Liz Denys

✅ 9500 new homes in the heart of NYC

✅ First ever use of new R11 and R12 high density residential zoning districts

✅ 34th St busway

✅ Broadway Vision street redesign

Landlords Commit $2.5 Million to Help Cuomo's Mayoral Campaign The money, the largest example of outside spending by a single donor in the New York City mayor's race, will go toward campaign ads on Andrew M. Cuomo's behalf.

When you see Cuomo attacking Mamdani over his rent stabilized one bedroom in Queens, do recall this please:

Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NY’s rent stabilization laws.

The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated.

www.politico.com/states/new-y...

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.

Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.

Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
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As housing is the largest cost for most American households, this perpetuates and exacerbates income inequality, disproportionately affecting people most affected by systemic racism. This is the exact goal of reactionaries seeking to reward "virtuous" in groups and oppress "undeserving" out groups.

Politicians are often the most guilty of this - they often privilege homeowners' aesthetic desires over building new housing, perpetuating our housing shortage and ensuring those who have the least stable housing continue to struggle.

Homeownership is the ultimate form of rent stabilization - you get major tax deductions in addition to predictable monthly costs - but I've never heard anyone say homeowners locked in sweet deals they "no longer deserve."

Many people incorrectly see tenants in rent-stabilized apartments as "freeloaders" but automatically believe homeowners are "virtuous."

In reality, people choose the most housing stability that their financial situation and the housing market affords them.

The backlash against Zohran having a rent-stabilized apartment is no different than the general reactionary belief that stability should only be for a few "virtuous" in groups and "undeserving" out groups should permanently have less so they can be more easily oppressed.

genuinely exhausted by how often people just boost casual fatphobia unchecked

genuinely exhausted by how often people just boost casual fatphobia unchecked

Agreed. It is bizarre that @nymag.com (which knows better!) didn't point out that restaurants do much better on open streets (there is a DOT report documenting that, etc). How could NY Mag miss that? www.nyc.gov/html/dot/dow...

I am thrilled to have picked up a couple more summerweight long sleeve jerseys - they're so nice and I love have to slather less sunscreen on myself.

Going up to 3XL isn't nearly inclusive enough, but it's rare to find even 3XL in bike gear so I figured I'd flag! Thanks to @jesselang.bsky.social for alerting me!

FYI that Specialized has some never released Machines for Freedom Jerseys and such on eBay - there are some incredibly great deals, including in size 3XL: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_...

Some people I've told this to in group chats are telling me that hover chairs are used for accessibility so it doesn't matter, but reminder that accessible design benefits us all! I would constantly be tripping around my own apartment!

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Watching Andor (I am behind everyone, it's fine, I don't care about spoilers), and I cannot get over how weird it is that Dedra & Syril's apartment is needlessly inaccessible with every room a slightly different height with a step into them for no reason? I would just constantly trip.

Eliminating those parking spots is much safer for everyone, including shorter school aged children who are less visible even with an adult!

I understand that you value parking more than safety - we're just going to have to agree to disagree here.

"I wish that rather than building collective power for the purposes of preserving our flawed present, the enormous and expensive organizing efforts put toward saving the garden were aimed at winning a more equitable future."

nyra.nyc/articles/wre...

Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “No abolitionist who is a true abolitionist wants to save money. What we want is for the money to be spent, to enhance, and support human life so that it can flourish in a way that doesn’t destroy the planet. We’re not about cost-savings.” Save lives, not money.

Even MICHAEL FUCKING BLOOMBERG has said the rich are lying when they pretend they’re going to leave NYC! They’re fucking lying! I have met rich New Yorkers! They’re not going anywhere! You think that sad sack finance fuck is gonna piss off his third trophy wife by making her shop in Texas? Grow up.

Just pre-ordered this for pickup at my local bookstore! Excited to read :D

‘Help is not on the way’ - High Country News As fire season ramps up, thousands of Forest Service firefighting positions are vacant.

This wildfire season is going to get really ugly.

The vast majority of crashes at intersections in NYC happen without daylighting, and the drivers responsible often cite not being able to see people crossing.

Many sedans are my height or a little taller than me, an adult in my mid 30s, as I'm only 5'5", and the average height of an American woman is shorter than me at 5'4". Are we only supposed to be crossing the street only with a taller adult? Be serious.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!" right up until you suggest creating a walkable, bike-able community where kids can safely get around on their own