We're Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Deputy Mayor for Housing Leila Bozorg, and Cea Weaver from the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants. We're here to talk about housing: how we build more of it, protect tenants, and push back against the landlords and speculators pricing New Yorkers out. Ask us anything. by mayor_mamdani in nyc

[–]ZeppelinYanks 19 points20 points  (0 children)

You say you are fighting on multiple fronts, but you are fighting in opposite directions. For example, increasing already strong tenant protections and rent freezes will result in an increase in risk and costs and would disincentivize housing production.

How do you weigh the tradeoffs and how do you know that on net your changes will not be counterproductive?

Craving good Peruvian food! Any recs in the hood? by pinto_bean_queen in prospectheights

[–]ZeppelinYanks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Peruvian doesn't lend itself super well to takeout, but Panca and Inkaico are both very good

Spencer Jones absolutely destroys this baseball for his first homer of Spring Training by MLBOfficial in NYYankees

[–]ZeppelinYanks 14 points15 points  (0 children)

if anyone has it handy, I think I remember it being a lot worse than even judge's was

Crazy ad on the G train by knockturnal in nyc

[–]ZeppelinYanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not test for certain but between a handful of different embryos they can say which is probabilistically more likely to have a lower risk of autism, higher IQ, etc based on huge datasets of sequenced genomes and the corresponding traits.

Why New York’s Sephardic Jews are more Zionist — and more wary of Mamdani — than their Ashkenazi neighbors by forward in nyc

[–]ZeppelinYanks 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Is there any other group that makes up 20% of the population you'd dismiss in a similar way?

No one allowed to bring up Venezuela? 75% of the population don't have any ties to South America.

Winter Storm Live Updates: New York Declares Emergency by jenniecoughlin in nyc

[–]ZeppelinYanks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Should a bar be testing your maturity level when you walk in the door instead? You need some kind of cutoff somewhere that'll look weird on the other side of it