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uncurable mlady posted:it's well known that tech companies are completely averse to states with high taxes, which is why they're all headquartered in *checks note scrawled on back of hand* california? Also Amazon literally already has an office in NYC. Which they will still be expanding by 5k people.
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Anybody have opinions about the election next week? I know Jumaane has great endorsements but my councilor Rafael Espinal showed up to an arts advocacy group meeting (NYC Artist Coalition, we were instrumental in overturning the Cabaret Law and are working on MARCH raids and housing protections next) and I thought that was rad, but I fear progressive vote splitting.
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i wouldn't worry too much because Jumaane's got a lot of name recognition and has been showing up to everything related to this race. i'm gonna vote for him. if i were you, i'd still vote for him anyway because most of the job of public advocate is just showing up, and Jumaane's done a lot of that over the years. Espinal is a big defender of NYC nightlife and or Ron Kim was one of the first people to speak out against the Amazon deal, but by comparison they've been pretty quiet over the years someone mentioned Konst here, and she's good on the issues, but she hasn't really been showing up to stuff since DSA declined to endorse anybody. she didn't appear at the brooklyn county committee meeting the other week. one of my Queens DSA pals thinks she's trying to take too much credit for the rejection of the Amazon deal get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 03:36 on Feb 21, 2019 |
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I was going to post about konst as well but my nagging feeling about how she's gotten an outsized amount of attention paid within pretty small circles jives with those tidbits.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Counterpoint: unless someone is planning to kill the mayor, Public Advocate is a do nothing job with no power so who cares Unless one of you is planning to murder bill deblasio, just vote for who you like and do t sweat trying to metagame this clown car of a race too hard.
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Upstate lawmaker wants to know economic impact of separating New York City and surrounding counties from statequote:An upstate lawmaker wants to know if it makes cents to split New York in two. Dead in the water, naturally, but talk about cutting your nose to spite your face.
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they're banking on the erie canal having a comeback
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Real hurthling! posted:they're banking on the erie canal having a comeback It's the Erie Canal, not the Erie Can'tal!
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Is there a reservoir on metro north? The port authority war trains are standing by.
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Yeah, wait, we already had this discussion. Maybe we should be on that fact-finding panel.
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get that OUT of my face posted:i wouldn't worry too much because Jumaane's got a lot of name recognition and has been showing up to everything related to this race. i'm gonna vote for him. if i were you, i'd still vote for him anyway because most of the job of public advocate is just showing up, and Jumaane's done a lot of that over the years. Espinal is a big defender of NYC nightlife and or Ron Kim was one of the first people to speak out against the Amazon deal, but by comparison they've been pretty quiet over the years Public Advocate is supposed to be a gadfly, a person willing to take all interests. And the biggest interest in NYC is the real estate lobby. Konst is the only viable candidate that's never taken any money from them. It also helps she's never been a politician in a race rife with them for a job that is supposed to be official annoying journalist of the city. I'm not alone in thinking so: https://www.thevillager.com/2019/02/wanted-candidates-wholl-fight-big-real-estate/
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i heard someone at a recent DSA event say that she has taken real estate money in this race. not a lot, but not nothing. what she definitely did take was half of a Steve Bannon associate's donation and was called out by Ross Barkan for not giving it all back Konst should definitely run for another office in the future, though. once you get a taste of running, sometimes you catch the bug get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 04:38 on Feb 22, 2019 |
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The failing New York Times endorsed jumaane so I’m not voting for him
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I'm not voting for any of these people. 
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my assemblymember (Bobby Carroll) is having a town hall meeting on Monday, and i was gonna ask if he's looking to re-introduce his bill to make switching parties not a joke. today i found out that there are two such bills already:
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Anecdotal evidence but I've met Nomiki and am close friends with someone who worked with her a decent amount. She strikes me as a huge opportunist that would latch on to anything to boost her career. She also never paid my friend for some side work he did so maybe he's just bitter.
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punch drunk posted:Anecdotal evidence but I've met Nomiki and am close friends with someone who worked with her a decent amount. She strikes me as a huge opportunist that would latch on to anything to boost her career.
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https://twitter.com/PhilSteck/status/1099827607426789376 LOL
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Is it legal to film community board/Civic association meetings in New York? My friend has run into a lot of resistance for taping the last few meetings after the Civic board outright lied about a few things and got very hostile. It seems like it is perfectly legal but they also preemptively threatened to call the police on anyone filming.
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now that the amazon deal is dead and buried, Andrea Stewart-Cousins quietly withdrew Mike Gianaris's nomination to the Public Authorities Control Board (and insulting Cuomo while doing so) and replaced him with Leroy Comrie, a senator who represents southeast Queens. if you thought that no new drama would come of this, as i did, think again. Comrie has expressed reservations towards the construction of the new hockey arena for the New York Islanders, which lies just outside his district across the county line. the project will be privately funded but will also cause more car and train traffic. he wants assurances that both of these things will be allievated this could be nothing, but Gianaris wasn't supposed to stop Amazon from coming into Queens, so if the Islanders move to Quebec, it might be for the same reason. it must be said, though, that it's a privately funded project and not a $3 billion waste of money, so there's plenty of room for compromise. i'm a dirty Devils fan but it would be a shame to see the Islanders leave Accident Underwater posted:Is it legal to film community board/Civic association meetings in New York? My friend has run into a lot of resistance for taping the last few meetings after the Civic board outright lied about a few things and got very hostile. It seems like it is perfectly legal but they also preemptively threatened to call the police on anyone filming. get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 02:33 on Feb 27, 2019 |
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keep the islanders in brooklyn they got a drat stadium jezzus christ these loving teams and their loving stadiums
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Real hurthling! posted:keep the islanders in brooklyn they got a drat stadium jezzus christ these loving teams and their loving stadiums they should move to KC and gtfo.
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Real hurthling! posted:keep the islanders in brooklyn they got a drat stadium jezzus christ these loving teams and their loving stadiums btw, Islanders fans still hate Kathleen Rice, and she's white. Comrie is black. if this falls through, he's gonna get racist death threats
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btw Jumaane won the special election by a comfortable amount. i hope everybody itt wants some more electioneering because this is the first of up to four elections relating to public advocate. that's something i didn't actually know about until yesterday. politics doesn't stop
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get that OUT of my face posted:btw Jumaane won the special election by a comfortable amount. i hope everybody itt wants some more electioneering because this is the first of up to four elections relating to public advocate. that's something i didn't actually know about until yesterday. politics doesn't stop the most important election of our lifetime.
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unbutthurtable posted:the most important election of our lifetime. Public Advocate? Why? People seem pretty eager to leave it to become Mayor or AG.
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get that OUT of my face posted:have you ever seen hockey at Barclays Center? it's the worst. it's so bad that they're playing half of their home games at the Coliseum. the fact that this privately funded arena is causing such a headache shows how venomously NIMBY Nassau County is actually it owned because you could watch a great nfl team play the islanders for like $20 a pop
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:actually it owned because you could watch a great nfl team play the islanders for like $20 a pop we need more sport crossovers like that
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so is there an explanation for this where Salazar doesn’t come off badly? not well versed in the issue at hand, I admit https://twitter.com/gothamist/status/1100814231098847232?s=21
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Who are these ppl btw? The only people I've ever seen having a loft are on the wealthier/whiter side of things.
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The rich white version of loft is an apartment in a formerly industrial building that was rezoned and fully converted into residences. These lofts are apartments in buildings that are still active industrial sites so it's technically illegal to have anyone living there. The law in question would regulate these lofts and place limits and obligations on the landlords just like any other rental property.
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Oh, okay, thanks. I admit I don't know much about it.
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losing even more manufacturing space in the city is held up as the trade off but there wouldnt be people living there in the first place if there was such demand for factory leases, right?
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haveblue posted:The rich white version of loft is an apartment in a formerly industrial building that was rezoned and fully converted into residences. These lofts are apartments in buildings that are still active industrial sites so it's technically illegal to have anyone living there. The law in question would regulate these lofts and place limits and obligations on the landlords just like any other rental property. this is very good information and made me want to learn more so I'm gonna! thanks
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Real hurthling! posted:losing even more manufacturing space in the city is held up as the trade off but there wouldnt be people living there in the first place if there was such demand for factory leases, right? It sounds like it just got rezoned so maybe that's the key difference.
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Were missing the important part of this story people. quote:Joe Fattorusso, 33, a loft tenant in Bushwick, said that the roughly 80 residents in his building represent a "mixed community."
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Joe Flatulenso
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i love my half indian fattorosso son
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https://twitter.com/ZackFinkNews/status/1101279618148036609 LOL, how does he expect to do this, exactly? Edit: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1101348218242195456 You, a buffoon: public oversight about state grants, especially by the people affected by the resulting actions, is good. Me, a genius: you idiot, let two people in a backroom handle it and to hell with your mafia ways Absurd Alhazred has issued a correction as of 06:32 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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