Ben Carlos Thypin

Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday. Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images

NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.

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The big-city socialists who want developers to cash in Zohran Mamdani and Nithya Raman are pursuing a once unthinkable housing alliance: tenant protections paired with pro-market policies that spur private construction.

Two rising leaders in New York and Los Angeles are pushing for a fundamental revolution in urban housing politics: A unified progressive movement centered on renters instead of homeowners www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Truly wild to me how many of our elites lack any capacity to realize that they’re being played.

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

Ugh I hope not! I’ve already had to change my opinions on so many actors on the UWS bc of this

Brooklyn Mansion for Sale After Neighbors Win Legal Fight to Stop Development A large stucco house on Fenimore Street may not have a secure future, but it won’t be torn down for apartment buildings after a court ruling.

I was just learning about this bc the property is on the market. I think the developer should have appealed this ruling but just gave up. www.brownstoner.com/development/...

hey i wrote about this yesterday and compared our tech oligarchs to the planter class of the South pre-civil war
www.patreon.com/posts/152399...

The Campaign to Take Down Alex Bores Is Just the Beginning A leading AI industry-backed Super PAC is targeting a pro-regulation candidate — and building a strategy that other politicians will have to contend with.

Great article on underbelly of a Big Tech Super PAC, shamelessly spending millions of dollars to defeat a guy running for congress. The goal isn't just to defeat him, but send a message.

Mayor Mamdani Launches New Efforts to Take Sidewalk Sheds Down, Require Fewer Unnecessary Sheds

Holy crap, Mamdani is finally doing something to bring down sidewalk sheds that will actually sort of work! Sheds will no longer be required more than 40 ft. away from buildings, which will be a help to NYCHA and other towers-in-a-park complexes www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

damn it’s crazy how the slurs filled the chat all by themselves. couldn’t be helped i’m sure. chats are always devolving of their own accord

Ronnie Eldridge, a Fixture in N.Y. Politics, Dies at 95

A true pillar of West Side politics who always called back #RIP Especially fun to talk to her with Breslin ranting in the background. The best of New York.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

Maybe it could be senior housing so that’s less of an issue

Hey @nyc.streetsblog.org BRAKING NEWS: At a City Law breakfast, DM Dean Fuleihan was just asked about charging for on-street parking and he said and I quote, “It’s not a no”! Set aside the wood for Kuntzman!

while I am curious how the city will redistribute intake for New Yorkers entering the shelter system, I hope the city tears this building down and builds a massive mixed income housing complex on the nearly 2 acres of land it sits on.

James Talarico, who just received the Democratic nomination for US Senate from Texas, was the lead sponsor of last session's successful single stair bill in the Texas House.

Mr. Eliason, who advocates allowing single-stair construction for small multifamily buildings as a solution to the housing crisis, said he learned how common the design was outside the United States while working in Germany in 2019. After seeing an 11-story tower his firm at the time had designed, Mr. Eliason recalled, he turned to his boss and said: "Something is wrong here. Where's your other stair?" "He's looking at me, and said: 'What are you talking about? If there was another stair, there wouldn't be any room for the homes'"

Single-stair gets the New York Times treatment. @holz-bau.bsky.social reminds us why they call the last line the kicker: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b... (gift link)

lmfao the NIMBYs are trying to use historic preservation laws to protect a fucking PARKING LOT IN MANHATTAN from being turned into mixed income housing

yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have

more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases

it says a lot about us, none of it good, that we chose a leader with not a single redeeming quality: stupid? yup. corrupt? absolutely. dishonest? to his core. violent? maybe the most violent ever. any ability to empathize with people? none. baseline level of regard for human life? not even a skosh.

The Disappearing American Mortgage Young and working-class people aren’t getting on the property ladder anymore.

"In the 1980s, the typical first-time homebuyer was in their late 20s; now they are nearly 40, according to some surveys. In the country’s 50 largest metro regions, only 3.1 percent of people under the age of 30 have a mortgage."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

LLMs as contrast dye for where resources are missing.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Apollo, Leon Black sued for allegedly concealing Epstein business ties from shareholders Shareholders sued Apollo Global Management and ​its billionaire co-founders Leon Black and Marc Rowan on Monday in a proposed class action for ‌allegedly defrauding them for nearly five years about the private capital firm's business dealings with disgraced sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Apollo, Leon Black sued for allegedly concealing Epstein business ties from shareholders reut.rs/46ComYP

Excited to announce a new report, by the Center for Building in North America and @cmiflin.bsky.social's Center for Zero Waste Design – on the high cost of waste handling in New York City! Article in Vital City below on it, full report here: centerforzerowastedesign.org/all/advocacy...

Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America’s New Gilded Age

this is so fucking bleak, we need a national billionaire tax www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Can Mamdani Fix Property Taxes After Adams Failed? As Zohran Mamdani prepares to unveil property tax reforms, he must weigh a plan he inherited from his predecessor.

Mayor Eric Adams had a plan to reform the city’s broken property tax system. No one in Albany took it up.

Great scoop here, with the plan Adams pitched state lawmakers:

nysfocus.com/2026/03/02/m...

There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US
since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand has entered the chat

Taps mic: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...