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Photo of a sign saying "bikes use sidewalk" right next to a sign saying "cyclists stay off the sidewalk"

Perfection.

Finally.

Hopefully the city can do the sidewalk extensions in concrete rather than paint and planters. The planters usually end up hogging all of the added pedestrian space.

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This is so easy and sensible.

Somehow @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social will find reasons not to even try.

Why would they want to get Republicans on record in support of racial profiling?

Hopefully once this passes, the State Legislature will start taking this more seriously and get us synced ASAP!

"... New York lawmakers would still need to amend the state’s constitution, which currently does not allow cities to hold their local elections on even-numbered years."

NYT headline: N.Y.C. Elections Board May Block Ballot Proposals on Housing The City Council opposes the measures, which would curtail its power. The Board of Elections, appointed by the Council, could prevent voters from weighing in.

This is undemocratic and brazenly illegal.

This Board of Elections coup could deny NYC voters the chance to help end our housing crisis.

N.Y.C. Elections Board May Block Ballot Proposals on Housing

This would be an outrageous abuse of the Board of Elections role in order to override the democratic process.

Here you have a developer arguing against a broad upzoning.

Politically connected and deep-pocketed developers actually benefit from strict zoning, because it puts up barriers to competition for small fry who could compete with them.

YIMBY is anti-monopoly.

Oh, I see. He is saying that it's going to be so obscenely tall that 57th (with the supertalls) will look short.

That would be an interesting engineering challenge...

What does he even mean by "the foothills"? That sounds so calm and nature-y?

"The worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery."

This is a good answer in a great interview that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social gave the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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.

BREAKING: Carriage Horse Collapses and Dies on 11th Avenue A carriage horse collapsed and died in Hell’s Kitchen this afternoon reigniting scrutiny of New York City’s horse-drawn carriage industry.

Enough with the goddamn horses. Ban this.

But one commuter town outside New York City is slicing through red tape and building thousands of new apartments. New Rochelle has completed more than 4,500 new housing units over the past decade. Another 6,500 units are either in the pipeline or the planning stages for the next several years. Those 11,000 new units would represent a 37% increase in the number of New Rochelle apartments compared with 10 years ago. About a 40-minute train ride to Midtown Manhattan, this suburb of more than 85,000 remains one of the few places offering relative affordability in the notoriously expensive New York City metro area. New Rochelle median rents are only 1.6% higher than in 2020, well below the 25% or higher increases in New York City and outer markets like New Jersey's Newark, Hoboken and Jersey City, according to Apartment List. New Rochelle's median rent actually declined 2% from 2020 to 2023, while median rent nationally was surging at a double-digit rate.

Begging you to just build more housing

If you opt out you should also be opting out of getting organs from donors :)

The same pattern showed up in NYC. This stuff works! But a lot of places still affirmatively ban speed cameras. We just don't want to stop speeding as a culture, regardless of how many traffic deaths we end up with.

if bike lanes are not major transportation projects then i look forward to the mamdani DOT installing lanes without a single community input meeting

Zohran Mamdani speaking at the 2025 Transit Riders Mayoral Forum.

Mamdani: "[Congestion pricing] is an opportunity to reshape the streetscape of the central business district of Manhattan. We have an opportunity here to do immense amounts of pedestrianization for the entire congestion pricing zone..."

Closed Brooklyn Bridge bike path

The Brooklyn Heights Promenade is closing at 2pm, so I figured I'd be fine to bike the bridge at 11:30am.... I guess not...

new york should install a series of Eric Adams Zoltar machines that spit out Eric Adams-isms like “go to sleep with the boys and wake up with the men”

Seems like we really ought to make it easier to build housing ASAP so more families can afford to have Americans in California

I get the point but also

for those of you who weren’t in New York it’s really hard to understate just how awful Cuomo’s campaign was. He didn’t go to candidate forums. He was nowhere to be seen in the city. He said he had no regrets and refused to apologize for his countless scandals.

He had it coming. Good riddance bozo

"Supporting the sex creep didn't work, so what about the guy who took a bunch of bribes and sold out the city to Trump?"

Polls are about to close, but if you’re in line by 9:00 PM, STAY IN LINE! They must let you vote!

David Hogg @davidhogg111 Follow The same establishment that is spending millions to destroy Zohran will say in a few months that we need to spend millions on polling and testing to win back young people. Open your god damn eyes- it's free. Adam Carlson @admcrlsn •3h The final three days of early voting were the youngest of the entire period. 47% of early voters are age 18-44. x.com/ gothamist/stat... Early Voting By Age Group (Raw Votes Cast) Age Group Days 1-4 Days 5-6 Days 7-9 Total (Days 1-9) 18-24 8,487 4,941 13,096 26,524 25-34 29,557 15,620 45,195 90,372 35-44 20,591 10,365 31,488 62,444 45-54 14,438 7,411 23,252 45,101 55-64 19,159 10,548 27,079 56,786 65-74 23,131 14,055 24,861 62,047 75+ 16,071 10,346 15,483 41,900 Early Voting By Age Group (Share of Early Electorate) Age Group Days 1-4 Days 5-6 Days 7-9 Total (Days 1-9) 18-24 6.5% 6.7% 7.3% 6.9% 25-34 22.5% 21.3% 25.0% 23.5% 35-44 15.7% 14.1% 17.4% 16.2%

david hogg off the top rope on the other site

@voteben.nyc!

Me with some Ben Wetzler lit

Ben Wetzler is a dedicated public servant and would make a killer Councilmember for the East Side!

I'm proud to call him a friend and be canvass for him even in the H E A T D O M E 🌞😎

With $25 Million, Pro-Cuomo Super PAC Shatters Outside Spending Records Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s candidacy has been bankrolled by the largest super PAC ever created in a New York City mayoral campaign.

Andrew Cuomo has modeled himself as the mayoral candidate of working New Yorkers, but his candidacy has been bankrolled by the largest super PAC ever created in a New York City mayoral campaign.

This is why it’s important to tell friends who are voting tomorrow to rank Mamdani *anywhere* on their ballot. And tell them to not rank Cuomo at all.

This is a fantastic answer

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