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I've bought a lot of furniture over my many years as an adult, may from IKEA too. I can't think of a single time I brought it home myself.

Why put yourself through that inconvenience?

So I never understood why ppl think you *need* to have parking lots for these stores.

Last week in the Rockaways.

Peggy is a healthcare worker and @1199seiu.org member at a dialysis center in Brooklyn.

She knows what Trump’s cuts to Medicaid will mean for her patients — and why we need a Mayor who will fight for New Yorkers, not conspire with a President who kicks them off their insurance.

They have been for a while.

Kids need freedom. Dangerous roads make it hard to grant it. Bigger cars, distracted drivers and worried parents mean fewer kids are roaming freely.

The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.

Can someone explain to me why Paterson cares this much? I get he doesn't like the scary big S word, but that doesn't seem enough to care this much, especially when it seems so hopeless.

Ex-Gov. David Paterson endorses Mayor Adams for reelection, but doesn’t call on Cuomo to quit Patterson last month urged New York’s business and civic communities to coalesce behind either Adams or Cuomo in order to optimize the chances of beating Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mam…

"None of the candidates seemed particularly interested, so I consider the issue to be moot," Paterson, in endorsing Adams today without calling on Cuomo to drop out, said when asked why he's abandoning his push for advancing one anti-Mamdani candidate. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/13/e...

The other connection nobody has mentioned with the horrific crash that killed 3 in Astoria today

Mamdani Leads NYC Mayor Race By Nearly 20 Points: New Poll Pollsters spoke to registered voters citywide between Aug. 4-7.

New poll!
Mamdani 44
Cuomo 25
Sliwa 12
Adams 7

Pretty great news, and this is not the main takeaway, but do pause a moment to consider exactly how thoroughly you have to screw up to be the incumbent mayor of New York City and poll at 7 percent. patch.com/new-york/was...

After a bit begrudgingly backing Andrew Cuomo in June's Democratic mayoral primary, ex-Gov. David Paterson is now expected to endorse Eric Adams for reelection tomorrow on the steps of City Hall, Adams' campaign says.

Reminding everyone of this episode. youtu.be/kX11IUjkEKs?...

I remember watching this live, and getting this uncomfortable feeling. That feeling never went away.

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

3 dead after car crashes into coffee truck, pedestrians in Astoria Eyewitnesses said the vehicle was speeding before slamming into the parked coffee truck.

A devastating crash in Astoria has left three people dead. I'm heartbroken for the victims and their loved ones.

We can't normalize this. It's time to commit to streets that are safe for everyone.

How many nerds are gonna show up, dressed up, to reenact this?

Judge Mulls Stepping In as Detainees Detail ‘A Lot of Blood’ and ‘Terrible Smells’ at Federal Plaza Immigrants rights groups and the Trump administration will have their say before District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday about ICE’s shadowy detention floor.

This morning, a federal judge will hear from the Trump administration and immigrant advocates who have sued over attorney access and conditions inside ICE's shadowy 10th floor holding area of 26 Federal Plaza.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/11/2...

One of the biggest issues in the US is that due to the suburban experiment, a majority of Americans do not live in an urban area. This sets America apart from most developed countries and has a huge effect on our politics.

bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset

This is pretty much the case with everyone.

New York, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, candidate for Mayor of New York City, today announced ‘Zohran’s Law,’ a plan to protect the city’s rent-stabilized apartments from being occupied by high-income individauls, ensuring these limited, affordable units go to New Yorkers who actually need them. Under Cuomo’s proposal, when a rent-stabilized apartment becomes vacant, the incoming individual income would be capped so that the annual rent makes up at least 30 percent of that income. For example, if an apartment rents for $2,500 a month ($30,000 per year), the new tenant’s income could not exceed $100,000. New York City is in the grip of a housing emergency. The city does not have enough units, and the drastically low vacancy rate is driving up prices, squeezing families, and forcing many to leave in record numbers.

In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.

The funny thing is that Bob is one of the supporters of Queenslink.

I swear this guy just hates any changes what so ever. Did you srsly think we were gonna build a new line and it wouldn't change "the character of the neighborhood?"

Just go already, you're term-limited anyways.

This law would mean that if my wife and I choose to leave the apartment we've shared since 2018, the minimum we can pay in rent is double what we pay now - and we're a university employee and a publicist...

Running on killing the middle class of a city in an affordability crisis is a weird angle.

Mamdani Will Visit Each N.Y.C. Borough to Highlight Trump’s Impact

We need a mayor who will fight for every single New Yorker every single day — not conspire with a demagogue in Washington who attacks our rights and steals from the working class to enrich his billionaire friends.

Wait...at least 30%?

So this means that by definition the only people who can be in the apt are people who are rent-burden?

Srsly, who is this for?

Seize the Moment! Defeat Corporate Democrats and Elect More Socialists [FINAL] Seize the Moment! Defeat Corporate Democrats and Elect More Socialists Authors: Aaron F (NYC-DSA), Jeremy C (NYC-DSA), Katie S (Ithaca) Summary: Over the next few years, DSA must commit to defeating ...

Proud that the @socialistmajority.com resolution I co-authored, “Seize the Moment! Defeat Corporate Democrats and Elect More Socialists,” passed on the consent agenda!

DSA will run a slate of congressional candidates & create a subcommittee to research districts 🗳️

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Orders National Guard to Washington and Says He’s Taking Control of D.C. Police

Trump "painted a dark picture of a capital — including 'bloodthirsty criminals' and “roving mobs of wild youth” — that many people who live in it are unlikely to recognize. Officials announced in January that violent crime in the city was at a 30-year low." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

A $9,200 portrait, $20K for decorations: Questions raised about Frank Seddio campaign spending some $175,000 in expenditures by Friends of Frank Seddio and the Kings County Democratic County Committee when Seddio was leading it that raise questions, either because they could be seen as benef…

“The biggest question is why should there be a painting of him in Surrogate’s Court at all," said a rep for the reform-minded New Kings Democrats. “It seems to be making real this idea that he is this looming power over the entire judicial process in Brooklyn." www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/10/a...

NYC Is the Nation’s Capital of Immigration Courthouse Arrests, New Data Analysis Shows Half of all immigration courthouse arrests earlier this summer were in Manhattan, as the Trump administration has mostly kept ICE enforcement off of the streets, in stark contrast to Los Angeles and o...

"As a result of the courthouse arrests ICE has emphasized in New York City, a large number of arrests here are happening behind closed doors — sparing Mayor Eric Adams the spectacle of roundups on city streets seen elsewhere in the country and the potential for clashes with New Yorkers."

It's really confusing that Cuomo is doing anti-rent stabilization, especially since it's hurting the people he lost in the primary. He won over the poor and the rich, but he lost the middle. And that middle group really benefits from rent stabilization. It just doesn't make any political sense.

Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adraee recently re-shared a video falsely accusing al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas’s military wing. They continue to murder journalists for telling the truth.

I promise I'll stop posting abt the Cuomo tweet eventually, but I must say this: I've lived as an adult in NYC for 14 years. I moved into my partner's rent-stabilized apt last year. It is the first time in 14 years that I have not felt deep, constant anxiety about money. It has changed my life.