Bail reform and Congestion Pricing was passed in 2019 when State Senate was controlled by Democrats.
How was New York when the State Senate was controlled by Republicans?
Taxes
Row of cars dumped on Liberty Avenue in front of 106th Precinct vehicles at PO Nicholas DeMutiis Park.
Ironically, PO DeMutiis died when a stolen car rammed into his 1977 Plymouth while on duty on January 25, 1994 at this location. It’s a similar scene by 112 Precinct in Forest Hills under the LIRR trestle along Yellowstone Boulevard.
Asylum Seekers can vote for NYC Mayor and City Council members thanks to Local Law 11!
Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s recent busing of asylum seekers is helping to highlight President Biden’s wrong border policy. The City already has more than 4,000 of them. Mayor Eric Adams has given them personal attention!*? Remember that the Mayor is allowing any permanent resident and person authorized to work the right to vote also known … Read more
If you are not the Party’s candidate, fairness is not a given before the NYC Board of Elections.
It is a given that the Board of Elections is partisan. To protect party-favored candidates, creating unexpected rules and using lies and innuendos among 5 Republican and 5 Democrat Commissioners are to be expected. My Democrat opponent, Joseph P. Abbabbo, filed We The People independent nominating petition. The Queens Clerks concluded that Addabbo had 2,812 … Read more
Bike lanes along Queens Boulevard painted since 2016 did not make the Boulevard safer. How many more businesses may close before DoT’s error is reversed?
Community board and the neighborhood voted against the bike lanes in May 2016, but ex-Mayor de Blasio pushed ahead the stretch from 74th Street and Eliot Avenue until Union Turnpike. Six years later, has the death and accident count changed? Has the business along the bike lane stretch benefited from the bike lane? If not, … Read more
Milled section of Jamaica Ave between 121 St and Lefferts Blvd has not been repaved after 6 months.
Other sections of Jamaica Avenue street milled at the same time has been paved back, but not this 3-block stretch. Why?
Are merchants responsible for lifting sidewalk?
Yes, property owners are responsible, but what if the lifting is caused by the vibration of the elevated J Train on Jamaica Avenue?
Consumer Price Index for July 2022 at 8.5%
CPI. Do you have the financial cushion to take price-increase hits? What are the adjustments you have made to cope? How long can you go on? How close are you to your breaking point?
MTA Customer Service is getting more inconvenient, worse in waiting and less friendly.
Before COVID, token booth clerks could take cash purchases, transfer card values, and be of service helping straphangers. My mother got a new MTA Reduced-Fare MetroCard. The expiring one has money in it, so I asked my token booth clerk to help. No luck. I could mail it in for a refund or visit a … Read more
“The Constitution does not prohibit legislatures from enacting stupid laws.”
Quote from Chief Justice John Paul Stevens recalling remark from Justice Thurgood Marshall in the New York State Board of Elections, et. al., PETITIONERS v. Margarita Lopez Torres et al. 552 U.S. (2008) case. 15 years later, stupid laws in nominating candidates for open seats in the Supreme Court continues.