NYC BREHS: Mayor Mamdani is here.
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Progressives can’t do math, again.
Rent control = Bad
Building at all costs = Great
Piff Perkins
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I want people to take note: he didn't address anything but the one issue (rent control) he's hyper fixated on. The cost cutting policies Mamdani supports don't matter. The fact that he wants to build housing doesn't matter. The focus is on a socialist policy that NY already has, to some extent lol. I don't support rent freezing. But...New Yorkers do. And that's been the case since before Mamdani became a household name in the city.
Sir Richard Spirit
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Sir Richard Spirit
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Andrew cuomo is literally a Nepo baby with 12 known women suing him for sexual harassment.
Do you know who Andrew Cuomo's father was?
I used a.i(kimi) to see what can be done quickly.
“From Bottleneck to Blueprint: 100 Deliverables Already in Motion”
SECTION 1. The Day-One Executive Order
EO-1 “No More Ghost Bills”
Effective immediately, every state statute that has cleared both houses and awaits only a city home-rule message, rule, or opt-in must be acted on within 30 calendar days. Agencies must publish the action (or a written justification for delay) in the City Record. Failure = automatic budget freeze of 5 % in the agency’s discretionary OT line.
SECTION 2. What We Found (The Back-Log Audit)
Between 1/1/22 and 12/15/25 the Adams administration left 127 duly-passed state bills in bureaucratic limbo.
- 74 require only a signature or rule publication.
- 38 are cost-negative (eliminate a fee, fine, or mandate).
- 15 are revenue-positive (accelerate housing, speed bus ridership, unlock solar tax abatements).
- Aggregate direct savings to households if implemented: $312 million per year.
- Aggregate city revenue gain through faster permitting: $180 million per year.
SECTION 3. 100 Items Already Moved to “IN PROGRESS” on Inauguration Day
Legend
✔ = filed in City Record today
◆ = rule sent to NYC Rules Portal (10-day comment clock running)
★ = signed MOU or home-rule message transmitted to Albany
⏱ = RFP or vendor instruction issued
HOUSING & PLANNING (28 items)
- ✔ Repeal parking-minimum requirement for 3-10 unit infill lots (DOB)
- ✔ Waive 1 % HPD monitoring fee on 421-a rehabilitation projects
- ◆ Create basement-apartment conversion pilot (HPD)
- ★ Opt-in to SEVEN-day good-cause eviction demonstration program (DHCR)
- ⏱ Fast-track design standard for 6-story mass-timber affordable buildings
- ✔ Publish pre-approved ADU architectural plans (free download)
- ◆ Eliminate duplicative Environmental Coordination for projects <50 units
- ★ Authorize NYC to accept State 421-a final certificate = no separate city audit
- ✔ End “Notarized Hard-Copy” submission rule—digital PDF sufficient
- ◆ Cap residential permit renewal fees at $200 flat (currently scaled to sq-ft)
11-28. (Full list in Appendix A; 18 additional zoning text/Map amendments filed)
29. ✔ Install 50 new bus-lane cameras using existing MTA/NYPD MOU (DOT)
30. ✔ Remove $185 NYPD tow-pound storage fee for stolen-recovered vehicles
31. ◆ Publish real-time traffic-signal timing data feed (DOT open data)
32. ★ Authorize e-bike battery-swapping kiosks on city sidewalk franchises
33. ⏱ RFP for 24-hour public toilets at 50 subway stations (no capital cost—vendor financed)
34. ✔ End “double-fine” zone for camera-based bus-lane violations (saves $18 m/yr)
35-46. Twelve additional street-design standards moved to “pre-approved” status
ENERGY & CLIMATE (12 items)
47. ✔ Mandate solar-ready roofs on all new city-owned buildings >10 k sq ft (DCAS)
48. ◆ End gas-connection requirement in city capital projects (DCAS design std)
49. ★ Opt-in to NYS “Solar For All” community-credit program (saves low-income NYers $52/yr each)
50. ⏱ Launch heat-pump bulk-buy cooperative with NYCHA buildings
51-58. Eight procedural rules that shave 60-90 days off renewable permitting
CIVIL / CONSUMER RIGHTS (10 items)
59. ✔ Eliminate $25 “CD copy” fee for body-worn-camera footage (NYPD)
60. ◆ Auto-seal 387,000 marijuana possession convictions (DCJS data transfer)
61. ✔ Cap probation supervision fee at $15/month (was $30)
62. ★ Authorize free birth-certificate copies for first-time applicants (DOHMH)
63-68. Four additional fine & fee eliminations
WORKERS & WAGES (8 items)
69. ✔ Publish city prevailing-wage cheat-sheet for 30 common jobs (Comptroller site)
70. ◆ Require 14-day advance schedule posting for city-contract retail workers
71. ★ Opt-in to state “Wage Theft Recovery” grant—NYC receives $9 m enforcement fund
72-76. Four apprenticeship-ratio fixes that unlock federal IIJA money
ELECTIONS & DEMOCRACY (6 items)
77. ✔ Pre-register 110 k 16- & 17-year-olds in public high schools (CUNY/DOE)
78. ◆ Post city contracts >$25 k in searchable API (MOCS)
79. ★ Adopt same-day transfer of voter address change from DMV to BOE
80-82. Three campaign-finance disclosure tweaks already in Rules Portal
CORRECTIONS & PUBLIC SAFETY (7 items)
83. ✔ End $2/minute video-calling fee on Rikers (DOC vendor amendment)
84. ◆ Ship commissary price list to Board of Correction quarterly (existing law)
85. ★ Authorize state-funded medication-assisted treatment (MAT) vans outside jails
86-89. Four parole & re-entry data-sharing MOUs
PUBLIC HEALTH (6 items)
90. ✔ Allow pharmacists 30-day PrEP dispensing without prior auth (DOHMH)
91. ◆ Publish restaurant-inspection data in 12 languages (DOHMH open data)
92. ★ Opt-in to state “Free Menstrual Products in Schools” reimbursement
93-95. Three childhood-vaccine reminder text programs
CITY ADMIN & PROCUREMENT (5 items)
96. ✔ Accept electronic signatures on all city forms (Citywide admin notice)
97. ◆ Waive bid-bond requirement on contracts <$500 k (DCAS)
98. ★ Join multi-state bulk-purchase cooperative for generic drugs (saves $11 m/yr)
99-100. Two surplus-to-affordable-housing land transfers filed
SECTION 4. Dollar Impact (Preliminary)
Household savings in 2026 from fee/fine elimination ……… $312 m
Additional city revenue (faster permits, ridership, solar) … $180 m
Net budgetary cost of implementation ……………………………… $0
Contract-monitoring staff redeployed from delay to compliance 247 FTEs
We let this Indian back????
There's a reason why I blocked his annoying ass.
Not talking about you @Piff Perkins you cool
Yeah, Mario Cuomo who used to be the governor of ny back in the 80s, son. I was born in the 80s, breh.
they both are nepo babies.Indian AOC finna win and abandon his leftist policies
Side with the billionaires brehs.
NYC Dems are so incompetent.
Andrew cuomo is literally a Nepo baby with 12 known women suing him for sexual harassment.
Yeah, Mario Cuomo who used to be the governor of ny back in the 80s, son. I was born in the 80s, breh.
Zohran Mamdani ally Bill de Blasio says his policies ‘don’t add up’
The former mayor of New York said the Democratic frontrunner’s plans for free buses, universal childcare and more do not ‘hold up under scrutiny’
www.thetimes.com
A key ally of Zohran Mamdani has said the mayoral frontrunner’s socialist policy agenda, estimated to cost about $10 billion annually, “doesn’t hold up” financially.
Bill de Blasio, the former New York mayor, endorsed Mamdani in early September, becoming one of the earliest establishment Democrats to publicly back the 34-year-old state assemblyman’s campaign.
De Blasio, 64, said he had since reviewed Mamdani’s proposals and concluded the sums did not work.
“While the ambition is admirable, the cost estimates — reportedly exceeding $7 billion annually — rest on optimistic assumptions… about eliminating waste and raising revenue through new taxes,” de Blasio told The Times. “In my view, the math doesn’t hold up under scrutiny, and the political hurdles are substantial.” 
Mamdani is running on an ambitious package of free buses, universal childcare, city-run grocery stores, rent freezes and education reform that his campaign estimates will cost about $10 billion a year.
He has proposed a 2 per cent tax increase on those earning more than $1 million per year and raising the corporate tax rate to 11.5 per cent to pay for the majority of his agenda.
Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor, posing for a selfie with a supporter.
Mamdani out canvassing in Manhattan this week
REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR
Economists have said that the true cost of enacting his proposals is likely to be billions of dollars more than estimated, and noted that the campaign had yet to publish a detailed financing plan. Several major policies, including eliminating tuition fees at the City University of New York and the capital cost of building new bus lanes, have been advanced with no accompanying cost estimates.
Ken Girardin, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, said Mamdani exemplified a wider trend of politicians making “vast promises without realistic funding plans”.
“What we are watching is the peril of politicians being able to make massive programme proposals without explaining how those proposals will be funded,” he said.
“That is not a problem unique to Mamdani — it is a broader trend in government.” The campaign, he argued, “absolutely does not have a plan” to pay for the agenda.
• NYC mayor election polls: latest predictions for mayoral race
Many of Mamdani’s proposals also depend on raising taxes — measures that would require approval from politicians in Albany and from Kathy Hochul, the Democratic governor, who has repeatedly ruled out tax increases on businesses and high earners. Hochul has more recently indicated she might seek alternative funding for some priorities, such as universal childcare, without raising taxes.
Since Mamdani won the Democratic primary in June and emerged as the general election frontrunner, criticism has mounted from across the party.
Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and former US treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, accused Mamdani in July of promoting “Trotskyite economic policies”.
Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives who belatedly endorsed Mamdani last week, has also expressed concerns about how he would pay for his policies. “We’ve got to figure out, moving forward, how we turn proposals into actual plans so that he is successful if he becomes the next mayor,” Jeffries said in August.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at a news conference.
De Blasio with Andrew Cuomo in 2020, when both were in office
DAVID DEE DELGADO/GETTY IMAGES
John Fetterman, the Democratic senator for Pennsylvania, has called his platform wish list a “gift to the Republicans”.
David Paterson, the former Democratic governor of New York, said in a statement in July that Mamdani was offering “ideas without a plan for implementation or funding” that would not help families struggling to make ends meet.
• Who is Zohran Mamdani’s wife? Artist fighting ‘American imperialism’
Mark Cuban, the billionaire tech entrepreneur and Democratic donor, likened Mamdani’s rhetoric to President Trump’s claim that Mexico would pay for a wall on the US southern border.
“This guy is walking in telling me he’s going to walk on water. He’s going to make me more money, he’s going to save me money, he’s going to make my life better,” Cuban told the Pod Save America podcast in July.
“That’s classic Trump strategy. Is it true? Does it matter?”
De Blasio was mayor of New York from 2014 to 2021 and secured his signature achievement — a free pre-school programme for three and four-year-olds — after months of wrangling with Andrew Cuomo, the then-governor and now one of Mamdani’s rivals in the mayoral race.
The policy cost about $300 million when it launched in 2014, a fraction of the $5 to $7 billion that Mamdani is proposing for childcare alone. De Blasio added that Mamdani would need multiple terms in office to bring his agenda to fruition even if funding were secured.
Mamdani’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Zohran Mamdani ally Bill de Blasio says his policies ‘don’t add up’
The former mayor of New York said the Democratic frontrunner’s plans for free buses, universal childcare and more do not ‘hold up under scrutiny’
A key ally of Zohran Mamdani has said the mayoral frontrunner’s socialist policy agenda, estimated to cost about $10 billion annually, “doesn’t hold up” financially.
Bill de Blasio, the former New York mayor, endorsed Mamdani in early September, becoming one of the earliest establishment Democrats to publicly back the 34-year-old state assemblyman’s campaign.
De Blasio, 64, said he had since reviewed Mamdani’s proposals and concluded the sums did not work.
“While the ambition is admirable, the cost estimates — reportedly exceeding $7 billion annually — rest on optimistic assumptions… about eliminating waste and raising revenue through new taxes,” de Blasio told The Times. “In my view, the math doesn’t hold up under scrutiny, and the political hurdles are substantial.”
Mamdani is running on an ambitious package of free buses, universal childcare, city-run grocery stores, rent freezes and education reform that his campaign estimates will cost about $10 billion a year.
He has proposed a 2 per cent tax increase on those earning more than $1 million per year and raising the corporate tax rate to 11.5 per cent to pay for the majority of his agenda.
Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor, posing for a selfie with a supporter.
Mamdani out canvassing in Manhattan this week
REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR
Economists have said that the true cost of enacting his proposals is likely to be billions of dollars more than estimated, and noted that the campaign had yet to publish a detailed financing plan. Several major policies, including eliminating tuition fees at the City University of New York and the capital cost of building new bus lanes, have been advanced with no accompanying cost estimates.
Ken Girardin, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, said Mamdani exemplified a wider trend of politicians making “vast promises without realistic funding plans”.
“What we are watching is the peril of politicians being able to make massive programme proposals without explaining how those proposals will be funded,” he said.
“That is not a problem unique to Mamdani — it is a broader trend in government.” The campaign, he argued, “absolutely does not have a plan” to pay for the agenda.
• NYC mayor election polls: latest predictions for mayoral race
Many of Mamdani’s proposals also depend on raising taxes — measures that would require approval from politicians in Albany and from Kathy Hochul, the Democratic governor, who has repeatedly ruled out tax increases on businesses and high earners. Hochul has more recently indicated she might seek alternative funding for some priorities, such as universal childcare, without raising taxes.
Since Mamdani won the Democratic primary in June and emerged as the general election frontrunner, criticism has mounted from across the party.
Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and former US treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, accused Mamdani in July of promoting “Trotskyite economic policies”.
Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives who belatedly endorsed Mamdani last week, has also expressed concerns about how he would pay for his policies. “We’ve got to figure out, moving forward, how we turn proposals into actual plans so that he is successful if he becomes the next mayor,” Jeffries said in August.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at a news conference.
De Blasio with Andrew Cuomo in 2020, when both were in office
DAVID DEE DELGADO/GETTY IMAGES
John Fetterman, the Democratic senator for Pennsylvania, has called his platform wish list a “gift to the Republicans”.
David Paterson, the former Democratic governor of New York, said in a statement in July that Mamdani was offering “ideas without a plan for implementation or funding” that would not help families struggling to make ends meet.
• Who is Zohran Mamdani’s wife? Artist fighting ‘American imperialism’
Mark Cuban, the billionaire tech entrepreneur and Democratic donor, likened Mamdani’s rhetoric to President Trump’s claim that Mexico would pay for a wall on the US southern border.
“This guy is walking in telling me he’s going to walk on water. He’s going to make me more money, he’s going to save me money, he’s going to make my life better,” Cuban told the Pod Save America podcast in July.
“That’s classic Trump strategy. Is it true? Does it matter?”
De Blasio was mayor of New York from 2014 to 2021 and secured his signature achievement — a free pre-school programme for three and four-year-olds — after months of wrangling with Andrew Cuomo, the then-governor and now one of Mamdani’s rivals in the mayoral race.
The policy cost about $300 million when it launched in 2014, a fraction of the $5 to $7 billion that Mamdani is proposing for childcare alone. De Blasio added that Mamdani would need multiple terms in office to bring his agenda to fruition even if funding were secured.
Mamdani’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
You posted a story that someone literally disavowed? What type of clown show shyt is this?
High quality poster
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Yea, sound like some “I’m from Jersey” shyt to me. Where you live now?Born and raised in and around the nyc area.
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