Leaving aside obvious point that non-universal systems tend to have less support & are more vulnerable to being weakened (as with a return of vacancy decontrol), what’s your proposed household-income cut-off, Andrew Cuomo? In practice, sounds like a war on the middle class.

.Andrew Cuomo has a long and fraught history on rent regulation. I wrote this one for remappingdebate.org back in 2011: remappingdebate.org/article/gov-cu…

To paraphrase Brigid Bergin’s post of David Brand’s new piece on Empire State Development’s fecklessness, What’s the point of agreements with carrots & sticks if, when it’s time to bring out the sticks, the stick holder says, “No! That’s way too scary!” gothamist.com/news/why-did-n…

Suggesting/supporting the “shut off electricity to 26 Federal Plaza” idea? 1) Even if Con Ed went along (zero chance), how long would it take the administration to go to court for an injunction? 2) You really think admin wouldn’t prevail? 3) You want focus OFF things like the

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY. This is a longstanding issue of enormous importance in NYC where co-op board secrecy lets discrimination thrive. (There are 300K+ co-op units here.) Debra Kamin of the The New York Times has put out a call for people to tell their stories: nytimes.com/2025/08/19/rea…

It’s particularly irritating that Natl Museum of American HISTORY & Natl Museum of African American HISTORY and Culture are so fixated on studying the PAST. P.S. - Both have plenty about “success” & “brightness,” but slavery (which was, you know, very bad) is not a minor issue.

I don't get it. Video is a very good presentation of Eric Adams's case (except for too much 3/4 shot). But why spoil it w: (1) "mistakes were made" locution instead of "I made mistakes" (especially w strong "I hear it; I got it" that follows); and (2) claim of fake polls?

A lot of pols should take a lesson from this Council Member Crystal Hudson & colleagues statement: direct, clear, unequivocal, preemptive.

Now that it’s public, NYC Housing gets to treat IL-M’s rage as a badge of honor — like being on Nixon’s enemies list.

This is a very big deal and it has not been taken nearly seriously enough in the NYC political world.