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RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
So Silverstein, currently trying to shove a casino down our throats, shouldn’t be taken at their word to hold up their end of the bargain? Ya’ don’t say 🤔
I live 3 blocks from the Columbia campus. People constantly asked “is it crazy up there?” Meanwhile, the only indication that anything out of the ordinary was happening were the non-stop helicopters (police + news media) telling the rest of the world that it’s a “war zone”. Helicopters suck.
Great short video by TransLink explaining “the empty bus lane myth”
Not for nothing but in NYC, a large percentage of vehicles used by app drivers do not have valid registration and if they have plates, they’re out of state and don’t match the vehicle. But folks look the other way because #convenience
Meanwhile I’m up here asking why cops aren’t reporting all of their perks like free parking and metro cards as part of their compensation package…🤷♀️
IMHO “…with alleged Epstein survivors…” is a wild way to refer to victims of abuse. I’m no expert and would love for one to weigh in here.
Thank you for assigning agency to the driver and not just saying “a car hit a human” as most reporting does.
wait, his what?
Sounds a lot like how Traffic Enforcement got sucked into the NYPD. Meanwhile, I don’t know a single cop who wants to do traffic enforcement.
That said, the FDNY EMS contract is utter trash and the pay disparity among NYPD, FDNY FF, and FDNY EMS is inexcusable.
Off the top of my head it’s because of all of the various private for-profit EMS services that compete with FDNY EMS, running lights & sirens as multiple units dangerously compete to get to the scene first. We don’t have private for-profit Fire Fighters in NYC. But that’s just a guess.
Remember this one?
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
I really hope it’s rattling my “Hedge Fund Landlords” because a Cuomo appointed “independent” monitor sure as hell did not. 🙄 www.nydailynews.com/2015/03/17/c...
This was my uncle. He often boasted about his collection to his buddies & at the VFW. He had a medical incident & was taken by ambulance to the hospital, the next order of business for my dad was to locate & secure his cache of firearms so they didn’t fall into the wrong hands. Not fun.
people love bringing up japan when it comes to deporting immigrants/ creating a homogenous society, but if you bring up japan's anti-gun laws it's "woah woah woah"
This is good, very, very good.
In his defense, the final straw for me and FNC was watching The Five and shaking my head as GG described NYC as a hellscape wasteland, only to bump into him a couple of hours later, dining al fresco in SoHo…I also gave him a dirty look but it didn’t work since apparently he still lives here.
New working paper alert 🚨 We investigate the influence of police unions in U.S. local politics. We show that in cities where the mayor was supported by a police union, police departments obtain more resources, but, if anything, police performance worsens in these cities. More in the thread below.
TRUMP: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.” He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
I’d lose my mind
I have never seen something so explicitly political in my (Roman Catholic!) church bulletin
If only we had daylighting and less free car storage on these streets…
Came here to say this. It is shocking to me how few drivers in NYC move out of the way for emergency vehicles.
Dang this is good here are a couple of tastes.
If it wasn’t for Andrew Cuomo, there would be so much more.
This confirms my hunch that none of these people understand how NYC housing actually works. Also, Cuomo let my landlord get away with being racist and awful when was well aware they were breaking the law. Cuomo is why we don’t have more stabilized apartments. www.nydailynews.com/2015/03/17/c...
Nothing quite like the looming dread that starts approx 2 months after signing an NYC lease, wondering if your landlord is going to raise your rent by a crippling amount (mine was 50%). Good Cause has improved this a bit but it still sucks to plan your life around “maybe I have to move in April”
Read the whole analysis here: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/wha...
Cops literally sleeping on the job or so engrossed in their phones probably doesn’t help recruitment or public perception. Yes, I know it’s not ALL cops but it’s pervasive enough that anyone paying attention can spot it regularly. Broadway & 35th Street (parked illegally) at 10:45am.
they're really gonna do it, folks
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
Bloody brilliant -- the Aussies have a blunt way of getting *straight* to the heart of the matter.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is asking candidates to serve as his campaign manager to sit down with billionaires Bill Ackman and Daniel Loeb. He’s having two billionaires who know nothing about politics vet his campaign manager.
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
the lander/mamdani partnership is fantastic because lander has that hater's spirit that zohran isn't allowed to bust out, every public-facing nice person needs a mean bud
Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.
Fascinating...
Reupping this @errollouis.bsky.social column -- nymag.com/intelligence...
Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
The disgusting attacks on him prompted me to do my own research. Which completely changed my opinion about the guy. Always liked him but thought he had no shot. Learned more & listened and it’s REALLY hard not to get onboard.
Brad just got to Zohran’s party! This bromance is adorbs. 😍
I found this article very helpful. archive.is/2025.06.23-1...
"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
Brad doing a tight 5 as a part of his concession was amazing. He was always my first choice from a qualification standpoint but it’s been fun getting to know him better with the fun stuff.
Cuomo starting his speech by thanking politicians, labor leaders, and billionaire donors is hilariously on brand. 😂
Cuomo wants to add 5,000 cops. Mamdani wants to make a non-police community safety team who would respond to mental health calls, homeless outreach, etc. That’s the context for the comments.
Okay. So they like overtime money…when it works with their schedule. Point being, there would be lots of pouty cops if it went away. Plenty of POs made well over $200k last year…you don’t make that without gaming the OT.
This would be my question for Mamdani. Love the plan, how ya going to get it enacted with the unions in the way? The NYPD absorbed Traffic Enforcement, then the PBA undercut their CBA to strip them of power. The rank & file may not like QOL calls but they love the OT.
Everything is terrible, so here's a doggie getting on a hammock in Yucatán
The banner plane over the Hudson today felt extra racist.
Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"
Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.
Or Kathryn Garcia. Sigh.
Now would be a great time for legit police departments who have any interest in positive public relations to speak up & denounce this. But part of me thinks they are jealous and want to behave this way as well.
Planners call it “the popsicle test.” Can a child in your neighbourhood safely walk to a store, buy a popsicle and walk home before it melts? Zoning often prohibits small shops in residential areas. We’re proposing to change that. Tell us what u think! Info sessions June 18 & 19 tinyurl.com/4mpv7mhk
What is the definition of “Blue-collar”? I can think of at least 3 friends who would immediately identify as this (2 cops & 1 teamster) and all of them made well over $200,000 last year. And even more the year prior.
I’ve been referring to her in friend chats as “Sassy Kathy” and I like it. More of this please.
Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday. This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.
BREAKING: US Marines deployed to Los Angeles have carried out the first known detention of a civilian, the US military confirms. It was confirmed to Reuters after they shared this image with the US military.
Hearing the plan is to remove the 🚲 lane markings sometime next week
“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
The silence of our military leaders is deafening.
1. I'm going to thread out the very odd sequence of events that led Fox News anchor John Robert, theoretically a "straight news" guy, to pretend the early hours of June 7 actually happened a day ago in order to avoid pointing out that Donald Trump was wrong about something.
Full clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=baR4...
Incredibly chaotic scene Los Angeles as LAPD is pushing forward a skirmish line and violently arresting anti-ICE protesters. You can also hear me grunt when police shoot me in the abdomen with some kind of projectile.
This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids
A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party
the phrase “gavin truscum” just hovered before my eyes and i felt the overwhelming urge to end it all
The process for taking the AirTrain to/from Newark is such a cluster F…no wonder people end up driving. A shuttle to a train to a ticket booth that barely works, for a gate that doesn’t take OMNY to then buy a ticket on my NJT app. 🙄
Man you know despite the fact that the entire country is obsessed with us (especially Texans) most Americans don’t know the first thing about California. They don’t know we grow our own food and they sure as shit don’t know about the roofs in Korea town
Never forget, when you’re being asked to prove that safe bike-lanes or pedestrian crossings across unsafe conditions are ‘needed,’ it's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a raging river. #TheTruthAboutTraffic
This guy reposted a video of mine and told his goons to go after me for being a “crybaby”. It was not fun. I hope he’s enjoying karma.
The wording of the question has changed, but congestion pricing is now at -2 statewide; +10 in NYC in this month's Siena poll. That's a 20 point swing from -22 statewide shortly before launch in December. December poll: scri.siena.edu/wp-content/u... May poll: scri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...
Nearly final CBO score of the GOP reconciliation plan is out. Their bill would cut program spending by $1.5 trillion but spend $312 billion more on defense, ICE, etc., for a total of $1.2 trillion in spending cuts. Plus $3.6 trillion in tax cuts. For a total of $2.4 trillion in higher deficits.
Huh. No mention of Tren de Aragua "invading" the United States. So strange.
Currently watching the @fdny.bsky.social debate how to deal with this chronic illegal parker 😤 I encouraged them to bust the windows. Clearly a $165 fine isn’t motivating enough for some people. 🍽️ NY LKA1113
We had VIA for a bit in NYC. It was like Uber Pool but with sprinter vans & much lower prices. The big benefit is that they didn’t do door to door rides, sticking just to the avenues and major cross streets. Not unlike a bus…but more predictable w/ a guaranteed seat. It was fantastic. RIP Via!
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
This is one of the key points I tell people. I often don’t bike the entire commute but being able to hop on a bike to get to an express subway is glorious. Especially when the local near my apt has 20 minute headways.
Speed is a key risk factor in most road crashes. Creating low-speed zones can reduce speed and improve #RoadSafety. ⚠️ This #RoadSafetyWeek, learn how to plan, design and implement low-speed zones in our free guide with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies: www.wri.org/research/low...
"I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points."
I learned the term “Shabbos goy” from a good friend who’s husband would ask me to leave the TV on, tuned to whatever station the Knicks, Yankees, or Rangers game was on. 😀
pretty fucked up they made a three-year-old post on linkedin
Are streets public space or storage space for private property?
What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼
Meanwhile in NYC, Columbia University continues to buy up entire apartment buildings, kick out non-affiliates, and turn them into grossly overpriced student housing. 🙄
According to Gas Buddy, the lowest price is one station in Florida selling $2.39. Most around around $2.55. So, basically, he's -- and I know you'll want to sit down for this -- lying.
It’s almost like they don’t realize that in 2025, “things you’re told” can be easily verified via the magic of the interwebs. Even by the most gracious interpretation, whoever “told” you that should be fired. But that’s all part of the grift. Sigh. 🙄
Mr. President, please keep my neighborhood’s name out of your mouth!
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As a catholic, the most realistic thing about this is being repeatedly reminded that you were born a sinner and will continue to be one.
I’m trying to grow a small pot of basil & mint on my fire escape and my landlord is threatening me with eviction over it. 🫠
Fair. DSNY has over delivered. That makes a big difference.
