Queens is burning: Car meetup in Malba gets ultraviolent as participants torch a security car and beat down a resident in front of his house

Last night in Malba, a large group of individuals from outside my district conducted an illegal 'takeover' of a quiet residential street at approximately 12:30am. This is not the first time it's happened.

A private security guard attempted to calm the situation -- he was… pic.twitter.com/sSL7aWuufC

— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) November 23, 2025

 

From the way @NYCCouncil member Paladino explains this and what this community experienced, it seems @ZohranKMamdani Department of Community Safety already exists and the NYPD treated this as a "social worker" response situation instead of the crimes being committed at the time… https://t.co/XI5fgnGzik

— JQ LLC (@ImpunityCity) November 24, 2025

 NY Post

A rowdy mob beat a Queens couple and set a car ablaze when the residents and other locals tried to stop a wild car meet-up in their neighborhood early Sunday, according to the victims and video.

The disturbing attack occurred when a bunch of out-of-control drivers descended on South Drive and 141st Street in Malba, doing donuts and speeding over lawns around 12:30 a.m. 

“When I came out, I said, ‘Bro, you gotta get the f–k off my property,’ and that’s when it all started,” victim Blake Ferrer told The Post.

 

Video shows a group of about a dozen ruffians kicking, punching and stomping Ferrer, who was left with a broken nose and ribs. His wife was also hit.

Ferrer was “lucky he wasn’t killed,” said disgusted City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, who represents the neighborhood.

Larry Rusch, 59, a local whose car was set on fire, said it “was a complete melee.”

 

Meet Queens' dirty 1/2 dozen

From left to right: Caban, Won, Schulman, Gutierrez, Lee, Williams all seek to royally fuck over 3-family homeowners

From One City Rising:

COPA - Forcing Small Landlords to Sell to the City?

The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is now making its way through the City Council. The bill gives qualified non-profit organizations a right of first opportunity to purchase certain residential buildings when they are offered for sale. It requires property owners to offer registered non-profits both the first and last opportunity to purchase their property before it can be sold in on the open market. This can and will add months, or even up to a year, to a transaction and introduces significant procedural hurdles throughout the process.

COPA currently has the support of a veto-proof majority in the City Council, a body not known for astute law making. The bill is garnering tremendous support and seems highly likely to pass.

If you wish to stop this, please contact Speaker Adrienne Adams who controls which bills get to the floor to be voted on. The next City Council meeting is scheduled for November 25.

Please write to her today and tell her you are against this bill. Her email address is SpeakerAdams@council.nyc.gov. The text for the email is provided at the bottom.

Details about COPA

Here are the key provisions of the bill:

* The bill aims to preserve and expand permanently affordable, community-controlled, and tenant-controlled housing and to prevent the displacement of low-income residents.

* It applies to residential buildings with three or more dwelling units.

* Owners must notify the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and a list of qualified entities at least 180 days before selling an eligible building.

* Qualified entities have 60 days to express intent to purchase and then a total of 120 days from the initial notice to submit a competitive offer.

* The qualified entities also can match any bona fide third-party offer the owner receives. These are generally non-profit organizations certified by HPD that demonstrate a commitment to creating and preserving permanently affordable housing for extremely low, very low, and low-income residents.

* An owner who violates the provisions of the bill would be liable for a civil penalty of $30,000.

Concerns are being raised about the consequences of COPA. Click here and here for assessments of the bill.

City Council Member Vickie Paladino has again warned about the bill. Paladino notes:

“After they bankrupt these buildings with rent control and green mandates like Local Law 97, politically connected nonprofits will buy them up on behalf of the city for conversion to public housing.”

The role of progressive-approved NGOs as oligarch-controlled partners to the DSA’s goal of a “Red Vienna” moment must not be ignored.

Letter to Speaker Adams

Dear Speaker Adams,

I am opposed to Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (File# 0902-2024). I believe the bill will be detrimental to NYC and will damage the multifamily sales market because it will:

- Add Months of Forced Delay to Every Sale Transaction

- Reduce Property Values by Shrinking the Buyer Pool

- Increase Bureaucratic and Paperwork Burdens

I therefore request that you do not submit the bill to be voted on.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The King and the Pauper of Queens

Remember when Zohran proclaimed he would "Trump-proof" New York City as Mayor, this is the reason why he never will.

Mayor Eric Adams may be on a visit to Israel, but Monday he left Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani a headache. He increased the budget for city government spending in the current fiscal year by about $2 billion to $118 billion, bequeathing a projected $4.7 billion deficit to be closed before the 2027 budget is adopted next summer. And he offered no plans to deal with federal aid cuts that could reach billions of dollars. The November report provides an update on where the city stands financially with the current fiscal year and the three future years it is required to project. Mamdani will have to propose his own budget by Feb. 1, a month after taking office.

The mayor’s added spending included new commitments Adams has been touting in recent weeks including money to start adding 5,000 additional police officers — while Mamdani has said he wants to keep the police force at its current level of about 34,000 officers.

Adams’ move came in for criticism from outgoing Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queens) and finance chair Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn), who called it irresponsible to saddle future budgets with money for new police officers without addressing the fact that the city is unable to keep staffing at current levels because it can’t retain officers. The mayor also increased money for rental assistance and expanded a caregiver program for elderly residents by 3,000 spots. The mayor also increased expected revenues in November for the first time in his four years in office, adding a little more than $400 million for 2026. And he says he is leaving the city in good financial shape. “Over the course of four on-time, annual budgets, our administration has delivered for working-class New Yorkers time and again, and this November financial plan update is another example of how our strong fiscal management is making New York City safer, more affordable, and improving New Yorkers’ quality of life,” he said in a statement. NYPD officers arrest an anti-ICE protester outside the Federal Building in Lower Manhattan.

Budget experts don’t agree. The Citizens Budget Commission responds that the administration is underestimating costs by as much as $4 billion, including at least $1 billion for city-funded housing vouchers and $600 million for homeless shelters. And police overtime is almost always higher than projected in the budget. “This plan simply reaffirms that Mayor-elect Mamdani’s first budget proposal will have to close a $5 billion to $8 billion budget gap, prepare for federal hits, and fund progress on his priorities,” CBC President Andrew Rein said.

IBX of No

Wondering if the IBX will improve your commute to the EFMR or 7 trains? Here's a video that illustrates the very impractical transfer. pic.twitter.com/yz0jWwcM3f

— Juniper Park Civic (@junipercivic) November 12, 2025

 

 

AM New York 

 

Pressure was on the MTA Thursday night to end or change plans for the IBX in Queens, as a number of local residents claimed the nearly $6 billion light-rail is “not needed or wanted” in their neighborhoods. 

Over 100 Middle Village and nearby residents filled seats inside Christ the King High School’s auditorium on Nov. 6 to voice their opinions on the project, which centers on the construction of a 14-mile light-rail that would have a direct connection from Queens to Brooklyn without touching Manhattan.

MTA representatives at the meeting said the train, which already entered its environmental review phase last month and is in design contract, will be beneficial for residents because it will provide fast and direct transit service between the two boroughs.

“We’ve noticed there is significant travel demand between and among Brooklyn and Queens,” said Jordan Smith, IBX project director, adding that environmental review is a milestone for the project. “It’s a process that requires the MTA to take a hard look at what potential environmental impacts could result from the IBX project.” 

While the MTA tried to focus the meeting on environmental scoping — the act of analyzing potential environmental impacts — attendees overwhelmingly voiced their opposition to the entire project, or at least the parts of the railway that would run through their neighborhoods.

At the top of the list of concerns was upzoning, which would likely attract more people to the relatively quiet parts of northern Queens.

“There will be upzoning with the City of Yes, and now with the proposals that just passed, high-density housing at market rate can get built, so it’s going to destroy the neighborhood,” said Lee Rottenberg, a Middle Village resident. “When we bought our house here, we knew it was a two-fare zone. We didn’t want to live near a subway station.”

City of Yes is a zoning reform that allows more housing to be built in places where it was historically not permitted. This can include the creation of basement apartments, conversion of commercial space into residential units and new construction. The goal is to address affordable housing concerns in NYC.

The initiative aims to create approximately 82,000 new homes over the next 15 years.

Caption Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani

 

Sure it's a doctored photo made by his fans but I think this will come back to haunt him.