Mamdani's Zombie Apartment Nightmare
Posted By: earlybird, 7/23/2026 1:47:35 PM
New York City has roughly 57,000 vacant rent-stabilized "zombie apartments," many of which landlords say cost more to repair and maintain than they could legally recover in rent. To illustrate the growing problem, a group of small property owners had actors dressed as zombies march outside a Rent Guidelines Board hearing in mid-June, warning that rising taxes, insurance, utilities, unpaid rent, and court delays are pushing their buildings toward insolvency. The board responded by approving a zero-percent rent increase, delivering on socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani's campaign promise to freeze rents while doing nothing to reduce landlords' underlying costs.
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Mamdani's Zombie Apartment Nightmare
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New York City has roughly 57,000 vacant rent-stabilized "zombie apartments," many of which landlords say cost more to repair and maintain than they could legally recover in rent.
To illustrate the growing problem, a group of small property owners had actors dressed as zombies march outside a Rent Guidelines Board hearing in mid-June, warning that rising taxes, insurance, utilities, unpaid rent, and court delays are pushing their buildings toward insolvency.
The board responded by approving a zero-percent rent increase, delivering on socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani's campaign promise to freeze rents while doing nothing to reduce landlords' underlying costs.
Obama Center isn't a traditional presidential
library. Critics say it's an activism center. 8 replies
library. Critics say it's an activism center. 8 replies
Don't call it a library.
The $1 billion Obama Presidential Center opened with huge fanfare last week in a park near the shore of Lake Michigan, but critics say what the public thinks is a library will function as the headquarters of Barack Obama’s private foundation, promoting the 44th president's left-wing worldview to future generations. (snip)The sprawling 19.3-acre campus will host various leadership programs, while spaces there include a "Democracy in Action Lab," conference facilities, foundation offices and a major athletic complex designed for youth sports and community programs — features not typically associated with a presidential library.
I have not written about the recent events in/around Ukraine because none of it makes sense and all of the information flows through the prism of ‘western’ intelligence propaganda.
According to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy {SEE HERE}, he has removed and replaced the entire leadership apparatus of the Ukraine military. This follows his removal of 35-year-old Mykhailo Fedorov from the defense ministry last week {CITATION} that led to massive protests against Zelenskyy and armed forces Chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy, who was also eventually replaced.
The U.S. Department of Justice has come to terms with the state of South Carolina to make sure uniformed and overseas voters receive absentee ballots in advance of a rapidly approaching special election following the recent death of incumbent Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to a DOJ memo exclusively obtained by The Federalist.
DOJ officials have signed the Memorandum of Agreement with Conway Belangia, executive director of the South Carolina State Election Commission, and the agreement is expected to bring the state into compliance with the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. UOCAVA stipulates election officials must send “validly-requested absentee ballots
The same liberals that have railed against voter ID are now running with their hair on fire over President Donald Trump’s recent firings at the feckless Election Assistance Commission.
In a short and direct email earlier this month, the White House sacked two Democrats, Thomas Hicks, who was serving as commission chairman, and Benjamin Hovland.
“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” the email advised, according to Reuters.
It is very obvious from the construct and details of this announcement that U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has completed a comprehensive review of the retaliatory action by Canada that followed the U.S. Section 232 tariffs on Steel and Aluminum. {FACT SHEET HERE}Last year two countries retaliated against the U.S. for the 232 (steel and aluminum) tariffs, China and Canada. The USTR office has now quantified the tariff and non-tariff barriers triggered by Canada in 2025 and provided President Trump with a financial quantification of the trade impact.
A newly declassified CIA report says the Venezuelan government “could have” used voting machines to rig elections. President Donald Trump declassified a series of documents and reports related to election integrity on July 16, including a “CIA Note” entitled, “Summary of Select Intelligence Reporting From 2004-2020 on Venezuela’s Electronic Voting Manipulation Capabilities.”The note says that between 2004 and 2020, “intelligence established that Venezuelan government officials developed sustained interest and likely some capability in manipulating electronic voting systems, including Smartmatic technology, to influence electoral outcomes in Venezuela.”
Well, right on cue, there’s a disturbing new trend exploding online, and once again, innocent people are being turned into props for someone else’s internet stardom and clicks.In this clip, you’ll see a black teen on a bicycle charging directly at innocent pedestrians while popping wheelies. He came straight at the person, and at the very last second, he swerved away. The goal for this kid is to scare the living daylights out of unsuspecting people in order to get a dramatic reaction on camera.
There is absolutely nothing democratic within the political schemes of the communists, leftists and Nazis’. Just as Ukraine is led by an unelected authoritarian under the guise of the ‘new democratic norms’; just as Kamala Harris was installed as a presidential nominee under those same anti-democracy norms; so too is U.K Prime Minister Andy Burnham now installed without any election by the British citizensThe unelected monarch, King Charles, appoints the unelected Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, and the first pledge of the unelected leader is a promise to make life better for the people who are denied a voice in his agenda.
Judge Who Tossed Anti-Weaponization Fund
Discredits Judiciary In Clearly Prejudiced Ruling 6 replies
Discredits Judiciary In Clearly Prejudiced Ruling 6 replies
A federal judge has thrown out President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS that resulted in a settlement creating a multibillion-dollar anti-weaponization fund. In doing so, U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams declared that the suit “was not brought to vindicate rights; it was brought to manipulate the judicial process,” describing it as little more than a vehicle to manufacture judicial approval for an otherwise improper political arrangement.
Whether one agrees with that conclusion is almost beside the point. What should concern anyone who values an impartial judiciary is how Judge Williams reached it.
Intel Agency Assessed China Planned To
‘Encourage’ Violent BLM Riots To Hurt
Trump In 2020 7 replies
‘Encourage’ Violent BLM Riots To Hurt
Trump In 2020 7 replies
The Chinese planned to stoke Black Lives Matter riots and other social unrest in 2020, using the corporate media to launder the narrative in order to tank the election for President Donald Trump, according to documents released by the White House on Thursday.
Intelligence summaries from 2020, which were apparently hidden from the president at the time, show that the Chinese planned on “encouraging violent demonstrations and looting to increase the appearance of social unrest” ahead of the election, and to “exploit U.S. societal fissures and vulnerabilities,” in part by “alleging that White people hate Black people.”
In a recent counterpoint posed by Michael Smerconish against his own interests at CNN, ABC and NBC, the pundit was refreshingly honest, albeit maintaining pretense.
Smerconish noted it would be “unfair to the office of the President” to present rebuttal dialogue to a speech they refused to air.
(smop)
The leftist media did not want to allow information to reach their sheeple viewers. So, they awaited the conclusion of President Trump’s remarks and then summarized what he said for the audience along with their rebuttal. By blocking the information from Trump, they limit and control the information to only that which they present. This is by design
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NJ governor forced to admit hundreds of
foreigners voted in elections after Dems
claimed no problem 31 replies
foreigners voted in elections after Dems
claimed no problem 31 replies
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is blaming a software glitch in the state's motor vehicle system for accidentally registering 6,660 noncitizens to vote.
She further acknowledged Tuesday about 400 of those foreigners voted in recent election despite a legal ban on foreigners voting in federal elections.
The admission came less than a week after President Donald Trump gave a primetime address presenting evidence of election vulnerabilities, including hundreds of thousands of noncitizens who made it on voter rolls, spy agency concerns about voting machine security and a Chinese effort to obtain American voter data.
Software vendor disputes NJ governor's
‘glitch’ claim, says state approves
foreigners on voter roll 20 replies
‘glitch’ claim, says state approves
foreigners on voter roll 20 replies
Just hours after New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherril blamed a software glitch for thousands of non-citizens being registered to vote, the software company involved issued a statement disputing the claim.
IDEMIA, the software vendor for the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, issued a statement saying it was the responsibility of the state government, which is completely controlled by Democrats, to verify eligibility to vote.
The brand-new city manager of upscale Sausalito, California was arrested on felony burglary charges after allegedly breaking into multiple yachts at the Sausalito Yacht Harbor, a mere three weeks into her high-paying gig.
Elaine Forbes, 53, who just started as Sausalito’s city manager on July 1 with a whopping $275,000 taxpayer-funded annual salary, was hauled off by Marin County sheriff’s deputies around 6:50 a.m. on Saturday after responding to a noise complaint, Deputies reportedly found her aboard a vessel she didn’t own, trying to start the boat, leaving behind messes with empty alcohol bottles, sounding the yacht’s loud horns, and even wearing the owner’s clothing.
Americans cannot defend the United States without the help of illegal migrants, said Republican Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) on Monday.
Salazar’s comments came as she joined Democrats to tout her “Dignidad” amnesty for at least 15 million illegal aliens, saying:
Let them stay … Let them continue contributing to the number one economy in the world, so we can continue being the number one military in the world. [If] we don’t have the economy, we don’t have the guns, and we cannot defend ourselves.
There is little evidence that the nation’s stock of at least 15 million illegal migrants — or of the 40 million legalized migrants
Minnesota state employee Dylan Adams, who caused at least $20,000 in damage by keying multiple Teslas around Minneapolis last year, has been promoted to a supervisor position and given a raise.
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) confirmed to Alpha News that Adams is in a “temporary assignment as the supervisor of the Disability Services Division’s Fiscal Policy Team.”
Adams started in the position last month. Alpha News has also learned that as part of the promotion, Adams received a $3.58/hour pay raise as his compensation rate went from $48.60/hour to $52.18. That means he’s likely now making a six-figure salary paid for by tax dollars.
Weeks after the Obama Presidential Center’s star-studded opening in Chicago, a subcontractor who previously claimed his company was stiffed for nearly $4 million has shut down operations and laid off 25 union workers.
Mike Owen, the owner of Chicago-based Adamson Plumbing Contractors, told Fox News Digital that the financial fallout forced the company to abandon about half a dozen other construction jobs and left it on the verge of collapse. Owen described the shutdown as a painful decision he believed was necessary to save the company from bankruptcy.
Not so long ago, I suggested that Hunter Biden is testing the waters for a presidential run.
I was half joking, half not, as Mr. Biden has spent an inordinate amount of time out in public and on podcasts discussing politics and other matters, despite his claims that he is not running for office.
I'm not the only one who has noticed. (X) Discussion about a potential Biden run is still confined to the fringes, but Biden himself has been out and about quite a bit, appearing on podcasts, promoting his paintings, talking about addiction (ah, a redemption story!), and opining about politics.
A lot of opining about politics.
President Donald Trump has threatened that the US would destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant any time its forces attack a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
Potential targets would include ones "located next to, or in," the capital Tehran, he said in a post on Truth Social.
The military response would follow any form of attack on shipping in the vital waterway, "whether it be by missile, rocket, drone, or any other device or weapon".
His threat follows the US launching strikes on Iran for the 11th consecutive night, with Tehran warning the US against targeting its nuclear facilities.
Update: The senior Pentagon advisor, Brandon Newsom, has been placed on leave.
“The Department of the Navy takes the conduct shown in this video extremely seriously. Such statements and apparent intent to leverage a position to undermine the policies and direction set by our elected leaders are inappropriate and incompatible with the standards expected of Department personnel,” Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao said.
“Effective immediately, this individual has been placed on administrative leave while we determine next steps to ensure accountability and protect the integrity of our mission,” he said.
If it wasn't already clear, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) made it very clear this week that he doesn't intend to have the Senate take up Republican legislative priorities - not the SAVE America Act, and not keeping the government open. As RedState reported on Tuesday: Really, Democrats have no worries. Thune is doing their work for them, making it plain he has no interest in taking up the continuing resolution (CR) presented by House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04). Thune has made it known that what Johnson and House Republicans offered as a solution to avert a government shutdown will not be given a showing on the Senate floor.
The Smithsonian reeks
of communist ideologies that our Founding
Fathers would be ashamed of 13 replies
of communist ideologies that our Founding
Fathers would be ashamed of 13 replies
If you wondered how communism has grabbed a foothold in the United States of America of all places, look no further than the Smithsonian Institution.
The world’s largest and most influential museum has been hijacked by Marxist ideology to teach self-loathing anti-American woke propaganda to its 20 million annual visitors plus 20 million students a year.
The Smithsonian teaches that “politeness,” “punctuality,” “objectivity” and “hard work” is white supremacy, and that Mickey Mouse is a form of blackface, while devoting not one major exhibit to George Washington or any of the Founding Fathers.
Appeals Court Affirms 5-Year Prison Term
for Source who Leaked Tax Info to NY Times
and ProPublica 12 replies
for Source who Leaked Tax Info to NY Times
and ProPublica 12 replies
A federal appeals court is affirming a five-year prison sentence for Charles Littlejohn, a consultant to the IRS who leaked President Trump’s tax return information to the New York Times and tax information about thousands of the richest Americans including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett to ProPublica.
The 16-page opinion by a three-judge panel—Justin Walker, Neomi Rao, and Judith Rogers—found that the sentence was reasonable. It offers a scathing narrative of Littlejohn’s behavior.