I was gonna ask if we could refocus on how even if we grant that Mamdani continued the lawsuit because he changed his view on whether City Council had legal authority to expand CityFHEPS eligibility, that'd mean *he* has authority to expand eligibility and he chose to not do it!
a Democratic challenger promised to drop the suit and allow the loan forgiveness to go into effect, then once he got into office he kept defending the suit to strike down the law.
this graph is a great Rorschach Test on the question of what the effect of NY's 2021 tax increase was
nytimes.com/2026/05/02/upsho…
one thing that really differentiates NYC from other cities is that you have lots of parts of the city where residents are high income but a majority don't own cars - almost all of which have a lot of transplants
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This is the impact of our organizing. 💥
Deliveristas are now trading old bikes for UL-certified, safer e-bikes—thanks to NYC’s first-ever (and the nation’s first!) e-bike trade-in program we fought for & WON.
Thank you @NYC_DOT @KeithPowersNYC @NYCCouncil @NYCSpeakerAdams ✊🏾
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"One of the most remarkable and pleasing developments was that despite the popularity of free transfers, fare revenues dropped less than expected."
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