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Thom Hartman assigns blame where it  belongs: “Both homelessness and today’s inflation are the result of America — unlike many other countries — allowing housing to become a commodity that can be traded and speculated in by financial markets and … Continue reading →

I’m reading at the Village Preservation’s web site Andrew Berman’s breakdown of what’s in Gov. Hochul’s just-unveiled budget.  The Tech Bros’ attempted assault on the landmarks law didn’t make it in this time. Tech Bros will be back, though. There … Continue reading →

It truly is open season on New York City, as the developers and the moguls and private equity scheme to overturn every last proviso the city has established to protect itself. A tech-funded astroturf group is now furiously lobbying to … Continue reading →

This was pointed out to me yesterday by a friend who worked for NYS for decades. The post-pandemic ity is now glutted with excess office space, while City Hall gives the green light to ever more gargantuan office projects, like … Continue reading →

has been built, or is likely to be built, in the Soho-Noho-Chinatown catchment area that was brutally upzoned two years ago. It was all in the service of affordable housing, so we were fraudulently told. At that time, it didn’t … Continue reading →

As Jesse Watters engages in obstruction of justice to protect Trump by sabotaging jury selection. And shouldn’t the Deartment of Justice finally step in to curtail Fox’s nightly traitorous incitement as well as subversion of the law?

Too much of the media–corporate and otherwise–keeps minimizing and misrepresenting the charges against him. No, it’s not just about hush money.

City Hall would be fighting the restrictions that prevent the City from itself building affordable housing, and give up the sham that working out sweetheart deals with the developers is accomplishing that.

It pains me to write this, because  I’ve dealt with a wonderful staffer at his office, but I’m shocked, although I shouldn’t be, by my Council Member Bottcher’s decision to betray the city by supporting the outrageous proposal to lift … Continue reading →

Nobody wants to live there–44% of the units remain unsold. The gargantuan buildings sway in the wind. The apartments that sell are mostly used as occasional pied a terres by absentee owners. The apartments are deliberately under assessed by the … Continue reading →