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Landmarks Preservation Commission is now refusing to offer any protection to landmarked buildings . The travesty of what happened to the Gramercy Park historic district is just one of many recent travesties.

Sarah Carroll is getting out just in time as Chair–before the subpoenas start.

It is all going to get much worse if Adams succeeds in hoodwinking New Yorkers about ballet questions 2-3-4.

If Mamdani whiffs on restoring the Landmarks Preservation Commission to a robust agency, he will hear about it from me.

But the fact that the developers are so lavishly funding opposition to Mamdani is propittous.

informing White House “reporters” that Trump’s principal priority is his new ballroom?

The Mayor’s ballot referendums “do not fund or even mandate deeply affordable units, nor do anything to repair public housing or preserve at-risk rent-regulated homes,” Layla Law-Gisiko writes in The New York Times. “By overstimulating development, they could give landlords an incentive to tear down apartment buildings without guaranteeing replacement housing at comparable rents. . .

“Voters should reject Proposals 2, 3 and 4 because they vest power in the mayor, concentrate decisions among a few positions whose holders are often backed by real-estate funding, and silence the public. That is not democracy.”

On his way out the door, Mayor Adams is intent on delivering yet again for the developers who funded this rise.

These ballot measures propose changes to the NYC charter that will further eliminate public review of NYC development schemes. Following up on his “City of Yes”” scam, Adams’ proposals bulldoze size and height restrictions in neighborhood development: a strike across the bow of community preservation . Massive luxury over-development would be further supercharged.

Parallel to what we’re seeing in Washington, Adams proposes autocrat powers for the mayoralty: only the mayor gets to decide how future development proceeds.

Needless to say, real estate moguls are lavishly funding Adams’s initiatives.

Trump and the Republicans don’t want critical thinking encouraged, don’t want American imaginations expanded; Harvard is more than willing to comply. “It is stupefying,” Dr. Bandy Lee writes at Substack, “that Harvard has just announced there will be a 60 percent cut in arts and humanity Ph.D. admissions slots. even more in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—and that, as of next year, there will be no new Ph.D. students admitted into the sociology department!”

with a ridiculous, fawning cover-story propaganda piece on the Trump-l’oeil peace deal in Israel.

We need to always remember that every day and every way, the moguls control the media properties that they own.

Relatively de minimis: they each have committed perjury. But their crimes against this country only begin there.

Sen. Shiff deems Roberts “Trump’s greatest enabler.” He has allowed Trump “to tear down institution after institution.”

The gestures, the hype, the lies get more Trumpian every day–Mike Johnson is a cipher who takes coloration from his cult leader.

Lie endlessly, hoodwink the public at every turn, ruthlessly destroy historic structures.

Dr. Russell Razzaque explains why they will cheer on Trump as he razes the country and destroys their lives, so long as they get to vent their irrational bigotry on the way down.