>She sent emails.

She sent solicitations to her constituents from her official Government email to entice them to sign up for paid courses from a company she owns. She is using her government position to privately enrich herself.

Stop whatabouting. Nothing she did is excusable or inconsequential.

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That would be the 8th ave entrance with the garden remaining intact and not impacted. . The theater would need to be demolished which is still some long shot.

IMHO: anything that is purely aesthetic should be scraped. We need to be investing in expanding function, which this would do very little

Can we please move these paintings to /r/nycpics?

She sent emails.

He gave government jobs (and money) to family members with no qualifications.

And then there's the $850 that de Blasio's wife "misplaced".

If we're talking governmental grift and theft, Vernikov certainly is in good company in NYC.

It's standard to not pay rent if you're going through an eviction case. If you're able to stay you pay back what you owe.

Why pay nothing? Out of protest?

They were given 1 years of paid rent for free, a $1,500 on the LES.

A private one bedroom for fifteen hundred. Show me a one bedroom in the LES right now and I’ll move right in

As an abstract watercolor painter, I wish I had your ability. Damn that is great

You'd take a City council member bilking her constituents for their money personally - by being hysterical about CriMe and then suggesting they pay for her own companies self-defense classes? Really? You think that's morally better?

Of course it isn’t. At least not to the bootlicking fascists that brigade this sub on a daily basis.

The article states that he stopped paying rent after the termination notice, not before.

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They didn’t like the increase so they decided to stop paying entirely? Great way to be evicted

I'm sorry but objectively speaking, what you are saying isn't fully accurate. COVID shut down the national economy. As is typically the case when the economy and employment rates decline, crime goes up and COVID and its short term effects were no exception. Making it sound like we should be beyond COVID is a bit of an over-simplification -- yes in theory we are beyond the pandemic stage but we are still suffering from indirect effects particularly with the economy, supply-chain issues, etc. I think sane minds can agree the economy still hasn't recovered fully. Just because we aren't dealing with something in our faces doesn't mean its effects aren't there. The timing of the COVID waves too isn't really relevant - neither NYC nor the rest of the country operates within its own bubble, just not how society or economies work. When NYC shut down first, it still had ripple effects across the country despite the virus not being nationally widespread yet.

On an aside, I also question the validity of your statement about our crime rates increasing at a larger rate compared to other large US cities but I don't have hard statistics to support my skepticism. Care to link for my own education?

I'll take that over Eric Adams giving all his friends and family members 200k jobs.

This cup of orange juice is delicious

Any statement from city officials/politicians that begins with "We need to get back to..." almost is never a good idea and never ends up working.

I don't care what you call me. I don't identify as white. I'm an American first, Roman Catholic second, New Yorker third.

That being said...if I was or did identify as white , what exactly are harmful effects of whiteness? Can you explain that to me? Are there harmful effects of being Mexican? Asian? Jewish? Or is it just "whiteness" that has "harmful effects"?

Yeah, sure. If this is what they think is the best idea, so be it.

Boston did a successful rebuild of North Station under the Garden. MSG should pay for this, but who knows.

I know this is probably not #1 on the priority list but a Park Slope/Prospect Heights to Williamsburg/Bushwick type service would be well-used and potentially cut down on some of the BQE traffic.

I don't even know what "whiteness" is. I've never seen myself as "white". I don't feel any affinity to people just because we have the same color. In fact, if anything, I probably would have to say that I'm the least familiar with and least comfortable around "White Progressive" transplants, who are completely foreign to me. I'm more familiar with other native New Yorkers, regardless of their background- Jewish, Puerto Rican or black, It doesn't matter.

And I can tell you being from Brooklyn...Greeks and Italians don't have much in common with Irish people. No one defines themselves as "white", and if they did, no one has demonstrated what "whiteness" means or how it's harmful.

I mostly hung out at The Johnsons, 151, and St. Jeromes but I spent my fair share of nights at Spitzer's if I was feeling fancy.

Nothing? Unions take offense to that. It GOES to the hardworking union bosses who convince the uneducated about their work, while golfing and/or taking multiple no show jobs.

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Obviously, they are a government agency that wastes billions of dollars. Most than most nations

Thanks for taking time to explain! Looks like this is just limitation of where you could see. Sometimes we just don’t have a choice! Beautiful hough