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Sam Raskin

2 years

Some professional news: I’m excited to join the talented team at Slingshot Strategies along with @Jeff___Coote . I’ll continue to post bad, inscrutable clunkers on here during this new chapter.

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

5 years

Just remembered when Allen Iverson—a misunderstood legend who I will defend unequivocally—explained that he didn’t lift weights while he played in the NBA because “that shit was too heavy”

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5 years

I agree, Bernie Sanders should see Uncut Gems

JTA | Jewish news

@JTAnews

5 years

Opinion | Bernie Sanders says he is proud to be Jewish — so why is he skipping the biggest celebration of Jewish pride?

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In a month, that Seth Rogen movie where he’s a Yiddish-speaking immigrant who in 1920-something falls in a pickle vat and he wakes up in present-day Brooklyn without having aged or learned English

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David Klion

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11 months

Where were your 8 great-grandparents from? New York New York New York New York New York New York Warsaw New York By millennial ostjuden standards I'm basically a pilgrim

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I think it's revealing that the NYPD evidently thinks this body camera video—in which a cop says "Oh OK, have a good one," then walks back to his car after a city councilman identifies himself by name and title—is flattering to the officer/ department and worth releasing quickly.

NYPD NEWS

@NYPDnews

8 months

Here is body-worn camera video of the interaction:

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@samraskinz

5 years

Even Yogi Berra in his prime could never dream of coming up with a line that good

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@samraskinz

10 months

Wake up, babe, new hilarious Eric Adams upbringing fable just dropped.

Emma G. Fitzsimmons

@emmagf

10 months

Mayor Eric Adams at a town hall in Coney Island: "Growing up poor has prepared me for this moment." He says he couldn't afford Converse sneakers and tells a new tale: "We used to pray for snow so we could melt it so we could have enough water because the water was turned off."

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5 years

We’re going to see a lot of this, and there are of course trivial reasons people dislike de Blasio, but one thing to keep in mind is the housing authority he controls knowingly allowed children to be exposed to dangerous levels of lead paint and they decided to hide it

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3 years

Mayor Bill de Blasio is dressed as Captain Kirk during his press conference.

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@samraskinz

3 years

Mayor Bill de Blasio *says* he’s dressed as Captain Kirk, but nerds familiar with the matter tell me that shirt is in fact not what the character wore. This is why attribution is important.

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

4 years

Took the subway yesterday and saw close to 100 percent of riders wearing masks. But the two cops I saw getting on were not wearing them, and the five others I saw—4 in an enclosed space—above ground were not wearing masks either. It seems like purposeful defiance at this point

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

2 years

The Republican incumbent running against the only Jewish statewide Democratic candidate just told voters to “vote for the only Christian" in the race.

Luke Warford 🚂

@LukeWarfordTX

2 years

The Texas Railroad Commission is supposed to regulate the Texas oil and gas industry. But incumbent Wayne Christian is too focused on spouting lazy, hateful nonsense to actually do his job. I'm running a campaign focused on the real issues facing Texans across our state.

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4 years

“Cancel Karen Culture NOT Cuomo?” among other signs being held by participants of pro-Cuomo rally outside his Midtown office

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

8 months

Co-op City was a Robert Moses project

Jonathan Soto

@Soto4NY

8 months

In 1966, socialists built the model: Co-Op City. The foundation of a Bronx where all can live comfortably in our homes, free of fear. In 2024, the Bronx movement we're forging will fulfill this mission for all. Green Social Housing, built by union workers to protect our future.

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5 years

@LeoniaBatlan That was misunderstood! His friend had just died

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Sam Raskin

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3 months

Explaining to a 19-year-old intern Anthony Weiner's whole deal and how he relates to Trump becoming president.

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@samraskinz

2 years

I knew 19-year-old NYU students who barely went to class, didn’t work etc. and wouldn’t come close to going out 22 nights in a month, you have to admire the mayor’s stamina.

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Sam Raskin

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4 years

Andrew Yang, who might be running for mayor, is with a film crew in a hair salon on Nostrand Avenue between Maple Street and Lincoln Road. His mask says “Forward New York.”

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

2 years

During an appearance on Fox 5, Mayor Eric Adams, who was a cop in New York City in the 1980s and '90s, just said, "I have never in my professional career witnessed crime at this level."

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

4 years

The path to social democracy in the US runs through Elizabeth Warren, Ayanna Presley and AOC bamboozling not-particularly-left-wing college-educated normies who don’t like Bernie Sanders that much on board with a wealth tax and welfare state expansion

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Sam Raskin

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3 years

Seems like the first week of Hochul as gov has undercut the common hedged defense of Cuomo along the lines of, ‘While he was of course a bully, he Got Stuff Done.’ There’s so much low-hanging fruit she’s addressing now because Cuomo often just didn’t do stuff for various reasons

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Sam Raskin

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3 years

Some minor professional news: Today was my last day working part-time for The Post. I start full-time there on Sunday. Same email, number, bad tweets etc.

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

4 years

@AnthonyBLSmith I had two months of basically this and thankfully it went away. Hoping the same happens with you

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@samraskinz

6 months

The Adams admin recently allowing, or maybe encouraging, the official NYPD Twitter accounts to fly off the handle like this is embarrassing

NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry

@NYPDDaughtry

6 months

Hey @harrysiegel everyone has an opinion. It’s a shame the Daily News chose to share yours — wild inaccuracies and all. It’s true we don’t track “defecation,” but we do track murder — and you managed to get that wrong. Rest assured, we will continue to enforce the law and make

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2 years

Sometimes, when a Twitter user expresses dissatisfaction with a city or state service, a rep for the agency responsible responds by pledging it will improve the situation (or there is no response). Here, a sanitation department public affairs staffer publicly mocks the complaint.

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

5 years

Looks like Robert Pattinson just got hired to cover the MTA and transit in New York City

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3 years

Eric Adam on Fox 5 says that "the other day" in Brooklyn he saw "over 500 ATVs clogging traffic" when asked about traffic/ cracking down on e-bikes

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

5 months

Every week or so, I’m reminded, or learn about for the first time, of something good Bill de Blasio did because someone reports on Eric Adams defunding/ dismantling/ abandoning it.

Ethan Geringer-Sameth

@GeringerSameth

5 months

Exclusive: Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Ed., a new report from @nyumetro_mlc found Mayor Eric Adams has largely abandoned school integration measures begun under his predecessor. My latest via @CityAndStateNY

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5 years

I was going to go to drinks at a bar with a bunch of people but then I saw a bunch of tweets from sensible people telling me not to do that and I listened :)

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Sam Raskin

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3 years

Dianne Morales says she supported Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 Democratic primary

She Wants to Be Mayor to Transform How New York City Operates (Published 2021)

A former non-profit executive, Dianne Morales said she wants to cut the police budget to divert money to social services.

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Raskin

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6 years

Brooklyn brownstones in the late 19th Century were thought of as soulless, inauthentic and monotonous

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Sam Raskin

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3 years

Yang ran all over the city from January to May meeting people, preaching the reopening & NYC is the best gospel, but ended the campaign a cranky quality-of-life guy who complains about homeless men and ATVs, without even becoming mayor. Probably a lesson in that narrative arch.

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

6 months

Benny Safdie [crowd cheers] says he talked with Eric Adams [crowd apprehensively boos, thinking it could have been a confrontational interaction] about composting and science in public schools [crowd goes wild with cheers] and repeats the mayor’s slogan [crowd boos]

Benny safdie

@benny_safdie

6 months

Had a great time talking with the @NYCMayor about community compositing, rats, bringing deep physics and composting science into public schools and just what makes NYC NYC! He listens and gets stuff done! Looking forward to more.

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5 years

I don’t like “Real New Yorker” gatekeeping, but as far as being distinctly New York-y, Bernie, an older Jewish man who is always yelling, used to be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and fondly remembers playing stickball, wins over the suburban instinct and sensibility-having de Blasio

Jeff Coltin

@JCColtin

5 years

Debate: Who's more "New York?" Bernie Sanders, who was born and raised here but left in his late 20's, never to return? Or Bill de Blasio, raised in Massachusetts but moved here for undergrad and never left?

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

5 years

Good morning! Some professional news: On June 3, I’ll be starting @bklyner , reporting on politics as well as Crown Heights/ central Brooklyn. Can’t wait to get started!

Bklyner

@bklyner

5 years

We are happy to announce that @samraskinz will be joining Bklyner as politics reporter, taking over from @kadiagoba .

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Sam Raskin

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2 years

Did Eric Adams just attribute "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere" to Jay-Z?

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

5 years

@ericziminsky @ewarren If you’re a Warren staffer reading the replies, please don’t do this

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

3 years

NEW: Councilman Justin Brannan — a speaker candidate who has demanded New York drivers “slow the f–k down” — has been captured by speed cameras speeding in school zones 16 times, including on six occasions in the last five months.

Exclusive | Speed cameras caught Councilman Justin Brannan 16 times

Councilman Justin Brannan is a lead-footed motorist whose car has been captured by speed cameras speeding in school zones 16 times, The Post has learned.

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

11 months

New York City, baby, 27 championships, we just found out about trash bins, and we have the world record for sidewalk sheds per capita and even one indoors.

Paul E Williams

@PEWilliams_

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The scaffolding lobby is so powerful they are doing it inside now.

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3 years

Hundreds lined up in Union Square Park to get one of the 3,000 joints available for free to those who showed their vaccination card to the weed hat and suit guy. “You can find every kind of person in this line, I feel like, and I think it’s dope.”

Vaccinated New Yorkers turn out for free joints on 4/20

It’s reefer madness in Manhattan! Hundreds of weed-lovers turned out to Union Square Park on Tuesday to score free joints at an event offering the newly legal drug to New...

nypost.com

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

2 years

About three to four times a year, a non-Jewish New York elected official reminds me that it’s an obscure Jewish holiday that I have never observed, and I think that’s amazing.

Kathy Hochul

@KathyHochul

2 years

Wishing a meaningful and easy fast to all those who are commemorating Tisha B'Av in New York!

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3 months

White male, tough on crime record, wouldn’t require giving up a senate seat, experience on the national stage, not a 2028 frontrunner? I have just the guy

Conor Sen

@conorsen

3 months

For a Harris-led ticket you’d need a white male VP actually willing to take the risk, which probably rules out the 2028 favs — Beshear might be willing to jump to the front of the line.

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4 years

ADUs and zoning make an appearance in season 4 of The Sopranos

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

4 years

De Blasio clearly gets—and trusts—most of his information about what happens during protests from his police commissioner, who a few days ago was tweeting unsubstantiated theories about bricks being strategically placed in Gravesend for looters to use

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Sam Raskin

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6 years

one thing i'll say about Jumaane Williams, who just won the public advocate special election, is that nobody consistently shouts out obscure Jewish holidays like he does

Jumaane Williams

@JumaaneWilliams

6 years

Wishing all of my Jewish brothers and sisters an easy and meaningful fast #TishaBav

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3 years

Prospect Heights apartment, three units in Bed-Stuy, Fort Lee apartment…. so many places to be constantly searching for contraband. Must be exhausting

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Sam Raskin

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5 years

Can’t wait for the 2021 Council primaries with all the open seats. Each race will have a member’s staffer, DSA person, dude running solely to move a bus stop and a disgraced ex pol who spent 4 years behind bars for siphoning state funds to their brother-in-law’s kielbasa business

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3 years

Somebody just shouted, "universal basic alcohol" after Yang's concession speech

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5 years

@TheStalwart “You know, I have no problem with Biden, he’s a reasonable guy, it’s just the whole party has moved so far left that ...”

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2 months

Grinning ear to ear at the thought of Secret Service now reading up on Gersh’s whole deal

Jake Offenhartz

@jangelooff

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“I do feel a certain amount of responsibility here,” @GershKuntzman told the AP about the man charged with breaking off two license plate covers from Secret Service vehicles assigned to the vice president's stepdaughter.

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4 years

Does de Blasio know cars go in reverse? Like you can also set the machine to go backward, in addition to forward

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5 years

What Yiddish word do you think is least able to be replaced by a single English one? "Tchatchke" and "schmooze" come to mind

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4 years

Wow, can't believe it's been already a year since the state's single-use plastic bag ban took effect

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5 years

Your great-grandpa’s name wasn’t “changed at Ellis Island”

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5 years

I eat my bagels like a REAL New Yorker, unlike de Blasio. I take one from my freezer, heat it on my radiator if it’s working, give a bite to a rat sitting by my apartment building’s garbage bags and put some East River fish on it along with some cream cheese (but not too much!)

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5 years

@LeoniaBatlan Well he got killed months before but the murder trial had started

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3 years

Every time one of those Moynihan Train Hall tweets goes viral or Cuomo’s well-documented bullying behavior is in the news, I can’t help but think of Michael Evans

Moynihan Train Hall czar killed himself as pressure mounted for...

In the days before he hanged himself, it was the clock that kept Michael Evans up at night. President of the public-private consortium, Moynihan Station Development Corp., Evans, 40, had already...

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3 years

This is a scene

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2 years

Many voters’ impression of Dem electeds are heavily influenced by the largest city near where they live, making it very important for the party that they are governed effectively and the public messages coming from their mayors are sober and responsible.

Meet the Voters Who Fueled New York’s Seismic Tilt Toward the G.O.P. (Published 2022)

Republicans used doomsday-style ads to capitalize on suburban voters’ fear of crime in New York, helping to flip enough seats to capture the House.

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

5 years

Would read at least 8,000 words detailing and comparing the Brooklyn Jewish upbringings of Bernie Sanders, Lloyd Blankfein, Larry David, Chuck Schumer, Howard Schultz etc. (I'm for sure missing a few in this category) and how they shaped each of them and their worldviews

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3 years

Kathryn Garcia says "we have to be a city that is growing" when asked at the 92nd Street forum about rezonings, and says she wants to "center community in the process of rezoning, but with the goal of actually achieving a certain number of housing units"

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3 years

Wow de Blasio really not offering anything criticism of Adams and campaign surrogates recent statements about Yang and Garcia stealing the election, suppressing votes. De Blasio calls Yang and Garcia's move "opportunistic"

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Sam Raskin

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4 months

Urbanist, pro-housing and transit record, experience taking on a New York governor, high name ID, congestion pricing supporter, working-class, outer-borough base, nothing to lose? I think I found just the guy:

Arpit Gupta

@arpitrage

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This would be a great day for someone to announce a primary campaign against Hochul on an urbanist plank of housing, congestion pricing, transit. When they face tradeoffs, politicians side with the suburban voters because they don’t fear urban backlash enough.

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3 years

Wild that a mayoral campaign got launched into the top tier in part by AOC endorsing a candidate who until very recently was a consistently Bernie Sanders-skeptical pundit

Maya Wiley

@mayawiley

5 years

I wish I could say I haven’t seen this on the left. I’m progressive & believe in change & how we get there matters too. The ugliness isn’t from a majority but it’s undermining: “Trump's MAGA supporters & Twitter Bernie Bros have this ugly tactic in common”

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What would you ban? Wiley: Sugary drinks Donovan: food deserts, neighborhoods with no parks Morales: ban bodegas without fresh fruits Yang: ATVs Adams: Schools not having farms/ gardens on rooftops Garcia: Corn syrup Stringer: School lunch junk food McGuire: Health-care deserts

Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

3 years

Lightning round -- how many hours of sleep do you get: McGuire: 5 Stringer: he gets up at 5 Garcia: 6 Adams: 4.5-5 Yang: 6 Morales: 6 Donovan: 6 Wiley: 6

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Are you an anti-woke Democrat? "Some of us never went to sleep," Eric Adams says on ABC.

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Whoever was in charge of the posters for Dianne Morales in my neighborhood did a great job. They’re everywhere

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Gothamist, City and State, NYT, Streetsblog

Alex Yablon

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Steve Thurston Kim Lee

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4 years

There were about 40 people here at the peak of this rally.

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8 months

Is there an exemption for elected officials to driving or owning a car with illegally tinted windows?

NYPD NEWS

@NYPDnews

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The New York City Police Department is releasing the following statement after an officer conducted a legal and professional stop of New York City Councilmember Yusef Salaam’s vehicle in the 26th precinct yesterday:

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Asked a (Hasidic, older, unaffiliated with any mayoral campaign) man if he liked Yang or Adams more and he said he was always taught that he should starve to death rather than eat poison😬

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8 months

Even in the cartoon world NYPD, their cars are parked on the sidewalk.

Mayor Eric Adams

@NYCMayor

8 months

Do we want "New York's Finest" doing paper work or police work?

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3 years

De Blasio, when asked by @C_Sommerfeldt about this: "I always say I'm going to give credit where credit is due to the media. That's a good catch. I like the blue a lot, but you're right, it's historically inaccurate, but I'm still gonna wear it, because now we bought it."

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Reform Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Orthodox Judaism

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Sam Raskin

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2 years

Professional news: Next Tuesday (Aug. 16) will be my last day at The Post. It's been an exhilarating, educational, and rewarding 2.5+ years as a runner and reporter, and I'm grateful for the time I've spent here working alongside so many excellent, hard-working journalists.

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4 years

A bunch of people dunked on this already, but I still thinks it’s hilarious that the guy whose whole thing is that New York City’s small businesses and people with modest incomes can’t thrive anymore and in turn storefronts are vacant absolutely loved when everything was closed

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2 years

63% of New Yorkers support installing metal detectors at subway station entrances, and 60% support homeless encampment sweeps, according to the newly released Spectrum News NY1/Siena College Poll

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5 years

Okay, I guess I should get this over with: yesterday was my last day at Bklyner. Wasn’t my choice; I was let go. Good news is I’m now available for freelance work! Email is samzraskin @gmail .com and my DMs are open.

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3 years

We know from reporting de Blasio is backing Adams behind the scenes, but this is really something

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3 years

I think some people are misunderstanding these as brags. With the exception of Adams, the candidates were self-deprecating and acknowledged they should get more sleep

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"This campaign has been amazing," Andrew Yang says during his concession speech. "I'll confess to you, there was so much about New York City I did not know," Yang, correctly, says of himself before he ran for mayor

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It’s kind of funny that there’s a theoretical $100 fine for putting household trash in one of the trash cans on the street but if you just drop a garbage bag in the middle of the sidewalk in front of your apartment ... that’s what you’re supposed to do?

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Lead-footed Councilman Brad Lander—a longtime safe streets advocate who is running for comptroller—has racked up enough school zone speeding tickets in the last year to get his license revoked under the original version of his own bill

Exclusive | This NYC pol favors school-zone speed cameras — and got caught by...

He’s a high-speed hypocrite! City Councilman Brad Lander — who’s crusaded against reckless drivers and pushed a law that lets the city seize their cars — has been caught...

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“He’s a fucking coward. He’s acting this way because it’s easy.” Hundreds of protestors gathered yesterday evening across the street from Senator Chuck Schumer's apartment, in a @indivisible_bk -organized demonstration

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4 years

Really wish I wasn’t scared to bike in the city. It’ll probably be a key way for people to get around for the next year or so as people avoid the subways and buses but have places to go

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5 years

Haven’t aged a day in two years, must be my skin-care regimen

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6 years

Cuomo couldn't / didn't get his "op-ed" published anywhere, so he ran it on his personal website. Pitching can be tough, I feel you gov

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4 years

Something that puts recent NYPD behavior in the shocking but not surprising category is, in my experience, even during relatively calm, routine situations, cops routinely make up laws and demand you comply with them, threaten to make arrests, and verbally escalate minor disputes

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6 years

@michaelbd Somewhat relatedly, I love that the populist revolt of the forgotten heartlanders is being facilitated almost exclusively by guys who sound like frequent WFAN callers.

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Sam Raskin

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3 years

I asked Yang what policies they’re aligned on, beside the community banking/ remittance idea. He spoke about that proposal, then said, “We both like bicycles, there’s that,” with a chuckle. “Carlos and I, I think, are aligned on many things.” He didn’t list anything else

Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

3 years

Andrew Yang and Carlos Menchaca schmoozing before their presser. Menchaca just endorsed Yang

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

3 years

Solidarity with all the landlords who made six figures for years as nonprofit execs for having to handle all this harm done in their spaces while still centering other marginalized folx ✊✊✊

Sally Goldenberg

@SallyGold

3 years

BREAKING: Hearing several people involved in the effort to unionize have been terminated from @Dianne4NYC team.

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

3 years

Remember: Just because you’re vaccinated does NOT mean you can run around placing bets all over Midtown while evading your brother-in-law's goons and delaying telling your family about your impending divorce because of a mistress who works at your jewelry shop

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

4 years

Yeah, we'll never know an exact number, but it's important to remember many people died last year because Cuomo wanted to dunk on de Blasio re: shutdowns and masks. The feud isn't just some petty drama

Aaron Carr

@aaronAcarr

4 years

Never forget

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

8 months

Is an exemption for such laws when an elected official is carrying out "official duties," or is the NYPD making up rules as they go along?

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

10 months

I agree. If it’s not Eric Adams himself who is indicted, he’ll say stuff like “When it comes to Turkey, it all is looking kind of murky” and “everyone is all excited even though I’m not indicted,” and hobble to 2025, when there will be a regular, competitive primary election.

Ross Barkan

@RossBarkan

10 months

A lot will still have to happen for Eric Adams to resign. Only a direct indictment would spur a resignation and, even then, Adams may choose, Trump-style, to fight it out. If a top aide is indicted, Adams might just try his best to distance himself.

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

10 months

Mayor Adams at 37% approve, 54% disapprove, in this new poll.

Marist Poll

@maristpoll

10 months

In our brand-new NYS and NYC poll, NYers are souring on Mayor Adams and not exactly in love with Gov Hochul:

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

6 years

Some professional news... I'm extremely excited to announce that on Monday I will be joining the amazing team at @politicony to cover real estate and housing.

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

3 years

I hereby declare *never* to use any Taliban-produced products, a significant but necessary sacrifice, and won’t attend any panel discussions featuring Abdul Ghani Baradar.

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Sam Raskin

@samraskinz

4 years

@jscros This is a city website not state—a rare instance of something actually being on de Blasio and not Cuomo

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