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Found a typo in The New Yorker 🤯

I would swim in the east river without a filtered pool :)

Not sure @milkepescs.bsky.social knew what he was getting into when he asked me about Uruguay...

bradleytusk.substack.com/p/ask-mike-p...

Tusk

Bradley Tusk -- a Bloomberg and Yang guy, whose associates worked for Cuomo -- says the mayor's race is functionally over.

Just an incredible answer on being a Jewish leader and working across differences in New York City — especially after October 7.

Thank you, @bradlander.bsky.social.

nymag.com/intelligence...

‘An earthquake’: Mamdani win leaves business leaders reeling Zohran Mamdani’s apparent defeat of Andrew Cuomo could leave power brokers out in the cold.

"He...declined a chance to criticize billionaire ex-mayor Michael Bloomberg for his $8 million donation to Cuomo’s PAC — instead telling WNYC host Brian Lehrer that he would build on Bloomberg’s legacy of park and streetscape improvements." www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-pol...

The new Metro newsletter on the mayor's race is really, really good.

Could the NYT be resurrecting and teeing up an Ed Board endorsement later this month? 👀

TSA at JFK saying neither a global entry card or enhanced NYS drivers license is Real ID compliant.

He's right.

"Here’s another weird thing at a weird time in (another) weird year: Don’t look now, but the crime stats are actually looking pretty sharply good for the first two months of this year."

Watch this space: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/o...

hello friend!

I signed up ;)

city hall is in dire collapse yet mayor adams is still finding time to try and kill the bike boulevard on underhill avenue? wild.

I biked over the Williamsburg Bridge today, as I do most Mondays.

Usually car traffic is bumper to bumper to at least a third of the bridge entering Manhattan.

Today, there was definitely less traffic and less of a backup.

Congestion pricing works!!

congestion-pricing-tracker.com

Phil Murphy could have gotten NY to put hundreds of millions of congestion pricing dollars toward NJ Transit investments but decided instead to endorse climate denialism and put all his eggs in a bad faith, last ditch lawsuit. Sad.

this story strongly hints that ingrid lewis-martin is being investigated for taking bribes to stop the mcguinness blvd bike lane. would check out: DOT reverse a decision to use a scaled back redesign just days after ILM had her phone seized.

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nobody:

absolutely nobody:

me after seeing Wicked: POOR GALINDA FORCED TO RESIDE, WITH SOMEONE SO DISGUSTICIFIED, WE JUST WANT TO TELL YOU, WE’RE ALL ON YOUR SIDEEEEE

But literally we were in Rome for a wedding and couldn't get a taxi to the venue so we rode Lime bike + scooter there instead ⚡

When in Rome...