Moses Gates

UPDATE: Line is now down the block

Current line to get in the City Nerd book sale going on at Surrogates Court

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

Schumer had a chance to repudiate the gutter racism and Islamophobia of Cuomo's campaign and he just fucking didn't. And that is disqualifying. He should be ashamed and we the voters should make sure he feels that shame.

Also - this talk is all very rich considering it’s coming from people who kvetch for a living.

Granted there are no real specifics but the model it seems like he’s proposing - decision-making and accountability remain with the Mayor, while other structures provide input and transparency - is a proven and effective good-governance model.

4 dimensional chess, the legislature doesn’t want the old system back, they like the chit to play, now they don’t have the chit to play.

I’ve recently faced a brutal truth, which is that despite living in probably the most grocery-rich half-mile radius in the 5 boroughs, I constantly buy overpriced groceries at the small corner market because it’s a 4 minute closer walk.

It’s worth considering how an Andrew Cuomo mayoralty would objectively be a disaster and everybody knows it—especially his backers. But they don’t give a shit about the day after, only thwarting the rise of any potential alternative. A striking demonstration of the nihilism of the political centre.

“Low-density zoning and ULURP were not designed to protect tenants, they haven’t protected tenants in the past two decades, and they won’t protect tenants in the future. If we want [social housing], we need to build it — and we need to change the rules to make that possible.” Let’s go! Yes on 2-5!

Dar es Salaam (also not on GSV) is pretty urban, especially in the CBD

Booooooo! Small Ball, Small Hall!

If you read this as the centrists speaking to themselves it starts to make a lot more sense. It’s them saying “guys, c’mon, we have tax the rich a little bit otherwise the socialists will wipe the floor with us.”

These guys kind of had me going a little bit until the called Medicare for All, which polls at 60%+ approval, “unpopular” and gave away the game.

Fox News had him basically split with Cuomo as of a week and a half ago. Are you sure there movement and not just a lot of error/noise?

Time is running out for Mayor Adams — and the broken-down BQE City engineers have warned the steel rebar inside the concrete of the highway's triple-cantilever is corroded, putting the entirety of the over 70-year-old structure at risk of failure.

Once again, I am re-upping my most rock-solid NYC prediction: that the BQE will fall down within my lifetime. gothamist.com/news/time-is...

METRO EXCLUSIVE Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

It’s so hilarious how they all obviously just watched that Wire episode

Just say “frightens me,” no need to bring the rest of us into your mishegas.

Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors Spontaneous protests were met with an armored military vehicle and assault rifles in a crackdown that escalated the Trump administration’s focus on NYC.

“As the [Canal St.] operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous and growing crowd of counter-demonstrators, who heckled them to leave New York City and called them Nazis.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

sliwa and parades mentioned, legally obligated to repost this

Probably important for Democrats to understand that Jewish voters don't buy Trump's bullshit because we're not fucking idiots.

Judge tosses lawsuit against housing ballot questions A judge dismissed all counts of the petition filed by Republican lawmakers, who then vowed to appeal.

Some temporary good news on the housing front: the GOP and GOP-adjacent electeds' suit against the housing ballot proposals was quickly dismissed this afternoon.

As always, worth noting who is fighting the hardest against these and the methods they are resorting to.

Come hear me talk about one of my three favorite things (the Paris Catacombs) tomorrow evening at Nerd Nite nyc.nerdnite.com

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

Most American Jews are antisemitic, according to right wing gentiles who are constantly employing anti semitic dogwhistles www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

And he can throw a mean Canadian Destroyer & a not-half-bad top turnbuckle plancha!

It's so funny that Mamdani is supported by *exponentially* more Jews in NYC than is this genocidal, Nazi-defending piece of shit:

The dropoff from Cumbia to Cumbia Villera is insane though

I think four of these were the same Councilperson. Council relationships play more of a part than is probably thought.

For maaaaaybe another 5 years you will have your peak physical body, whatever you want to do with it if you haven’t by now, get going. You don’t want to be trying to run a marathon or climb Denali or…… other stuff for the first time at 50.