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@GaleBrewerNYC How about reviving a bill on #StreetNoise?? nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/09/13/opi…

Good afternoon, NYC— I’ve been on the phone all day with friends, elected officials, and family. Yes, I’m exploring a run for mayor. Enough is enough. I have roughly a year and change to explore this endeavor and create a strategic path. I’m a registered Independent, which means to me: what’s right is right, and what’s wrong is wrong. I won’t be controlled or subscribe to the norms that have gotten us into this position. I will listen and learn—taking the good from people and discarding the bad. I have a platform, a message, and a résumé. I’m a wildcard. It’s a heavy lift, but anything is possible. I’m a retired civil servant—everything to gain, nothing to lose. #PublicSafety #PublicHousing #Children #QualityofLife @BklynGOP @GOPStatenIsland @QueensCountyGOP @TheBronxGO See you around the campus….

Bloomberg: NYC hotels were banking on a World Cup windfall — but it's not materializing. With the first match at MetLife Stadium just 7 weeks away, only 18% of rooms are booked for the tournament window, compared to 26% at this point last year. Steep NJ Transit fares, visa delays, and a strong dollar are keeping international visitors away. Will bookings surge as kickoff approaches? #WorldCup2026 #NYC bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

CNN interview on FIFA spaces.hightail.com/receive/c4R5tk…

Una piazza stracolma, un corteo emozionante. Essere la sindaca di Genova è un privilegio ogni giorno, ma oggi lo è un po’ di più. Genova si è liberata da sola, una conquista per cui, nel momento più buio della storia, questa città ha saputo lottare insieme. Viva il 25 aprile

@PatrickMcEnroe You're just an unvarnished racist supremacist.. These players &/or their kids BECOME American if you knew any Tennis history: to wit @SebiKorda @taylordent81

I’m currently watching the SEC men’s tennis championship match between Texas and Mississippi State on the ESPN/SEC network. There are 12 players currently on court. 1 of them is from the United States of America

Conferenza sulla navigazione marittima nello Stretto di Hormuz: dichiarazioni congiunte alla stampa con @EmmanuelMacron, @Keir_Starmer e @_FriedrichMerz

⁦@WholeFoods⁩ 2020 Covid note does not authorize yr team member to park illegally front of fire hydrant 96th and Columbus!! ⁦@FDNY⁩

Ungheria: la sinistra italiana in festa per un’elezione in cui la sinistra non è pervenuta.

Ci siamo presi l’impegno di governare questa Nazione per cinque anni. Ed è quello che faremo.

@idreesali114 What is the objective? The mullahs in Iran march to their own beat. After all only two years ago Pakistan and Iran attacked each other with missiles

This will be the most senior U.S. official to visit Pakistan since Dick Cheney visited in 2007.

There is no real ceasefire inside Iran. This is Mohseni Ejei, the head of the judiciary. He has ordered courts to accelerate execution sentences, especially for protesters. Hundreds of professors are on the death row, waiting to be hanged. Do not stop talking about Iran.

The best ever natural experiment for this theorem was the 1990 (not 1990s, 1990!) NYC subways. Nothing at all changed in 1990 about the economy, the schools, the jobs, the lead paint, the healthcare, the water, the housing, the pretty butterflies floating in the air. The ONLY thing that changed was policing on the subways. And crime fell immediately because of better policing and stayed that way ... until 2020.

Why don't you guys just lower the taxes on hotels? Go ahead and tell your followers these stats. Compare rates that hotels in NYC pay for property taxes, sales taxes, etc to the median rate in every state in the country. Then.. compare the total comp expense data for these hotel workers to the median total comp packages similar workers make in the country. The greed of this union (and you politicians trying to protect them) is nearly unimaginable. If I'm wrong.. just post the data and prove it. Your tweet here is REMARKABLY absent of data to prove why these workers aren't being treated fairly. Just show the data Shaun.. make me look like a fool.

Con affetto, rivolgo a tutti voi e ai vostri cari i più sinceri auguri di una felice e serena Pasqua.

.@BrianAcity and I discuss @NYCMayor 's first 100 (minus seven) days. Summation: it is still not clear where all this is going. city-journal.org/multimedia/mam…

@IndiaToday A parliament of thugs “approves” an extortion plan. They all will soon be exterminated

Iran’s Parliament Security Committee has approved a new management plan for the Strait of Hormuz, asserting tighter control over the key waterway. The plan includes imposing tolls on passing vessels, enhanced security measures, and new ship safety and environmental protocols. It explicitly bans American and Israeli vessels and restricts ships from countries backing sanctions on Iran. The move comes as Tehran reinforces control over the Strait, already disrupted by the conflict, intensifying pressure on global shipping and energy markets. Read More: intdy.in/wmgm47 #Iran #WestAsiaWar #StraitofHormuz

Djokovic: “L’Italia è la nazione più importante nella storia dell’umanità. Amata per tante cose ovvie come la storia, la cultura, la musica, il cibo, le auto, la moda. Ho avuto nella mia carriera un rapporto speciale con gli italiani, ho lavorato e lavoro con persone italiane nel mio team, sono orgoglioso di parlare l’italiano, che è una delle lingue più belle. C’è tanto da ammirare, anche per quanto riguarda il nostro sport: quello che l’Italia ha fatto negli ultimi 10-15 anni, con i successi nel tennis maschile e femminile, è ammirevole. È la leader in questo momento e le più grandi congratulazioni vanno alle persone coinvolte in questo successo. Potrei andare avanti per ore a parlare dell’Italia”. Via Vanity Fair

The Islamic regime has confirmed the death of 18 year old Melika Azizi was carried earlier today. Melika told the judge: "You let so many young people bleed. How can I remain silent? I don't care just kill me" She was a brave young lady! Now gone. A crime to humanity.

“The Bronx, to this day, has buildings that are almost 100 percent — if not 100 percent — regulated. And those are the buildings that are struggling the most, that have the highest violation counts,” says Kenny Burgos, the 31-year-old former assemblyman and CEO of the New York Apartment Association, a group whose members include property owners and managers of some 500,000 rent-stabilized apartments. He’s making the case that, as things stand with our current housing laws, keeping apartments in those buildings habitable means tenants will have to pay more. Burgos knows it’s an unpopular opinion, especially in a city where the majority of people rent. And it’s especially unpopular now, since the mayor was elected on a promise to freeze the rents on those very apartments. Burgos may spend his days fighting Mayor Mamdani’s housing policies, but he also likes the guy. He was two years behind him at Bronx Science, though the pair didn’t meet until they were both elected to the State Assembly in 2020. They quickly hit it off. Now, their ideologies will go head-to-head at the annual Rent Guidelines Board meetings that kick off in March, where tenant reps, landlord groups, and housing wonks make their case for how much to allow stabilized rents to increase, if at all. The potential four-year rent freeze Mamdani promised is on the line. Burgos and his team have spent hours planning the arguments they’ll make to the board. “I’m obviously going to be painted as the heel,” Burgos says. “But I just know, based on the data and based on the trend line, that this is not sustainable.” Read Matthew Sedacca’s full conversation with Burgos: nymag.visitlink.me/8Ga4iY