John Lecara

@cbernaut It's not even her district, and there's 3 better pizza shops in a 1 block radius. Not gonna lie tho, back in the day (like when Salazar was 5) Gino's was the best option, but you needed to eat with your back to the wall, face to the door cause... crime happened baby.

This state senator believes second homes aren't subject to property tax. But then again DSA declared war on math & economics years ago.

@MarkLevineNYC These folks are the BEST customers, like the gym member that only works out 4 times a year. They ARE paying RE taxes, they consume far less public resources than avg full-time citizens, but by all means let's discourage them.

Thousands of ultra-luxury apartments in NYC have wealthy owners who pay zero in local income taxes because they don’t claim residency here. It’s only fair that these owners contribute to the cost of city services. This is a sensible proposal from Gov. Hochul.

@Bobby4Brooklyn @GovKathyHochul What extra services? Their kids are in private school, the ER is not their primary health care, they're not getting housing subsidies, not jumping turnstiles, if they're not here full time they even create less waste. So, let's make it more difficult for them to live here?🤔

If you can afford a $5M second home in New York, you can afford to pay a little more. @GovKathyHochul is right to target luxury pieds-à-terre - there are far too many ultra-high-net-worth individuals who game residency while still relying on NYC services. This is a fair, common-sense way to make sure everyone pays their share. nytimes.com/2026/04/14/nyr…

@claireforny Luckily there are some tiny shining bastions of non-imperialist Democratic freedom & worker equity remaining in the world for you to relocate to. China & Russia would never engage in the terrible behaviors you abhor. Just ask Tibet, and all of Western Europe.

For decades, we've been sold the lie that empire advances freedom and keeps us safe. Instead, it's led to violence, instability and a ruling class that reaps the profits but never pays the bill. Today we're releasing our vision for a different foreign policy.

@RobProvince And forced Adam's into passing the Alien & Sedition acts to suppress a French insurrection inside America, and forced Lafayette into flight to avoid beheading. On top of which France never would have looked at us twice if they didn't want to reinforce us as a foil to England.

You guys literally beheaded that government…..

@PeterMoskos @__KK47__ The French Connection will give you some old school perspective about how unglamorous certain parts of NYC once were especially lower Manhattan, Dumbo and Sunset Park. Half the time with those 'classics' I'm just enjoying the scenery.

@__KK47__ You are correct. I forgot my list wasn't exclusively 1970s. Ranges from The Incident in 1967 to New Jack City in 1991. There were others I cut, because 10 was enough to make the point and keep flow. I went with those that best showed a dystopian city (plus Muppets!)

In the 1970s "NYC urban noir became a genre of its own: The Incident, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Taxi Driver, The Warriors, New Jack City, Prince of the City, King of New York, Escape from New York, Death Wish. Even Miss Piggy was mugged in The Muppets Take Manhattan."

@EAGsquared @JMerockdim Should your mom find herself in need of a good doctor while walking around Theater district, please be aware there are 66 docs including 5 cardiologists at NYU-Miller center, in the district. Do you both use Access a Ride, How do you like it?

@JMerockdim @JLecara No, there aren’t. Even if there were, it would be easier for those needing assistance to get to them if private cars were not allowed in the area. Access-a-Ride still would be, and people who require mobility devices would be able to use them more easily.

Dear Streetsblog, I promise you, you'll view the world very differently the first time you have to go someplace on crutches, a wheelchair or bring an aging relative with mobility issues anywhere. Sincerely, Your future

@kiaradidwhat @NoNameLeft47483 Exactly. Unfortunately a bunch of folks are too frail to stand at a bus stop for any length of time. But they can get out of a car with (some assistance), and make into a doctor's appointment or a family event.

@NoNameLeft47483 @JLecara Yes, but you have to actually get to the bus stop and navigate from wherever the bus leaves you. That’s much more inaccessible than simply getting picked up from where you are and dropped exactly where you’re going by car.

@B840D0o @StreetsblogNYC OK. I've been a cyclist longer than the avg TransAlt activist's been alive, a driver, in rehab & caregiver for limited mobility parents. 1st time out of subway on crutches or helping Dad out of an Uber, it was like Fallujah meets American Ninja. Risk was the bikes not the 🚗's.

@JLecara @StreetsblogNYC I care for multiple elderly relatives who use wheelchairs. They rely heavily on buses and wheelchair accessible FHVs. They'd be vastly better off if the streets weren't clogged with so many private cars and the curbs weren't blocked by parked cars.

In the 30-block-zone that makes up the Theater District, there were 486 reported crashes last year. It should be a no-brainer to ban private motor vehicles there, given that it has the best public transit access of any similarly-sized area in the US. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/30/to-…

@effie4congress Imagine that imagining isn't always enough. Sometimes you need Macabees.

Imagine a world without violence.

@StreetsblogNYC Avocados, fair trade coffee beans, non-gmo flour, almond milk, ebikes, concrete and asphalt that build bike lanes don't get delivered by other bikes or subways.

At-grade, sustainable transit infrastructure is a fraction of the cost of rebuilding a highway that permits 40-ton trucks to rollercoaster through our complex, dense city. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/27/new…

@RezaC1 x.com/i/status/12943… Then there's the 'sex work, is work faction' of Communist fringe.

LET'S LOOK AT THE INDUSTRIES CHAMPIONED BY NEW YORK DEMOCRATS AS OF LATE 1. Sports wagering 2. Cannabis 3. Casino Gambling 4. Bicycle delivery work 5. Illegal immigration as an industry 6. Street vending As we swirl down the proverbial toilet drain, how much longer before the next “growth sectors” are promotion of prostitution as a service, organ harvesting on demand, and heroin injection center expansion taking center stage? It’s a good time to remember that while these industries were being championed, Wall Street leadership and firms managing over $1 TRILLION in assets relocated senior leadership and headquarters out of New York between the riots of 2020 and 2023.

@jimfornyc Didn't Mamdani say she was his Soulmate, and doesn't that normally denote that their values are aligned? So whether she's a 'public person' or not, wouldn't that mean absent Mamdani explicitly condeming those values he holds them as well?🤔

For my out-of-town followers-Let’s be clear: there are 4 separate scandals here in NYC: 1. Duwaji, the Mayor’s wife, working for an impassioned Jew hater during a mayoral campaign, during which her husband claimed he’d protect Jews. 2. Mamdani essentially lying about his family’s ties to said Jew hater. 3. @LevineJonathan’s masterful expose (x-pose-a) of Duwaji’s history of racist and antisemitic social media posts. 4. Duwaji deleting her accounts. Mainstream media: Ho-Hum.

@patrickdichter On rare occasions that emergency Home Depot run needed another man, we'd play a (hopefully educational?) game called 'guess how much all this crap in the cart costs' & were always surprised when it was 2-3X. Yes this box of screws and 2 tubes of epoxy is $90, don't waste it.

I felt this video. Most employees have no idea how expensive it is to keep the business running. And most think every owner is making huge profits when they’re often scraping by.

@KennyBurgosNY Been the case for quite some time. 1988 My downstairs neighbor paid $44 a month for her rent controlled apartment, and $300 a month to park her Jaguar in the garage across the street. Plenty @TheRealSPONY owners currently have regulated units that rent for less than parking

It’s going to be so funny when parking spaces sell for more than a regulated apartment

What a clever way to bankrupt Brad Lander. nypost.com/2024/01/29/met…

Top 10 surveyed say.... yes!

@nytimes @HebaFarooq Hey @grok did his family belong to Hezbollah