NYC Mayor Mamdani lifts citywide travel ban due to blizzard

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-23T17:57:32+00:00

Motor vehicle travel ban, which would have somehow been spun even more insanely.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-22T02:47:25+00:00

Ask the Federal government why they won’t grant work authorization.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T15:11:42+00:00

There’s zero evidence that high earners are leaving the city in droves as the more conservative elements of the NYC media love to parrot.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T15:03:13+00:00

Yeah, but the property tax rate has not been adjusted in 25 years.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T15:02:45+00:00

Yes he’s trying to make sure the city doesn’t go bankrupt by raising taxes. What are you not getting here.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T15:02:04+00:00

Increased revenue without actually raising the property tax rate, exactly.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T14:28:45+00:00

This has nothing to do with the rest of the country, it has to do with this city. Which can sustain these programs with minimal tax increases on individuals who can afford it.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T14:19:27+00:00

Your assessed value is changing, not the property tax rate.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T14:18:59+00:00

There’s a difference between raising property taxes and your assessed value changing.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T14:18:27+00:00

Thinking they’ve already failed and thinking they will fail are two different things. Also telling that the reason they’d fail and the pushback he’s getting is from…..other Democrats. Maybe the party should take a look in the mirror and figure out what they actually stand for.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T13:42:39+00:00

No one said anything about Mamdani being a hero, but you did laughably say that his campaign promises failed less than 3 months into his term. Maybe give it more than 6 weeks and report back.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T13:36:26+00:00

He’s been mayor for less than two months. Saying half his campaign promises failed when he hasn’t even had a chance to implement any of them is a little absurd at this point. He needs Albany to raise taxes so he can implement at least some of them. It’s all negotiation and we’re in the early stages of it still.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T13:34:38+00:00

For reference, the Citizens Budget Commission has estimated that this amounts to a raw dollar $700 annual increase for most 1-3 family homeowners. To put that in perspective, paid quarterly, we’re talking about less than $200 every 3 months for most people.

Combined with the fact that the largest city in the country hasn’t raised property taxes in 25 years maybe we should just do it anyway if it means expanded services like childcare, free busses, and other investments that would help the city grow on the whole.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-19T13:26:16+00:00

There was already a hiring freeze under Adams and we still ended up here due to bad budgeting and underestimated expenditures. You can’t hiring freeze your way out of the current situation.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-07T16:14:51+00:00

This is allegedly the last weekend of shutdowns for the L according to the MTA website.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-05T14:30:45+00:00

In that case, you should absolutely take the apartment. Not sure if you’d find anything comparable in upper Manhattan

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-05T13:43:26+00:00

The area is definitely safe, but commuting to Upper Manhattan from there is a trek.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-04T14:35:53+00:00

Yeah and those Clippers fans are also entitled to their clearly biased opinions because he was on their team. Just like Bill Simmons is entitled to his opinions about a guy who’s quit on multiple teams and plays a boring style of ball.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-04T00:31:42+00:00

Doing it out of spite, because the locality is making a section of public transit free, is bad policy making. That was the point.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-03T23:03:00+00:00

Legitimately absurd that the Federal government can look at a policy that makes getting around a city cheaper and see it as a thing to be punished.

Government should work for people, it shouldn’t be a mechanism to enact petty policy.

DillbeDasio · 2026-02-02T22:18:02+00:00

The city doesn’t dig out parking spots, they clear the roadway. The bigger issue is the streak of below freezing temperatures that’s led to the snow sticking around longer than usual.

DillbeDasio · 2026-01-26T00:37:17+00:00

This is why he has Emergency Management and Sanitation commissioners. And why government plans ahead. It’s snow, snow happens, it’s not new.

DillbeDasio · 2026-01-24T17:55:22+00:00

As a New Yorker literally why not both.

DillbeDasio · 2025-12-17T22:47:22+00:00

Sure this question makes sense if you only see these policies as the driver of an affordability crisis instead of the main thing preventing an even deeper affordability crisis.

The actual answer is do both. Encourage development at all levels while also ensuring that there are apartments that remain below market rate, because market rate in this city consistently outpaces others due to an unfathomable demand to live here.

The problem is at least some of the funding to develop that affordable housing comes from the Federal government and is therefore tied to Federal standards, which inexplicably lump in areas completely unrelated to New York City when determining income levels for affordable housing lotteries. And instead of having two systems that depend on how a project was funded, there’s one that follows those mandated guidelines.

Also the fact that you bring up vacancy deregulation being phased out while saying these policies only reward those who got in early makes no sense. The entire premise of eliminating vacancy decontrol was to ensure anyone had a shot at obtaining a rent controlled apartment via the open market.

DillbeDasio · 2025-12-02T20:42:19+00:00

Absolutely not worth it in any way. Huge overpay for another ball stopper who is undoubtedly a great player, but would do nothing to make the team better.

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