Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.

New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles

Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services

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For Two Years, Our Neighborhood’s Parking Complaints Got Fewer Summonses. Then the Gap Closed. A look at how often illegal parking complaints in Hunters Point South and Long Island City actually result in a summons, compared with Queens and citywide rates.

For Two Years, Our Neighborhood’s Parking Complaints Got Fewer Summonses. Then the Gap Closed.

A look at how often illegal parking complaints in Hunters Point South and Long Island City actually result in a summons, compared with Queens and citywide rates.

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Borden Avenue Battery Energy Storage System A Long Island City energy storage project cuts reliance on peak-hour gas generators, reducing carbon emissions in our neighborhood.

Borden Avenue Battery Energy Storage System

A Long Island City energy storage project cuts reliance on peak-hour gas generators, reducing carbon emissions in our neighborhood.

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We should not trust the informational products provided by a corporation like Google after they knowingly and intentionally provided false information to consumers — incorrectly renaming important global travel destinations at the whim of one man — via their Map app. Abuse of such power is no joke.

What’s up with the broken park walk? There's a 89 foot long piece of East River walk which has been fenced off for as long as anyone can remember. We explore what’s up with that, and when it's going to be fixed.

What’s up with the broken park walk?

There's a 89 foot long piece of East River walk which has been fenced off for as long as anyone can remember. We explore what’s up with that, and when it's going to be fixed.

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How Queens CB2 Decides What To Ask The City For Every fall, Queens Community Board 2's committees sit down and spend time debating a list. By the time they're done, that list becomes the district's official request to City Hall for the next fiscal year's spending, capped at 40 capital projects and…

How Queens CB2 Decides What To Ask The City For

Every fall, Queens Community Board 2's committees sit down and spend time debating a list. By the time they're done, that list becomes the district's official request to City Hall for the next fiscal year's spending, capped at 40 capital projects and 25 expense items.

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HPL supports Brentford and casually roots for the Spurs, so yesterday was a bit of an emotional whiplash at the editorial office.

@honeybakedsam.bsky.social · 2w ago

Time once again for one of the canonical soccer Twitter post

Just cut all the tariffs to zero on day one in 2029. Call it the largest tax repeal for consumers in history. Protectionist industries are not a faction Ds need to care about at all.

I haven’t looked at the open data for nypd speed cameras, but my guess is that a similar dynamic exists in nyc with drivers from outside the boroughs or from Jersey

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Cameras issued nearly 200,000 citations — and more than half were mailed to an address outside of Oakland..."

City’s First Housing Growth Strategy Sets 9,145-Unit Five-Year Target for LIC, Sunnyside, Woodside. The draft plan assigns Queens Community District 2 the city's most aggressive growth targets, citing both the district's high past housing production and its shortage of low-cost rentals.

City’s First Housing Growth Strategy Sets 9,145-Unit Five-Year Target for LIC, Sunnyside, Woodside.

The draft plan assigns Queens Community District 2 the city's most aggressive growth targets, citing both the district's high past housing production and its shortage of low-cost rentals.

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The press and Republicans are going to believe in balanced budgets and reducing debt right when democrats are in charge. Ignore them.

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · 2w ago

$40T in debt, rising interest rates & an aging population while we’re kicking out millions of young workers who are paying into Social Security, increasing Defense spending to $1.5T and cutting taxes.

Do. This.

Nolan Hicks@ndhapple.bsky.social · 2w ago

I realize I'm late (what can I say) but here's something directly relevant to today's footnoting: Conrail's full build electrification program circa smack-dab in the middle of the energy crisis in 1975.

Trollystop Garden One teacher's three-year project brought some joy to part of Long Island City with a garden, a little free library, and a mystery stack of books. It was damaged overnight in June.

Trollystop Garden

One teacher's three-year project brought some joy to part of Long Island City with a garden, a little free library, and a mystery stack of books. It was damaged overnight in June.

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A reminder that speed cameras generally issue fines to drivers going 10-20 mph faster than the speed limit. Your desire to casually speed doesn’t override everybody else’s desire to be safe. We live in a society, man.

Doremus Jessup@doremusjessup.bsky.social · 2w ago

You could've just said "If you exceed the speed limit you deserve to pay a fine like a criminal" like a good authoritarian.

Investors and the press will begin to worry about this exactly when a Democrat is either president or when democrats control any house in Congress.

Steve Rattner@steverattner.bsky.social · last mo.

Trump and Musk promised to shrink the deficit. Instead, it's projected to grow — to $2.5 trillion a year within a decade (in today's dollars). That's a heavier burden for taxpayers, and it pushes up interest rates on credit cards, mortgages and beyond. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

She’s running.

Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 3w ago

#ELB: NYC: “Speaker Julie Menin Announces Launch of New Council-led Census Taskforce” https://electionlawblog.org/2026/nyc-speaker-julie-menin-announces-launch-of-new-council-led-census-taskforce/

An @theurbanist.org exclusive: the City of North Bend developed a plan to build 40 units of workforce housing directly in its historic downtown. Then the project quietly fell apart, thanks in large part to opposition over its scale and perceived lack of parking. www.theurbanist.org/how-north-be...

How North Bend's First Attempt to Build Workforce Housing Fell Apart

Just months after touting the idea of building 40 affordable units in downtown North Bend, City officials quietly pulled the plug. While a lack of financing is being blamed for the project's collapse,...

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City Council Passes Bill Allowing Roadway Cafes to Operate Year-Round New legislation would create a year-round roadway cafe license, letting operators winterize seating with removable coverings instead of shutting down each November. The City Council's approved an amended bill Wednesday 35-5 that…

City Council Passes Bill Allowing Roadway Cafes to Operate Year-Round

New legislation would create a year-round roadway cafe license, letting operators winterize seating with removable coverings instead of shutting down each November. The City Council's approved an amended bill Wednesday 35-5 that would let roadway cafes operate all year, adding a permanent year-round license category alongside the existing seasonal one. Int. 0655-2026, sponsored by Council Member Lincoln Restler and ten colleagues, updates the 2023 law that created the city's current…

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Vernon Avenue Bridge A drawbridge that once carried trolleys, cars, and pedestrians across Newtown Creek — torn down in 1954, with only concrete remnants left behind.

Vernon Avenue Bridge

A drawbridge that once carried trolleys, cars, and pedestrians across Newtown Creek — torn down in 1954, with only concrete remnants left behind.

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Voters Sped Up the Approval Process for Some Housing Projects New York voters approved two charter changes in 2025 that speed up how affordable housing projects move through city review. Here is how each one works.

Voters Sped Up the Approval Process for Some Housing Projects

New York voters approved two charter changes in 2025 that speed up how affordable housing projects move through city review. Here is how each one works.

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Murray Park: 21st Street at 45th Avenue, 1932 Standing at the present Murray Park looking east, we see the three buildings on 21st Street still standing from this photograph by Percy Loomis Sperr taken in 1932.

Murray Park: 21st Street at 45th Avenue, 1932

Standing at the present Murray Park looking east, we see the three buildings on 21st Street still standing from this photograph by Percy Loomis Sperr taken in 1932.

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The Building With the Most Parking Complaints Also Has the Highest Rate, Once You Account for Size Raw 311 data points to one HPS/LIC address for parking complaints. Adjusting for building size tells a more complicated story.

The Building With the Most Parking Complaints Also Has the Highest Rate, Once You Account for Size

Raw 311 data points to one HPS/LIC address for parking complaints. Adjusting for building size tells a more complicated story.

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“If a company encounters an issue with the federal government that comes to Trump’s attention, he will want to know how much money the company gave, according to a person familiar with the matter. At times he’ll rib the corporate leaders who haven’t met the goals he set,” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation

Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.

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Good.

Andrew Giambrone@andrewgiambrone.bsky.social · 4w ago

new: Gov. Hochul's office is actively looking into any potential tax fraud revealed through the rollout of NYC's pied-à-terre tax, a spokesperson says. e.g., cases where someone claims to live here most of the time, but doesn't pay NYC taxes, or has their car registered elsewhere

A New Tool to Buy Parks Fast, and What It Might Cost Parks just won approval to shop for 37 private lots across Queens CD2, no site-by-site approval required. Here's what that could cost, and why one sold lot already proves the point.

A New Tool to Buy Parks Fast, and What It Might Cost

Parks just won approval to shop for 37 private lots across Queens CD2, no site-by-site approval required. Here's what that could cost, and why one sold lot already proves the point.

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Steam Engine No. 60 and Tender at LIRR Float Terminal Steam Engine No. 60 and Tender at LIRR Float Terminal

Steam Engine No. 60 and Tender at LIRR Float Terminal

Steam Engine No. 60 and Tender at LIRR Float Terminal

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American transportation policy from the 1920s to the late 1960s came to a consensus around the automobile that turned out to be terrible for cities, people and the environment, and I think that was far more decisive than anything GM did.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

Automated Plate Readers in Hunters Points South & LIC License plate readers are watching traffic in Hunters Point and LIC. They're not "Flock cameras," and it's not clear if the agencies running them talk to each other.

Automated Plate Readers in Hunters Points South & LIC

License plate readers are watching traffic in Hunters Point and LIC. They're not "Flock cameras," and it's not clear if the agencies running them talk to each other.

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