Category Archives: New York

NYC Rent Hits Record High Under Mamdani

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Zohran Mamdani ran on a platform of “affordability.” Let’s check in on how affordable housing has become under the Marxist mayor.

Via ZeroHedge:

New data from The Corcoran Group, a major residential real estate brokerage founded in NYC, shows that rents in the metro area have climbed to a new record high.

Manhattan’s median rent rose 8% from a year earlier to $5,295, while Brooklyn reached $4,350, also up 8%, according to the report. Manhattan’s vacancy rate narrowed to 1.49%. In Queens, Rego Park posted particularly sharp increases, with one-bedroom rents up 12% and studio rents up more than 20%.

Under progressive hyperregulation, new housing does not get built. Landlords cannot afford to maintain what housing already exists due to rent control. Meanwhile, liberals have flooded the sanctuary city with hordes of foreigners, many of them here illegally; a staggering 40% of NYC rental units are occupied by people born in other countries.

Less supply + more demand = higher prices. The economics is so simple, even socialists could understand it. But they choose not to.

Uh oh:

City Comptroller Mark Levine commented on the new report, saying, “NYC’s housing affordability crisis is at DEFCON 1. We need to push harder on every front to address our housing shortage.”

Wrong. They need to stop pushing and let the free market provide people with a place to live, while allowing ICE to do its job, which will decrease the pressure from abroad that has helped drive up housing costs.

Instead, they will double down on Marxist policies until they achieve their objective of 100% government housing. Those who manage to secure a unit will find themselves living in Cabrini-Green. But at least they can force everyone else to pay for it.

On a tip from patthedog.

Mamdani Lets Homeless Encampment by Intrepid Museum Fester

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Nothing could be more emblematic of liberal rule than homeless encampments, so this story from the New York Post comes as no surprise:

A sprawling homeless encampment near the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan has been vexing business owners and passersby for months — but the city is effectively running a valet trash service for its rough-sleeping residents rather than clearing the eyesore.

The steadily growing shantytowns — haphazardly strewn with all manner of bicycles, electronics and garbage — have taken over sizable portions of West 45th and 46th Streets along Twelfth Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen, between the museum parking lot and an Amazon warehouse.

According to legend, back in the 1800s a rookie cop said, “This place is hell itself.” A more experienced cop responded, “Hell’s a mild climate. This is Hell’s Kitchen.” Thanks to Mamdani, the neighborhood is changing for the worse.

Normal people are sick of the stench. In response to their repeated complaints, the city sends sanitation workers on a regular basis to cart away unwanted trash but leaves the encampment in place.

Drug-addled bums love the direction New York is taking:

“Mamdani is awesome. He, like, did a whole paradigm shift on homelessness and care,” said Markus C., who lives in an encampment on West 40th Street but visits the 46th Street shantytown roughly twice a week. …

James Bilis, 35, from Jersey City, has been living on the streets for five years. He also heaped praise on Mamdani for the uptick in outreach services and the lack of enforcement.

“The homeless outreach, it’s been a lot of that. They walk around, they bring food to people all the time now. They bring supplies, try to give us shelters, there’s a lot more than before,” he said.

It is no accident that homelessness explodes where moonbats have control. Los Angeles is another case in point, as Steve Hilton would like to change:

Imagine the entire country as a homeless encampment. That’s what progressives are progressing toward.

On tips from R F, DCGere, and abcanc.

Mamdani Erases Italians

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New York City’s Little Italy is possibly the most famous ethnic enclave in the USA. However, Italians are Caucasian. Worse yet, they assimilate and become Americans. Consequently, Zohran Mamdani has erased them.

Via Daily Signal:

Mamdani’s Office of Immigrant Affairs released a map on Wednesday titled “New York City’s Immigrant Enclaves.” It features 30 enclaves spread across the five boroughs, from Little Africa to Little Yemen, even Little Odessa. And, of course—Mamdani being Mamdani—it includes Little Palestine.

However, somehow Mamdani has erased the most famous immigrant enclave of all, the capo di capi of New York’s ethnic neighborhoods, the iconic Little Italy.

As suggested by the Italian American Civil Rights League, Italian immigrants did a lot more to build NYC than the Third World moochers who helped Mamdani to power.

Little Italy was not canceled by accident:

The Italian American Civil Rights League insists the snub was not government incompetence but deliberate, citing the city’s refusal to grant it a permit for Unity Day 2026. “This is not a clerical error,” said Mike Crispi, the group’s president, in a statement. “This is cultural erasure.”

Also, recall Mamdani childishly giving the finger to the original Italian-American, Christopher Columbus, the titan of history who brought Western Civilization to the New World. Columbus ranks with George Washington on the NYC hit list for statue removal.

No need for Italians to feel singled out. The Irish enclave in Woodlawn and the largest Orthodox Jewish community outside Israel in Borough Park were also ignored.

If moonbattery prevails, everyone with European or Jewish ancestry will be erased — “vaporized,” as George Orwell put it.

On tips from abcanc and Anonymous.

Iranian Flag Theme for NYC Subway Train

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First, some context:

From its inception 47 years ago, the Islamic fundamentalist regime controlling Iran has been at war with the United States. “Death to America” has been its motto. It has killed many an American over these years. Currently, the USA is at war to prevent it from using nuclear weapons to kill us by the millions. Iran has been the #1 state sponsor of terrorism for decades.

New York City is the former site of the World Trade Center, which was totally destroyed by Islamic terrorists, killing 2,600 in the worst terror attack in American history.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani advocates forcing Americans to fund hijrah — i.e., the Islamification of America by mass immigration. He took the USA’s 250th anniversary as an opportunity to denounce the country.

Now to the current official decoration scheme for at least one New York City subway train:

Never mind the World Cup. At best, this is in extremely bad taste. At worst, it is another finger in America’s eye.

On a tip from abcanc.

Mamdani Blows $Millions on Transsexuals While Stiffing Police

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Governing is all about setting priorities — especially where there is not enough money to cover government spending, as in New York City. Zohran Mamdani has made his priorities clear.

Via National Review:

The New York City Council approved a new budget on Tuesday that allocates almost $7 million for “trans equity” programs and doesn’t include any spending for the additional police officers Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to hire.

To quote H.L. Mencken, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” Voters must have wanted expensive privileges for the sexually deranged rather than safe streets, or they would not have voted for Mamdani.

Mamdani previously pledged to hire 580 new cops, but the money for the new positions was noticeably absent from the city’s most recent $126 billion spending plan.

No way was the pro-criminal and pro-terrorist Mamdani going to spend the money on public safety. His progressive base would not stand for it:

Mamdani’s pledge to hire more cops received pushback from his most progressive supporters, including the Democratic Socialists of America, New York Communities for Change, and Desis Rising Up & Moving. In a letter opposing the expanded police force, 70 likeminded organizations criticized the mayor, citing his previous commitment to limit any additional police officers in the city.

Here’s where the money goes instead of toward reestablishing public order on New York’s anarchic streets:

The budget allocates $40,000 of taxpayer money to drag story hours, $600,000 to the Caribbean Equality Project, and $320,000 to Pride Center of Staten Island, among other expenditures. …

The budget also allocates: $1 million to Destiny Tomorrow, an LGBT group based in the Bronx, creating the “first-ever transitional housing program for transgender New Yorkers”; $705,000 to Gay Men’s Health Crisis; and $275,000 to Services And Advocacy For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual And Transgender Elders, Inc.

Other spending priorities for Mamdani include a new propaganda bureau and chocolate condoms.

Wasting other people’s money on moonbattery has already resulted in what Mamdani calls a “budget crisis of a historic magnitude.” The hope is that the state can bail the city out by applying moonbat math. This won’t last, but if Democrats take over Congress and the White House, the rest of the country can be forced to pick up the tab.

In the meantime, at least NYC can save a few dollars by not sufficiently funding the police.

On a tip from Varla.

Mamdani Refuses to Comply With Supreme Court Ruling Regarding Colonists From Haiti and Syria

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Temporary Protected Status has allowed colonists from the dysfunctional hellholes Haiti and Syria to help Democrats turn America into a country more like their own. Finally this is over, the Supreme Court having ruled that lower courts cannot continue to extend TPS indefinitely. But this may not apply to New York, which under Zohran Mamdani’s ultraleft rule is in open revolt against the federal government:

The seditious attitude that has characterized the Democratic Party since Trump’s decisive election has progressed to straightforward rebellion.

A country that allows local governments to shelter foreign invaders in explicit defiance of the federal government will fragment into pieces.

Alternatively, maybe a Mamdanized Democratic Party will take over nationally. Imagine what the immigration policy will be. Last one out of the Third World, please turn off the lights.

On tips from Wiggins, abcanc, and seaoh.

Even Leftist Democrats Left Behind by Radicalization of Party

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After the French Revolution, the radical Girondins were sent to the guillotine by the more radical Jacobins. After the Russian Revolution, the radical Mensheviks were sent to the gulags by the more radical Bolsheviks. In the Democratic Party, people who qualified as all the way left just recently know what the rise of Zohran Mamdani means for them.

Townhall gives a couple of examples:

New York Attorney General Letitia James isn’t happy about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s growing influence over the party after a slate of socialist candidates rode his endorsement to victories in Tuesday’s primary elections.

Queen Letitia — best known for waging lawfare against Trump, demanding sex change procedures for children, and trying to dictate race-based justice to faraway Texas — is now a moderate by New York standards. History has shown us what happens to moderates when radicals seize power.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also chimed in, expressing frustration with Mamdani’s electoral success. He criticized the mayor back in May when he endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier instead of her primary opponent.

Chevalier is not merely a moonbat but a maniac. As reported at PJ Media,

Darializa Avila Chevalier took NY-13 on a platform built around abolishing prisons, abolishing ICE, abolishing borders, defunding the police, and opposing the deportation of every illegal immigrant, including violent criminals.

She isn’t alone in the new Democratic Party as it undergoes a hostile takeover by Democratic Socialists of America:

Claire Valdez won NY-7, promising citizenship and voting rights for people who broke into this country illegally, taxpayer-funded transgender medical treatments, and the elimination of private health insurance for every American.

Hating Donald Trump isn’t enough anymore:

Just look at NY-10, where Brad Lander demolished Rep. Dan Goldman, grabbing nearly 65% of the vote. Goldman was one of the loudest anti-Trump voices in Congress, and he led impeachment efforts against President Trump. None of that mattered. His support for Israel and his refusal to endorse Mamdani are the reasons he lost. Lander, meanwhile, ran on abolishing ICE, forgiving almost $2 trillion in student loans, and packing the Supreme Court.

Anyone who falls behind in the race to achieve the farthest imaginable extreme of moonbattery will be dealt with harshly:

The good news is that it is becoming inconceivable that reasonable and well-meaning people could support Democrats. The bad news is that leftist control of the media and education combined with mass immigration from the most dysfunctional parts of the world may have degraded our culture to the point that this no longer matters.

If these people prevail, the terror that followed the French and Russian revolutions will be reenacted in the USA.

On tips from patthedog and abcanc.