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NYC Mayors Race 2025
Sep 30, 2025 at 12:15 am by PeterParker
NYC Billionaire Press Billionaire TV News & Free Speech in America
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Manhattan News - Intra Weekly Updates
October 7, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / NYC Politics / New York City News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
*** What Follows was posted Week Beginning 10.6.25
NYS Inflation Refund Checks to be Deposited or Mailed in October & November 2025
September 26, 2025 / NYS. The Hochul Administration began sending NYS Inflation Refund checks to the 8.2 million residents of NYS. The refunds will be $150 / $200 or $400 per person depending on income and tax paying related persons status. The ostensible purpose of the checks is to help New Yorkers combat the negative impact of inflation on New Yorkers' household budgets. For details see - https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-inflation-refund-checks-are-now-being-sent-82-million-new-york
NYC Mayoral Election - Voter Registration / Voting by Mail / Early Voting / Ballot Questions / Poll Site Locations
October 1, 2025 / NYC Citywide. Click on the 'Don't Wait / Vote by Mail' ads on this site to go to the Board of Elections website, where you can find all of the information identified in the headline and to obtain instructions for all of the above. It's just a click away.
Collapse at the Mitchel House in the Bronx is Part of an Ongoing Saga of Neglect of an Incredibly Valuable Public Asset - NYCHA - Yes NYCHA - Read on.
October 1, 2025 / NYCHA Mitchel House in Mott Haven in the Bronx / News Analysis & Opinion. The value of NYCHA is realized by the billionaires and real estate developers who fund the pols in office, and then turn around and cut deals with the pols to transfer publicly owned NYCHA land to them for pocket change on the dollar, in exchange for what only can be described as something close to an indiscernible public value.
Billionaire TV News fails to recognize NYCHA's intrinsic land value, and in fact constantly aids and abets the wealthy real estate investors by disparaging NYCHA. Thus the NYC public is kept in the dark, ignorant of the real value and potential of all of the incredibly large swaths of prime real estate to which NYCHA holds title. And which could be used to address NYC's affordable housing crisis by building and selling apartments to New Yorkers at prices pegged to the median income in the city, transferrable via a lottery, at sale prices also pegged to median income. But TV News, the well funded pols and the wealthy real estate investors who fund both, seem to look out only for themselves. While making tenants of New Yorkers, by handing out billions in tax breaks, cheap land and cheap financing to the uber wealthy, thus continuing to transfer wealth to them by taking it from ignorant working class New Yorkers who are kept in the dark.
The photo above or at right was taken a few days ago at the Mitchel House NYCHA complex in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx. The explosion destroyed a chimney, but that appears to have been a clean break, and the sum total of the damage to the complex, which is fairly negligible given the size of the structure. Nobody was hurt.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/01/nycha-explosion-bronx-mitchel-houses/
*** What Follows was posted Week Ending 10.3.25
Actors Equity Voted to Authorize Broadway Strike Following Contract Expiration 9/28/25. But First Talks Next Week.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Actors Equity voted to approve a strike on Broadway which could affect 32 theaters during peak season. Over 1,000 actors signed a letter in support of the strike which is about healthcare contributions, safe staffing levels and paid leave.
https://deadline.com/2025/10/broadway-strike-actors-equity-1236567875/
Three Casino Proposals Gain Approval by Fairly 'New' Community Boards
Tuesday, September 30, 2025. Proposals for casinos at Resorts World in Queens, Ballys in the Bronx, and the most recent approval at in Flushing Meadows Corona Park were all approved by community boards that have undergone significant turnover in the past five to ten years. Many of the reconstituted community boards now appear to serve the billionaires and real estate developers instead of their communities. A fourth casino proposal is for MGM Empire City in Yonkers, which was also approved.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/citi-field-casino-queens-casino-steve-cohen/
Trump / Hegseth Preparing the Department of War to Invade U.S. Cities
Tuesday, September 30, 2025. Hegseth tells U.S. generals if they are uncomfortable with what he and Trump are planning to do, which is to use U.S. cities as a deployment target, they should resign. We were hard pressed to find much information about this important and very disturbing story on billionaire TV News. Billionaire TV News is too busy investigating the UN escalator conspiracy. Kind of reminds me of about a year ago, when Trump sent the networks off to Ohio to look for the dog and cat eating illegal Haitian immigrants. TV News has become ridiculous.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq044n72po
VP J.D. Vance & House Majority Leader Mike Johnson Mislead Public About Government Shutdown on TV News
Media Fails. Fox News Fails to Correct VP Vance, While ABC Corrects House Speaker Mike Johnson. NBC did a Fair job of Properly & Contextually Explaining one of the Leading Issues at Stake in the Government Shutdown
Friday, September 26, 2025. VP Vance Tells a Big Lie Regarding Government Shutdown on Fox News, which was also posted on X and continues to go Uncorrected. Billionaire Rupert Murdoch's TV news continues to disrespect their audiences by providing them with factually incorrect information, as they have previously done in reporting on the 2020 election results, and the insurrection of Jan 6th, 2021.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-misleads-claim-democrats-shut-give-health-care-illegal-immigrants-rcna234905
Mets Eliminated from the MLB Playoffs - but that's not the Big Story - Which was Missed Completely by Billionaire TV News
Mets Owner, Billionaire Steve Cohen, was the Founder of a Securities Firm that was Involved in One of the Largest Insider Criminal Cases Against a Hedge Fund in U.S. History. Now Cohen is Vying for a Casino. Should Someone with Cohen's History be Allowed to Operate a Casino in NYC? And is Cohen Competing Fairly for a Casino License?
Sunday, September 28, 2025. Mets owner Steve Cohen has been preoccupied vying for a casino license in the CitiField parking lot. This is why Cohen didn't have much time this summer to find a 'black edge' equivalent to win a pennant for the Mets. Now the question is whether Cohen has found some 'black edge' equivalent to use to win a casino license, because someone convinced the board member appointee of former NYC mayoral candidate Jessica Ramos, to change their vote from valiantly advocating against the proposed casino, to voting for it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/mets-eliminated-from-playoffs-as-humiliating-collapse-is-complete/ar-AA1NtKFL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Martoma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cohen_(businessman)
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/citi-field-casino-queens-casino-steve-cohen/
U.S. & NYC Economic News Updates
Saturday, September 27, 2025. Over the past couple of weeks the economic news releases have been a bit troubling. GDP was revised significantly upward to 3.8% vs 3.3% provided previously, and 3% provided previous to that. But the growth in output didn't carry along with it any attendant uptick in employment, which is disturbing, assuming the data hasn't been tampered with.
On the other side of the scale there's inflation, which is showing signs of life again, after falling back nicely since June of 2023. This could be the costs associated with tariffs finally beginning to show themselves as macro economic data has a lag factor which generally runs 6 - 18 months, which the TV newspeople don't seem to understand.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2025/consumer-prices-up-2-9-percent-from-august-2024-to-august-2025.htm
Democrats Releases a Few Big Names Found in the Epstein Estate Files
Friday, September 25, 2025. The Democrats released three prominent names that were found in the Epstein Estate files including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon. No surprises here.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musk-peter-thiel-and-steve-bannon-named-in-epstein-files-released-by-democrats/ar-AA1Nnm0Z?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's Speech Sets Record for a UN Delegate Walk Out
Friday, September 25, 2025. Over 100 delegates from 50 nations walked out when Netanyahu stepped to the podium, which reportedly set a record for a UN delegate walk out.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=video+of+Netanyahu+walk+out+at+un&PC=APMC&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dvideo%2bof%2bNetanyahu%2bwalk%2bout%2bat%2bun%26form%3dAPMCS1%26PC%3dAPMC&mmscn=vwrc&mid=E425FA43C859AF8D4978E425FA43C859AF8D4978&FORM=WRVORC&ntb=1&msockid=eee2706d9eab11f0913bbcfbe547bd6d
Brazilian President Lula Makes Noteworthy Speech at the UN, in Support of the Ideals Historically Championed by Previous American Presidents
Wednesday, September 24, 2025. Brazilian President Lula complimented our American ancestors for the positive role they and our nation has played in world affairs generally. But President Lula also took note of how things have changed. Lula hinted at what is now generally believed around the globe, which is that America can no longer be relied upon to fulfill the outsized role we used to play on the world stage. He noted that other nations around the world need to step up to fill the void, and now would be a good time to do so. See his 20 minute speech at the UN using the Bing.com link below.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=brazill+president+compliments+Us+for+role+it%27s+played+in+the+world+until+now+at+un&mid=C40D4A7A23CACE21C0D2C40D4A7A23CACE21C0D2&FORM=VIRE&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0
Yankees Clinch Playoff Berth in the MLB Playoffs
Wednesday, September 24, 2025. Yankees step up and are now contenders in the World Series.
https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-clinch-2025-playoff-berth?msockid=2d203cb5997f631635a42acd98c162af
NYC Mayor Adams Aborts Mayoral Campaign
Adams Aborts Re-election Bid
After Years of Numerous Allegations of Corruption, Adams Exits Mayors Race
September 30, 2025 / NYC Mayors Race / Manhattan Politics / Manhattan News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Manhattan Buzz NYC.
We look at events leading up to Adams exit from the NYC Mayoral Race, which lend credence to Sliwa's accusations that Adams was or will be compensated for dropping out. We identify one huge pending public land transfer that Adams is working on [FEC Chelsea NYCHA], and provide a summary history of many of the many real estate deals Adams implemented which provide public land, tax benefits, financing and possibly public funding to billionaires and real estate developers. Some of the people involved in these deals were Adams supporters. Then we look at some of the Adams Mayoral track record, including crime, putting his accomplishments in context. And lastly we look at the aftermath of Adams exit, and what Sliwa, Mamdani and Cuomo had to say about it.
NYC Mayoral Race - Eric Adams Secret Florida Rendezvous with a Trump Official Who's also an NYC Real Estate Developer
Adams traveled to Florida following the Labor Day Weekend. Coming out of that trip, there were rumors of Adams cutting some sort of deal to drop out of the NYC Mayors race, in exchange for a position in the Trump Administration. On either September 2 or 3, 2025 Adams reportedly met with Trump Administration member, Steve Witkoff, who is also an NYC real estate developer.
Stephen Ross & Related Companies - A Huge Public Land Transfer Deal is Lurking in the Background that hasn't been Covered by Billionaire TV News
It's worth noting that Stephen Ross, of Related Companies, lives in Florida. Ross is one of the largest NYC developers, and historically has been one of the largest players in the funding of NYC Mayoral & City Council members campaigns via supportive Political Action Committees or PACs. And Stephen Ross & Related Companies and affiliates are one of the largest - if not the largest - recipient of NYC public land transfers to a developer over the past quarter century.
Ross currently has at least one huge transfer of NYC pubic land to him and his companies pending [FEC Chelsea NYCHA], which Adams has obligingly - if not submissively - overseen. Ross and friends have been supporters of the campaigns of candidates like Adams for many years, which the current state of NYC's affordable housing crisis bears out. Stephen Ross has also been a financial / PAC Trump supporter, having reportedly hosted a fundraiser for Trump on Long island back in 2020.
Trading Up? Adams Indulges Billionaire Developers, While Ditching his Supporters
In 2021 the billionaires opened their campaign cash spigots for Adams, thus enabling him to win that NYC Mayoral race based on campaign funding and TV commercials - not merit. And ever since Adams became NYC Mayor, he's been working hard to move ahead the billionaires' real estate development projects, which far too often appear to include the transfer of NYC public land at rock bottom / oligarchy free-for-all prices. I believe this is one of the reasons the billionaire developers and media oligarchy don't want to see Mamdani win, as it will slow down their railroading of riches from the public into the private domain.
Adams' meaningful achievements for the working class of NYC are close to non-existent. This helps explain why Adams repeatedly showcases a picture of his mother Dorothy at public appearances, to lay claim to her working class roots. Adams may have been born into the working class, but he does not appear to have working class values, nor a true affinity for them - least not since becoming NYC Mayor. Adams seems to have traded in his affinity with the working class, for aspirational riches a long time ago. Likely before he was famously quoted saying "show me the money".
The Adams Record as NYC Mayor
Violent Crime Down Significantly Across the U.S. including NYC, But the other NYC Crime Reductions Significantly Trail the U.S.
Adams insinuates, if not outright claims, he's reduced crime in NYC since taking office. When Adams became Mayor in 2022, we were still dealing with the pandemic. Crime in NYC rose not just here, but in the rest of the nation as well. But over the past few years, crime has fallen in NYC, and in all other U.S. cities.
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NYC Mayoral Race Polls 2025
NYC Mayoral Race - Polls
September 21, 2025 / NYC Mayors Race / Manhattan Politics / Manhattan News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Manhattan Buzz NYC.
This section is dedicated to providing our audience with a weekly update of recent polls surrounding the NYC Mayoral Race, and select other NYC public positions to be decided in this upcoming election.
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Billionaires are Rapidly Changing TV News & Not in a Good Way
Billionaires are Amassing a Huge Concentration of Mass Media Assets, in What Appears to be the Privately Owned Propaganda Press
September 18, 2025 / New York City News / NYC Billionaire Press Billionaire TV News & Free Speech in America / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.
All six TV Networks are controlled by billionaires [or folks whose wealth rounds up to billionaires or are members of billionaire families]. Increasingly they appear to be turning the TV networks into privately controlled propaganda machines. Too often they appear to resemble Rupert Murdoch's mistreatment of the truth in the news. This means they seem to omit key facts and even entire stories from view, while amplifying falsehoods and outright lies spoken by politicians and their teleprompter readers alike, which go uncorrected, leaving those who still trust Network TV News, ignorant and in the dark as to what's really going on in this country.
Network TV News Corps Appear to be Trading Journalistic Integrity for Media Market Share so they can Price More Aggressively. America Beware, as they will have Even More Influence over what you / we Americans see, hear & think.
Colbert was cancelled by CBS and numerous seasoned journalists departed for journalistic integrity reasons. CBS appeared to be compromising their integrity, as Colbert is the top rated show in the time period. But Trump doesn't like Colbert, and CBS had a merger deal that needed to be approved by the Trump Justice Department and FCC, so poof, Colbert cancelled. CBS denies this reasoning, saying they have other [unannounced] plans.
Disney / ABC paid off Trump in a lawsuit many attorneys were sure they could have easily won. And this week Disney / ABC took the Jimmy Kimmel Show off the air for making an opinionated comment of which Trump didn't approve, on the Kirk assassination shooter. Kimmel had joked that the shooter was a MAGA Republican which he does not appear to be, although reportedly the rest of his family is.
The alleged shooter was reportedly in a relationship with someone working through gender identity issues, which is just one of the many important issues of our day, that billionaire TV News repeatedly fails to fully inform upon. This link will take you to the Metropolitan Museum website, of a past photo exhibit, wherein in the mid 1800's a French photographer documented a hermaphrodite, which is someone with both male and female genitalia. That's a fact, that I have NEVER seen raised nor discussed by the flunkies on TV News, who don't seem to be knowledgeable about the world around them, and definitely far too often, just simply do not do their basic homework on important issues.
And the sad thing is that this translates to an increasingly ignorant American public, as up until this year TV was the dominant news source. This year news on the web FINALLY passed TV News, and I am hoping that that trend will accelerate as more Americans start paying attention to how badly TV News fails them, daily.
If you decide to click this link you'll encounter what is likely a shocker to most folks [was to me the first time I saw it at the Metropolitan Museum exhibit in the late 1990's]. But the idea isn't to shock, but rather to instruct - Metropolitan Museum photo exhibit by Nadar of hermaphrodite.
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Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Scroll Down to see Each Boro's Headline Events & Things to Do: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island
September 12, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
√ Sunrise 6.34 / 27 am. Sunset 7.09 / 21 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting 12 hours & 35 minutes of daylight or two hours and 31 minutes less of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Summer Solstice, on June 20, 2025. The Summer Solstice is the longest day of this year, providing 15 hours and 6 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
The photo above or at right, was taken in a prior year at the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy in Manhattan. The festival began this week and runs through next weekend.
√ NYC Specific Weather - This can be very Different vs TV News Area Weather. No rain is in the forecast and we need it badly. There's a drought in western New York which is highly unusual. The temperature highs will be around 80 all weekend, while the temperature lows will be in the high 60's all weekend. The humidity reading again takes some wild swings this weekend, starting Friday ranging from 80% to 50%, then 95% to 60% on Saturday and then 90% to 40% on Sunday. It's more humid around sun up and more dry around sundown. Winds will range from 5 - 10 mph on Friday and Saturday, calming down to about 5 mph on Sunday.
Friday Afternoon Edition @ 5.30 pm. We added a number of Member Calendar events below. This is a fair but still incomplete draft, with some more events and details coming. As you scroll down you'll notices it's a very busy weekend, as Fall activities kick into high gear. We should mostly finish up sometime between early and late evening Friday. In the meantime I wish you an enjoyable weekend.
P.S. NEW. We're adding more news and more events starting this weekend and coming week. Stay tuned.
Things To Do This Weekend in New York City
FEC Chelsea NYCHA Tenants Protest March Saturday at 12 noon & Men's and Women's U.S. Open Results
- Saturday, September 13, 2025 beginning at 12 noon - FEC Chelsea NYCHA Tenants Protest March - begins in two separate places [1) the public park located at 19th Street & 9th Avenue & 2) Hudson Guild at 441 West 26th Street] and converges and ends at one destination which is on the west side of 9th Avenue at W. 24th Street. The reason they are marching is as follows: 1) Stop displacement of seniors and families – NYCHA’s plan would uproot elders who may never live to return by 2041. 2) Reject developer giveaways – Related/Essence and other private interests profit while tenants lose homes. 3) End manufactured crisis – NYCHA neglects repairs, leaves units vacant, then calls demolition the “solution.” 4) Defend community stability.
- Editor's Note / Opinion: What the Adams Administration & Related Companies have done looks like a con job to essentially privatize about 7 acres of public property in the heart of Manhattan, taking control at what seem to be super discount prices because of what looks like a manufactured crisis, while billionaire TV News distracts the public with celebrity gossip & crime / accident videos, and mostly looks the other way. To learn more about what's really going on in NYC that the billionaire TV News / 'mainstream my ass' media doesn't report, click into the following links to view a few of our emerging new website sections - 1) Context - NYC Oligarchy privatizing NYC public land / wealth while the billionaire TV News looks the other way, 2) Is this a fraudulent transaction? FEC Chelsea NYCHA in OpEds, and 3) NYC Landlord Tenant Harassment.
Men's and Women's U.S. Open results coming shortly.
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Buglisi Dance Theatre Company at Lincoln Center 911
Weekend Events / Things To Do & Update Coming Later Today
Reposted September 11, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / Things to do NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
This is a video of one of the rehearsals for the Table of Silence performance this morning at Lincoln Center, commemorating the 19th anniversary of 911. They return to perform the Table of Silence at Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center on Thursday 9/11 at 8.10 am. Free. Or catch the live stream - https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/table-of-silence-project-911-259
- Heartfelt wishes to all. May you have a harmonious day and success working toward having a harmonious life.
Live Interview with Key Representatives / Activists about FEC Chelsea NYCHA
9.10.25 _ Queens News / News Analysis & Opinion _ Click here to learn a bit more through an interview by Erroll Louis on Spectrum TV on August 28, 2025, who interviewed an author / community activist and the President of the FEC Tenants Against Demolition about what's going on there - NYC Oligarchy - Stephen Ross, Related Companies, Essence, Eric Adams transferring huge amount of public wealth & NYC billionaire TV doesn't much report it. Also on the front page scroll down to the Landlord Tenant Harassment button to become familiar with the bigger picture. And click into the drop down OpEd section from the front page tool bar to learn more about the FEC Chelsea NYCHA land grab by Stephen Ross and Related Companies. Ross and Related Companies have been the beneficiaries of the transfer of acres upon acres of prime public NYC land all over NYC for what seem like fire sale / corruption prices.
Also see click on header to view front page and from the top tool bar click on the government and politics drop down link and / or the neighborhoods link and / or the things to do link to view those sections.
Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Scroll Down to see Each Boro's Headline Events & Things to Do: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island
September 5, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
Sunrise 6.27 am. Sunset 7.21 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting 12 hours & 54 minutes of daylight or two hours and 12 minutes less of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Summer Solstice, on June 20, 2025. The Summer Solstice is the longest day of this year, providing 15 hours and 6 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
The photo above or at right, was taken at the Ferragosto Festival in Bronx Little Italy last year. The Italian celebration returns to Bronx Little Italy on Sunday. See below for details.
NYC Specific Weather - This can be very Different vs TV News Area Weather. About 1.3 inches of rain is in the forecast beginning sometime after 2 pm Saturday and ending by about 10 am Sunday. The temperature highs will be in the mid 80's on Friday and Saturday, falling to the low 70's on Sunday. The temperature lows will be in the high 70's for the remainder of Friday and Saturday, falling to the mid 60's on Sunday. The humidity reading takes some wild swings this weekend, starting Friday at near 100%, but falling to 60% by late afternoon, before climbing to near 90% by Saturday early morning. Humidity then falls back to 70% by early Saturday afternnoon, ending the day at 100%, and then gradually declining to about 70% by Sunday afternoon. Winds will range from 5 - 10 mph all weekend.
Friday Evening Edition @ 11.30 pm. This is a solid draft. We may possibly add a bit more info tomorrow, as we'll be working on projects related to this, on Saturday. Have a nice weekend.
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Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Labor Day Weekend Report Follows Below, Scroll Down to see Each Boro's Headline Events & Things to Do: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island
Updated 8.29.25 v. August 28, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
Sunrise 6.18 am. Sunset 7.35 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting 13 hours & 17 minutes of daylight or one hour and 49 minutes less of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Summer Solstice, on June 20, 2025. The Summer Solstice is the longest day of this year, providing 15 hours and 6 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
The photo at right was taken in Central Park on the Great Lawn in a prior year. As the weather looks to be welcoming, getting a bit of fresh air and rays from the waning sun isn't a bad way to spend a few hours on a three day weekend.
NYC Specific Weather - This can be very Different vs TV News Area Weather. The temperature highs will be in the high 70's, and the temperature lows in the low to mid 60's for all three days of the long weekend. There's a tiny, tiny chance of a tiny, tiny amount of rain Friday afternoon [aka 0% & 0 inches as far as we're concerned], and then dry the rest of the long weekend. The humidity will also be dry, ranging from 60% on Friday, to 50% on Saturday and Sunday, and then back up to 60% on Monday. Winds will range from 5 - 10 mph all weekend.
Friday Evening Edition @ 10.30 pm. Just need to update the Brooklyn West Indian Parade and Carnival events in Brooklyn, which go on all three days and which we should have done by midday Saturday. Looks like the last summer weekend is going to be a good one. Enjoy.
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Allegations of More Eric Adams & Associates Corruption
Not the Least of which is What Seems Flagrant Neglect to Maintain Integrity of NYPD Operations
August 22, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / Crime in NYC / NYC Government & Politics / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
NYC News & Weekend Briefs - Eric Adams Corruption Allegations Growing Again
The Scent of More Adams 'Related' Corruptions Continue to hit the Radar - And Network TV News Turns a Blind Eye
Separately, after three and a half years of 'getting stuff done' for billionaires and real estate developers, Adams has finally focused his attention on the working class voters of New York, handing out government money, in a manner that leads me to believe he thinks the public money is his own.
"Show Me The Money" Eric Adams famously used to say. We should have listened. Adams can't seem to shake all of the corruption allegations that surround him, the members of his administration and the Administration itself. Allegations of bribes, numerous staff indictments, including of Eric Adams who is the first sitting NYC Mayor to be indicted in office.
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams sent a letter to the Mayor this week, questioning his management of the oversight of the NYPD. Adams has employed Trump-style tactics in dismantling the checks and balances in the system that have kept American government relatively corruption-free in modern times. Editor's Note. NYC government is far from clean, as you can see by how all of the publicly owned / controlled real estate is transferred, 'legally', to billionaires [and or their real estate companies] who are friends of or have funded two of the last three mayors' campaigns. For further details see - Stephen Ross and Related Companies have been feeding at the public trough.
We'll have more about Adams and the NYPD later. But in the meantime - For details see - https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/letter-to-mayor-adams-re-urgent-concerns-regarding-oig-nypd-staffing-and-oversight-capacity/
In a lawsuit filed July 16, 2025, a former NYPD Commissioner, Thomas Donlon, accused Adams of operating the NYPD as if it was a "criminal enterprise". More to follow.
- CLICK here for more on our reporting about allegations of Eric Adams ongoing criminal activities, corruption, dishonesty.
Is the FEC Chelsea NYCHA Demolition Project being Railroaded thru by Stephen Ross, Related Companies & Eric Adams prior to a Mamdani Mayoralty?
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 beginning at 6.30 pm - Manhattan CB 4 Meeting - Find out what's going on with NYC owned property that appears Eric Adams is giving away. Attend via Zoom or in person. For details and to rsvp click here - FEC Chelsea NYCHA Demoliton Project. The train is departing the station, so there's little time to waste. Here's some related information we reported about this same subject [generally] a number of years ago - Bloomberg Mayoralty property give aways to Stephen Ross & Related Companies.
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Stagflation, Adams Tepid Endorsements but Strong Real Estate Funding & U.S. Taxpayers Funding Israeli Expansionism and Efforts to Deprive Palestinians of a Homeland
August 15, 2025 / NYC Business & Economy / NYC Politics & Government / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
Stagflation May be Headed our Way
It Looks Like We May be Heading for a Stagflation Economy. According to 8.15.25 Yahoo Finance report, wholesale prices rose faster than expectations, up 0.9% in July, far faster than expectations. The core rate grew 3.7% vs an expected 3%. The Fed target rate is 2%. Services, not goods, were the driving force behind the inflation increase, and services are not tied to tariffs. We might be heading into a stagflation economy, where inflation continues or picks up, while jobs growth slows, as happened this month.
The contributors to a staglationary economy include that the U.S. dollar has lost 10% of its value since the beginning of the year. This means everything purchased outside of the U.S. will essentially cost 10% more to Americans. And tariffs will eventually add further to the inflation problem by increasing the cost of goods further.
TV News doesn't seem to understand that there's a lag time between when changes in the economy occur [like tariffs or currency valuation changes], and when the impact of them shows up at the cash register. Macroeconomic lag times range from three to eighteen months as these changes work their way through the economy. And speaking of TV News, it's worth mentioning that a stagflationary economy would be just the opposite of the 'Trump Economy' touted by Fox News during the Fall 2024 campaign cycle. For details see - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-hotter-than-expected-wholesale-prices-make-the-feds-september-rate-cut-decision-harder-155711746.html
Eric Adams Support Seems Fueled by Narrow Self Interests
Is Eric Adams Recycling Faith Based Campaign Endorsements? About a week ago, Eric Adams announced that he was being endorsed by 100 faith based leaders. The endorsements appeared to come from some of the same people who've been supporting Adams all along, some of whom I've seen at various mayoral events, and some of whom I believe stood with him when he announced his re-election bid as an Independent in June of 2025.
Earlier this week Adams also picked up an endorsement from former NYS Democrat Governor Paterson, who is legally blind, and who switched his allegiance from Cuomo in the Democratic primary, to Adams running as an Independent.
A group of police unions also endorsed Adams this week, but notably missing was the largest NYC police union, the NYPBA. The NYPBA had previously endorsed Adams in the 2021 election, reportedly unenthusiastically. This may be why the NYPBA is holding back their endorsement again, or it could be that the NY Patrolmens Benevolent Association union is not happy that Adams has sullied the name of the NYPD, having been charged in a lawsuit with turning the NYPD into his own personal "racketeering enterprise".
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In Nearly Four Years has Eric Adams done Anything to Rein in Landlord Harassment & Slumlord Millionaires? Have Privately Controlled TV News Networks Spread & Amplified another seemingly Trump Epstein Big Lie? Why Did Trump Have to Travel to Scotland to Find out that the Palestinians are Starving in Gaza?
August 1, 2025 / NYC Politics & Government / NYC Social Issues / Gotham Buzz NYC.
Eric Adams has Succeeded in Helping Billionaires Build Luxury Housing, but He has Failed to Stop Landlord Harassments of NYC Tenants & the Alleged Cheating of Black & Brown Homeowers out of Their Properties via Deed Theft - Documented in Film Slumlord Millionaire and in an OpEd by FEC NYCHA Tenants
News Analysis, Opinion & Insight. This story is not likely to show up on your TV screen in a timely fashion, because real news stories and real news insights rarely do. And too often, by the time they do, it's far too late to make a difference.
This is the trailer to a recent film that came out regarding landlord harassment in NYC, as well as about black and brown homeowner deed theft - neither of which Eric Adams appears to have done much about, during his nearly four years in office as NYC Mayor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuuBlQJh86M
If you find the trailer interesting enough, you can watch the full one hour and 22 minute long film on PBS until 8.26.25 - at which time it expires. Viewing the film now is free, but it is preceded by two short PBS promos before the film begins - https://www.pbs.org/video/slumlord-millionaire-3sgi7g/
Eric Adams claims to be a pro housing Mayor. It is true that he's been very supportive of housing projects by billionaires and international investors. But Adams has not advocated much - if at all [eg. the Rent Guidelines Board rent increases during his one term in office] - for tenants. And he's not been a champion of the black and brown people to whom he tells what now seems his phony personal housing insecurity story. You know, the one about him bringing his clothes to school as a child for fear of eviction. This story wouldn't be the first nor the only lie he has publicly told New Yorkers. And Adams appears to be helping multi-billionaire real estate developer Stephen Ross move FEC NYCHA tenants out of their homes, so that Ross can grab even more NYC land than he already has.
But don't take my word for it.
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Mamdani Beats out Cuomo for Union Support, While Adams is Facing More Corruption Charges & Trump Tries to Put the Epstein Genie back in the Bottle
July 25, 2025 / NYC Politics & Government / NYC Social Issues / Gotham Buzz NYC.
Eric Adams Facing More Corruption Charges vis-a-vis NYPD & Mamdani Beats out Cuomo for Union Support
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Meanwhile former NYPD Captain, Mayor Eric Adams, was hit with yet another set of corruption charges in court, this time alleging that Adams had turned NYPD operations into a criminal enterprise. See graphic above or at right.
We'll provide details sometime later, but in the meantime, take a look for yourself at what kind of a 'law and order' Mayor Adams is - https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/16/nypd-donlon-lawsuit-adams-racketeering/
NYC mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, has secured the backing of a number of large NYC unions support, beating out former Governor Cuomo for unions that had previously supported him.
We'll provide details sometime later, but in the meantime here's a video Mamdani did, taking a pre-emptive shot mocking the adolescently edited NY Post, instead of the other way around https://www.facebook.com/reel/1066919915568285
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