US New York City Megathread - If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere

Fishnumm · 10 de Jun, 2026

new york fucking sucks i hate new york and i hate when they come up to new england to stare at leaves

fucking leaf-fags sorry you cut down all of your trees to build nyc aka fag city go plant some more and leave us alone

Farm Hand · 11 de Jun, 2026

Tonight in Madison Square Garden:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49025502/knicks-brink-title-historic-comeback-vs-spurs

NEW YORK -- The New York Knicks made a record comeback from 29 points down and moved to the brink of their first championship since 1973 by beating the San Antonio Spurs 107-106 on Wednesday night.

OG Anunoby tipped in the miss of Jalen Brunson's long 3-point attempt with 1.2 seconds remaining to complete the rally, giving the Knicks a 3-1 lead and three chances to win the championship.

It looked impossible early, when the Spurs rolled to a 27-point halftime lead. But Brunson helped bring the Knicks back with 36 points and Anunoby finished with 33.

Game 5 is Saturday night in San Antonio.

No team had come from more than 24 points down in a finals game, when Boston did it against the Lakers in 2008, since the NBA began keeping detailed play-by-play for all four quarters in 1997. The Spurs pushed their lead to 81-52 in the third quarter.

Exegesis · 11 de Jun, 2026

All Mamdani has done for New York is take credit for other peoples work, glamorize doing things that every mayor ever has done before him, and lie.
He's attempting to take credit for the drop in crime across NYC as if this hasn't been an ongoing trend for the past decade. The odds are that he'll get outed as a grifter once the next election comes around.

Nique la mere de Macron · 11 de Jun, 2026

The most racist French lady I know had this reaction to the election: “I can’t believe THOSE JEWS voted for THAT MUSLIM.”

Farm Hand · 13 de Jun, 2026

Mamdani does the envious commie signaling.

https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2065522708020871306

https://archive.is/rivfq

Mamdani-backed DSA New York state politician Claire Valdez advertises herself as a failed artist (but actually an activist) who wants her fellow failed artist-activists to be subsidized "to create the culture that makes this city beautiful". She's running for US House from the NY-7 district and is likely to win, the Democratic primary election being just ten days away.

https://x.com/claireforny/status/2065214563872637095

https://archive.is/sH7mn

The Nativity-like photo art given special focus is of Mahmoud Khalil, the foreign professional activist who fostered support for Hamas terrorists at Columbia University

Exegesis · 15 de Jun, 2026

Farm Hand dijo:
Mamdani does the envious commie signaling.

The idea of wealth taxes have been consistently shot down and shat on even by leftist economists for decades because they simply don't work and even their very application would be a monumental pain in the ass to figure out given how volatile certain investments can be. Mamdani of course doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about because he just mindlessly repeats populist talking points so he isn't aware of any of this and likely doesn't care to because he can just continue this grift until the end of time and make the people under him do the problem solving.

ToroidalBoat · 19 de Jun, 2026

I think everyone can agree that Rudy Giuliani was at least an OK mayor.

Under whon did NYC start to sink into that current suck of decriminalized shoplifting, famous hotels being converted into migrant shelters, the increasing homelessness, etc?

List of mayors of New York City - Wikipedia

DoomsdayElite · 19 de Jun, 2026

Kill Jew Yorkers. Behead Jew Yorkers. Stir fry Jew Yorkers in a wok. Etc etc.

Wallace · 20 de Jun, 2026

Moscow on the Hudson

Zohran Mamdani’s housing scheme will transfer ownership of NYC real estate to allied nonprofits, giving them unprecedented financial and political power

Archive

In late May, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his Block by Block housing initiative that would remake the New York City real-estate market in his and his comrades’ image.

In addition to the usual pabulum that his plan will finally make the city “more affordable” and “fair” by “taxing the rich” and “building more housing,” Zohran proudly announced the central component of the plan: to target “bad” landlords for seizure of their property and, crucially, to transfer ownership of those properties to politically aligned cadres like tenant cooperatives and nonprofits, an effort backed by the mayor’s new taxpayer-funded $53 million Office of Mass Engagement.

Let’s understand what’s actually about to happen here if the mayor gets his way—which, unless courts intervene, he most certainly will.

First and foremost, Mamdani will unleash Cea Weaver, the commissar of his Office to Protect Tenants, along with Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) “organizers,” with the full institutional and legal support of the city government to ramp up tenant complaints in targeted buildings. No complaint will be too small. No building will be too small. Full-scale demagoguery will ensue, complete with protests, rent strikes, street theater, and harassment of property owners.

Accordingly, the city’s Department of Buildings will be weaponized to begin writing as many violations as possible in order to bolster the city’s effort to justify a seizure. Mamdani has called them “roof to cellar” inspections, and the purpose is clear: to violate landlords out of their properties. It won’t matter how small or large the violations are; the total number will be breathlessly cited as evidence of mismanagement, making it impossible for landlords to clear them. In fact, the landlord will be lucky to walk away without doing time or being beaten to death in the street by an angry mob. (As Mamdani’s buddy Hasan Piker referred to landlords, “Let the streets run red with their capitalist blood.”)

The combination of a weaponized buildings department writing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, rent strikes, and constant threats and harassment against landlords by militant activists backed by the mayor’s own cadre of paid activist organizers will make the situation untenable for any property owner to realistically fight back. That’s entirely by design. The city would then seize the property.

Removing property, particularly housing stock, from the hands of private owners has long been a fantasy of the left. Leftist housing-policy experts have spoken openly about using rent control and the administrative code to bankrupt property owners specifically for the purpose of seizing their buildings. These activists laid the groundwork for Mamdani’s takeover.

But that’s only the first half of the plan, and everyone needs to pay close attention to the other half, because it’s hugely important and has national implications. The seized properties will be transferred to ideological and financial allies: namely, the same nonprofit industrial complex that has funded the anti-ICE riots; the pro-Palestine mobs that took over campuses and that clog NYC streets and harass Jewish houses of worship on a near-daily basis; and those who elected Mamdani.

This is no small detail. This is, in fact, the whole point.

The legal mechanism the mayor will use to implement this policy is twofold.

Most immediately, the city already has something on the books called a “7A process”—a little-known program cited by Mamdani himself that allows a housing court judge to potentially appoint a nonprofit to take over management of a troubled building.

But up to this point, the 7A Program has been used sparingly and in very specific and narrow situations, not as a large-scale weapon to effect the kind of revolutionary change the mayor is envisioning. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t going to use his considerable political capital to try to reshape the program for his purposes. In fact, he’s made it clear he intends to do just that.

Successfully broadened 7A processes could see landlords stripped of property in record time and scale, bolstered by building complaints and violations juiced up by Weaver’s activism and aggressive inspections.

The second mechanism now on the table is called the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA), originally introduced by city council member Sandy Nurse in May 2024.

The bill would insert nonprofits into the private sale of nearly every residential building in the city by granting them a right of first refusal whenever a property is placed on the market. All property owners interested in selling would be forced by law to first offer the property to “qualified entities,” i.e., nonprofits the city has preselected, and they would be granted somewhere between 60 and 120 days to submit an offer and arrange financing before the property ever reaches the open market. In the event a private transaction is ultimately arranged, the property owner would then have to take the private deal back to the city and give the nonprofits a chance to match the offer.

This unprecedented intrusion into the private market, the likes of which we’ve never seen in New York, would kill the vast majority of real-estate transactions and tremendously reduce the incentives for new development, especially at the lower end of the market where it’s needed most.

COPA made its way through committees and passed the city council in December 2025, without a supermajority. Mayor Eric Adams had the good sense to veto COPA as one of his final acts as mayor, to the furor of progressives. One of the big questions going into the 2026 term was whether our new city council speaker, Julie Menin, would simply reintroduce COPA for Mayor Mamdani to sign as one of his first acts in office.

Speaker Menin instead shelved the bill, in what appeared to be a welcome act of moderation. Unfortunately, that wasn’t really the case, and it seems Speaker Menin might have been colluding with council progressives to simply time the reintroduction of COPA to coincide with Mayor Mamdani’s announcement of the Block by Block plan. If we hoped Menin would be a moderating force, it seems we have all been sadly misled, myself included.

Even with a simple majority from the council, it’s a lock that Mayor Mamdani will sign COPA into law. And combined with his property-seizure scheme under the 7A Program, he will lay the foundation for a radically changed system in which the nonprofit-industrial complex becomes the beneficiary of permanent wealth transfer to an extent never before imagined.

It’s crucial to understand that the entire organizing thesis of Mamdani’s “housing initiative” is to build up DSA-connected nonprofits with a multibillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets in the form of New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions, depending on how aggressive they get. The sky’s the limit, really.

These highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York—complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario. The organizing potential that comes with such immense resources will have national implications. Every DSA candidate in every town and city in the country would be trained, funded, and staffed by organizers with ties to the NYC nonprofit empire backed by a trillion dollars in free real estate. And they would be shameless in leveraging those resources for pure political power.

That’s the game plan here. That’s the whole ball of wax.

Nobody should be under the illusion that any of this is meant to or will improve the state of housing in New York City. We already have city-owned properties. It’s called the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). They are the worst landlords you could possibly imagine.

Mamdani could have proposed to turn over the properties he wants to seize from “bad landlords” for the “public good” to the city itself, as misguided as that would be. But because NYCHA is already under city control, there’s no further power to be extracted from it. And this whole scheme is about nothing more than consolidating political power for the DSA, by giving it a massive war chest backed by seized NYC real estate.

Once you understand that these people have no interest in fixing anything other than elections—just look at Los Angeles—it all makes a lot more sense.

Obviously, these policies will face legal challenges. And I know for a fact that such challenges are already being explored. On the face of it, the seizure scheme appears to be a fairly obvious violation of the Fifth Amendment (the so-called takings clause), which states essentially that the government cannot set up a regulatory scheme with the express intent of stripping a citizen of their property.

The fact that people like Weaver and Mamdani and various progressive policy experts associated with the plan have left a years-long paper trail explicitly describing their intent to use the mechanisms of administrative law to deliberately bankrupt landlords in order to appropriate their property likely won’t help them in court.

But who knows how long these court cases could take and how much destruction may be wrought in the meantime.

I’m personally hopeful that much of this will be struck down in the end, but its arrival to even this point should be deeply disturbing to all Americans. This is yet another mask-off moment for the left, and one thing we know for sure is that they’re relentless.

Zohran Mamdani has been fully embraced by the mainstream Democratic Party; he’s no longer an outlier or aberration. He’s a national star—the avatar of the party’s youth wing, who is spoken about as “a young Obama.” And so this is where we are today—having a deadly serious discussion about whether the largest and most important city in the nation is going to be allowed to strip private property from its citizens and transfer it to the activist wing of a socialist political party that will use that seized wealth as a magic bank account to fund its continued power.

The DSA isn’t going away. It’s found success where other would-be leftist third parties have failed, because it realized that trying to be an actual third party was a dead end. Steps like fundraising and getting ballot access are nearly impossible for a true third party.

So it chose to simply take over the Democrats from the inside, and it’s been a spectacular success for the group. At this point, the Democratic Party is mostly the DSA, and vice versa. And we all need to come to terms with what that means for us in a city with a historic Democratic majority, where existing Republican political infrastructure is weak to nonexistent in large areas of the city. The Democrats aren’t going to get sane anytime soon. The idea of having no sane alternative to socialist government in a city of nearly 8 million people is terrifying.

And this is just the beginning. West Coast cities such as San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles have already experienced the ravages of government by left-wing radicals whose disdain for law enforcement and private property has turned once-glittering success stories into hellholes of addiction, homelessness, and crime, as their most notable revenue producers have stampeded for the exits.

Mamdani’s plan to turn New York into Moscow on the Hudson by seizing private property and turning it over to NGOs is likely to have even worse results—which will send even more of the city’s tax base fleeing for the exits.

We’ve seen this movie before. It’s called Escape from New York. Very soon, we’ll all be living it.

Gaystapo · 20 de Jun, 2026

DoomsdayElite dijo:
Kill Jew Yorkers. Behead Jew Yorkers. Stir fry Jew Yorkers in a wok. Etc etc.

Is it even still Jew York if a communist Muslim is in charge of it right now?
(I'm joking, I know communism itself is Jewish)

quaawaa · 20 de Jun, 2026

Wallace dijo:
Moscow on the Hudson
Zohran Mamdani’s housing scheme will transfer ownership of NYC real estate to allied nonprofits, giving them unprecedented financial and political power

Archive

This is worthy of its own thread.

By the way, the author is one of the few conservative members of NYC’s city council. She’s worth following on Twitter.

US New York City Megathread - If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere

Culture Tema 'Hours after taking office, NYC Mayor Mamdani targets landlords, moves to intervene in private bankruptcy case'

Mamdani defends eliminating executive orders on antisemitism, boycotting Israel​

By Joe Anuta01/02/2026 05:10 PM EST​

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Opinion Tema 'The Hard Numbers Show That the NYC Congestion Pricing Has Been a Staggering Success'

The Hard Numbers Show That the NYC Congestion Pricing Has Been a Staggering Success​

Business Tema 'Nearly 15,000 Nurses Go on Strike at Major New York City Hospitals'

US Tema 'Adams' NYC Memecoin Crashes After Debut, Sparking Outcry'

US Tema 'None of Mamdani’s Deputy Mayors Are Black. It Has Become a Problem.'

Disaster Tema 'Missing Long Island boy, 15, may have traveled to NYC to meet with someone he met on Roblox'

US Tema 'Storm Tests Mamdani as Dangerous Cold Grips New York'

Mamdani Pushes for Tax Hikes on Wealthy New Yorkers to Fill Budget Gap​

US Tema 'NYC death toll from freezing weather climbs to 16, with 13 from hypothermia: Mayor Mamdani'

Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief Tech Officer​

US Tema 'Mamdani proposes 9.5% property tax hike for budget gap if Albany doesn’t act'

Disaster Tema 'NYC’s iconic accent — think ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘A Bronx Tale’ — is slowly disappearing from daily lingo, study says'

Crime Tema 'Two people in custody after 'suspicious devices' found outside Zohran Mamdani's official residence'

US Tema 'Police investigating after device thrown at anti-Islam protest in New York City'

Crime Tema 'Bucks County natives in custody after ‘improvised explosive' ignited in NYC'

Culture Tema 'Zohran Mamdani Announces Trans Director to Lead NYC’s First LGBTQIA+ Affairs Office'

Disaster Tema 'Two dead after Air Canada jet collides with fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport'

Culture Tema 'Affording New York - How a Family of 3 Lives on $500,000 on the Upper West Side'

Crime Tema 'Transgender illegal alien gets sweetheart plea deal in rape of 14-year-old boy inside NYC bodega bathroom'

Trans migrant gets sweetheart plea deal in rape of 14-year-old boy inside NYC bodega bathroom Archive.is/NY Post​

War Tema 'Can anyone get Mamdani to quit pushing antisemitism? Here are two reasons to hope so'

US Tema 'Boozy homeless honeymooners have sex, defecate in street in Mamdani’s old neighborhood — and cops can’t stop them'

Boozy homeless honeymooners have sex, defecate in street in Mamdani’s old neighborhood — and cops can’t stop them​

Culture Tema 'Hundreds of NYC-DSA members turn on Mamdani over homeless sweep reversal: ‘Class enemy’'

Original article​

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Hundreds of NYC-DSA members turn on Mamdani over homeless sweep reversal: ‘Class enemy’​

Crime Tema 'Machete-wielding NYC maniac who stabbed 3 elderly straphangers at Grand Central Terminal called himself ‘Lucifer’'

Crime Tema '‘Despicable’ goon arraigned on murder indictment in stray-bullet death of NYC baby'

US Tema 'East Villagers sue Mamdani to stop relocation of notorious Bellevue men’s homeless shelter into their neighborhood'

Culture Tema 'Sickening video shows NYC teen stomp on girl’s head— after she refused to give him her number'

Business Tema '‘Crisis of historic magnitude': Mamdani says State should help with multi-billion budget gap'

‘Crisis of historic magnitude': Mamdani says State should help with multi-billion budget gap​

Culture Tema 'Inside a Four-Million-Word Diary of 1860s New York'

US Tema 'Ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical condition: spokesperson'

Crime Tema 'Cross-dressing, masturbating ‘tenant from hell’ in pink thong terrorizing NYC apartment building: report'

Cross-dressing, masturbating ‘tenant from hell’ in pink thong terrorizing NYC apartment building: report​

Crime Tema 'Long Island teen raped in NYC after Uber driver failed to check ID, family claims'

Law Tema '"New York Recognizes No Tort of 'Misgendering'"'

CN Tema '🌈 Mayor Mamdani says he has balanced NYC's budget, will not raise property taxes 🌈'

Watch the mayor's budget address​

Culture Tema 'Will a Ban on This Flour Change New York Bagels and Pizza?'

Bromated flour, which makes breads and crusts stretchy and springy (and cheap), is among the carcinogens forbidden in pending state legislation.​

IN Tema 'Exclusive: Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going live on Twitch in new streaming series 'Talk with the People''

US Tema 'AOC dons hijab for Eid as NYC's socialist mayor stands awkwardly behind her at Muslim event'

US Tema '7 people emerge from NYC sewer manhole outside Kosher Corner in Brooklyn'

Group of 7 creeps emerge from NYC sewer manhole in bizarre scene, NYPD launches probe​

Law Tema 'Mayor Mamdani Announces $20 Million Investment in Congestion Pricing Mitigation Funds to Address Childhood Asthma in the Bronx'

What you should know​

US Tema 'Penn Station stabbing: At least 5 wounded in horror knife attack at busy New York station'

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Moscow on the Hudson​

Moscow on the Hudson​

Mamdani defends eliminating executive orders on antisemitism, boycotting Israel

By Joe Anuta01/02/2026 05:10 PM EST

The Hard Numbers Show That the NYC Congestion Pricing Has Been a Staggering Success

Mamdani Pushes for Tax Hikes on Wealthy New Yorkers to Fill Budget Gap

Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief Tech Officer

Trans migrant gets sweetheart plea deal in rape of 14-year-old boy inside NYC bodega bathroom Archive.is/NY Post

Boozy homeless honeymooners have sex, defecate in street in Mamdani’s old neighborhood — and cops can’t stop them

Original article

Hundreds of NYC-DSA members turn on Mamdani over homeless sweep reversal: ‘Class enemy’

‘Crisis of historic magnitude': Mamdani says State should help with multi-billion budget gap

Cross-dressing, masturbating ‘tenant from hell’ in pink thong terrorizing NYC apartment building: report

Watch the mayor's budget address

Bromated flour, which makes breads and crusts stretchy and springy (and cheap), is among the carcinogens forbidden in pending state legislation.

Group of 7 creeps emerge from NYC sewer manhole in bizarre scene, NYPD launches probe

What you should know

Moscow on the Hudson

Moscow on the Hudson