Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "I am deeply saddened by the death of a New Yorker in City custody at a jail on Rikers Island early this morning. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss. We do not yet know the cause of death, but we do know that too many New Yorkers have died on Rikers Island. The Department of Correction and its oversight partners will investigate the circumstances surrounding his death. Our administration is fully committed to the critical work of creating better conditions in our city’s jail system and closing Rikers Island as quickly as possible."
Adam Milstein on X - "Mamdani didn't name Jose Miranda. He named his killer. A homeless parolee with 30 arrests who took a father from his two children with a meat cleaver. What kind of backwards world are we living in??"
Immigrant businesses who spoke out against Mamdani supermarkets say they're getting hit with NYC sanitation fines - "Members of an immigrant business group that has spoken out against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plans for government-owned supermarkets lately have been getting slapped with fines from the city’s Sanitation Department — and some say it looks like a case of retaliation. Diana Larrazabal, who owns flower and gift shop Aroma D’ Angel at 304 E. 116th St., said shops including hers in recent months have received a slew of citations from the New York City Department of Sanitation for garbage that isn’t even theirs. Her flower and gift shop was dinged with fines three times this year — most recently for $350 in May. Many of her Spanish-speaking neighbors who are not bilingual lean on her to help them navigate the city’s red tape, she said, adding that they also are forking over hundreds of dollars in fines... The coalition’s chairman, Frank Garcia, says the fines ramped up about two weeks ago when the group began pounding the pavement to speak with local business owners to get support for its suit. “When we started going door to door two weeks ago, that’s when the fines started,” Garcia told The Post, saying some have been served with penalties as stiff as $1,000. “The owners don’t speak English.”"
Exclusive | Mamdani accused of misusing NYC resources to boost Dems: ethics complaint - "Mayor Zohran Mamdani was slapped Tuesday with an ethics complaint from a watchdog group accusing him of misusing city resources to boost multiple Empire State Democrats, The Post has learned. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust urged the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board to launch a probe into Hizzoner’s endorsements of both Gov. Kathy Hochul’s re-election campaign and Lindsey Boylan’s failed bid for City Council... The letter cited an advisory opinion from the board in 2009 advising Big Apple pols against using city resources to endorse candidates... FACT noted that in all three instances, Mamdani stood behind the seal of New York City and that his team put transcripts of those press conferences on the city website. The watchdog is urging the board to “impose the proper penalties” on him. Mamdani’s predecessor, former Mayor Eric Adams, was hit with a $4,000 fine from the board in February after his staffers put multicolored whistles on reporters’ chairs during a press conference last year to jab at the harassment accusations against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo."
Farai Mazhindu on X - "The global left's obsession with turning a failing state into an ideological blueprint is the height of intellectual laziness and political delusion. The fact that Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist politician from New York, looks at South Africa and sees a model to emulate proves just how detached Western progressive academics are from the brutal realities of African governance. They treat lived economic tragedies as experimental playgrounds for their virtue signaling. To look at South Africa and see an economic North Star requires a breathtaking level of willful blindness. There is absolutely nothing good to copy from the South African reality. The country is trapped in a low-growth loop, with astronomical unemployment rates and a completely suffocated private sector. The municipal water networks are collapsing, and the national rail and logistics corridors are in shambles. Law and order have effectively broken down, turning the country into one of the most violent, high-crime zones outside an active war theater. Decades of porous borders and failed regional foreign policy have fueled explosive, unmanaged migration, sparking violent grassroots conflict. Mamdani and the global left look at this smoking ruin and somehow see a progressive paradise, simply because the political rhetoric sounds nice in a Manhattan lecture hall. The core defect of the socialist fantasy is that it is entirely obsessed with distributing wealth but utterly incapable of creating it. The strategy is always to "eat the rich" and penalize success. They overtax the productive middle class and the corporate sector to fund massive, unsustainable social grant systems. When you destroy a business-friendly landscape, capital flees the country. Factories close. Intellectual property leaves. You cannot distribute wealth that has already fled the borders. Once the rich are "eaten" and the business class is gone, the state is left with nothing but an impoverished population and a broken tax base. The "comrades" end up presiding over equalized misery rather than shared prosperity. Western leftists like Mamdani love South Africa because they only engage with its symbols, the progressive constitution, the anti-apartheid history, the radical rhetoric of economic transformation. They don't have to live with the rolling blackouts, the dry taps, or the fear of home invasions. They champion ideologies that kill production and development because they are completely insulated from the consequences of their own ideas. Copying South Africa's current economic trajectory isn't a progressive strategy; it is a blueprint for national suicide."
Time to mock poor people for supposedly voting against their interests
Bring Your Crash Helmet to New York City - WSJ - "Walking or running in the Big Apple is becoming more perilous by the day as e-bikers and motor-scooters speed, ignore traffic signals, ride the wrong way on one-way streets or up on sidewalks and are otherwise reckless. Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the self-styled man of the people, is looking the other way. He’s siding with delivery companies that prioritize rapid service over safety and resist accountability... “Micromobility”—people zipping around on small motorized vehicles—has brought challenges to traffic-law enforcement for years. But New York can’t seem to get its arms around the problem, and casualties are rising. There have been some 560 e-bike crashes in the city this year through the third week in July, up 28% from the same period last year. Add in scooters, and fatalities stand at 20, up from 13 last year. Survivors of accidents also pay a high cost. Doree Lewak, a contributing writer at the New York Post, has written about how, in 2019, she “was mowed down by a speeding food delivery worker—going the wrong direction on a one-way street and on the opposite side from the bike lane—on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, leaving me for dead.” For months, “it was difficult to speak, and the radiating pain was so intense that even modest movement—from laughing to getting dressed to turning on the shower—was wrenching,” she wrote. The e-bike problem got the attention of former mayor Eric Adams in 2025. He moved to regulate e-bikes, and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s department began to issue criminal court summonses for reckless violations of traffic laws by their riders. She called the behavior “clearly unlawful, dangerous, and degrading of our collective quality of life in New York City.” But Mr. Mamdani, who took office in January, issued an executive order in March to the NYPD, putting an end to criminal summonses for e-bikers. His view seems to be that it’s cruel to hold bikers responsible when they break the law. Chaos in the streets has ensued. On July 7 a 43-year-old in the running lane on Central Park’s West Drive was rammed from behind by an e-biker traveling in the wrong direction. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and a broken elbow and needed three blood transfusions and skin grafts. A witness alleged that the e-bike rider tried to flee but was detained by horrified onlookers. No charges were filed."
Florida names Mamdani "Economic Developer of the Year" with giant billboard in Times Square
Mamdani's Rent Freeze Is Going As Well As Expected - "If only someone could have predicted that the guy who ran for office promising a city-wide rent freeze was going to make things worse. Wait, didn't lots of people predict this would not go well? Back in January, I wrote about how the rent freeze would lead to higher rents... LA, like New York, has rent control and it's difficult to build in the city. As a result rents are up and vacancy levels are low. San Diego has no rent control and streamlined building processes. As a result, San Diego is building new apartments like crazy."
NYC rents hit record high while Mamdani advances rent freeze agenda - "The citywide median asking rent reached $4,200 in June, up 5% from a year earlier and the highest recorded by StreetEasy since it began tracking the market in 2010. In Manhattan — the most densely populated NYC borough — the median cost of monthly rent climbed 5.1% to $4,965. At the same time, apartments are becoming harder to find. The number of rentals available across the city fell 1.4% from a year ago, while Manhattan saw a 4.4% drop. It was even more dire for larger apartments in Manhattan, where the number of available two-bedroom units fell 9.3% and three-bedroom units dropped 11%. Simply put, there are not enough apartment units to meet demand, and costs are reflecting that squeeze. The rental unit shortage presents an early test for Mamdani’s affordability agenda in New York. While the socialist mayor has pledged to dramatically expand the city’s housing supply, his push to freeze rents on roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments has drawn warnings from economists who say the policy could discourage investment and make an already tight housing market even tighter. Adam Lehodey of the Manhattan Institute told Fox News Digital that rent increases on rent-stabilized apartments have failed to keep pace with inflation for years, even as the costs of maintaining buildings have continued to rise. As a result, he said, "slowly but surely, landlords have less to invest in their properties." He argued that this growing gap is leaving some building owners increasingly unable to cover basic operating expenses, which can lead to deferred maintenance and reduced investment in the city’s existing housing stock. Lehodey also pointed to a second dynamic in the rent-stabilized market: tenants paying below-market rents have a strong incentive to stay in place, which reduces turnover and makes those apartments harder for prospective renters to find. "People who are looking for apartments can't find apartments," Lehodey said. "People aren't giving them up, even if they have too much room." Other economists have sounded similar warnings, arguing that uncertainty surrounding Mamdani’s broader tax and regulatory agenda could also discourage the investment needed to expand the city’s housing supply. "Merely the threat of a more hostile tax and regulatory environment has been enough to chill investment in New York City, and that’s already impacting prices," E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital. "Builders and financiers aren’t going to start multi-year projects that might become unprofitable on Mamdani’s next whim." Antoni previously told Fox News Digital that the problem goes beyond new construction, arguing that government limits on rents can reduce the number of apartments available and discourage investment in existing properties. "Economists, whether they are on the right or on the left, essentially are in universal agreement, that when the government implements price controls in the rental market, you end up with housing shortages," Antoni said. "And not only do you end up with fewer housing units available, but the quality of those units consistently goes down as well," he added."
Clearly, the solution is to confiscate housing!
Exclusive | Manhattan rents reach all-time high of $6,655 per month - "The average price tag for a place to live just hit a jaw-dropping $6,655 a month, an all-time high, according to fresh data from Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group. That’s a brutal 10% jump from a year ago, and real estate pros are pointing straight at Mayor Mamdani’s incoming rent freeze on stabilized units as one of the culprits, along with a looming pied-a-terre tax that brokers say is only going to squeeze the market harder. The pain is compounded by a record-low number of vacant apartments across the city, leaving desperate renters with almost nowhere to turn... New York’s rental vacancy rate has cratered to just 1.49%, the tightest it’s been since 1968, and down from 1.57% previously. Experts consider anything under 5% a landlord’s market. This is far worse than that. Separately, state registration data self-reported by landlords shows about 57,000 rent-stabilized apartments sat empty citywide in 2025, roughly 5.6% of the regulated stock and up from 3.7% a decade earlier... Gary Malin, chief operating officer of The Corcoran Group, points the finger squarely at Albany and City Hall. “Misguided New York City and State legislation, like ‘good cause’ eviction, the FARE act, and the 2019 rent laws, have in large part created this perfect storm for sky-high rents,” Malin told The Post. “These laws have curtailed the supply of rental housing. This has caused demand to build up to a boiling point and pricing for available apartments to reach all-time highs. Legislators seem to care more about optics versus the actual impact of their policies. Their initiatives may be well intentioned, but there’s been severe unintended consequences, and today’s apartment seekers are literally paying the price.” And the incoming rent freeze won’t be the relief tenants are hoping for, Malin warned, since landlords still have bills to pay. “One thing is for certain, landlords’ costs will still go up regardless of the new rent freeze,” Malin said. “While the freeze may be good news for rent stabilized tenants, the bad news for market rate renters is that these increased expenses will likely be passed on to them, in the form of higher rents when it’s time to renew their lease.” And brokers say that shift is already underway, well before the freeze officially kicks in on October 1. Landlords who know their rent-stabilized units are about to be locked in place are padding rents on their free-market apartments now to cover the gap. He also sees the new pied-a-terre tax scaring off would-be buyers and pushing them straight into the already-slammed rental pool. “The new pied-a-terre tax may have an impact on the rental market as well, especially at the high-end,” Malin said. “People who were in the market to purchase a part-time home in New York, may instead look to rent — to avoid the liability and hassle associated with the surcharge. In addition, current homeowners now faced with the tax may choose to sell their pied-a-terre and rent as an alternative. Overall, both new policies will likely cause additional demand to hit a rental market that’s already incredibly stressed.” Douglas Elliman’s top-producing rental broker, Keyan Sanai, says it’s a collision of forces: high mortgage rates keeping buyers on the sidelines, a housing shortage that never gets fixed, and policy blunders piling on at the worst possible moment."
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "Yesterday, I gathered with residents at the Allama Iqbal Community Center’s Mela to commemorate Pakistan’s Independence Day and honor the contributions Pakistani New Yorkers have made to our city. Today and everyday, we celebrate this community whose open arms, determination, and dreams for a better life have helped shape the city they call home."
Eylon Levy on X - "Zohran Mamdani: “I can’t support any state that privileges one religion.”
The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Article 2: “Islam shall be the State religion of Pakistan.”"
One cope is that by attending, he wasn't supporting Pakistan, but his constituents who have ties to it. Yet, he skipped the Israel Day Parade, breaking a longstanding tradition, and there're a lot more New Yorkers with ties to Israel than Pakistan.
Brianna Wu | Facebook - "“Commemorate Pakistan’s Independence Day?” If you don’t like what happened in Israel in 1948, just wait until I tell you the details of what happened in India in 1947. Around 14 million people were displaced. Muslims fled India. Hindus and Sikhs fled Pakistan. About a million were killed in the massacres, and women were raped and abducted. What country shows the dangers of Islamism to its own citizens more clearly than Pakistan? India became a global superpower. Pakistan progressively Islamized its laws, persecuted religious minorities, empowered jihadist movements and somehow allowed Osama bin Laden to live for years beside its premier military academy. Mamdani treats the creation of Israel as a historic crime and the creation of Pakistan as something to commemorate? His Jew hatred shows in the double standard."
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability. It leaves our workers unprotected and our streets less safe. It's time for a change. I'm proud to support the Delivery Protection Act to crack down on exploitative subcontracting and build an economy that works for everyone."
Tweets from Zach Weinberg on X - "In two years, we'll wonder why Amazon delivery prices are up and service level is down and now only middle class and above can afford it. Same thing happening to Uber in NYC. Harming the poorest NY'ers who benefit from Amazon's incredible service."
End Wokeness on X - "I just found this clip of Zohran Mamdani on an Arab podcast, admitting that he fooled white liberals. Progressive ideology is just a tool. His real priority? "Identity""
@amuse on X - "SOCIALISM: Tracy Rosenthal hasn't paid rent on her $2,300/month apartment in almost six years. She's Zohran Mamdani's housing guru and author of "Abolish Rent". It turns out she's a trust fund baby whose daddy is a 4-time Grammy winner."
Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: A secret bot army boosting Mamdani on X appears to be operating from City Hall, according to an exclusive report. Cyber experts say they’re “100% sure” the IP addresses trace back there. So much of the DSA’s online support is astroturfed."
Flopping Aces on X - "There may be no more revealing line in the entire Mamdani story than this one: “His security blanket is his phone and the dopamine from how many likes he gets on a post.” That wasn’t some MAGA meme account. That was a Democratic operative describing New York City’s mayor. Another City Council member reportedly said Mamdani is so thin-skinned that he “reads everything.” Imagine running America’s largest city while your emotional support device keeps buzzing in your pocket. Crime? Housing? Taxes? Garbage? Hold on, somebody ratioed the mayor. According to the New York Post, Mamdani allegedly becomes particularly attentive when criticism starts generating bad press. Insiders say negative coverage or a critical social-media post can suddenly accomplish what unanswered calls, texts and emails apparently cannot: get City Hall’s attention. One operative said they respond when something reaches “crisis levels in the press.” That’s not constituent services. That’s reputation-management Whac-A-Mole. Then Councilwoman Virginia Maloney committed the unforgivable offense of tweeting “I know math is hard.” Sources say Mamdani contacted her afterward. Somewhere, a notification appeared. Mayor Zoflake saw it. Dopamine levels crashed. Emergency meeting at Gracie Mansion. This is the great irony of influencer politics: spend years teaching everyone that likes, shares, views and viral clips are evidence of your popularity, and eventually you start believing your own analytics dashboard. But New York City isn’t TikTok. The electorate doesn’t come with a beauty filter. And Staten Island proved the comment section occasionally shows up in person."
Exclusive | Mamdani is ‘thin-skinned and hyper-sensitive' in private despite unflappable social media image: political sources - "Social media-savvy Mayor Zohran Mamdani is developing a reputation IRL as “thin-skinned” and hyper-sensitive to public criticism, despite hyping himself online as a smiling and unflappable politician, scores of insiders spilled to The Post. Behind the scenes, Hizzoner huffily badgers critics who dare question him publicly, harbors petty grudges against prominent pols and often only responds to texts when he’s miffed about bad press, according to interviews with more than a dozen elected officials, consultants and other politicos. “I see more and more he cannot handle criticism, but mainly from elected officials who he thinks he can push around,” one political consultant said... His reputed simmering irritation recently boiled over after city Jewish leaders called on him to “stop fanning the flames of hatred” against Israel in the wake of an alleged antisemitic stabbing attack on the Upper West Side. Sources said the mayor personally called at least one elected official who attended the news conference, complaining about being told to tone down his rhetoric — and upset that their exhortation was connected to his video branding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal,” which was posted days before the attack... After taking office in January, Mamdani maintained his image-conscious ways by pouring $53 million into a new “Office of Mass Engagement,” an expansion of his already massive communications team that critics argue is a propaganda organ for City Hall. He also regularly drops new videos, from an arguably ill-advised clip filmed outside billionaire hedge fund titan Ken Griffin’s $200 million condo to hype the DSA “tax the rich” agenda to a 13-minute documentary this week about tenants organizing against their do-nothing landlord. Protecting the DSA movement’s burgeoning political power appears to be the source of much Mamdani touchiness, insiders said. Another Democratic operative said Mamdani is “tough on staff,” often holding late-night meetings in Gracie Mansion with his DSA comrades. “He’s the first DSA (mayor) so they have to show he can manage the city, and any time someone puts a dent in that it hurts their cause,” a government insider said. But sources revealed that Mamdani also obsesses over even the potential for bad media coverage, such as when Queens Borough President Donovan Richards in July slammed the DSA as “white supremacy” in an X post. Sources said Mamdani tried to nip a negative story in the bud by having a staffer reach out to Richards’ office to take down the post. Richards left the post up, leading to a Post story highlighting the rift between Mamdani’s largely lily-white DSA comrades and minority lawmakers such as the borough president. “He’s so thin-skinned and reads everything,” one City Council member said... One Democratic insider said Mamdani treats those who cross him with a “cold demeanor,” terse in responses and not his usual smiling self. That’s a contrast to his usual smiley and affable public manner... “He has been known to hold grudges against whoever challenges him or his positions for even some of the smallest of slights, and those people get sent to the back of the line unless he needs something.” Some insiders did credit the youthful Mamdani, 34, for being engaged in backroom dealings and acknowledging his limits. The mayor carries himself with “humility,” a union source said. “He asks lots of questions. Seeks to understand the issues he’s lacking familiarity with,” the source said. “He does more listening than talking. That’s uncommon in the political realm.”... insiders said Mamdani is quickly showing himself to be even more sensitive to media coverage than his notoriously whiny groundhog-killing predecessor Bill de Blasio. Mamdani should focus on the job, rather than a “first-term council member tweeting” about him, snarked Fabien Levy, former Mayor Eric Adams’ chief mouthpiece. “This administration is more on Twitter, Instagram or TikTok than probably any other politician in the county, but to steal an Eric Adams-ism: it’s not what’s in the tweets, it’s what’s in the streets,” Levy said."
Time to dismiss this as a hit job despite multiple sources and some bits praising him
Zohran Mamdani booed off stage at NYPD Night Out on Staten Island - "New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being mocked after many say he was humiliated by being booed off the stage while attending one of the city's biggest pro-police celebrations on Staten Island. Mamdani attempted to address about 3,500 residents and families attending the New York Police Department’s 43rd Patrol Borough National Night Out Against Crime event on Tuesday. His remarks, however, lasted less than a minute as loud boos, jeers and chants of "get out of here" and "nobody wants you" drowned out his voice... Mamdani has faced criticism over his relationship with police dating back to his mayoral campaign, which was dogged by questions about his past support for defunding the police. After his election, critics renewed those attacks when his budget included cuts to police funding and canceled plans to hire 5,000 new NYPD officers. He also took criticism for his handling of an incident in February in Washington Square Park, dubbed "Snowballgate," where a mob of roughly 100 people pelted NYPD officers with snowballs, leaving two officers injured. Rather than condemning the assault, Mamdani appeared to downplay the violence, referring to the perpetrators as "kids" taking part in a snowball fight. Fox News Digital previously reported that local crime expert and Manhattan Institute fellow Rafael Mangual said, "Mamdani did not come out in support of the NYPD in that incident. Instead, he seemed to kind of brush it off and even refused to call for the prosecution of the perpetrators," adding that the actions of the mob clearly qualified as an assault against police officers."
Meme - Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham: "Dear Zohran, This is why people don’t want you at the memorial. Those people on 9/11 didn’t just “die.” They were murdered. Murdered by radical Islamists who committed an act of terrorism. Terrorism that you refuse to condemn. Terrorism where you’ve unapologetically stood with people who said these people deserved it. Instead, you’ve made this event about your made up aunt. Instead, you and the rest of your DSA comrades have done everything in your power to shift the blame away from radical Islam. You acknowledge people died, but you won’t say why they died. Instead it’s “some people did something.” You, and everyone who voted for you, disgust me. New York has forgotten. Shame. Zeek"
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani: "Nearly 3,000 New Yorkers died on 9/11; 22 years later, the death hasn't stopped. We mourn our neighbors who died that day. The hundreds of thousands who died in the wars that followed. The unknown millions injured & displaced. In their memory, we work toward a better world."
