Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros

Spring Forward into Daylight Savings Time, Ramadan Iftar, St Pat's Parade, Holi Celebration, Art Opening & Exhibits, Flamenco Festival, Brady Court Market & Things to do This Weekend in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & on Staten Island

March 6, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / Gotham Buzz NYC.

Sunrise 6.22 am. Sunset 5. 52 pm. We're getting 11 hours & 29 minutes of sunlight, or two hours and 16 minutes more of sunlight than we were getting the week of the Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2025 when the sun rose at 7.18 am and the sun set at 4.31 pm. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of this year, providing 9 hours and 13 minutes of sunlight in NYC.

NYC Weather - NYC Can Differ Slightly / Significantly vs TriState TV News Forecasts. The temperature highs will be in the low 40's on Friday, the mid 50's on Saturday and the low 60's on Sunday. The temperature lows will be around 40 on Friday and Saturday, rising to about 50 on Sunday. No measurable precipitation is expected, per se. The winds will range from 5 - 15 mph Friday, about 5 mph or less Saturday and 5 - 10 mph Sunday. The humidity will range from 60% to 90% this weekend.

The photo above or at right shows some of the exhibits and exhibitors at the Mayor's Rental Ripoff listening sessions this past Thursday in Queens. This is the second of five sessions the Mamdani Administration is hosting, between February 28 - April 7, 2026. The first was in Brooklyn, and the remaining three are in the Bronx, Manhattan and on Staten Island. For details see - https://www.nyc.gov/main/rental-ripoff. We plan to provide a short report on the Queens hearing next week.

Friday, March 6, 2026 at 9.15 am - DONE, but have to clean up some attendant pages, including our first 2026 updates of both parades and street fairs, with farmers markets coming next week. Also, we're almost done making site upgrades, which is where we've been mostly focusing our time lately. We'll have more about this at a later date.

Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in NYC

Sunday, March 8, 2026 beginning at 2 am - Spring Forward - for Daylight Savings Time. Move your clocks ahead an hour before going to bed Saturday night.

Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in Manhattan NYC

The photo above or at right was taken Thursday in Long Island City in Queens. A fairly heavy fog enveloped the city, on Thursday, and clouds will continue to cover the area through Saturday, gradually lifting on Sunday.

Saturday & Sunday, March 7 & 8, 2026 beginning at 7.30 pm Friday & Saturday and at 2 pm Sunday [2 hours no intermission] - 25th Annual Flamenco Festival - at NY City Center at 131 West 55th between 6th & 7th Avenues in Midtown Manhattan NYC. Top flamenco dancers from Spain will dance into your heart. For $45 tickets and details see - https://www.nycitycenter.org

Sunday - Tuesday, March 8, 9 & 10, 2026 - The Restaurant Show - at the Javits Center at 429 11th Avenue at 35th Street in West Midtown Manhattan. Everything you ever wanted to know and see about creating restaurant destination. For $99 tickets and details see - https://www.javitscenter.com

The Manhattan St Pat's Day Parade is still nearly two weeks away. We'll have full details next weekend.

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Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in Queens NYC

Saturday, March 7, 2026 beginning at 1 pm - 51st Annual Queens County St Patricks Day Parade - beginning at Beach 129 th Street and Newport Avenue, with the formation between Beach 132nd - 136th Street in the Rockaways. The parade marches east along Newport Avenue until it reaches 116th Street where it zigs right down a block to Rockaway Beach Blvd, where it continues east. The parade terminates along Rockway Beach Blvd at Beach 100th Street at St Camilus using their parking lot to disperse. In 2025, prior to the parade, there were Church services at Francis de Sales Church [129th and Newport Avenue] which were held beginning at 9 am, followed by a brunch by invitation only [pre-parade services and brunch unconfirmed for 2026]. For details see - https://www.facebook.com/p/Queens-County-St-Patricks-Day-Parade-61565869880495/

The photo above or at right shows marchers in a Queens St Patricks Day Parade in an earlier year. This Saturday the Queens County St Pat's Parade returns to the Rockaways for the 51st year. See the event listing above or use the parades section link below.

The Bayside St Pat's Parade is coming at the end of the month on Saturday 3.28.26.

March 7 & 8, 2026 from 12 noon to midnight - Eid Market & Celebration - at the Al Aqsa Restaurant - at 148-01 Hillside Avenue in Jamaica Queens. There will be a few vendors there selling primarily South Asian clothing like sarees, tunics, scarves, jewelry, shoes, kids and other clothing and gifts. They will also be celebrating Ramadan Eid with plenty of South Asian food available as well. For details see - https://www.facebook.com/alrejamaica

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Saturday, May 2, 2026 from 11 am to 4 pm - VFW National Day of Service - in Jamaica. Use the MCAL link above to obtain details.

Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in Brooklyn NYC

Thru April 26, 2026 - The Axe Forgets but the Tree Remembers - at the Billie Holiday Theater at 1368 Fulton Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. An African American inspired art exhibit. For details and tickets see - https://thebillieholidaytheatre.org

Sunday, March 8, 2026 from 2.30 to 4.30 pm - Holi Celebration in Prospect Park - at Prospect Park Boathouse at 101 East Drive in the northeast section of Prospect Park near Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens in Brooklyn. There will be music, storytelling, a bonfire, Holi colors and a small parade. For details see - https://www.prospectpark.org

Thursdays - Sundays, March 7 - 22, 2026 from 3 to 5 pm [weekends only] and 7.30 to 9.30 pm - Intimate Apparell - at the Gallery Players at 199 14th Street in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. For details and $27 / $32 tickets see - https://www.galleryplayers.com

The Brooklyn St Pat's Parades are next Sunday 3.15 for Park Slope and the following Sunday 3.22 in Bay Ridge. Full details coming each week.

In the photo at right, sit my fellow passengers in a subway car, speeding underground through NYC. I find riding the subway to be part of the process of assimilation. It's a daily ad hoc communal gathering, not to mention one of the fastest and easiest ways to travel great distances around NYC. Donald J. Trump's effort to stop congestion pricing, failed in the courts this past week, like so many other efforts by him, to grab even more power than he already has, by virtue of his office. We'll have more on this at a later date in the News section, which is still a work in progress.

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Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in the Bronx NYC

The photo above or at right shows the Bronx Music Hall in the Morrisania neighborhood in central Bronx. The Bronx Music Hall is hosting a Flamenco Festival this weekend, including a free show. See details in the event listing or using the things to do link below.

Saturday, March 7, 2026 from 10 am to 4 pm, there's the Brady Court Flea market at 768 Brady Avenue at the corner of Antin Place and Holland Avenue, which is one version of a monthly event, wherein multiple vendors sell items like jewelry, collectibles, accessories, body care and other items like candles, thrifting finds, etc. along with hot food and desserts.  And they have both inside and outside capability [see ads with link below].

Saturday, March 7, 2026 beginning at 7 pm - 25th Anniversary of Flamenco Festival - at the Bronx Music Hall at 438 East 163rd Street in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx. Flamenco vocalists Mara Rey and Jennifer Jade and the Bobby Sanabria Band perform. For $25 tickets and details see - https://bronxmusichall.org/

Sunday, March 8, 2026 beginning at 4 pm - Cajoneada - at the Bronx Music Hall at 438 East 163rd Street in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx. A flamenco percussion workshop featuring the cajone. If you have one, bring it. Free.

Next Week. Tuesday, March 10, 2026 beginning at 7 pm - Pelham Park Neighborhood Assn - meets at the Bronx House and has booked the new owners of the site that formerly held the Apple Bank. Use MCAL link above for details.

Next Week. Wednesday, March 11, 2026 from 5.30 - 7 pm and from 7 pm - 8.30 pm - Rental Ripoff Hearings - at a location near or at Fordham University in the Bronx. You have to register to enter, as there's limited capacity. For details and to rsvp, see - https://www.nyc.gov/main/rental-ripoff

Next Week. Throgs Neck & Eastchester St Pat's Parades coming next Saturday 3.15.26. Details coming. The Yonkers parade brings up the rear the following weekend.

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Saturdays & Sundays, March 14, 15, 21, 22, 2026 - Sherlock Holmes play - at the Bartow Pell Mansion. Use the MCAL link above to obtain details.

Saturdays, March 28 & April 4, 2026 - Easter Egg Hunt - at the Bartow Pell Mansion. Use the MCAL link above to obtain details.

Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week on Staten Island NYC

Saturday, March 7, 2026 from 4.30 to 7.30 pm - 5th Annual Iftar in the Park - at Snug Harbor at 1000 Richmond Terrace in the Randall Manor neighborhood of Staten Island. For details and to rsvp copy & paste - https://snug-harbor.org

Saturday, March 7, 2026 from 2 to 4 pm and from 7 to 9 pm - Art Exhibit Opening & Reception at Hub 17 - at 73 Wave Street on Staten Island. It's a group show featuring 13 local artists at the Art Vault Gallery at the Hub. For details see - http://www.onwavestreet.com

In the photo at right are a couple on the Staten Island Ferry enjoying a view of the Statue of Liberty. The statue was given to us by the French, who helped the colonists defeat the royals. The billionaires of today, are the equivalent of the royals of that time. The American colonists, our national ancestors, objected to being exploited by them, and so siezed control of their own destiny, by fighting the war of independence. After the American Revolution, the U.S. Constitution was drafted, which made us a land of liberty, governed by rule of law. After the Constitution was approved, one of our most significant Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, was asked what kind of government we had. He famously replied, " ... A [democratic] republic, if you can keep it ...". It's up to each generation to keep it, by paying attention to what's going on in the government and by organizing to stop or prevent malfeasance.

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March 21, 2026 from 2.30 - 5.30 pm - Beginner Safety Classes on Riding a Motorcycle. Free half hour beginnger class at the College of Staten Island at 2800 Victory Blvd. See - https://ridemss.com for details.

Have a nice end of March weekend.

Trump's Long-winded Speech

Ignores the State of a Faltering Union

The Checks & Balances are Failing: John Thune's Senate is Failing, Mike Johnson's House of Representatives is Failing, the Courts have Faltered, but not yet Failed & Billionaire TV News is Failing the Public

February 26, 2026 / Government Media & Politics / U.S. Politics National News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.

I don't have the time to do Trump's State of the Union true justice. But I can't sit by and say nothing, as TV News has already done a good job of saying a lot of nothing, that's worthy of note.

Trump, spent two hours, delivering his same, old, tired, manipulative, bigoted trash, peppered with so many falsehoods, deceits and outright lies, that even PBS had trouble keeping up with them. And the failed billionaire controlled TV News networks didn't even try.

State of the Union 2026

Trump's Address was Riddled with Key Omissions

What Trump Didn't Talk about, is at Least as Important as What he Did Talk About

There wasn't anything new, worth noting in Trump's State of the Union [aka SOTU] speech except the new people and faces he used to try to direct attention away from, that:

1) Donald J. Trump's name reportedly appears hundreds of thousands of times, in the unredacted Epstein pedo-files,

2) little progress made on the economy - unless you believe his Fox News style distortions,

3) little achieved on healthcare as the erection of a website selling prescription drugs, reportedly doesn't make much difference to Americans who buy rx drugs [stock prices of drug companies went up after Donald J. Trump told them how he was 'cracking down' on them],

4) DOGE failed to reduce spending and that prior to Trump becoming president again, there wasn't the 'corruption, waste and abuse' Trump claimed, but by the time Trump leaves office, he will be primarily responsible for about a third to a half of America's $40+ trillion of debt which has been dumped [in multiple acts of cowardice by Republican Presidents and the Republican Party] on America's children and unborns in order to further enrich some of the richest people on the planet,

5) a couple of Hispanic Americans from Texas, working for ICE, put ten bullets [looked like murder] in a white citizen and resident of Minnesota in his own neighborhood as he was helping a woman protester the ICE agents had pushed to the ground, nor about the shooting [looked like murder] of Renee Macklin Goode, also a naturalized white American citizen from Minneapolis, nor numerous other deaths, as well as beatings and pepper spraying of other American citizens and immigrants - both legal and illegal - who have suffered at the hands of Kristi Noem's ICE agency,

6) the bombings by Pete Hegseth's Department of War of fishing boats in the Caribbean and Pacific in what also looked like the murder of innocents and a war crime,

7) the incredible turbulence in the stock market, the volatility of which Trump and members of his Administration appeared to trade on, with Inside information, due to Trump's erratic decisions regarding tariffs on / off / up / down statements,

8) Trump and Republicans included a statute prohibiting states from exercising their rights on limiting the encroachment of AI into everything,

9) little done vis-a-vis China,

10) Trump and Little Marco Rubio have been betraying Ukraine and Europe vis-a-vis the Russians [Bill Gates admitted to some Russian co-mingling and yet Donald J. Trump denies he did anything - not unlike how he denied raping E. Jean Carroll, the Democratic Hoax Epstein pedo-files, money laundering at his casinos, cheating his workers and contractors out of their pay, inciting the January 6th Insurrection, and so forth,

11) Trump has turned back the clock on slowing or preventing the impending crisis soon coming from Climate Change with the last few years being the warmest and driest on human record,

12) the real intent of his Voter ID legislation which is to disenfranchise women [because of marriage name changes] and the poor [no car = no driver's license] nor that voting fraud by illegals is essentially ZERO even according the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation,

13) he lied a blue streak about how 'great' things are in the American economy since he took office,

14) his Administration is [possible to very likely?] becoming the most corrupt in American history, which includes insider trading, personal use of government property by numerous cabinet members, accepting bribes for U.S. taxpayer funded military technology secrets or equipment, real estate deals done with the possibly bribing nations, crypto corruption, suing the IRS for $10 billion,

15) he's been pardoning numerous criminals, not unlike himself and

16) why he seems to be planning to start a war with Iran.

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ICE Shoots & Kills a Second U.S. Citizen in Minneapolis

Is Trump's ICE, Recruiting Deviants who Commit Violent Crimes Against the American Public, in Order to Make All Americans Submit to Trump's Will?

January 24, 2026 / U.S. National Issues / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.

Does Donald Trump really expect us to believe that ICE is protecting us, when they are shooting and killing U.S. citizens?

Editor's Note. Please note that ICE agents do not appear to be as well trained, or as disciplined as other law enforcement personnel in the U.S. Furthermore, since Trump took office, it has been reported that ICE recruiting practices are failing to properly screen and background check their applicants, some or even many of whose backgrounds should raise red flags such as affiliations with white supremacist groups such as the KKK and Nazis. ICE reportedly puts these new recruits on the streets without full training by historical norms. And under Trump, ICE leadership appears to employ legally questionable practices in dealing with the public using questionable home search entry practices as well as spraying chemical agents in peaceful protesters faces. For details see this 6 minute video on CBC.

You're not likely to find this on TV News, whose news teams read the billionaires' teleprompter-fed narratives, while modeling the news distractions, instead of doing the hard work of investigatining, analyzing and presenting the real news.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7059189?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

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All state and municipal governments should protect their citizens from ICE, who frequently resemble thugs in viral videos, by requiring no masks for any law enforcement without a court order, body cameras worn at all times, and must be turned on for any interactions with the public or targets, and published guidelines, on when beating, spraying and shooting to kill American citizens is permitted, as we saw ICE agents do to Alex Pretti in the video - click on graphic below or at right.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/minute-minute-timeline-fatal-shooting-alex-pretti-federal/story?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&id=129547199

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Happy MLK Weekend

See Things to do Below

January 17, 2026 / Things To Do NYC / Gotham Buzz.

We're working diligently to finish up our year end cleaing and new year planning & preparations. We had hoped to complete this effort by now, but it's taken a bit longer because we want to do it right. And we're incorporating old and new capabilities which we either haven't used in a long while, or haven't used at all. So stay tuned, as we hope to make it worth your while.

So we're going to punt on putting together much for this weekend, other than provide what we'd done previously, as below. We hope to / expect to resume our normal publishing next weekend. Thanks for your understanding and have a nice weekend.

Emergency Action, Pack The Court!

Stop the Out of State Billionaire Oligarchs NYC Public Land Grab

MidtownSouthCC.org sent us the following:

We need to show the judge the overwhelming support for the tenants’ and that public housing needs to be protected! Join us Wednesday, January 14, 2026 — 9AM at 71 Thomas Street. The city, @ebottcher, @essence.development & @relatedcos plan to plan to raze 24 public housing buildings and displace more than 3,000 tenants at Chelsea Addition & Fulton 11. Chelsea Addition is made entirely of senior tenants. This is a greedy land grab designed to benefit wealthy developers. They are lying to residents, trying to force them to accept their eviction from their homes. The city & big developers plan on adding 2450 luxury apartments where Chelsea NYCHA buildings would be demolished. Allowing this to happen would set a dangerous precedent for ALL NYCHA housing in New York City and increase the cost of living for ALL New Yorkers.

Following this meeting there's a Press Conference on the same day, Wednesday, January 14, 2025 — 2PM at Hudson Guild – 441 West 26th Street, Between 9th and 10th.

See a section we started and are still working on - Bloomberg and the Adams Administrations enabled Huge Public Land Grabs at Discount Prices to NYC Real Estate Oligarchs, as well as our Audience commentary in our OpEd section [use link from top tool bar under Politics & Government].

Was ICE Justifiably Enforcing the Law when it Committed a Very Public Killing?

See and Judge for Yourself, Whether Trump is Using ICE to Desensitize the American Public to the Government Use of Violence Against Any Human, Regardless of Citizenship

January 8, 2026 / National News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.

Here's a link to an video by the Minneapolis Star & Tribune [on 1/11/26 added a second video link to the NYT coverage of the shooting which provides even more context] where they provide video of the incident and context. The videos allow you can see and judge for yourself whether the ICE agent's firing of two shots, killing the driver of the car, Renee Macklin Good, who was an American citizen and mother of three, was the use necessary lethal force. Or, whether it was an unjustified, cold blooded murder by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, a member of the Trump Administration, which they now appear to be covering up with the help of Fox and the other billionaire owned TV News outlets.

This was the first link we posted on Thursday, January 8, 2026.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G-s0AFakl0o

This link is an update posted on Saturday, January 11, 2026, providing a more complete picture with multiple video angles by the NYT showing quite clearly that 'the president' and 'the vice president' and the ICE lady, Kristi Noem, mischaracterized or even lied about what happened.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html?smid=url-share

CLICK ON FOTO LINK to see shooting video.

Uptick in Violent and Fatal Events in Which Trump's ICE is Involved

It's worth mentioning that ICE agents have killed at least 9 people within the past year, including two American citizens. Additionally about 32 people died in ICE Detention Centers this past year. Since Trump took office Americans support of ICE has fallen from a favorability of +16% to -14% today, with 52% of Americans now disapproving of how the Trump / Noem ICE agency is doing its job. Some detractors are compariing ICE and their detention centers to the Nazis.

The ICE Officer did not Appear to Follow Correct Procedures ... Again

The ICE Officer, Jonathan Ross, who reportedly shot the Minneapolis mother, Renee Macklin Good, appears to have a history of not following proper law enforcement procedure when apprehending suspects or detainees, as Ross had an incident in June 2025, where he was significantly injured because he did not follow proper procedures when approaching a suspects vehicle.

Per law enforcement training, an officer is never supposed to reach inside of a vehicle, because it puts them at risk of injury. Furthermore an officer is not supposed to position themselves in front of a vehicle to block it, for the same reason. In June of 2025 Ross broke the window of the car of a suspect, and stuck his arm inside the window. The suspect, Juan Munoz-Guatemala, drove off, dragging Ross about 100 yards, which put Ross in the hospital.

In the Minneapolis incident, just a few days ago, the victim driver, Renee Macklin Good, is video recorded greeting the officer in a friendly manner. She's an American citizen with no police record, so she was not a suspect. She did not have any weapon and that was clear from the videos taken. Macklin Good was part of a neighborhood watch team peaceful protesting ICE agents trying to apprehend their neighbors. Her vehicle was partially - but not fully - obstructing the roadway, which was shown on the video, as one ICE vehicles in the caravan drove around Mackin Good's vehicle, literally a minute before the shooting. So it seems the use of lethal force, on an American citizen and mother of three, by Ross was completely unwarranted. But use the link above to click into the video so you can judge for yourself.

Did Murdoch's Fox News Fake the News Again?

I believe in the axiom innocent until proven guilty. But I also believe that seeing is believing. And thus far nothing has come out to controvert what I've described above, except false narratives of what happened by the Trump Administration which - like Trump's lies about 'Stop the Steal' and January 6th Insurrection - appear to be aided, abetted and amplified by billionaire Rupert Muroch's Fox News' dishonest, deceitful, manipulative reporting.

Macklin Good's relatives may want to lawyer up and send Fox News and Rupert Murdoch cease and desist letters for what could be their defamatory and misleading coverage. Fox News seems to have a penchant for repeating lies, particularly when the falsehoods serve their owner's private agenda.

What has happened in Minneapolis and the Trump Administration and Fox News response to it, is nothing short of disgusting. Do these people - Murdoch, Trump and associates - have no humanity or decency?

Trump, Fox & ICE Depiction of the Incident Appears to Contradict Reality

Did Trump & Fox Publicize False or Misleading Narratives to Manipulate?

According to a January 8, 2026 report by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the leading local newspaper in Minneapolis, this is how Trump / Noem ICE described what happened which is contradicted by the video posted via the link above.

"... Federal officials described Ross [the ICE agent who shot Good the victim] as an “experienced” officer. Ross was injured in a dragging incident during a June operation in the Twin Cities ... The woman killed was identified by her mother as Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good, 37 ... Minnesota leaders are calling on the federal government to allow state investigators to probe the fatal shooting, after the FBI took sole ownership of the probe ... “The FBI informed the [Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension] that the U.S. Attorney’s Office had reversed course: the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI,” said the state’s top investigative agency ...".

If what the Trump Administration said was true, then why have they forced local law enforcement out of 'the investigation'? Or is the Trump / Noem 'investigation' really a a Trump / Noem / ICE cover up like Trump / Bondi / DOJ did with the Epstein Files?

Trump is easily the most famous liar on planet Earth [look it up]. That's a fact. What he says is pretty close to meaningless and he talks a lot. And Billionaire TV News seems to try to not miss repeating even a word of it. The Washington Post said that Trump told over 30,000 lies, made misleading statements or spoke falsehoods in his first term as president. But in the second Trump Administration, Trump isn't the only liar. In fact I'm hard pressed to think of anyone in the Trump cabinet who is not a liar.

In 2025 alone, Kristi [shot her dog] Noem and ICE have reportedly made numerous false and misleading statements including: 1) lied to Congress [Senate Republican Majority Leader John Thune & Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson have utterly failed the American people by not asserting the powers of the coequal branch of government over which they preside], 2) misrepresented arrest data, 3) per a court ruling lied and distorted facts, 4) defied at least one court order, and 5) allegedly smeared detainee(s).

The Orwellian World of 1984 is Here

How Many Americans Will Ignore their Own Sense of Reality?

George Orwell was an early 20th century journalist, who covered and wrote extensively about dictators and totalitarian regimes, describing how they grab power from the people who don't pay attention [aka not woke], and who don't assert their power and rights - before they lose them. Regarding situations such as the matter of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, and the Trump / Murdoch Fox News response to it, he said this.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

What did he mean by this statement. He means that when Rupert Murdoch's [a modern day Joseph Goebbels] Fox News team of propagandists, and the Trump Administration team of mythomaniacs, are all lying in concert; and use the power of the federal government and mass media to manipulate the people's perceptions of something the people can witness with their own eyes - the American public has to make a choice.

The choice is whether to a) believe your own eyes and ears and do your own thinking, or b) ignore what you see, hear and think, and accept whatever Rupert Murdoch's Fox News and Donald Trump's Administration tell you. As Orwell says, it will be their final, most essential command, because if you quit relying on your own senses and mental faculties to make your own decisions, you will have completely given up your freedom and own self determination.

I Think, Therefore I Am v. I Don't Think, Therefore I Am Not

The 17th century, French philosopher, Renee Descartes, famously said, "I think, therefore I am." In the 21st century, I wouid like to add an Orwellian corollary to that, which is, "I don't think, therefore I am not.". The essence of this corollary is that if you let the state do your thinking for you, you no longer exist mentally, emotionally or spiritually. The most important part of your existence will have died. Up until she was shot by an ICE agent earlier this week, Renee Macklin Good, was very much alive, according to my Orwellian corollary. You can honor her, by not acceding to the lies and falsehoods spread by the Trump Administration and Murdoch's Fox News, while encouraging others to do the same by showing them the video noted above.

I watched following TV News programs in the wake of the ICE shooting, and here's my grading of each of them. Fox News gets a F- for trying to create their own false interpretation of what happened; NDTV gets an F for being one-sided and asking no insightful questions, NBC & CBS get solid grades like a B or B+ on their first day news shows. I missed watching ABC and the CW. Democracy Now also gets a solid B or B+. And the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper website gets an A to an A+ for great local coverage of the many facets of this important story, as does the NYT for their video coverage to which we provided a link above. Both are free as of this writing.

January 11, 2026 Update. In the half week following the killing, many subsequent broadcasts by the corporate TV networks generally failed to maintain a sense of balance and truth, because of their incessant repetition of the 'official lies' put out by the Trump Administration, without correcting them when they run short clips. Specifically Noem statements, where she claims the ICE agent was protecting himself and the people around him - which is clearly not the case if you watch the NYT video report [see link in first graphic at the beginning of this story]. And the billionaire TV News showed short, edited video clips which failed to show thewhole truth - as the NYT report, to which we linked to above.

Pay attention to this TV News degradation of accuracy and resort to superficiality, and help properly inform your family and friends by refering them to the NYT video report. This will clearly illustrate why Americans MUST shift their news consumption from billionaire controlled TV News to the web, where real journalism still lives.

• CLICK here to read the rest of our report about how Trump's & Noem's ICE agent appears to have committed manslaughter and they appear to be trying to cover it up.

Mamdani Mayoral Inauguration Day, as Seen from the Nosebleeds

The Bitter Cold didn't Nip the Warmth of Our New Mayor on his Big Day

January 1, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / Gotham Buzz NYC.

I'll be the first to admit that the photos shown herein, aren't likely to win any awards. But I never take photographs or write reports to win awards. I take and write them to share with our readers what's going on in our fair city, as seen by one of their own - a fellow member of the plebeian citizenry of NYC. And I also report on things, with an eye toward posterity.

In the photo at right, Zohran Mamdani and Rama Duwaji are shown walking out of City Hall and onto the steps of the political public stage on January 1, 2026. Mamdani was inaugurated privately, earlier in the day, by NYS Attorney General Letitia James. And he would be inaugurated again, cermoniously, by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, about an hour after this photo was taken.

As I was freezing my buns off in the bitter cold outside of City Hall, waiting for Mamdani to appear and give his speech, my thoughts matched the chilly bitterness of the season. The biting 20 mph+ wind gusts & the well below freezing temperatures, didn't thaw out my anger, as some long-winded speakers seemed to ignore the fact that this was Zohran's day - not theirs. And that those of us in attendance, had been waiting outside on the open streets of south Manhattan, with the biting winds coming in from the harbor, for hours.

Eventually my camera succumbed to the cold, as my battery, having been fully charged earlier this morning died. Thankfully, it was after I got a couple of photos of our new Mayor and his wife. I interpreted the battery dying, as god's invisible message, giving me permission to go home, before I froze to death.

In the photo above or at right you can see a number of well known, former and current, NYC and NYS government officials. Starting from the first row in the lower left corner, wearing a green coat is Governor Kathy Hochul, to her right is NYS Attorney General Letitia James, fashionably dressed in a camel-colored coat wearing a beret, to her right is U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in a dark coat and to her right are U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and his wife. Above and just right of Sanders is former Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is standing to the right of former Mayor Adams [his head is buried underneath a newsie cap] and his friend, Tracey Collins. U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, who did not endorse Mamdani, is on Adams' left.

I shambled to the subway station at City Hall, passing through the garrison of NYPD officers who were also enduring the piercing winds, and numbing and bone chilling cold. They seemed better dressed than I for the weather, as I'd not attended such a frigid, hours-long, outdoor event, since the January 5, 1985 NFL Playoff game between the NY Giants and Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago.

Today, at City Hall in NYC, it was 27 degrees, with 14 - 16 mph wind gusts, and a wind chill temperature that ranged from 8 - 18 degrees. As I had no cap, and nothing to break the wind from coming through my jacket and jersey, my arms and legs started shivering continuously, before I decided to go home.

On the subway my fingers and toes began to thaw. At first there was some pain as the blood started circulating through them, bringing back the warmth they had recently lost. The same thawing began to come over me mentally, as I pondered my own life on the ride home, as I thought about our new Mayor.

Zohran Mamdani's Inauguration Speech January 1, 2026 in Fotos

One of the things that struck me is that as Zohran is an immigrant, who was born on the other side of the world in Uganda, in Africa; he doesn't just see himself in the context of us 8.5 million New Yorkers who live here, nor does he limit his view of us collectively to the 342 million Americans we are, but rather sees us as a plantery whole of 8.3 billion Earthlings, of which NYC represents 1/10th of 1% of the planet population.

What Mamdani had to say and some context for it follows.

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New Years Resolutions 2026: The Road Ahead

A Few Axioms To Keep In Mind Throughout The New Year

January 1, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Holidays / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

For all of us, today starts the beginning of a new year. It's an opportunity to start anew. And even if we don't fulfill our highest expectations, moving the needle in the right direction, is always a good thing.

The rest of this report is about some of the things you can do personally to make 2026 a better year for you.

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Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros

Christmas / New Year Weekend with Holiday Markets, Holiday Events & NYE Parties - are Some of the Top Things to do this Weekend & Next Weekend in NYC

December 26, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / Gotham Buzz NYC.

NYC Weather. Sunrise 7.18 am. Sunset 4.35 pm. For the first time since June, the days are starting to get longer. We're up 2 minutes of sunlight versus last week.

Generally, the weather will be in the low 30's on Friday and Saturday, and then on Sunday it will start cold - in the 20's - and end at around 40 degrees. There's going to be precipitation Friday early evening starting around 5 / 6 pm and ending Saturday by about 9 am - leaving behind somewhere between 4 and 6 inches of snow.  The rest of Saturday is dry, as is most of Sunday.  On Sunday, around 6 pm it will start raining, which, along with the temperatures, will melt the snow.  The rain will continue into Monday afternoon, dropping about a half inch of rain in total over the 20 hour period.

The photo at right, taken in Sunnyside Queens a couple of years ago, shows an example of the holiday home decorations one can find in the five boroughs of NYC.

This weekend use the links below to find holiday events, holiday markets and look for things to do over the New Years Eve weekend. We'll be updating the NYE pages over the weekend.

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Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros

Christmas Weekend with Holiday Markets, Holiday Events & NYE Parties - are Some of the Top Things to do this Weekend & Next Weekend in NYC

December 26, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / Gotham Buzz NYC. Continued.

Things To Do This Weekend in Manhattan NYC

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Things To Do This Weekend in Queens NYC

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Things To Do This Weekend in Brooklyn NYC

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Things To Do This Weekend in the Bronx NYC

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Things To Do This Weekend on Staten Island NYC

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Have a nice Christmas / Hanukkah / Kwanzaa holiday weekend.

George Halvatzis, a Great Man & Great Astoria Realtor, Died

After Fighting Two Types of Cancer, George Passed on December 15, 2025

December 24, 2025 / Astoria Neighborhood in Queens / Queens Business / Queens Buzz.

I had the pleasure of knowing George Halvatzis for the past 15+ years, as both a client and a friend.

I enjoyed visiting him in his office on Ditmars Blvd in Astoria starting circa 2009 or 2010. When I first started visiting George, the office seemed to be something of a Greek and American community center. People from the neighborhood, from various walks of life, would drop in for both short and sometimes long chats with George, covering just about everything and anything under the sun.

George was pretty conversant on most topics. The communal conversations that went on in George's office, oftentimes reminded me of the entertaining back and forth that went on in Jerry Seinfeld's apartment, on the TV Show with the same name.

One of the things that attracted people to George was his ready sense of humor. George was a mix of a trusted friend, and an improvisational comedian. George occasionally would conjecture aloud about the possibility of translating his daily experiences in the real estate world, into a Seinfeld-like comedy show. His professional experiences placed him in numerous interesting situations, involving all kinds of people. And while he was selling various types of properties in Astoria and Queens, he would have many interactions with potential buyers, wherein George could always find the joy and humor in them.

But George wasn't just entertaining, he was also one of the sharpest realtors in Astoria, in Queens and in NYC. He paid unflinching attention to the dynamics and demographics of the ever-changing Astoria neighborhood. And he analyzed things logically and systematically to ferret out insights that others seemed to miss. George also seemed imbued with an Astoria realty social / psychological gestalt, and an authentic sense of caring, all of which contributed to his success.

If my memory serves me correctly, George had graduated from Queens College with a Bachelors in Psychology, which I had always thought well prepared him for both real estate sales, but also enhanced his comedic repartee, because the study of psychology enables and facilitates deeper insights into human interactions. When we discussed this possible connection, George modestly deferred judgment, always encouraging me to ponder it further. So, I am still pondering.

George's family has been in the Astoria real estate business since at least the 1970's, and possibly as early as the 1960's, when George's mother, Anita, first went into the real estate business. She was successful, eventually purchasing Amorelli Realty. Anita was followed into the Astoria and Queens real estate business by her three sons, including George. All of them became realtors. While two of three of Anita's sons went to work at their mother's firm, George did not, instead carving out his own niche, by founding his own firm, Halvatzis Realty. Halvatzis Realty grew over time into a very successful boutique realty firm in the northwest corner of Queens.

Over the years I had the opportunity to meet George's mother, brothers and wife, Marion. He seemed to have a generally warm relationship with his family, and in our conversations that sentiment was generally present. I don't believe I ever met his son, George Jr., but I did get to know about him, through the loving eyes of his father, who quietly beamed with pride when he spoke about his son going through high school, college, then off to his first professional job and into a relationship with a special woman who became his son's wife. George's depiction of his wife was also very positive, painting a picture of a very dynamic, interactive home and family life, filled with banter and humorous conversations about how best to raise their son, spend their time together, and make the most of journeying through life together.

The last time I saw George was this past Spring [2025]. Even after being hit hard with health issues, and daily afflictions, he put on such a courageous face, that it kind of sank my heart. I queried him on whether he was doing all the things he could to prolong his life, and based on the things I generally know, he was. And since he was spending a lot of time talking about such things with the medical community, outside of the office; he didn't really want to talk too much about these things in the office, so I complied with his wishes. And yet, in spite of all the horrible health issues he was dealing with, and daily pain and afflictions, he could still muster his witty sense of humor to enjoin the conversation.

The last thing I want to mention is that George found satisfaction in the waning days of his life, remodeling an Astoria home. It was the first time he had undertaken a venture to remodel a home for resale on his own. But there was a sort of twist to it, in that he also told me he was remodeling it also as a creative expression of himself. He wasn't entirely sure, but was pretty sure, he would sell it. But also crawling around in his subconscious, was the notion that he was also doing this renovation as a sort of psycho-physical therapy, to ward off the cancer. I asked him if I could do a story on the renovation, in tandem with doing a story on him. And while he agreed, he told me to wait until he was finished. Ultimately, it never happened. I still would like to see it, before someone else takes over the space, and makes it theirs, because George spent a lot of time there before he perished. Perhaps his dog, Chumley, of whom George was also very fond, might also join us for a possible visit.

George leaves behind his wife Marion, his son George, Jr. and new daughter-in-law Caroline. He is also survived by his mother Anita, and his brothers Paul and Jim - all of whom work at Amorelli Realty - and with whom George competed on a very friendly basis all of his life. George also leaves behind the seasoned team of professional realtors at Halvatzis Realty on Ditmars Blvd. I have met most - if not all of them - multiple times. All or nearly all of them worked with George for a decade(s) or longer, and with whom he had close professional / personal relationships. I am sure all of his relatives and associates are going to miss George dearly, as am I. He literally was, one in a million.

O Theos na ton/tin anapafsi which is the Greek blessing, May God grant him eternal rest.

Here's a link to the official authorized Obituary, which includes some additional details.

https://www.nhpfh.com/post/george-halvatzis

CENSORED but Leaked: CBS 60 Minutes Show on Immigration

And While the Video Shows how Cruel the Trump Administration is Treating other Humans; the Background Story Surrounding it, is at Least as Important for Americans to Understand

December 23, 2025 / National News / TV News Fail / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.

Somebody leaked a copy of the immigration segment planned for a 60 Minutes Show that the Ellisons' CBS censored through Bari Weiss, who is CBS's new Editor in Chief. I say censored, because they said they wouldn't air it until after obtaining a 'Trump Administration response' - or as we say in the business 'aka Trump Administration approval' - which effectively gives Trump the ability to censor it.

The photo above or at right was included in the effectively censored 60 Minutes segment about how Trump and Noem appear to be inhumanely managing ICE and immigrant deportations. According to the documentary, the inmates in the background are likely long term El Salvadoran criminals and inmates, not the immigrants deported from the U.S. by Noem.

This video is not likely to be available very long, so if interested you may want to watch it, before it's taken down.

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment

Network TV News is a Shadow of its Former Self & Primarily Controlled by Billionaires

The Ellisons already control an outsized share of American media, which can be used to manipulate the American public's perspective, which in this case is through the omission of important news. The Ellisons' current properties include Paramount / CBS, Tik Tok and they are in the process of making a hostile takeover attempt to acquire Warner Bros. Donald Trump reportedly has supported, possibly even tipped the scales in their favor, in the Paramount / CBS deal, as well as supporting their acquisition of a major share of Tik Tok, and now with tacit support of their Warner Bros hostile takeover.

The photo above or at right shows Larry Ellison and Rupert Murdoch of Fox News in the Oval Office shortly after Trump was inaugurated as president. Both billionaires supported Trump's bid for the presidency. In this photo, the only thing missing is that it doesn't explicitly show the two billionaires with their hands held out - as both appear to be waiting to be rewarded for their Trump campaign financial and media support - with government tax breaks for billionaires [done √ BBBill], and FCC rules waiver [√ done DeleteDeleteDelete] or changing of the laws in their favor [done √ Tik Tok ban law held in abeyance by multiple Executive Orders].

Use the following link to view a report that encapsulates what's really going on here.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-skydance-comcast-wbd/

It's Not Likely to get Better, but Rather Worse for 'We The People'

And use this link to see what the future of TV News looks like. I think of it as a privately owned propaganda press. It's worth noting that Hitler and Goebbels took control of the media, before exerting complete control over Germany. The difference between then and now is that 1930's Germany didn't have the internet, which is where the non-billionaire news - the peoples' news aka the real news - lives on.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-media-titan-john-malone-big-tech-will-dominate-the-future-of-tv-134723149.html

The graphic above or at right shows how throughout most of the 20th century the American middle and lower classes gained share of wealth from the top 1% [the graph shows the top 1% losing share of wealth until about 1980]. Around 1980, Rupert Murdoch, an immigrant from Australia, was granted and allowed to control American TV outlets through a waiver of FCC Rules by the Reagan Administration. Murdoch continued to acquire more and more media assets, controlling more and more share of voice, and ultimately controlling more and more of the politicians' favor who needed his media manipulations to win elections. And in what appeared to be a quid pro quo, Murdoch received ample rewards including numerous waivers, tax breaks and deregulation, which helped him amass an empire, enabling him to make fools out of a significant number of Americans who trusted his manipulative media outlets, such as Fox News, the NY Post and the Wall St Journal. Murdoch's share of wealth grew significantly, while the share of wealth controlled by the people he fooled diminished significantly. Now, it seems, every billionaire is trying to do the same thing, which means Americans must migrate their news consumption to the web to learn the truth of who is who and what is what, or soon they and their heirs, will be reduced to peasantry, like so many people in China and Russia.

We're seeing this play out in a rerun performance by the Trump Administration which has no problem taking money from future generations of Americans in order to provide the richest people on the planet with tax breaks. That is the second huge wealth transference of TRILLIONS of dollars by Trump from everyone else to the uber wealthy. It's as if he's throwing his voters a bit of parade candy, in exchange for them allowing him to take out a full value mortgage on their homes. Fools.

Jefferson said, "if a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be."

In a Real Democratic Republic the People have the Power - Not Just the Appearance of it

The question that keeps coming to mind, as I witness events unfolding of actions by the Trump Administration, is how far the American People will go in letting the Administration degrade the rule of law and decency in our nation, before they stand up and assert their power to say - No, this is not decent and this is not right. Each generation of Americans defines who we are, and what this nation stands for, by virtue of what they do, what they let others do and what they do not do.

"A government for, by and of the People" can be transformed from a rallying cry into an empty slogan, but only if, We, The People, let that happen. Founding [grand]Father Ben Franklin, when asked what form of government the colonists had created, responded, "A republic, if you can keep it." A republic is defined as, "... a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives ... a group with a certain equality between its members."

In the photo above or at right you can see the inmates at the CECOR prison in El Salvador, which Human Rights Watch has reported is guilty in severe human rights violations, including systematic physical, psychological and sexual abuse. Human Rights Watchg has stated that the U.S. - and I assume by association, the people guilty of creating and implementing these inhumane deportation policies - are complicit in the torture and enforced disappearance of so many people.

Keeping the Republic Responsive to the People, isn't going to be Easy Because of Changes Made over the Past Four & a Half Decades

That equality has been significantly eroded over the past few decades, starting with the Reagan Administration changes to media laws which had forbidden control by immigrants [now many large platforms like Fox News and X.com are controlled by immigrants] and had limited amount of media one person could control [Reagan / / Clinton / Bush changes allowed wealthy investors and corporations to acquire vast numbers of traditional broadcast and print outlets giving them outsized control and influence over what Americans see, hear and think].

The graphic above or at right shows a May 5, 1995 report in the NYT about how Rupert Murdoch won and the American people lost again - by ceding media control to fewer and fewer people, so that the broadcast TV media today is less a conversation of varying opinions, than the propagandist assault on the American public of the billionaire perspective on people, places and issues.

This consolidation allowed the billionaires to gain control over the electorate by manipulating what the electorate saw and didn't see, as well as by manipulating the electorates' attention to things by amplifying stories via sensationalism, and diminishing stories by distracting from them. What followed was a packing of the Supreme Court, and subsequent rulings by the court in favor of the billionaires, thus giving them even more power by allowing them to buy elections, as we saw most recently done by Elon Musk's $250 million [in essence] purchase of the votes needed in the key swing states in the 2024 presidential election.

Since Trump took office, after having appeared to fraudulently campaign as a champion of the working class, there's been a rout of the working class by virtue of the transference of trillions of dollars from the working class to the uber wealthy via tax breaks, to be paid for with loans taken out in our collective taxpayers' name. And then, to turn the knife in the wound - Trump-style - the oligarch's choices [Trump and the MAGA Republican Senators and Congressfolk] took away healthcare subsidies, student loan subsidies, attempted to take away SNAP food stamps, reduce or cut education investments, infrastructure investments, clean energy investments and the list goes on.

Trump & the Republicans are Taking the Nation in the Opposite Direction of Where This Nation been Going for Most of its Existence.

So, maintaining the republic is the collective responsibility of us all. Up until about 1980, this nation had been governed wisely and the people had chosen their representatives wisely. Since then the American people have been bamboozled by the billionaire press aka TV news, resulting in the incredible loss of wealth and power noted above [the lower classes have reportedly lost $80 TRILLION in wealth to the upper classes since 1980].

Karoline Leavitt is featured in the photo above or at right. Never in my life, have I seen someone at the White House podium, so shamelessly and unapologetically tell so many straight-faced lies or falsehoods to the American people. In this case, she is misrepresenting many of the immigrants the Administration is trying to deport.

So, what can you do? You can start by migrating some or most of your news consumption to the web where you can get a fuller perspective of people, places and events, than you can by watching billionaire TV news accident and crime videos, lengthy ad nauseum weather reports, and distraction laden celebrity news and celebrity court cases - from which you'll learn virtually nothing that's useful.

We're working on a section to help folks migrate their news consumption to the web by providing reliable sources for various types of news as well as a history of what has happened over the past 45 years. Both are in fairly rough shape and need more work, but that said, here it is.

Recommended reliable news sources on the web. And here's a link to our evolving series about how corrupt billionaire TV news has become - both need more work and updates which we'll get to in 2026.

If this report makes sense to you, do your civic duty to your country and share it.

Epstein File Vote: TV News Misses the Point .. Again

Billionaire TV News Reports What They are Told (for ratings) with Scant Comprehension

November 18, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion.

Billionaire TV News Reports the Headlines but Misses the Meaning

Billionaire TV News is waiting at the Capitol to cover the House vote to open the Epstein files.

Like it actually matters.

If you have absolutely nothing else going on in your life, then stay glued to the TV News screen to find out how the House and Senate will vote on the issue.

But it doesn't matter and it won't make a difference, as Donald Trump is doing what he does best. Making fools on the American people and the rule of law, by deceiving them and finding loopholes in the law to exploit. Both skills that Donald J. Trump has been practicing all of his life.

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How did Steve Cohen's Casino License Bid Get this Far?

Did Billionaire Network TV News, Ignore Cohen's SAC Capital Insider Trading History, in Order to Enable the Fellow Billionaire to Keep Gaming Us & the System?

December 1, 2025 / NYC Business / NYC Politics & Government / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

SAC [Steve A. Cohen] Capital

Pleads Guilty to the Largest Insider Trading Scandal in Modern History

The short story on Steve Cohen is that in 1992 he founded a company that operated a number of hedge funds. He was so proud of it, that he put his name on it - SAC Capital - which is short for Steve A. Cohen Capital. Fast forward less than 20 years to 2010 and the SEC is investigating SAC Capital associates for insider trading. Fast forward another three years and SAC Capital has paid $1.8 billion and has pleaded guilty to insider-trading charges. It's one of the biggest insider trading scandals in modern history and the largest involving a hedge fund.

For details on the Steven A. Cohen Capital Insider Trading case see -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.A.C._Capital_Advisors

Did Cohen Foster a Culture of Corruption at SAC?

Cohen himself never personally pleaded guilty, in part because it's difficult to prove scienter - which is a legal term for intent or knowledge of wrongdoing. But that said, the Steve A. Cohen Capital firm, was founded by and run by Cohen for 20 years. And one of Cohen's high school chums, Michael Steinberg, became one of SAC's most senior portfolio managers. Steinberg was cited by one of his analysts, Horvath, as essentially telling Horvath to seek out non-public information, that they could trade on, which in essence is insider trading.

And while the Steven A. Cohen Capital firm says they take compliance with regulations seriously, a report by American University Business Law Review notes that SAC refused to give them even one example of its refusal to hire someone because of compliance concerns. On the other hand, the Steven A. Cohen Capital firm did hire people, such as Richard S. Lee, who was known to be a risk, as he had just been fired by a Chicago firm for altering his holdings in their accounting system on his first day on the job. Even SAC Capital Legal had reportedly advised against hiring him. Lee eventually ended up as one of the firm's employees who was convicted.

For further details on Cohen's alleged malfeasance use the following links.

https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=aublr

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hedge-fund-manager-steven-cohen-settles-with-commodities-agency

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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 - NEXT WEEK - Halloween, NYC Marathon & DST

October 24, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

Sunrise 7.17 am. Sunset 6.02 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting 10 hours & 44 minutes of daylight or four hours and 22 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 Wednesday at the Spectrum News NY1 NYC Mayoral Debate at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, in Queens. From left to right are Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa. The debate was suprisingly spirited and interesting. We'll provide details over the weekend, or early next week.

NYC Specific Weather - This can be very Different than TV News TriState Weather. No rain all weekend, continuing an extremely dry Fall, and year in NYC & NYS, due to climate change. The temperature highs will be in the 60's all weekend and the temperature lows will be around 50 all weekend. The humidity will range from about 50% to 80% all weekend with the humidity highs peaking each morning around 8 or 9 am and the humidity lows bottoming out mid to late afternoon between 2 and 4 pm. The winds will range from 5 - 10 mph all weekend. Looks like a very nice Fall Weekend. Enjoy.

Saturday Early Morning Edition @ 3 am. Done with the Front Page Weekend Post of events and attendant pages. Weekly News Updates coming later in the weekend, so stay tuned.

New. Note the Changes Below. In late September we started adding a weekly new segment with multiple stories with links to deeper reports. Scroll down the page for some enhanced local news coverage and check out our local news section using the drop down button, on the main tool bar in the upper left corner under the header. This will continue evolving over time. Stay tuned and thanks for clicking in.

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November OpEds - Month to Date 11.30.25

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New York’s Millionaires Will Get a $12 Billion Federal Tax Cut Next Year

• by Andrew Perry of the Fiscal Policy Institute - 11.20.25

TAKE ACTION: Stop the Federal Government from Gutting Clean Water Protections!

• by Pat McClellan, Policy Director, NY League of Conservation Voters - 11.19.25

A NEW LOW: NYCHA is Suing Chelsea Seniors

• by Layla Law-Gisiko - Democratic District Leader AD75/A - 11.17.25

Developer Sued for Damage to Landmarked Building that Displaced Elderly, Rent-Stabilized Tenants — Demand the City Acts

• by Andrew Berman - Executive Director, Village Preservation - 11.11.25

A New York For All of Us

• by Marina Marcou-O’Malley & Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari, Co-Executive Directors at the Alliance for Quality Education - 11.5.25

Ballot Measures Deregulating a Broad Range of Development in NYC Are Approved

• by Andrew Berman - Executive Director, Village Preservation - 11.5.25

There’s No Place For Islamophobia In Our Schools Or City

• by Marina Marcou-O’Malley & Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari, Co-Executive Directors at the Alliance for Quality Education - 11.2.25

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.

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NYC Mayoral Race - Polls

September 21, 2025 / NYC Mayors Race / Queens Politics / Queens News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Queens 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.

• CLICK here to view our running report of polls of the NYC Mayor's Race of 2025.

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.

• CLICK to view the rest of this report about how the NYC billionaire press is taking over free speech in America. GB.

Local & National [Primarily Web] News Sources we Currently Trust

7.7.25 Update / Opinion / Work in Progress

We've entered The Disinformation Age. Much of the mass media is controlled by billionaires, especially TV assets. They changed the FCC laws so they are no longer required to behave ethically, accurately and so the billionaire press does what it does best, pursues profits regardless of community collateral damage. They're only sharing information that they want you to know. They omit key facts they don't want you to know or even entirely ignore important stories that may embarass their billionaire friends. They try to manipulate viewers' perceptions in order to get them to vote for candidates representing the billionaires' interests, and provide open mics to the candidates their choice - not fact checked - even when these pols are making numerous false or misleading statements.

Trusted Web News Sources - Gotham Buzz

6.20.25 _ Currently Recommended News Sources to Help You Wean Yourself from Servile Dependence on Billioniare TV News. We currently favor The City, Politico, Axios, Vox, Wikipedia, the Gotham Gazette, Gothamist, City & State, Mother Jones, Wired, the browser Firefox curates a fair news offering, finance.yahoo.com is good for business news, and moderated social media outlets like BSky.app hace an intelligent audience that does a fair job of identifying key news reports, and use the search engines to look things up. Collectively these news sources should enable you to effectively do your civic duty to inform yourself about people and issues before voting. The NON-Billionaire TV News that we currently find reliable, includes left-leaning Democracy Now [on FNX & CUNY TV], PBS News Hour, and PBS Documentaries are also very informative. The Washington Post and New York Times are still fairly reliable, but not as implicitly so as in the past. Both the NYT and Wapo have undergone ownership / top management changes within the past six years. And the new management teams' values appear to differ from their predecessors, so pay attention to editorial changes / impacts. I no longer find any of the Network TV News outlets to be sufficiently informative. I doubt they ever were, but back in the day they used the newspaper reporting to help keep them informed, which today no longer cuts it. But that said, you can still pick up a few leads from TV News, which you can then use to more fully inform yourself, by doing further research on the internet. Also Vox & Axios. 6.20.25 Murdoch Iran War Monger.

• CLICK here to view our list of trusted news sources on the web for local politics and news in NYC and for national politics and news in the USA.

City of Yes Passes by a Vote of 31 - 20

Stephen Ross, REBNY Members & the Adams Family Won & NYC Lost

December 6, 2024 / NYC Real Estate & Business / NYC Government & Politics / City of Yes Special Section / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.

The City of Yes for Housing Opportunities bill passed yesterday afternoon / evening in the City Council Chambers at City Hall. The City of Yes or NYC Municipal Legislative Bill - L.U. 181 & Res 689 - App. N 240290 ZRY (City of Yes Zoning for Housing Opportunity) amendment of the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York, modifying multiple Sections to expand opportunities for housing within all zoning districts, Citywide. *

The photo snapshot at right shows the NYC Council voting on the City of Yes.

City of Yes [Wo]Men - Roll Call Vote Tally 31-20

Voting For the City of Yes Members. Carlina Rivera District 2, Eric Bottcher District 3, Keith Powers District 4, Julie Menin District 5, Gale Brewer M District 6, Shaun Abreu District 7, Diana Ayala District 8, Yusef Salaam M District 9, Carmen De La Rosa M District 10, Kevin Riley Bx District 12, Pierina Ana Sanchez District 14, Oswald Feliz District 15, Althea Stevens District 16, Rafael Salamanca Bx District 17, Amanda Farias District 18, Francisco Moya Q District 21, Tiffany Caban Q District 22, Shekar Krishnan Q District 25, Julie Won Q District 26, Nantasha Williams Q District 27, Speaker Adrienne Adams Q District 28, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Q District 31, Lincoln Restler District 33, Jennifer Gutierrez District 34, Crystal Hudson District 35, Chi Osse District 36, Sandy Nurse District 37, Alexa Aviles District 38, Shahana Hanif District 39, Rita Joseph District 40, Justin Brannan Bk District 47.

Pay attention to the delineation of NYC Council members by the boroughs noted above by letters. Speaker Adrienne Adams delivered enough Queens council member votes (7) in favor of the legislation, which had they voted as their Community Boards did, would have killed the City of Yes bill.

Did Adrienne Adams and these NYC Council members betray the people of Queens they were elected to represent? Well, if so, keep in mind they are up for re-election in June 2025. So please educate yourself, fact check the statements made herein by using the power of the internet, and then after you've done enough research to know what's true, start spreading the news and get behind people who will represent you, the voters, not the big money that funded their campaigns.

Voting in the Negative. Joann Ariola District 32, Chris Banks District 42, Joseph C. Borelli District 51, David Carr District 50, Eric Dinowitz District 11, James Gennaro District 24, Kamillah Hanks District 49, Robert Holden District 30, Linda Lee District 23, Farah N. Louis District 45, Kristy Marmorato District 13, Christopher Marte District 1, Diane Mealy District 41, Mercedes Narcisse District 46, Vickie Paladino District 19, Lynn Schulman District 29, Sandra Ung District 20, Inna Vernikov District 48, Kalmar Yeger District 44, Susan Zhuang District 43.

We will keep this roll call of the vote on our site indefinitely in the City of Yes Special Report Section, because you, the voters, can use it as one benchmark vote, that helps you understand who is representing you, and how they are representing you. This becomes particularly important as there is the Democratic Primary in June 24, 2025 and the general election is November 4, 2025. Almost all of the elections are decided in the June primary because 56% of NYC is Democratic and only 26% is Republican. The remaining 18% are independent.

* Editor's Note.  The summary of the bill leaves out the part about the NYC Council members forfeiting their power, and because they represent us, they are forfeiting our power and legal rights to weigh in on new developments in our neighborhoods.  The summary also leaves out the part where by rushed passage of the 1,388 bill, the real estate developers and international investors can harvest a huge amount of tax abatements for 'affordable housing' that would be 'affordable' to individuals making up to $141,000 and a family of three making up to $183,00 per year or making rental payments of $4575 per month.  And the summary leaves out the part about the negotiated deal, wherein how Eric Adams is going to miraculously fund the $4 billion, that magically appeared just by Eric Adams promising it, after Eric Adams tried to cut $100 million from the budgets of public schools in January 2024 and cut $22 million from the budget for public libraries as recently as November 2023.  Adams promise of $4 billion is just that, and only that - a promise - as it is NOT IN THE BUDGET. And we all know the value of a politician's promise, especially when it's made by someone like Eric Adams, who has a documented history of lying, and is managing a tight budget that doesn't have $4 billion of funding lying around. He's going to have to take that funding from other places like public schools, public libraries and the NYPD.

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.

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