It was to disabuse people of the notion that New York City should have a foreign policy
Well, I am a pie in the sky ultraleftist, and I’m more concerned about moving progressive tax legislation through the NYS legislature then I am about NYC’s mideast policy
In case anyone is wondering it’s a definition of antisemitism widely accepted and used by right wingers to equate any criticism of Israel or its government’s policies with antisemitism, and what that has to go with NYC tax policy or fiscal priorities is not at all clear.
He spent the entire campaign talking about his priorities for NYC, and he’s spent his time in office dealing with the hole blown in the budget by Adams, and why he should spend one minute worrying about your obsessions is beyond me.
This was an enormous missed opportunity. The City’s been behaving better over the past few years (see the attached Bloomberg article) though there’s room for improvement. Your basic point though is spot on - all developers should be paying into a low income housing fund
This is exactly what the Battery Park City Joint Purpose Fund was supposed to do - except for decades NYC took the money and put it in its general fund, rather than using it for housing.
It’s more than a marketing term. It implies larger apartments, which means their share of common maintenance and operating costs is higher, which means monthly carrying costs/apt are higher. The “affordable” units will be smaller: but note that “affordable” is a slippery term here.
King James Bible English at that
If you’re in the lowest 20% income bracket that chances are your life savings don’t reach three figures. Heaven forbid we should try to make things a little easier for them.
The thing is, I’m of an age that when I hear “Uncle Joe” I think of an old tankie referring to Stalin
What Nitish is saying is that it’s ok for poor people to suffer. We can discount them from our calculations. No problem. They’re used to suffering.
Since when does the press cover Democrats?
When political operatives talk about infrastructure ten to one they’re talking about political infrastructure not things made out of concrete
It’s ok. His very name is a typo.
RIP Ronnie Eldridge. A good person.
New York City agencies work for New Yorkers—not for ICE or Trump.
Our laws are clear: city government is here to protect the safety, rights, and dignity of all who live here.
Data shows sanctuary cities are safer, and sanctuary laws exist for a reason: public safety and trust.
The reason people in suburbs come into NYC for specialized medical services is because the city’s density makes them economically viable. That’s true of a lot the city has to offer. There are things here you just won’t find in, say, Oneonta
Sprawling suburbs were built around NYC - a huge urban planning mistake - to the point that all their residents’ money goes to car payments
This post should be entitled "Frothy Man's Caps Lock Gets Stuck." What really happened? Ex-mayor proposed hiring 5,000 new officers amidst falling crime, deflecting attention from his own criminality, and driving up city deficit, new mayor recognizes ex-mayor's insanity and fiscal irresponsibility
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
There are some people's deaths which you might not want to mourn, and others which you might think make the world a better place, but there's no death you should celebrate
True, but if they stay true to form, that 40% of the 30% will go up to 80% in a day or two. The word “republican” stopped meaning what it used to mean a while ago. Now it’s synonymous with “Trump cultist”
Time and again, though Republicans have reversed themselves to fall in line with Trump‘s unpopular positions
They will strew rose petals at your feet
You have to drop the term communist corridor unless you want to sound like a neocon putz
That is precisely what happened in North Korea after the United States attacked Iraq
Here’s a guy who would rather see 100000 New Yorkers living in shelters than impugn his own ideological purity. That’s what happens when you have the luxury of living socialism in your own head.
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