Mayor Mamdani assigns the Department of Health to regulate zombie property lot pollution

Apologies for the f bombs, it's hard to contain my rage for this grotesque negligence. And yes this is the lot where two homeless people got killed and the abandoned house was set on fire 3 times

Happy Election Week and vote no on all of Mayor Mamdani's ballot proposals

 

 

Following in former Mayor Eric Adams’ footsteps, Mayor Mamdani created his own Charter Revision Commission. It was quickly and awkwardly formed, rushed through a few hearings and came up with five (5) questions. Once again, these questions are NOT in the public interest: they are all about consolidating even more power under the Mayor and removing the public entirely from the process.

The short answer is: VOTE NO ON ALL BALLOT PROPOSALS. NO, NO, NO, NO & NO.

But, by all means, please do your own research to decide if that’s what you want to do.

These are the Proposals directly as posted on the Mayor’s official website (which means you probably shouldn’t believe them…my comments are directly below in BOLD ITALICIZED CAPITAL LETTERS):

Question #1: Speed Up Timeline for Using Public Space – Including Outdoor Dining, Ramps and Benches

• Cut the 8-month outdoor dining application process by 75% (to 2 months)
• Save small businesses up to $1,800 on application costs and thousands of dollars of staff time

The Commission’s proposal would modify the revocable consent process that determines the use of public space by combining the sidewalk café and roadway dining revocable consent process into a single application and modernizing public notice requirements.

IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU WANT MORE PARKING SPACES TAKEN AWAY FOR ROADWAY DINING SHEDS WITH ZERO INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY, VOTE YES.

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Question #2 and related non-Charter reforms: Reform the Contracting Process to Improve Procurements, including for Small Business and Nonprofits

• Ballot prop will save up to 30 days on procurements
• Internal reforms to cut qualified nonprofit procurement time by more than half (13 months to 6)

The Commission’s proposal would reduce burdens on small businesses and nonprofits by simplifying the pre-contracting questionnaire and requiring quarterly meetings of the Procurement Policy Board (PBB) to ensure consistent and transparent regulation of the City’s procurement system. The proposal would also allow the Mayor to delegate certain contract approvals to agencies, make permanent a public comment period instead of a public hearing for contract awards and streamline the issuance of the client service plan.

Beyond ballot props, the City will also begin to move nonprofit Council discretionary awards from procurements to grants, an approach that in pilot stage has shown to cut time to payment from 10 to six months. The City will also begin to competitively procure umbrella agreements with nonprofits to create pools of qualified, pre-vetted nonprofit providers eligible to receive future project-specific task orders, helping save up to seven months off a 13-month process. When approaching procurement, COGE took seriously its commitment to the labor force, both public and private sector, and specifically formulated recommendations that preserve all existing labor standards.

IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU WANT EVEN LESS TRANSPARENCY AND PUBLIC INPUT ON BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN CONTRACTS, PUTTING MORE CONTROL IN THE HANDS OF THE MAYOR WITH NO OVERSIGHT, VOTE YES.

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Question #3: Fast-Track Street Safety Infrastructure Including Bike Lanes, Acquisition of Office Space and Activation of City Land

• Speed up street safety projects, including bike lanes, by at least 33%
• Reduce time for sale of small plots of City land from seven months to 90 days
• Unlock more than $200 million in revenue for the City from sale of small surplus lots

The Commission’s third proposal streamlines how the City uses its own property. The proposal would simplify review of street safety projects to reduce construction timelines and allow the Commissioner of the Department of Transportation to fast-track critical street infrastructure improvements where there is an identified, immediate safety need. Additionally, this ballot question fast-tracks the sale or lease of small City properties, the air rights above landmarked City properties and the lease of office space for City workers.

IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU WANT MORE AND MORE BIKE LANES, ENDLESS TERRIBLE ROAD REDESIGNS THAT PURPOSEFULLY CREATES MORE TRAFFIC AND CONTINUES THE WAR ON CARS AND PEDESTRIANS TO BENEFIT E-BIKES AND MOPEDS, MORE OF YOUR CITY-OWNED LAND SOLD OR LEASED TO QUESTIONABLE DEVELOPERS OR OTHER PARTIES WITH NO OVERSIGHT FOR SWEETHEART DEALS, AND SALE OF AIR RIGHTS FROM CITY-OWNED LANDMARKS GIVEN AWAY TO CREATE EVEN BIGGER MORE EXPENSIVE BUILDINGS, VOTE YES.

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Question #4: Simplify Building Permitting

• Bring 40 approvals from 18 separate offices and agencies into one place, saving builders time and frustration

The Commission’s proposal would create a centralized permitting hub through which applicants could access and manage construction-related permits and approvals across City agencies. It would also allow additional divisions at the Department of Buildings to approve certificates of occupancy and centralize the City’s waterfront permitting process within the agency.

IN OTHER WORDS, THIS WILL ALLOW THE BUILDING INDUSTRY TO HAVE EVEN MORE POWER, AND WILL INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF CORRUPTION THROUGH A CENTRALIZED BUREAUCRACY WHICH STIFLES SPECIALIZED AGENCIES, SUCH AS THE WATERFRONT PERMITTING PROCESS. IF YOU WANT THAT, VOTE YES.

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Question #5 and Related Internal Reforms: Set Contributions Goals for Rainy Day Fund to Ensure Sufficient Budgetary Reserves

• Ballot prop establishes reserves target of 12%, aimed at ensuring long-term fiscal stability
• Internal reforms commit to review standard hires and promotions within 14 days and capital project initiation applications within 40 days

The fifth ballot proposal would set a target amount of funds held in reserve – 12% percent of the City’s total tax revenues. The proposal would also require the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in consultation with the Comptroller, to establish a deposit formula that would govern mandatory contributions to the rainy day fund. Beyond the ballot proposal, the City will also begin implementation of OMB service standards for the review of hirings and promotions as well as the review of capital project initiation applications.

IN OTHER WORDS…YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING. THIS PROPOSAL COMES AFTER MAYOR MAMDANI TRIED TO RAID THE RESERVE FUND OF $1.2 BILLION DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS AND ONLY DROPPED THIS WHEN GOVERNOR HOCHUL ULTIMATELY GAVE HIM BILLIONS (OF OUR TAX DOLLARS) TO BALANCE THE BUDGET. THIS CAN’T BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY WHATSOEVER. BUT IF YOU WANT IT, VOTE YES.

CLEARLY, NONE OF THESE PROPOSALS SHOULD BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. They are toxic – just as anti-democratic (with a small “d”) as what former Mayor Adams did last year with the Land Use Ballot questions that we are fighting in court and the 2024 ballot questions as well.

We are facing at both the City and State level an unprecedented attempt to lock the public out of input, review and disclosure of our government operations in the name of affordability, streamlining, etc. – all gaslighting tactics to take away your rights!

If you care about this, VOTE NO!

 

This public service announcement was brought to you by Paul Graziano and S.A.V.E. 1 Family New York. If we don't vote no against these ballot proposals, especially prop 3 which will give the Department of Transportation Alternatives totalitarian power over our streets, it will be the end of democracy and civics in New York City.-JQ LLC

 

Happy 250 America

 

The streets of New York City, America then...

  

...and now.

All apologies Mr. President Washington

Mayor Mamdani's housing advocate aide is a self-loathing racist

 

NY Post

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed tenant advocate called to “seize private property” and blasted homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” in a series of pro-Communist social media posts.

Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, made the statements and urged her followers to elect more Communists in several lecturing posts on her now-deleted X account that were unearthed by internet sleuths.

“Seize private property!” she said on June 13, 2018.

 She later doubled down on that in a mini-manifesto in August 2019.

“Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she said then.

Weaver also pushed to “Elect more communists” in December 2017 — when a Harlem street corner was being renamed in honor of former Manhattan Rep. Vito Marcantonio, who was a Communist.

She also unloaded on law enforcement in a May 2020 rant that came during the furor over the death of George Floyd.

“Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she said then.

 Without landlords how to do you build and maintain housing? You think the government is going to do it? Look at NYCHA [New York City Housing Authority complexes],” said Humberto Lopes, founder and CEO of the Gotham Housing Alliance.

“You put a system in place to destroy landlords. Why are you s–tting on us?,” he said.

Mamdani wants to freeze the rent on 1 million rent-regulated apartments — a move that would need signoff from the Rent Guidelines Board.

  NY Post

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing the first major crisis of his week-old administration as his newly appointed tenant advocate’s radical views were exposed — including once branding homeownership a “weapon of white supremacy” and calling on the government to “seize private property.”

The series of past inflammatory social media posts by longtime housing activist Cea Weaver — Mamdani’s director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants — unearthed this week sparked outrage and a warning from the Trump administration.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice Harmeet Dhillon said the feds would be on alert for any potential violations tied to the Democratic Socialists of America member’s extreme views.

“We will NOT tolerate discrimination based on skin color,” Dhillon said in a Tuesday post on X. “It is ILLEGAL. [DOJ Civil Rights Division] is paying very close attention.”

Dhillon, in an interview with One America News, added that city government “should be on notice, they’re on high scrutiny.”

“We have several federal statutes that explicitly protect people of all colors and all different kinds of backgrounds and military status and so forth from the exact kind of land grabs and reallocation and redistribution that is being promised in New York,” she told the outlet.

Mamdani indicated Tuesday he was sticking by his DSA ally.

“We made the decision to have Cea Weaver serve as our executive director for the mayor’s office to protect tenants, to build on the work that she has done to protect tenants across the city, and we were already seeing the results of that work,” he told reporters following an unrelated news conference.

 It's very interesting that Mayor Mamdani insists on keeping Weaver with her history of inflammatory and ignorant tweets equating white supremacy and owning a house (maybe she should visit Jamaica, South Jamaica, Canarsie, Brownsville, Springfield Gardens or even South Richmond Hill to name a few) yet he sacked his director of operations for her John Rocker style racist tweets on riding the A train to Far Rockaway where Jewish people live. 

Looks like Mamdani is emulating his hero Bill De Blasio with the same kind of defiant hypocrisy he exhibited for 8 years. The dope from Park Slope has been succeeded by the Asswipe from Astoria.

 

 

 

Caption NYPD Comissioner Tisch

 

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.

Caption Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani

 

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

Zopacalypse Now

 

 

In a historic victory, 34-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani was projected to become New York City’s 111th mayor on Tuesday night — the first Muslim candidate ever elected to the highest office in America’s largest city.

ABC and NBC called the NYC Mayor’s Race for Mamdani just after 9:35 p.m., with roughly 75% of the vote counted. With almost all precincts now reported, Mamdani had slightly over 50% of the vote (1,012,850) over independent former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who nabbed 41.6% (837,398), according to unofficial results from the city Board of Elections. This election had a historic turnout, with more than 2 million votes cast — the highest number in a mayoral election since 1969. 

Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, who remained in the race until the very end despite immense pressure from Cuomo and others to drop out, came in third place with 7.16% (144,123).

Mamdani will take office as mayor on New Year’s Day, succeeding Eric Adams, who dropped out of the general election amid low poll numbers in late September and had recently endorsed Cuomo. The mayor-to-be, currently a Queens Assembly member, will also be the second-youngest mayor in the city’s history; Hugh Grant, who served between 1889 and 1892, was the youngest in history, having entered office at just 31 years of age.

 

 

Socialist beats sociopath to win NYC mayoral democrat primary

NY Post 

Dark-horse socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani staged a stunning upset Tuesday night by knocking off former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary.

“Tonight we made history,” Mamdani told supporters at his victory party after midnight. “In the words of Nelson Mandela, ‘It always seems impossible until it is done.’ My friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.”

The 33-year-old Queens assemblyman defied polls and expectations as he notched a likely insurmountable 7-point lead over Cuomo, the three-term governor who hoped to make a political comeback after resigning in disgrace in 2021.

“Tonight is his night. He deserved it, he won,” a seemingly shell-shocked Cuomo, 67, said as he conceded to Mamdani.

The first round of the ranked-choice voting contest had Mamdani ahead with 43.51% of votes, followed by Cuomo’s 36.42% and city Comptroller Brad Lander’s 11.31%, Board of Elections unofficial results show. Mamdani carried roughly 432,000 votes to Cuomo’s 362,000, the results show.

 

The state lawmaker didn’t crack 50% of votes, so the contest will still be decided July 1 once the other rounds of ranked-choice votes are calculated.

But the first-round totals still put the avowed democratic socialist within sight of becoming New York City’s next mayor.

Cuomo conceded he lost the primary as he addressed his campaign’s watch party — and signaled he may not run in the November general election on an independent line, as widely assumed.

“Tonight was not our night,” Cuomo said, as he praised Mamdani’s grassroots campaign, which mobilized young, far-left voters with catchy campaign promises and slogans focusing on affordability.

“It’s affordability, stupid,” quipped longtime New York City political operative Kevin McCabe, in a reference to Bill Clinton, about the issue that decided the race.

A win by Mamdani is bound to have sweeping impacts beyond the Big Apple and signal the rising power of the Democrats’ progressive wing, especially over aging party stalwarts such as Cuomo.

His near-insurmountable lead hints he could be replicating what his backer and fellow progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did in 2018, as she ran as a charismatic outsider to topple entrenched Democrat Joe Crowley — only he did it across the whole city, a political veteran told The Post.

Cuomo could barely be seen actually on the campaign trail as he relied on his name recognition, backing of powerful unions and attacks against Mamdani’s thin legislative record and ample history of criticizing Israel.

The scandal-scarred ex-governor entered the race in March as the clear frontrunner, but saw his polling lead steadily chipped away by Mamdani, who waged a social media-friendly campaign heavy on proposed freebies — which he plans to pay for by hiking taxes on billionaires and businesses.

“He should’ve learned a lesson from the terrible, Rose Garden race that Joe Crowley ran against AOC. Like Crowley, Cuomo was arrogant and grossly underestimated his opponent,” said Democratic operative Ken Frydman.