Also, Andrew Cuomo spent $20 million of NY taxpayers' money to subpoena phone (& gynecological records!) of women who accused him of sexual harassment. How else might those 20 million have been spent? For instance: on resources and services for needy New Yorkers?
$200,000 for a family to live in any big city is not a lot. A rent-controlled apartment means they can actually afford, with careful spending, to live a semi-decent life.
$20m ranslates to… 724.6 YEARS of Zohran’s rent… make it make sense, man.
andrew cuomo is such an idiot as if we haven't known his financial SCANDALS for years smash
Doesn’t he Cuomo live in an $8,000 a month penthouse, yo fake a NY City residence. Desperate.
So you’re saying that Cuomo spent 725 years of Mamdani’s current rent on those records? 👀
725 years of taxpayer's $$$
Wow. His self-denial is staggering.
Cuomo is desperate.
AH, but you see, those records were critical to his defense: -If the woman accusing him had sex at any point, she's clearly a slut, and everyone knows you can't harass a slut. -If she never had sex, she's some uptight virgin prude. How does she even know what 'sexual' is? Is it a handshake?
Cuomo doesn't know when to go away....so let me help! CUOMO GO AWAY! YOUR TIME HAS COME AND GONE....SO GO AWAY!
Creepy Groping Cuomo, another politician above the law. DOJ says Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women - POLITICO share.google/gzieCLXWbrZx...
This rhetoric also just tries to normalize the idea that rent should be unaffordable. Since when is $2,300/month cheap?? Median household income in NYC is $78,000, so $2,300/month is still 35% of (PRE-TAX!) income for the average New Yorker. It's 14% of $200,000 (which is an acceptable ratio).
Yes! Imagine thinking "He can't keep getting away with only paying $2300 a month for his outer-borough apartment" would rally New Yorkers to your side.
srsly
I am astonished that while Mamdani is saying "rent should be reasonable for everyone" Cuomo is countering by saying "HEY GIVE YOUR EXPENSIVE APARTMENT TO SOMEONE WHO CAN AFFORD IT EVEN LESS." Also, since when is there a prerequisite that advocates against poverty be poor themselves?
Pretty convenient to insist that advocates against poverty impoverish themselves in order to legitimize their position. Seems like that kneecaps the entire movement by economically disempowering everyone within it.
FYI in order for someone today to have the same home-buying power as a boomer in the 1960s, the minimum wage would have to be about $66/hour which translates to like $137,000/year. Eat shits, Cuomo.
Omg thank you for saying this! Honestly I don't live there and can't even understand any of this.... I pay 2100 a month for my apartment in Denver, how is $2300 a month somehow a subsidy? What the hell?
It's cheap for NYC
In 2017 I was paying $2,400/month for a 2-bedroom in Sunnyside (right next to Astoria) half a block from the subway with a grocery store across the street. I know prices have gone insane over the last 8 years but $2,300/month for a 1-bedroom is pretty steep. But also, that’s my point lol.
Prices have gone insane over the last TWO years. Landlords are making up for what they lost during the pandemic.
Cuomo doesn't know the difference between a rent-controlled apartment & a rent-stabilized one. Mamdani's is rent-stabilized. Plus, There's no way a rent-controlled apartment stays rent-controlled after a tenant has left. Cuomo's new refashioning of the "welfare queen" myth.
I love the part where the former governor - who resigned in disgrace amid credible accusations of sexual harassment - says leaders “must show moral clarity.”
rebecca i want to launch him into the sun
Yeah Andrew has been the beneficiary of orders of magnitude more public assistance than Mamdani. A laughable dimension to attack his opponent on. Leading with this chin.
And on top of all that……this is all Cuomo got against Mamdani? All New Yorkers know once you get a rent-stabilized apartment, you plan on dying of old age in that same apt. (Especially if it’s new).
