Peter Senzamici

Inside Mamdani's Last-Ditch Effort to Stop the Fire Sale of Hundreds of Rent-Stabilized Apartments The administration has again asked a judge to delay the sale of 93 buildings owned by the real estate behemoth Pinnacle.

The buyer of Pinnacle’s portfolio of more than 5,000 rent-stabilized units insists it’s not colluding with the seller. But the City isn’t so sure that it’s not an “insider” deal. It’s demanding a judge delay tomorrow’s final approval of the sale.

That’s a lot of bread.
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Inside the botched launch of ex-NYC Mayor Eric Adams' new crypto token Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing questions about the launch of a new cryptocurrency token, which he claims will help support efforts to end antisemitism and anti- Americanism.

Some verrrrrrry familiar faces popping up in Eric Adams' alleged rug pull. apnews.com/article/eric...

NEW: Far-right Zionist group Betar US will disband following an investigation by NY State Attorney General Letitia James into the group's "violence against and harassment of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish activists" and failure to register as a charity in NY despite soliciting donations.

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

NEW: @propublica.org found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing

“I felt like I was going to die” said a 16-yr-old citizen.

@nicolefoy.bsky.social & @mckenziefunk.com report
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Unlicensed Drivers Comprise One-Quarter Of Street Fatalities: Data - Streetsblog New York City Unlicensed drivers are now responsible for one-quarter of road fatalities — and are linked to fatal crashes much more often now than pre-pandemic, a new Streetsblog analysis shows.

Unlicensed drivers killed nearly 300 pedestrians, cyclists and motorists on city streets between 2021-2024 — and their percentage share of the carnage soared in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, new city data analyzed by Streetsblog shows.

Phone ban, fwiw, proving to be a huge win and powerful example of how a little regulation can dramatically improve schools and recess.

Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)

Mayor Adams Announces New Charter Revision Commission to Create a More Inclusive, Thriving Democracy

Adams appoints a Charter commission with about eight hours left in his mayoralty, puts (by my count) five current or former members of his administration on it.

Stated remit: Open primaries and/or non-partisan general elections -- www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Elizabeth St. Garden developers refuse to drop suit v. Adams, hope Mamdani can resurrect project The developers behind the Elizabeth St. Garden affordable apartment project are rebuffing a demand to drop their lawsuit against Mayor Adams and his top aide, Randy Mastro, who have in their final …

New: The developers behind the Elizabeth St. Garden's long-stalled affordable housing project are rebuffing a call to drop their lawsuit against Eric Adams and Randy Mastro, hoping Zohran Mamdani will resurrect the development once in office.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/31/e...

Hochul Promised Faster Public Records. She Just Vetoed a Fix. Governor Hochul vetoed a measure to speed up New York's public records process, which is among the slowest in the nation. We asked our reporters about…

Governor Hochul vetoed a measure to speed up New York’s public records process, which is among the slowest in the nation. We asked our reporters about their most protracted records requests.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/20/h...

Attorney General James Launches Portal to Collect Photos and Videos of ICE Activity in New York NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James is encouraging New Yorkers to submit videos or other documentation of federal immigration enforcement actions in New York following yesterday’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on Canal Street in New York City. “Every New Yorker has the right to live without fear or intimidation,” said Attorney General James. “If you witnessed and documented ICE activity yesterday, I urge you to share that footage with my office. We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law. No one should be subject to unlawful questioning, detention, or intimidation.” Attorney General James is asking New Yorkers to share photos or videos of federal government actions using the Office of the Attorney General’s new online portal.

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity.

"We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes.

Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue unit has resigned, telling colleagues he was frustrated by bureaucratic hurdles the Trump administration imposed that delayed the agency’s response to deadly flooding in Texas, according to three people familiar with his reasoning. Ken Pagurek, who worked with FEMA’s search and rescue branch for more than a decade and served as chief for the past year, told associates that his concerns had been mounting since the start of hurricane season and that the administration’s changes to the agency were causing “chaos.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

On a post from November 5th, 2024, when then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ X account was encouraging people to vote, the alleged hacker’s account replied, “You will be executed.” The next post after that was “kill them all please, mr president.” When another X account asked the Anime Nazi if they were concerned about law enforcement, they replied with a quote of a post from President Donald Trump: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

We have a @lopatto.bsky.social piece on the hacker who breached Columbia and acquired Zohran Mamdani's college application. It's not great for NYT to be using hacked materials originating from an anime Nazi but this part especially stuck out to me. www.theverge.com/cyber-securi...

Lessons from La Guardia Can Zohran Mamdani reshape New York—and national—politics like Mayor Fiorello La Guardia once did?

Great essay by Kim Phillips-Fein comparing LaGuardia and Mamdani:
jewishcurrents.org/lessons-from-la-guardia

Former NYPD commissioner Tom Donlon to sue Adams, ex-spokesman for $10M over claims he was too old and ‘mentally not fit’ Former NYPD commissioner and FBI agent Tom Donlon plans to sue Mayor Eric Adams and his ex-top spokesperson for claiming he was an old man with cognitive issues. Donlon filed the notice of claim Mo…

From Donlon's new $10m notice of claim:

"If Sheppard’s recent claims are to be believed, then he threatened to kill a man he believed was mentally impaired. If his claims are false, then he is weaponizing fabricated mental health allegations to justify retaliation."

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Chart showing risk of being murdered in the subway if you rode 500 times last year (0.4 in 100,000) versus other risks such as that of dying in a traffic accident in the US last year (12.1 in 100,000)

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Interesting that they went with Stoicism here - it's the real test for that particular philosophical perspective after all

NYC, more than 130,000 voters have submitted their ballots.

Still trying to figure out your ranking? Our Meet Your Mayor quiz can help: projects.thecity.nyc/meet-your-ma...

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Congestion Pricing: Faster All Around Since the start of the Central Business District Tolling Program (CBDTP) on January 5th, 2025 the program has reduced traffic not only in Manhattan’s congestion relief zone (CRZ) but on roadways acros...

RPA STUDY: Congestion pricing "has reduced traffic not only in Manhattan’s congestion relief zone (CRZ) but on roadways across the region. These time savings seem to be stable — remaining consistent and undiminished" -- rpa.org/news/lab/con...

Former critics who once demanded Cuomo resign are now endorsing him A POLITICO review of Cuomo’s touted endorsers found that few of them stood by him in 2021.

More than 40 percent of New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo’s top endorsements by elected officials have come from people who publicly condemned him four years ago, a POLITICO review found.

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation' Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.

I still have a bunch somewhere!

The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur The vanished icon of Atlantic Ave. was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough.

The vanished icon of Atlantic Ave. was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/19/s...

Biggest city getting bigger (again) as new census estimate has New York City netting 87,000 new residents in the past year.

Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson Jesús Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national whose U.S. humanitarian parole status is set to expire soon, decided to voluntarily leave the United States out of worry of being detained.

“Mr. Rodríguez, we’re going to miss you,” a girl told the teacher after singing.

“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own.
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Over the past four years, the county has refused to return $1.7 million in bail from migrant trespass cases, according to a Times analysis of county budget records obtained through a public records request. The forfeitures are the equivalent of what it would take to pay for the entire sheriff's department for a year, or the county judge and county attorney's office combined for over three years.

a small Texas county found a way to make money off migrants: arrest them for trespassing, make them post bail to get out of jail, turn them over to ICE, collect forfeited bail money. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

Daniel Bice Daniel Bice is a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Watchdog team.

Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...