God I love New York City

via Jeff Coltin politico.com/newsletters/ne…

Personally my fav is his 200-page mini biography of Richard Russell in a book also about Lyndon Johnson

lol

Cranford council candidate Will Thilly tonight breakdanced up to the podium, did a backspin, complained about taxes and then danced away.

NEW: Eric Adams and top White House officials are in talks over a potential job the Trump administration — as pressure mounts for mayoral candidates to clear the lane for the strongest challenger against socialist Zohran Mamdani, The Post has learned. nypost.com/2025/09/03/us-…

SCOOP, with Nick Reisman and @EmilyNgo: Eric Adams has been offered a position at the HUD, according to a person with direct knowledge of the offer.

A new poll from Emerson College found that Mayor Michelle Wu leads her closest challenger, former nonprofit executive Josh Kraft, by a staggering 50 percentage points. trib.al/jSD8egq

Tens of thousands of workers representing more than 200 unions marched along Fifth Avenue from 44th Street to East 64th Street in the annual Labor Day Parade Saturday. Among them, the candidates for mayor. Read more: specne.ws/5jc28V

Casino has been REJECTED 4-2 SL Green CEO Marc Holliday just approached the CAC members after the vote to harangue them: “What you did here today was despicable.”

Peter Sterne Bottcher, Simone, Krueger, Levine -- everyone except Hochul and Adams

JUST NOW: NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by DHS police a SECOND time at 26 Federal Plaza. Lander refused to leave the 10th floor until he was allowed to inspect ICE holding cells there. He was arrested with 10 other state elected officials.

Julia Salazar (@juliasalazar on bluesky) Brad Lander Jessica González-Rojas (votejgr.bsky.social) Jabari Brisport To clarify, the 11 were arrested on the 10th floor, where detainees have reported being treated like animals. SDNY Judge Kaplan has ordered the Trump admin to improve conditions. “No elected official or other oversight agency has been allowed in to see it,” said Brad Lander

Earlier today, NY State Assemblymember Robert Carroll suggested Governor Kathy Hochul use her power to shut off the electricity at 26 Federal Plaza as a way to shut down their kidnappings & detainments. Says if ICE is going to escalate then people against ICE need to as well.

🚨 BREAKING: NYPD is mass arresting protesters outside Netanyahu’s hotel, accusing them of “making unreasonable noise.” What’s truly unreasonable is Netanyahu murdering over 680,000 Palestinians. Our noise is resistance. Our noise is justice. New York is on our side and the cars

.NYC Campaign Finance Board approves matching funds for the mayoral general election Cuomo: $2,329,463 Mamdani: $1,029,721 (who has already raised enough to reach the spending cap) Sliwa: $1,158,547