100% compliance? Or is he more intent on exposing and punishing New York homeowners with a process that few, if any, understand? My latest: city-journal.org/article/pie…
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NEW: Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be honored next Monday alongside the National Iranian American Council, an organization long suspected of being the unofficial lobbying arm of the Iranian government. The honor comes just three months after the revelation of a planned meeting between a City Hall official and Iran’s ambassador to the UN, raising uncomfortable questions about the mayor’s broader social and professional circles, @adamlehodey and I report.
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Eric Schmitt: "Did you or did you not fall in love with a Native American woman who could talk to willow trees and paint with all the colors of the wind?"
Jack Smith: "That was John Smith."
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NEW: Mayor Mamdani will be honored alongside a group with alleged ties to the Iranian regime.
NYC's mayor will be honored next Monday alongside the National Iranian American Council, an organization long suspected of being the unofficial lobbying arm of the Iranian government.
The news comes months after his administration faced scrutiny over a planned meeting with the Islamic Republic’s UN ambassador.
Via @adamlehodey & @dedwardro: city-journal.org/article/mam…
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New: In a setback for Mayor Mamdani, justice in the OG lawsuit against the pied-à-terre tax has ruled the notices for the taxes were "arbitrarily and capricious" and are to be cancelled.
The judge also orders the massive supplemental property tax roll online must be taken down.
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Rockaway Beach in NYC felt like a scene from a movie tonight. Insane sunset, blowing dust and high surf
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NEW from me and @Rafa_Mangual @ManhattanInst: Everything you wanted to know about ALPRs (aka "Flock Cameras") but were too afraid to ask.
We break down:
* What ALPRs are (cameras that take pictures of license plates);
* The evidence that they reduce crime (developing, but pointing in the right direction);
* How they relate to the Fourth Amendment (they don't contravene it)
And we explain (including model legislation), how states can and should regulate them:
* mandatory logging of access;
* require supervisory approval for access in many cases;
* impose a 30-day limit on retaining images;
* require quarterly audits, and make auditing materials available to government oversight authorities and the public;
* impose criminal penalties for the abuse of ALPRs;
* limit their use to the investigation of major crimes;
* require affirmative permission before placing them near healthcare facilities, places of worship, and polling places.
ALPRs are a useful police technology. There are risks, but we can mitigate them with smart regulation. This is how to do that.
Read the full report: manhattan.institute/article/…
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RT @reihan: Under-enrolled microschools spend much more per pupil than schools with healthy enrollments. School consolidation would do a lo…
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🚨 At the U20 Mayors Summit, Mamdani Says the Left Has Ceded “Quality of Life,” “Efficiency,” and “Fraud and Waste” to the Right
This was one of the more interesting arguments Zohran Mamdani made today at the U20 Mayors Summit, and a reminder that he can be genuinely sharp when he drops the “central casting” routine.
“In New York City, there are certain words that have taken on ideological associations.”
“Quality of life has come to be seen as somehow a right-wing concern. Efficiency… has been taken on as a right-wing concern, rooting out fraud and waste, a right-wing concern.”
Mamdani’s argument is that refusing to engage those issues actually helps the Right.
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’”
The harder question is how much of the broader Left is actually prepared to follow the advice.
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My son was in kindergarten when I filed this #FOIA request that the State Department just responded to. Today, I am driving him to college.
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Why don’t New York Times columnists have any friends who don’t leave New York City every summer
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Profiled him during his rookie season. He was wonderful and curious and gave me way more time I needed. We talked about our shared Spanish heritage and his love of cooking. It was his first year, and most times that enthusiasm or human touch fades. Not with that guy.
Pete Alonso was asked by @SteveGelbs about why his bond with Mets fans is so strong
"If you show that care, if you show work, if you show [that] you're more open to the human side of things, I think people relate to that"
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The Brooklyn Democratic Party boss conscripted supporters to block a reporter from interviewing her — by holding up a tablecloth as she fled.
Tonight we kick off a new series - “Building the Bench” - examining how judges are selected in NYC. In our first piece, we investigate the process in Brooklyn, where the current party chairwoman definitely didn’t want to speak to us. Watch the full piece tonight at 7
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The talented @Reuters photographers with a close up of Kash Patel’s oppo research on the top Democrat on Senate Judiciary Dick Durbin… as Patel testifies before the committee
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A ‘roadmap’ for NYC streets
After Adams administration fell short of meeting legally mandated marks, advocates push for more under Mamdani
NEW story in @THECITYNY thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/…
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At a Columbia University symposium, speakers questioned whether security measures in the post-9/11 world have become a greater threat than the terrorism that spawned them.city-journal.org/article/911…
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I'm most struck by the recollections of @dedwardro, who was 22 and at his Tribeca apartment when the towers were hit. city-journal.org/article/sep…
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