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Billionaire Steve Cohen Floods Gonzales Rojas Campaign Effort with Record Funding
Gonzales Rojas & A Queens Tale: How the Rich get Richer
Did Billionaire Cohen Place a Bet or a Buy on an NYS Senate Seat?
Thousands in Cohen-Affiliated Donations Flood Gonzales Rojas' Campaign in the Final Stretch of the Campaign, Followed by a Mysterious $850,000 PAC Donation
We Choose Jessica Ramos - but Read Below and Decide for Yourself
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June 20, 2026 / Queens Politics & Government / Queens News NYC / NYS Election 2026 Queens NYC / Queens Buzz NYC / News Analysis & Opinion.
The Back Drop is an Out-of-Control System, Facilitated by the Supreme Court's Failed Decision, which Enables Billionaire Purchases of the Electorate, via Disinformative TV News Ads & a Media that No Longer Serves the Public
All too slowly, voters are waking up, to how their representatives, and thus government, are being purchased right in front of their eyes.
The biggest part of the problem, I have decided, is the corrupt billionaire-owned, network TV News, which is now controlled by about six billionaires, who have little competition in the TV News space. How this happened, beginning circa the 1980's, when billionaire Rupert Murdoch of Fox News started purchasing mass media outlets on our shores, is another story, for which there's not enough time between now and election day, Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
So for the moment, let's focus in on something we can take some positive action upon. And that is to vote for those candidates who will represent us when making decisions in Albany or Washington, D.C. One of the most important of these races, has been laid before the people of NYS Senate District 13, where NYS Senator Jessica Ramos is fighting to keep her seat.
We recommend voting for Jessica Ramos - and voting against Jessica Gonzales Rojas - because we believe Ramos has far more integrity than Gonzales Rojas. And voting for and electing politicians lacking in integrity is why things are so very messed up right now. But read what we've found below and decide for yourself.
Billionaire Steve Cohen, of SAC Capital Cheating Inc, Applies for Casino License
NYS Senator Jessica Ramos is fighting to keep her seat because she was about the only Queens government official who fought to stop billionaire Steve Cohen and affiliates from siezing control of Flushing Meadows Corona Parkland from the taxpaying public, to build a casino. Steve Cohen founded SAC Capital which was charged with huge insider trading violations, which they settled to $1.8 BILLION in fines and essentially agreed to stop trading for the public. Cohen bought the Mets and within a couple of years the Mets were caught cheating multiple times too. The cheating seemed to conveniently go on hiatus, when Cohen applied for an NYS casino license.
Click here for more context on Queens Steve Cohen and SAC Capital Insider Trading.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our story on Jessica Gonzales Rojas' campaign funded by the billionaire whose casino license Gonzales Rojas helped make possible?
Will Chuck Park Defeat Grace Meng in the NYS Congressional Primary?
Will Chuck Park Defeat Grace Meng in the Primary?
Can a Proverbial David, Chuck Park, Beat the Queens Machine Goliath, Grace Meng?
Updated June 22, 2026 v. 5.31.26 / Jackson Heights Queens Neighborhood / Queens Politics & Political News / Queens News / News Analysis & Opinion / Queens Buzz.
Late Sunday, on a beautiful afternoon, I headed over to attend a 'Dumplings & Dialogue' event hosted by the 6th Congressional District House candidate, Chuck Park, at Kabab King in Jackson Heights. The Park campaign's volunteer press liaison, had reached out to me a few times, with compelling narratives that caught my interest.
In the photo above or at right shows Chuck Park with some of the volunteers who participated in the Dumplings and Dialogue campaign event hosted by 6th District Congressional candidate. Standing next to Chuck is Noor Shams who is a food writer,community organizer and cofounder of Alaap NYC - https://www.alaapnyc.com - and Rachel Gurjar who is a chef, cookbook author and culinary creative - https://www.rachelgurjar.com/about/. As you can see here and will see below, the campaign seems to have attracted a young, diverse, energetic group of volunteers.
The Park campaign narratives sent to me by the volunteer press liaison, included: Meng's acceptance of big money donations, Meng's support for sending billions in unconditional aid to Israel, Park's opposition to the awarding of a casino license to a billionaire tied to one of the largest insider trading scandals by a hedge fund in modern history [aka the firm was caught cheating] and Meng's lack of achievement in doing anything meaningful for the immigrant families of Queens which make up about half the borough's population. That Chuck Park's campaign had put together a simple, but resonant narrative, as to why Meng should be replaced, struck a chord, as I began my effort to delve more deeply into the two candidates of this contest. Park's effort to unseat Meng sounded viable, which has not been the case for well over a decade.
Grace Meng first won her congressional seat back in 2012. The Joe Crowley-led, Queens County Democratic machine, placed his cousin, Elizabeth Crowley's, name on the primary ballot, which pundits believed was to siphon votes away from Rory Lancman, who was a leading contender. Elizabeth Crowley held an NYC Council position at the time, and did not appear to campaign seriously, supporting this hypothesis. Meng won with less than 51% of the vote, but it was more than enough, as Crowley had made it a three-way race and had taken 16% of the vote. The Crowleys are no longer the influential people they once were in Queens politics, and it's possible that tricks like this contributed to their descent. The deadline for a trick like this has passed, as the final day to place a name on the ballot was May 19, 2026.
Who is Chuck Park?
CLICK here to read more about the election contest in the NYS 6th Congressional District where Chuck Park is challenging Grace Meng.
Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Juneteenth, Fathers Day, Early Primary Voting Ends Sunday, Election Day Tuesday 6.23.26, Events & Things to do This Weekend / Week in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events - Details Below
June 19, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo at right was taken last Saturday, June 13, 2026, at a rally at CitiField opposing the transferring of NYC public parkland to billionaire Steve Cohen and affiliated companies, for a casino. Cohen was the founder of SAC Capital which was cited for corruption / insider trading and fined $1.8 billion. NYS Senator Jessica Ramos, in the red blouse at left, is one of the few Queens government officials who stood up to Cohen, while her opponent - Jessica Gonzales Rojas did not - possibly because her husband was taking donations from Cohen affiliated entities while earning a reported $218,000. Also, Congresswoman Grace Meng was noticably absent, as she is for almost all things Queens, since she was 'gamed' into congress by the Democratic Machine about 14 years ago. She has taken nearly $1 million from the American Israeli Political Action Committee, and has been faithfully sending billions of our tax dollars to Israel annually ever since. When Democrats, Republicans and their billionaire TV News allies tell you we don't have enough money for education, healthcare and clean energy - what they are really saying isn't that the money isn't there, but that their campaign donors pressure them to prioritize their selfish interests before the public interest. This is only possible because enough voters still seem to rely upon the wealthy, donor-funded TV News attack ads, to make their electoral decisions, instead of doing their homework. We expect to post more about these primaries over the weekend.
https://www.vote.nyc/page/find-your-poll-site
Needs Updating to 6.19.26 _ Sunrise 5.25 am. Sunset 8.24 pm. We're getting 15 hours & 0 minutes of sunlight, or five hours and 47 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.
Needs Updating to 6.19.26 _ NYC Weather - NYC Can Differ Slightly / Significantly vs TriState TV News Forecasts. There's a 50% chance of 1/5 inch of rain being dropped between 7 and 10 pm Saturday night. Otherwise the rest of the weekend is dry. The temperature highs will be arouind 90 on Saturday, falling to 85 on Sunday. The temperature lows will be in the low 70's all weekend. The winds will range from 0 - 5 mph on Friday and from 5 - 15 mph the rest of the weekend. And the humidity is going to swing wildly from the high 30% range Saturday to the mid 80% range on Sunday returning to the high 30% range later in the day Sunday. Not a bad weather weekend overall. Enjoy.
Saturday, June 20, 2026 at 3.30 am. Done, but still need to post attendant pages, which I should have done within the hour. We will also socially post links sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we continue to strive toward providing a mix of weekly news posts.
Early Voting Begins - Cliff Notes / Crib Notes Election Guide on Select Primary Races
Early Voting runs until Sunday, June 21, 2026. Election day is Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
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https://www.vote.nyc/page/find-your-poll-site
Below is a brief election guide [the cliff notes], on who we think are the best candidates, in a number of the contests with which we have become familiar. We will expound on our rationale for having chosen these candidates next week, but wanted to get this out there now, as Early Voting begins Saturday. Basically we've favored candidates who we believe are qualified, and who will demonstrate more integrity to serving you than serving the people who fund their campaigns to pay for all of those dishonest TV News attack ads.
- Manhattan. We choose George Conway for Congress on the UWS - not either of the two 'chosen heirs / successors' like Jack Schlossberg [Kennedy] and Micah Lasher [Nadler], nor JStreet backed and Democratic machine supported Alex Bores. Bores has been accused of inappropriate behavior. Conway is qualified [an attorney], knows his way around D.C. as the former husband of Kellyanne Conway [former Trump campaign manager & senior advisor], and he promises to be a thorn in Trump's side for the next two years, far more than he had been while his ex-wife had worked for Trump. To get involved see - https://www.georgeconwayforcongress.com
- Manhattan. We choose Layla Law-Gisiko for NYC City Council - not Carl Wilson nor Lindsey Boylan nor Leslie Boghosian Murphy - see previous report on this race. Layla Law-Gisiko for NYC Council vs Carl Wilson. She may not be actively campaigning, but she's still actively fighting for the community [see her Instagram page] - https://www.laylaforny.com
- Brooklyn. We choose Brad Lander for Congress - because he will represent all New Yorkers, versus AIPAC funded and Democratic machine supported Dan Goldman. To get involved see - https://linktr.ee/bradlander
- Queens. We choose Chuck Park for Congress Flushing - not Democratic machine supported, absentee Congresswoman Meng, who's received nearly $1 million in AIPAC and related funding, and who opposed the Obama JCPOA peace deal with Iran in 2015 and supports unconditional funding of Israel's imperialistic expansionist efforts - see prior report on this race. Chuck Park running for Congress vs Grace Meng Queens. To get involved see - https://chuckforqueens.com
- Queens. We choose Claire Valdez for Congress Qns & Bk - not the wealthy real estate developers and Democratic machine favored candidates Reynoso or Won [report coming next week]. To get involved see - https://clairevaldezforcongress.com/
- Queens. We choose Jessica Ramos for NYS Senate Jackson Heights - not Democratic machine supported Gonzales Rojas, whose partner is paid a six figure salary, which comes from a nonprofit, that reportedly accepted generous donations made by entities affiliated with Insider Trading plagued billionaire, Steve Cohen. While Gonzales Rojas' partner was accepting the billionaire's indirect donations, a company affiliated with the billionaire sought and received approval for a casino license next to CitiField which includes transferring control of public parkland into private control - thanks in part to Gonzales Rojas' actions / non actions [scroll down for 6.10.26 report]. To get involved see - https://www.ramosforstatesenate.com/
- FYI - AIPAC - the American Israeli Political Action Committee. Recently AIPAC has become the poster person for appearing to buy influence in the U.S. federal government. AIPAC has been working the political influence game since the 1950's and Israel has received over $300 BILLION [in today's dollars] of U.S. taxpayer handouts. As Israel has a population of only 10 million, that's the equivalent of EACH PERSON living in Israel receiving $30,000 of our money for free.
- Israel doesn't fund their own wars, even though they have a $600 billion economy and one of the higher standards of living in the world. We, the American people do. This is in part, why our government can't afford to do more to help its citizens with healthcare and education, while the Israelis' government can. And billionaire TV News doesn't inform us, because at least one owner [Rupert Murdoch of Fox News] appears to have his hand in the till [look up Genie Energy on illegally occupied Syrian Golan Heights]. All of the top billionaire TV News owners have shown an interest in Israel, including some with documented business interests, like Murdoch above. Here's a link to learn more about who's accepting money from AIPAC and affiliated donors. It will help you better understand what's been going on under our noses, and why our taxpayer dollars are funding Israeli wars, instead of U.S. education, healthcare and infrastructure. Compare that with the Israelis, whose government has been increasing support, while ours cuts back. Trump's fraudulent campaign slogan was America First. but Trump's policies reveal his real policy agenda puts middle and working class Americans Last.
- But on some level these failures are also the voters' fault for not paying closer attention. Voters have been failing miserably to do their voting homework - to make sure they're getting accurate information from reliable sources, and sources who actually have their best interests at heart - BEFORE they go into the voting booth. TV Talk is cheap relative to the returns taken from public wealth, so pay attention to media and pols' actions and follow the money - https://www.trackaipac.com/congress.
- FYI - Open Secrets - a nonprofit that tracks donations to politicians. Don't stop with AIPAC, because there are numerous other selfish interests out there doing the same [just not as long, nor as effectively as AIPAC]. Here's another information source that TV News fails to disclose as well, to help voters understand who's funding all of those dishonest TV News attack ads. You can start following the money on your own, because the TV News featherweight anchors appear unaware, or just plain don't care - https://www.opensecrets.org
- We will have more about the primary races, including some important background material, about how the Democratic Party is working hard to maintain their inept colleagues and incompetents of the status quo. The Democratic Party Machine has been using their leverage to pressure union heads to make endorsements of status quo candidates, that were not voted upon by union members - only union leadership. And the Democratic Machines has been leveraging their ties to their billionaire TV News allies, who have been using their influence to distract voters with a relentless barrage of nonsense news that distracts from and ignores the incredible deficiencies of the Democratic party incumbents.
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Things To Do This Weekend in NYC - Juneteenth, Make Music & Fathers Day
Friday, June 19, 2026 - Juneteenth - is a Federal Holiday so federal government offices including the U.S. Post Office will be closed.
Sunday June 21, 2025 - Make Music New York - returns for its 20th year. They are coming to numerous locations around the entire city, except Staten Island, at various times on the day of Summer Solstice in four of the five boroughs of NYC. For details and for a schedule, see https://makemusicday.org/ny/listings or https://makemusicny.org
Sunday, June 21, 2026 - Father's Day - a day to honor your father, to show appreciation for all that he's done for you.
NYC & NYS Public Beaches _ Saturday - Sunday, May 23 - September 13, 2026 from 10 am to 6 pm - NYC & NYS Beaches Open for the Summer. Swimming not allowed when life guards are not present. For details see - https://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/beaches
- CLICK here to read the rest of our report, as well as other Weekend Things To Do in NYC This Month 2026 NYC events.
4th of July Fireworks Queens NYC
Jun 19, 2026 at 12:15 am by mikewood
Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Early Primary Voting Begins, Events & Things to do This Weekend / Week in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events - Details Below
June 12, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo at right was taken earlier this week at the Tribeca Film Festival which is winding down, but continues into this weekend in Manhattan. There's a rooftop lounging area, which on this particular day, attracted a crowd to the 8th floor outlet.
Needs Updating to 6.12.26 _ Sunrise 5.25 am. Sunset 8.24 pm. We're getting 15 hours & 0 minutes of sunlight, or five hours and 47 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.
Needs Updating to 6.12.26 _ NYC Weather - NYC Can Differ Slightly / Significantly vs TriState TV News Forecasts. There's a 50% chance of 1/5 inch of rain being dropped between 7 and 10 pm Saturday night. Otherwise the rest of the weekend is dry. The temperature highs will be arouind 90 on Saturday, falling to 85 on Sunday. The temperature lows will be in the low 70's all weekend. The winds will range from 0 - 5 mph on Friday and from 5 - 15 mph the rest of the weekend. And the humidity is going to swing wildly from the high 30% range Saturday to the mid 80% range on Sunday returning to the high 30% range later in the day Sunday. Not a bad weather weekend overall. Enjoy.
Saturday, June 13, 2026 at 4.15 am. Done. Will post attendant pages with the hour. We will also socially post links sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we continue to strive toward providing a mix of weekly news posts.
Early Voting Begins - Cliff Notes / Crib Notes Edition of our Election Guide on Select Primary Races
Early Voting begins today and runs until Sunday, June 21, 2026. Election day is Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
Below is a brief election guide [the cliff notes], on who we think are the best candidates, in a number of the contests with which we have become familiar. We will expound on our rationale for having chosen these candidates next week, but wanted to get this out there now, as Early Voting begins Saturday. Basically we've favored candidates who we believe are qualified, and who will demonstrate more integrity to serving you than serving the people who fund their campaigns to pay for all of those dishonest TV News attack ads.
- Manhattan. We choose George Conway for Congress on the UWS - not either of the two 'chosen heirs / successors' like Jack Schlossberg [Kennedy] and Micah Lasher [Nadler], nor JStreet backed Alex Bores, who supports continued unconditional handouts to Israel for its imperialistic expansion. Bores also has been accused of inappropriate behavior. Conway is qualified [an attorney], knows his way around D.C. as the former husband of Kellyanne Conway [former Trump campaign manager & senior advisor], and he promises to be a thorn in Trump's side for the next two years, far more than he had been while his ex-wife had worked for Trump. To get involved see - https://www.georgeconwayforcongress.com
- Manhattan. We choose Layla Law-Gisiko for NYC City Council - not Carl Wilson nor Lindsey Boylan nor Leslie Boghosian Murphy - see previous report on this race. Layla Law-Gisiko for NYC Council vs Carl Wilson. She may not be actively campaigning, but she's still actively fighting for the community [see her Instagram page] - https://www.laylaforny.com
- Brooklyn. We choose Brad Lander for Congress - because he will represent all New Yorkers, versus AIPAC funded Dan Goldman. To get involved see - https://linktr.ee/bradlander
- Queens. We choose Chuck Park for Congress Flushing - not absentee Congresswoman Meng who's received nearly $1 million in AIPAC and related funding, and who supports unconditional funding of Israel's imperialistic expansionist efforts - see prior report on this race. Chuck Park running for Congress vs Grace Meng Queens. To get involved see - https://chuckforqueens.com
- Queens. We choose Claire Valdez for Congress Qns & Bk - not the wealthy real estate developers' favored candidates Reynoso or Won [report coming next week]. To get involved see - https://clairevaldezforcongress.com/
- Queens. We choose Jessica Ramos for NYS Senate Jackson Heights - not Gonzales Rojas, whose husband is paid a six figure salary, which comes from a nonprofit, that reportedly accepted generous donations made by entities affiliated with Insider Trading plagued billionaire, Steve Cohen. While Gonzales Rojas' husband was accepting the billionaire's indirect donations, a company affiliated with the billionaire sought and received approval for a casino license next to CitiField - thanks in part to Gonzales Rojas' actions / non actions [scroll down for 6.10.26 report]. To get involved see - https://www.ramosforstatesenate.com/
- FYI - AIPAC - the American Israeli Political Action Committee. Recently AIPAC has become the poster person for appearing to buy influence in the U.S. federal government. AIPAC has been working the political influence game since the 1950's and Israel has received over $300 billion [in today's dollars] of U.S. taxpayer handouts. As Israel has a population of only 10 million, that's the equivalent of each person in Israel receiving $30,000 of our money for free.
- Israel doesn't fund their own wars, even though they have a $600 billion economy and one of the higher standards of living in the world. We, the American people do, which is why our government can't afford to help with healthcare and education, while the Israelis' government can. And billionaire TV News doesn't inform us, because at least one owner [Rupert Murdoch of Fox News] appears to have his hand in the till [look up Genie Energy on illegally occupied Syrian Golan Heights]. All of the top billionaire TV News owners have shown an interest in Israel, including some with documented business interests, like Murdoch above. Here's a link to learn more about who's accepting money from AIPAC and affiliated donors. It will help you better understand what's been going on under our noses, and why our taxpayer dollars are funding Israeli wars, instead of U.S. education, healthcare and infrastructure. Compare that with the Israelis, whose government has been increasing support, while ours cuts back. Trump's fraudulent campaign slogan was America First. Trump's policies reveal his real policy puts middle and working class Americans Last.
- But on some level it is also the voters' fault for not paying closer attention - by doing their voting homework - to make sure they're getting accurate information from reliable sources, or sources who actually have their best interests at heart. And it will also help to better understand who you're voting for, to represent you. Talk is cheap, pay attention to their actions and follow the money - https://www.trackaipac.com/congress.
- FYI - Open Secrets - a nonprofit that tracks donations to politicians. And don't stop with AIPAC, because there are numerous other selfish interests doing the same [just not as long, nor as effectively as AIPAC]. Here's another information source that TV News fails to disclose as well, to help voters understand who's funding all of those dishonest TV News attack ads. You can start following the money on your own, because the TV News featherweight anchors appear unaware, or just plain don't care - https://www.opensecrets.org
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Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.
Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week is Juneteenth in NYC
Now thru June 14, 2026 at various times and in various places - Canvassing for the Rent Guidelines Board Meeting. The Mamdani Administration is trying to mobilize community support to help make sure the Rent Guidelines Board holds the line [to zero%] in its annual decision regarding the size of the rent increase on the two million tenants who lives in rent stabilized housing in NYC. As the Mayor has repeatedly said in his speeches, he can't effect change without the help of the citizens of NYC.This began May 16, 2026. For details and to volunteer some of your time to this cause, see - Help Tell the Rent Guidelines Board that New Yorkers Support Mayor Mamdani's Effort to Keep Rent Increases to 0%. Or copy and paste this url - https://www.nyc.gov/content/organize/pages/get-involved
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Friday, June 19, 2026 - Juneteenth - is a Federal Holiday so federal government offices including the U.S. Post Office will be closed.
Sunday, June 21, 2026 - Father's Day - a day to honor your father, to show appreciation for all that he's done for you.
NYC & NYS Public Beaches _ Saturday - Sunday, May 23 - September 13, 2026 from 10 am to 6 pm - NYC & NYS Beaches Open for the Summer. Swimming not allowed when life guards are not present. For details see - https://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/beaches
Holding _ Tuesday, May 12, 2026 beginning at 6 pm - Cracks in the YIMBY Consensus - on Zoom. This presentation explores whether we can upzone our way out of the affordability crisis. For details and to register [free] see - https://villagepreservation.my.site.com/s/event-detail?eventId=a1wQP000002odg9
Holding _ Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - Manhattan City Council Special Election District 3 Early Voting Ranked Choice Voting Results published. The special election results for NYC City Council representation of Hells Kitchen, Chelsea and the West Village was published. We'll post them either here over the weekend, or separately with one of the prior related reports.
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Will Voters Continue Waking Up? And Will Enough of Them Awaken in Time?
Rally to Elect Candidates who Represent YOU - NOT the Billionaires
June 10, 2026 / Queens Politics & Government / Queens News NYC / Queens Buzz NYC / News Analysis & Opinion.
The city, state and nation are in pretty rough shape these days. All three have been pillaged by the billionaires working their selfish private interests oftentimes at the expense of the community good, made possible by unlimited funding of candidates who seem to work for them, instead of us.
Most of the Republican Party these days has been bought and paid for - and many [not all] of their government actions show it.
And a huge swath of the Democratic Party has also been bought and paid for, too. And their inaction on pressing issues, and failures on key votes, also show it.
But it's not just the Republicans and Democrats fault, as there is plenty of blame to go around. It's the billionaire TV News and related media failures, as well as a failure on the part of voters themselves. I blame the media for their innumerable reporting omissions of key facts and even key stories, their distortion of key issues, their sensationalism of non-issues, and their unlimited distractions.
I also blame the voters for not paying attention and for not contributing to the health and wealth of the democratic republic by getting involved, properly informing themselves, voting and enabling / helping others to vote too.
On November 19, 1863, Lincoln famously delivered the Gettysburg Address, saying, "... It is .. for us to be .. dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we .. highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth ...".
Billionaires Gain HUGE Share of Wealth by Manipulation of Pols & Government
In 1970 the share of income earned by the middle and lower classes was 72%. In 2022, the middle and lower classes share of wealth had dropped to 51%. In 2022 U.S. national income was $25.8 trillion, so that means the middle and lower classes had $13.2 trillion in income instead of $18.6 trillion, which is a loss $5.4 trillion. In 2022 the U.S. had a population of 333 million, so the middle and lower classes, which currently make up 81% of the population, or 269.7 million, lost $20,022 per person in aggregate income, had the proportion of the working class population and distribution of wealth in this nation remained the same as it was before Rupert Murdoch first started buying media outlets in the U.S. To be fair, the upper class share of the population increased by 8% [from 11% to 19%] and the middle class shrank by 10% [from 61% to 51%] and the lower class increased by 3% [from 27% to 30%], so this isn't an apples to apples comparison - but directionally it's spot on.
See for yourself about how the middle class is being hollowed out in the U.S. - https://govfacts.org/long-term-challenges-future/economic-transformation/economic-inequality-trends/the-shrinking-middle-class-government-data-reveals-five-decades-of-economic-squeeze/
How Billionaires Increase Share of Wealth by Pol & Govt Manipulation
So, locally in NYC, we have identified a number cases of what I would call possibly legal graft by billionaires. It seemed to start with the Mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg. Basically the billionaires donate generously to their sell-out pols, so their sell-out pols can spend lavishly on misleading, half truth and distraction-based advertising, which is run on billionaire-controlled corporate TV news. Once in office, the billionaires' pols begin the public to private wealth and land transfers, in tandem with the tax breaks that give lower tax rates to the rich, and take money from the government that could be spent on education, healthcare, social services, mass transit, real affordable housing and the like.
Too many of the older generation still believe that when they are watching TV News, they're watching a trustworthy news source, regulated by the U.S. federal government, and owned by a variety of different owners, representing a multiple of view points. This is, at best, an illusion. And the older generation votes in higher numbers than the younger generation, so the older generation's ignorance is economically damaging all of us in the middle and lower classes significantly, with their ill-informed TV News and commercials disinformed voting choices.
Will Queens & NYC Voters Elect or Reject the Pocket Pols of the Billionaires & TV News?
There are still two active examples of Bloomberg-derivative public to private wealth / land transfers going on right now. And in this primary, NYC voters will either ignorantly elect candidates who will enable these billionaires to complete their privatization takeovers of large swaths of NYC public land - or try to stop them.
Is Eric Adams Enabling Stephen Ross to Illegally Privatize FEC Chelsea NYCHA?
Rally at the CitiField Apple in Flushing Corona at 1 pm on Saturday, June 13, 2026
There's a rally against the casino, for the pols who will stand up to the billionaires, on Saturday, June 13, 2026 beginning at 1 pm. Also in attendance will be a number of local community groups and two candidates running for office representing the people of this district, not the billionaires, as their opponents appear to be doing - based on voting records and financial data and public positionings. The Pro People candidates are NYS Senator Ramos and Congressional candidate Chuck Park. Their opponents are absentee Congresswoman Grace Meng and Assemblywoman Jessica Gonzales Rojas, whose husband reportedly has business dealings with entities affiliated with billionaire Steve Cohen.
Here's a link to their Instagram page - https://www.instagram.com/nocasinofmcp
Also, Jessica Ramos will be debating Gonzales-Rojas on Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 6.30 pm at the Renaissance Charter School at 35-59 81st Street in Jackson Heights. The event is organized by the Jackson Heights Beautification Group and the Queens Civic Congress. Free and open to the public.
Early voting begins Saturday. You can do nothing, and hope that things will change, but they won't. Or you can make a huge difference in the next two weeks, by getting involved and fighting to make the people elected to run our government responsive to the working classes' needs - not just the billionaires. And to definitely stop what appear to be the public to private land transfers / graft / oligarchic takeovers.
It's the Davids vs the Goliaths. And 99% of you reading this are the Davids, whether you like it or not.
Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Events & Things to do This Weekend & Next Week in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events - Details Below
June 5, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo at right was taken at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival which continues through the weekend in Manhattan.
Sunrise 5.25 am. Sunset 8.24 pm. We're getting 15 hours & 0 minutes of sunlight, or five hours and 47 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. There's a 50% chance of 1/5 inch of rain being dropped between 7 and 10 pm Saturday night. Otherwise the rest of the weekend is dry. The temperature highs will be arouind 90 on Saturday, falling to 85 on Sunday. The temperature lows will be in the low 70's all weekend. The winds will range from 0 - 5 mph on Friday and from 5 - 15 mph the rest of the weekend. And the humidity is going to swing wildly from the high 30% range Saturday to the mid 80% range on Sunday returning to the high 30% range later in the day Sunday. Not a bad weather weekend overall. Enjoy.
Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 9.15 am. We made a few more modifications over the past hour, and now we're really done. We should have the attendant pages posted within the next hour or so, possibly less. We will also socially post links sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we continue to strive toward providing a mix of weekly news posts.
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NYC & NYS Public Beaches _ Saturday - Sunday, May 23 - September 13, 2026 from 10 am to 6 pm - NYC & NYS Beaches Open for the Summer. Swimming not allowed when life guards are not present. For details see - https://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/beaches
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Now thru June 14, 2026 at various times and in various places - Canvassing for the Rent Guidelines Board Meeting. The Mamdani Administration is trying to mobilize community support to help make sure the Rent Guidelines Board holds the line [to zero%] in its annual decision regarding the size of the rent increase on the two million tenants who lives in rent stabilized housing in NYC. As the Mayor has repeatedly said in his speeches, he can't effect change without the help of the citizens of NYC.This began May 16, 2026. For details and to volunteer some of your time to this cause, see - Help Tell the Rent Guidelines Board that New Yorkers Support Mayor Mamdani's Effort to Keep Rent Increases to 0%. Or copy and paste this url - https://www.nyc.gov/content/organize/pages/get-involved
Holding _ Tuesday, May 12, 2026 beginning at 6 pm - Cracks in the YIMBY Consensus - on Zoom. This presentation explores whether we can upzone our way out of the affordability crisis. For details and to register [free] see - https://villagepreservation.my.site.com/s/event-detail?eventId=a1wQP000002odg9
Holding _ Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - Manhattan City Council Special Election District 3 Early Voting Ranked Choice Voting Results published. The special election results for NYC City Council representation of Hells Kitchen, Chelsea and the West Village was published. We'll post them either here over the weekend, or separately with one of the prior related reports.
Next Week & Upcoming
Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.
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Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Events & Things to do This Weekend & Next Week in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events - Details Below
May 29, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo above or at right was earlier this month of the contents in my NYC kitchen composting pail. I found it had an engaging aesthetic, and knowing that it will be recycled, provides me with a small sense of achievement - that I'm part of the solution - not the problem.
Sunrise 5.30 / 34 am. Sunset 8.19 / 13 pm. We're getting 14 hours & 50 minutes of sunlight, or five hours and 37 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. No precipitation is in the forecast, but it will be partly cloudy each day this weekend. The temperature highs will be in the mid to high 70's on Friday and Sunday, dipping to the mid 60's on Saturday. The temperature lows will be in the mid 50's on Friday and Saturday, briefly dipping to the low 50's on Sunday morning. The winds will range from 5 - 10 mph on Friday and Sunday, and kick up to 10 - 20 mph on Saturday. And it's going to be a dry weekend with the humidity dropping from the mid 70's on Friday to 30%, then rising to between 50% - 60% Saturday, peaking around 70% Sunday morning before dropping down to 30% later in the day. Not a bad weather weekend overall. Enjoy.
Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 8 am - We had some computer issues which held us up. This is done and the attendant pages will be posted within the hour, assuming no further computer issues. We will also socially post links sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we continue to strive toward providing a mix of weekly news posts.
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NYC & NYS Public Beaches _ Saturday - Sunday, May 23 - September 13, 2026 from 10 am to 6 pm - NYC & NYS Beaches Open for the Summer. Swimming not allowed when life guards are not present. For details see - https://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/beaches
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Now thru June 14, 2026 at various times and in various places - Canvassing for the Rent Guidelines Board Meeting. The Mamdani Administration is trying to mobilize community support to help make sure the Rent Guidelines Board holds the line [to zero%] in its annual decision regarding the size of the rent increase on the two million tenants who lives in rent stabilized housing in NYC. As the Mayor has repeatedly said in his speeches, he can't effect change without the help of the citizens of NYC.This began May 16, 2026. For details and to volunteer some of your time to this cause, see - Help Tell the Rent Guidelines Board that New Yorkers Support Mayor Mamdani's Effort to Keep Rent Increases to 0%. Or copy and paste this url - https://www.nyc.gov/content/organize/pages/get-involved
Holding _ Tuesday, May 12, 2026 beginning at 6 pm - Cracks in the YIMBY Consensus - on Zoom. This presentation explores whether we can upzone our way out of the affordability crisis. For details and to register [free] see - https://villagepreservation.my.site.com/s/event-detail?eventId=a1wQP000002odg9
Holding _ Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - Manhattan City Council Special Election District 3 Early Voting Ranked Choice Voting Results published. The special election results for NYC City Council representation of Hells Kitchen, Chelsea and the West Village was published. We'll post them either here over the weekend, or separately with one of the prior related reports.
Next Week.
Ferry Hawks Stadium in St. George _ Wednesday, June 3, 2026 from 10 am to 4 pm - Justice in Motion - at Staten Island University Hospital Community Park at 75 Richmond Terrace next to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. This is "... an innovative job fair and symposium that returns on with dozens of city agencies and community organizations looking to hire. Sponsored by the New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice ...". CLICK this GOTHAMBUZZ MCAL link for details, including a url to the web page.
Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.
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Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Events & Things to do This Weekend & Next Week in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events - Details Below
May 22, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo above or at right was taken at a parade honoring those who have dedicated a part of their lives to defending the rest of us. This weekend, there are numerous events, honoring those who lost their lives in defense of our nation.
Sunrise 5.34 / 38 am. Sunset 8.13 / 07 pm. We're getting 14 hours & 40 minutes of sunlight, or five hours and 27 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.
Updated Early AM 5.23.26 _ NYC Weather - NYC Can Differ Slightly / Significantly vs TriState TV News Forecasts. There's a 75% chance of up to 1.25 inches of rain on Saturday, starting as early as around 11 am and extending into Sunday around 12 noon, with another .5 inch of rain. There's a 20% to 25% chance of a negligible amount of rain Monday. The temperature highs will hover between 60 to 65 all weekend, except Monday where it will rise to 70 degrees. The temperature lows will hover in the mid 50's to high 50's all weekend. The winds will range from 1 - 10 mph on Friday, 5 - [mostly] 10 mph Saturday & Sunday, and then back down to 1 - 5 mph Monday. The humidity will swing from 80% to 40% Friday, 60% to 95% Saturday, 95% to 80% Sunday and finally levelling off on Monday in the 60% range. It will be cloudy all days of the three day holiday weekend.
UPDATE _ Saturday, May 23, 2026 at 6.15 am - Done with the regular weekend post, as you can see. We have also posted Memorial Day parades and events separately below. The attendant pages will be posted shortly or within the hour. We will also socially post links sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we continue to strive toward providing a mix of weekly news posts.
Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in NYC
* Editor's Note - No Fleet Week in NYC over the Memorial Day Weekend of 2026 - The traditional Fleet Week that New Yorkers and Brooklynites have become accustomed to accommodating for decades over the Memorial Day Weekend has been moved to the July 4th, 2026 week to synch up with celebrations of America's 250th Anniversary. Return to this site in late June / early July 2026 for details regarding Fleet Week 2026 in NYC.
NYC & NYS Public Beaches _ Saturday - Sunday, May 23 - September 13, 2026 from 10 am to 6 pm - NYC & NYS Beaches Open for the Summer. Swimming not allowed when life guards are not present. For details see - https://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/beaches
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May 16 - June 14, 2026 at various times and in various places - Canvassing for the Rent Guidelines Board Meeting. The Mamdani Administration is trying to mobilize community support to help make sure the Rent Guidelines Board holds the line [to zero%] in its annual decision regarding the size of the rent increase on the two million tenants who lives in rent stabilized housing in NYC. As the Mayor has repeatedly said in his speeches, he can't effect change without the help of the citizens of NYC. For details and to volunteer some of your time to this cause, see - Help Tell the Rent Guidelines Board that New Yorkers Support Mayor Mamdani's Effort to Keep Rent Increases to 0%. Or copy and paste this url - https://www.nyc.gov/content/organize/pages/get-involved
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 beginning at 6 pm - Cracks in the YIMBY Consensus - on Zoom. This presentation explores whether we can upzone our way out of the affordability crisis. For details and to register [free] see - https://villagepreservation.my.site.com/s/event-detail?eventId=a1wQP000002odg9
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - Manhattan City Council Special Election District 3 Early Voting Ranked Choice Voting Results published. The special election results for NYC City Council representation of Hells Kitchen, Chelsea and the West Village was published. We'll post them either here over the weekend, or separately with one of the prior related reports.
Next Week.
Ferry Hawks Stadium in St. George _ Wednesday, June 3, 2026 from 10 am to 4 pm - Justice in Motion - at Staten Island University Hospital Community Park at 75 Richmond Terrace next to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. This is "... an innovative job fair and symposium that returns on with dozens of city agencies and community organizations looking to hire. Sponsored by the New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice ...". CLICK this GOTHAMBUZZ MCAL link for details, including a url to the web page.
Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our report, as well as other Weekend Things To Do in NYC This Month 2026 _ NYC events.
Things To Do Memorial Day Weekend In Queens NYC - Memorial Day Events & Parades in QNS NYC
Things To Do Memorial Day Weekend in Queens NYC
Things To Do In Queens Over The Memorial Day Weekend of 2026
May 21, 2026 / Things To Do Queens NY / Queens Buzz NYC.
This is a report containing things to do in Queens over the Memorial Day Weekend, including Memorial Day Parades in Queens with links to the other boroughs of NYC.
NYC Weather Forecast as of 5.21.26. There's a 75% chance of up to 1.25 inches of rain on Saturday, starting sometime between 1 and 5 pm and extending into Sunday, with another .25 to .5 inch of rain, ending sometime between 1 and 4 pm. There's a 20% to 40% chance of a negligible amount of rain Monday. The temperature highs will hover between 60 to 65 all weekend, except Monday where it will rise to 70 degrees. The temperature lows will hover in the mid 50's to high 50's all weekend. The winds will range from 1 - 10 mph on Friday, 5 - [mostly] 10 mph Saturday & Sunday, and then back down to 1 - 5 mph Monday. The humidity will swing wildly all weekend, from 80% to 40% Friday, 60% to 95% Saturday, 95% to 80% Sunday and finally levelling off on Monday in the 60% range. It will be cloudy all days of the three day holiday weekend.
The things to do in Queens on Memorial Day Weekend include art exhibitions, theater, live music, comedy, dance, shopping, outdoor activities such as soccer, kyaking, baseball, parades, street fairs, museums and dining in the Astoria, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Long Island City, LIC, Sunnyside, Woodside, Jamaica, Forest Hills, Flushing, Corona neighborhoods in Queens NYC.
Be sure to check our Memorial Day Weekend things to do on Friday afternoon leading into the Memorial Day Weekend in Queens NYC.
Brief History of the Memorial Day Holiday in Queens NYC
Memorial Day first started out as Decoration Day in Waterloo, New York on May 30, 1866 - a year after the Civil War - to honor those who fought in it. In the 1880's the day came to be known as Memorial Day.
According to a May 25, 2012 report in Time Magazine, ten states - Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee also officially observe some version of a Confederate Memorial Day, sometime between late April and early June [in Texas it's in January]. It's been reported that unofficially most of the former Confederate states still commemorate it, but not without some controversy as to the former Confederate diaspora it's to honor their ancestors, while to the former diaspora of the slaves it seems a remnant of these states racist past.
About ten percent of the nation travels more than 50 miles over the weekend. Memorial Day differs from Veterans Day which is held on November 11th of each year. Veterans Day began by honoring those who fought in World War I which ended on the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Both honor those who served in the U.S. Military. Veterans Day coincides with a similar holiday in Europe for the same reason, which is called Remembrance Day and Armistice Day.
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Memorial Day Parades Queens NYC
NYC Memorial Day Parades in Queens NYC 2026
2026 Memorial Day Parades in Queens NYC
May 22, 2026 / Queens Neighborhoods / Queens Holidays & Parades / Queens Buzz NYC.
This report details a number of upcoming Memorial Day Weekend parades in Queens NYC.
NYC Weather Forecast as of 5.21.26. There's a 75% chance of up to 1.25 inches of rain on Saturday, starting sometime between 1 and 5 pm and extending into Sunday, with another .25 to .5 inch of rain, ending sometime between 1 and 4 pm. There's a 20% to 40% chance of a negligible amount of rain Monday. The temperature highs will hover between 60 to 65 all weekend, except Monday where it will rise to 70 degrees. The temperature lows will hover in the mid 50's to high 50's all weekend. The winds will range from 1 - 10 mph on Friday, 5 - [mostly] 10 mph Saturday & Sunday, and then back down to 1 - 5 mph Monday. The humidity will swing wildly all weekend, from 80% to 40% Friday, 60% to 95% Saturday, 95% to 80% Sunday and finally levelling off on Monday in the 60% range. It will be cloudy all days of the three day holiday weekend.
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Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
Events & Things to do This Weekend & Next Week in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events - Details Below
May 15, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo above or at right was taken at a Dance Parade held some years ago. The parade returns this weekend. See details below.
Sunrise 5.38 am. Sunset 8.07 pm. We're getting 14 hours & 30 minutes of sunlight, or five hours and 17 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. No rain is in the forecast this weekend. All weekend the temperature highs will be 80's. The temperature lows will be 60's. The humidity will swing wildly on Saturday from 100% to 30% and on Sunday from 80% to 40%. Winds are expected to range from 5 to 10 mph through the weekend. All tolled, a very nice spring weekend.
UPDATE _ Saturday, May 16, 2026 at 5.30 am - Done and including attendant pages which will be posted following this. We will also socially post links sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we continue to strive toward providing a mix of weekly news posts.
Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in NYC
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May 16 - June 14, 2026 at various times and in various places - Canvassing for the Rent Guidelines Board Meeting. The Mamdani Administration is trying to mobilize community support to help make sure the Rent Guidelines Board holds the line [to zero%] in its annual decision regarding the size of the rent increase on the two million tenants who lives in rent stabilized housing in NYC. As the Mayor has repeatedly said in his speeches, he can't effect change without the help of the citizens of NYC. For details and to volunteer some of your time to this cause, see - Help Tell the Rent Guidelines Board that New Yorkers Support Mayor Mamdani's Effort to Keep Rent Increases to 0%. Or copy and paste this url - https://www.nyc.gov/content/organize/pages/get-involved
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 beginning at 6 pm - Cracks in the YIMBY Consensus - on Zoom. This presentation explores whether we can upzone our way out of the affordability crisis. For details and to register [free] see - https://villagepreservation.my.site.com/s/event-detail?eventId=a1wQP000002odg9
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - Manhattan City Council Special Election District 3 Early Voting Ranked Choice Voting Results published. The special election results for NYC City Council representation of Hells Kitchen, Chelsea and the West Village was published. We'll post them either here over the weekend, or separately with one of the prior related reports.
Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our report, as well as other Weekend Things To Do in NYC This Month 2026 _ NYC events.
Mother's Day Restaurants In Queens
May 08, 2026 at 12:15 am by mikewood
Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros
AIPAD, Macy's Flower Show, Greek Independence & Sikh Parades Manhattan; Reelabilities Film Fest & Car Free Streets Earth Day in all 5 Boros, Museum Estate Sale on Staten Island, as well as Other Spring Sales and Things to do This Weekend in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events
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Updated April 24, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo above or at right was taken last weekend across from the Fashion Institute of Technology [aka FIT] at West 27th Street and 8th Avenue in Chelsea.
Saturday, April 18, 2026 from 10 am to 6 pm - MoMA PS1 50th Anniversary Block Party. This is the opening weekend of a new exhibit entitled Greater New York in celebration of the museum's 50th anniversary. Numerous cultural and community organizations will be there to participate, including some food and merchandise vendors, including a FAD market. Advanced registration is closed but they are trying to accommodate walk up registration. For details see - https://www.momaps1.org/en/events/741-50th-anniversary-block-party
Sunrise 6.04 am. Sunset 7.44 pm. We're getting 13 hours & 41 minutes of sunlight, or four hours and 28 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 mid 60's on Friday, descending to the low 50's on Saturday and Sunday. The temperature lows will be in the mid 50's Friday, descending into the low 40's on Saturday & Sunday. About 1 to 2 inches of rain is expected starting Saturday late morning and ending Sunday late morning. The humidity will range from 30% to 90% on Friday, and between 65% and 95% on both Saturday and Sunday. Winds are expected to range from 5 to 10 mph, favoring the high side of that range all weekend.
Friday, April 24, 2026 at 11.30 pm - Done except the attendant pages, which we'll complete later tonight. We will also socially post links either late Friday or sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we begin enhancing weekly news posts.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026 was Earth Day. Some celebrations, including the one below, continue this weekend.
Saturday, April 25, 2026 from 10 am to 4 pm is Car-Free Streets Day. Car free streets in NYC on Saturday, April 25, 2026 begins an hour earlier and ends an hour later for mototorists from 9 am to 5 pm. Events will take place from 10 am to 4 pm. And Citi Bike is offering free rides at the same time. For specific streets and the opening / closing times of the car-free streets to which this applies, in all five boroughs see - https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2026/nyc-dot-announces-return-of-car-free-earth-day-celebration.shtml
NYC _ Thursday - Thursday, April 23 - 30, 2026 - Reelabilities Film Fest - at JCC Marlene Meyerson in Manhattan, but also at Bronx River Arts Center in the Bronx, JCC on Staten Island, Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park in Brooklyn; as well as numerous other venues in Manhattan, including but not limited to Lincoln Center, the New School, and Maysles in West Harlem. For details and $0 - $50+ tickets see - https://reelabilities.org/newyork/schedule
Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.
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Queens Easter Events, Brunches & Ceremonies in QNS NYC
Apr 10, 2026 at 12:15 am by PeterParker
CBS Self Censors & Trump Manipulations of Biblical Proportions
Alex Pretti Shooting by ICE & Trump's Psychological Violent Tendencies
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 Mak.... Trump's Violent Tendencies and the ICE Shootings and what appears to be the Murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis
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].
ICE Kills Woman in Minneapolis Minnesota
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 Publ.... Trump Administration Violence & Lying - Did ICE Shoots & Kill an American Woman without due cause & then Lie About it?
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
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'TV News' is a misnomer, as these days they do little reporting about the important news stories of the day. Instead they allow themselves to be led around by top government officials, who use them to distract their viewing audiences from what's really going on in government, by spinning tales of nonsense - like the United Nations escalator conspiracy, the Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats in Ohio, and the like.
Billionaire controlled Network TV News no longer appears to be generally staffed by competent, dedicated, truth-seeking newspeople, but instead by teleprompter reading actors and models. TV News whittles away their audiences' precious time by showing them what seem the same repetitive police crime videos and social media accident videos. Billionaire Network TV News is also guilty of broadcasting long-winded weather reports [do they really think people need to spend ten minutes to find out what the temperature, wind, humidity and precipitation will be tomorrow?]. They sprinkle the crime, accident and weather reporting with cleverly disguised advertorials for their corral of signed celebrities, their TV syndicated or related shows, and their licensed music and movies, which they present as the news.
So, in the interest of community service, we've decided to provide our audience with short reports, with links to sources we find reliable, of the important stories we think are not well covered, or not properly covered by billionaire TV News - if covered at all. We hope you'll appreciate our efforts to inform you. And if you do, please spread the word, so that your friends and family will start migrating their news consumption from billionaire TV News to the web. It's worth noting that the six TV Network News organizations are controlled by billionaires, family and their friends; and they're using TV News and sometimes their other shows, to manipulate voters' perceptions,
This is not your parents or grandparents TV News, which ended sometime around Walter Cronkite's retirement in the early 1980's when TV News reliably informed Americans about the real news stories of the day. At that time TV News was reporting stories that were were important to know and understand as participants in our democracy, in order to stay informed of issues so that we the people, and the representatives we selected, would collectively and communally address them.
We've started this news section in late September / early October 2025 and had been updating weekly until about mid November 2025, when we hit some capacity road blocks. It's mid April 2026, and we're embarking on this effort again, hoping that the remedies we put in place over the winter, will enable us to continue, uninterrupted, going forward.
This begins the local news feed _ 5.7.26
- CLICK here to read the rest of our November _ Queens News Local Reports NYC.
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June 22, 2026 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / NYC Politics / New York City News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
*** What Follows was posted Week Ending 4.17.26 & updated 5.7.26 - we're working up to a more robust news offfering. Please stay tuned.
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Gonzales Rojas & A Queens Tale: How the Rich get Richer
Did Billionaire Cohen Place a Bet or a Buy on an NYS Senate Seat?
Thousands in Cohen-Affiliated Donations Flood Gonzales Rojas' Campaign in the Final Stretch of the Campaign, Followed by a Mysterious $850,000 PAC Donation
We Choose Jessica Ramos - but Read Below and Decide for Yourself
June 20, 2026 / Queens Politics & Government / Queens News NYC / NYS Election 2026 Queens NYC / Queens Buzz NYC / News Analysis & Opinion.
The Back Drop is an Out-of-Control System, Facilitated by the Supreme Court's Failed Decision, which Enables Billionaire Purchases of the Electorate, via Disinformative TV News Ads & a Media that No Longer Serves the Public
All too slowly, voters are waking up, to how their representatives, and thus government, are being purchased right in front of their eyes.
The biggest part of the problem, I have decided, is the corrupt billionaire-owned, network TV News, which is now controlled by about six billionaires, who have little competition in the TV News space. How this happened, beginning circa the 1980's, when billionaire Rupert Murdoch of Fox News started purchasing mass media outlets on our shores, is another story, for which there's not enough time between now and election day, Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
So for the moment, let's focus in on something we can take some positive action upon. And that is to vote for those candidates who will represent us when making decisions in Albany or Washington, D.C. One of the most important of these races, has been laid before the people of NYS Senate District 13, where NYS Senator Jessica Ramos is fighting to keep her seat.
We recommend voting for Jessica Ramos - and voting against Jessica Gonzales Rojas - because we believe Ramos has far more integrity than Gonzales Rojas. And voting for and electing politicians lacking in integrity is why things are so very messed up right now. But read what we've found below and decide for yourself.
Billionaire Steve Cohen, of SAC Capital Cheating Inc, Applies for Casino License
NYS Senator Jessica Ramos is fighting to keep her seat because she was about the only Queens government official who fought to stop billionaire Steve Cohen and affiliates from siezing control of Flushing Meadows Corona Parkland from the taxpaying public, to build a casino. Steve Cohen founded SAC Capital which was charged with huge insider trading violations, which they settled to $1.8 BILLION in fines and essentially agreed to stop trading for the public. Cohen bought the Mets and within a couple of years the Mets were caught cheating multiple times too. The cheating seemed to conveniently go on hiatus, when Cohen applied for an NYS casino license.
Click here for more context on Queens Steve Cohen and SAC Capital Insider Trading.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our story on Jessica Gonzales Rojas' campaign funded by the billionaire whose casino license Gonzales Rojas helped make possible?
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The Four Way NYS Congressional Race in Manhattan
ICE Profiteer Lasher, Former Palantir Professional Bores, Attorney Anti-Trumper Conway & Trust Fund JFK Grandson Schlossberg
We Prefer George Conway - but See What we Found below and Decide for Yourself
June 20, 2026 / Manhattan Politics & Government / Manhattan News NYC / NYS Election 2026 NYC / Manhattan Buzz NYC / News Analysis & Opinion.
The Back Drop is an Out-of-Control System, Facilitated by the Supreme Court's Failed Decision, which Enables Billionaire Purchases of the Electorate, via Disinformative TV News Ads & a Media that No Longer Serves the Public
All too slowly, voters are waking up, to how their representatives, and thus government, are being purchased right in front of their eyes.
The biggest part of the problem, I have decided, is the corrupt billionaire-owned, network TV News, which is now controlled by about six billionaires, who have little competition in the TV News space. How this happened, beginning circa the 1980's, when billionaire Rupert Murdoch of Fox News started purchasing mass media outlets on our shores, is another story, for which there's not enough time between now and election day, Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
So for the moment, let's focus in on something we can take some positive action upon. And that is to vote for those candidates who will represent us when making decisions in Albany or Washington, D.C. One of the most important of these races, has been laid before the people of U.S. Congressional District 12, where four well-funded, fairly well known, candidates are vying to replace Jerry Nadler.
District 12 was redistricted in 2023 and Nadler, originally representing NYS U.S. Congressional District 10, defeated Carolyn Maloney, who was the incumbent of NYS U.S. Congressional District 12, but which had been redistricted in Nadler's favor electorally. Nadler has represented this district for 34 years, so this will be a big change. Maloney has endorsed Bores. We choose George Conway.
- CLICK to read the rest of our report on the candidates running for NY District 12 including Alex Bores, George Conway, Micah Lasher & Jack Schlossberg.
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Will Chuck Park Defeat Grace Meng in the Primary?
Can a Proverbial David, Chuck Park, Beat the Queens Machine Goliath, Grace Meng?
Updated June 22, 2026 v. 5.31.26 / Jackson Heights Queens Neighborhood / Queens Politics & Political News / Queens News / News Analysis & Opinion / Queens Buzz.
Late Sunday, on a beautiful afternoon, I headed over to attend a 'Dumplings & Dialogue' event hosted by the 6th Congressional District House candidate, Chuck Park, at Kabab King in Jackson Heights. The Park campaign's volunteer press liaison, had reached out to me a few times, with compelling narratives that caught my interest.
In the photo above or at right shows Chuck Park with some of the volunteers who participated in the Dumplings and Dialogue campaign event hosted by 6th District Congressional candidate. Standing next to Chuck is Noor Shams who is a food writer,community organizer and cofounder of Alaap NYC - https://www.alaapnyc.com - and Rachel Gurjar who is a chef, cookbook author and culinary creative - https://www.rachelgurjar.com/about/. As you can see here and will see below, the campaign seems to have attracted a young, diverse, energetic group of volunteers.
The Park campaign narratives sent to me by the volunteer press liaison, included: Meng's acceptance of big money donations, Meng's support for sending billions in unconditional aid to Israel, Park's opposition to the awarding of a casino license to a billionaire tied to one of the largest insider trading scandals by a hedge fund in modern history [aka the firm was caught cheating] and Meng's lack of achievement in doing anything meaningful for the immigrant families of Queens which make up about half the borough's population. That Chuck Park's campaign had put together a simple, but resonant narrative, as to why Meng should be replaced, struck a chord, as I began my effort to delve more deeply into the two candidates of this contest. Park's effort to unseat Meng sounded viable, which has not been the case for well over a decade.
Grace Meng first won her congressional seat back in 2012. The Joe Crowley-led, Queens County Democratic machine, placed his cousin, Elizabeth Crowley's, name on the primary ballot, which pundits believed was to siphon votes away from Rory Lancman, who was a leading contender. Elizabeth Crowley held an NYC Council position at the time, and did not appear to campaign seriously, supporting this hypothesis. Meng won with less than 51% of the vote, but it was more than enough, as Crowley had made it a three-way race and had taken 16% of the vote. The Crowleys are no longer the influential people they once were in Queens politics, and it's possible that tricks like this contributed to their descent. The deadline for a trick like this has passed, as the final day to place a name on the ballot was May 19, 2026.
Who is Chuck Park?
CLICK here to read more about the election contest in the NYS 6th Congressional District where Chuck Park is challenging Grace Meng.
Early Voting Begins - Cliff Notes / Crib Notes Election Guide on Select Primary Races
Early Voting runs until Sunday, June 21, 2026. Election day is Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
LINK
https://www.vote.nyc/page/find-your-poll-site
Below is a brief election guide [the cliff notes], on who we think are the best candidates, in a number of the contests with which we have become familiar. We will expound on our rationale for having chosen these candidates next week, but wanted to get this out there now, as Early Voting begins Saturday. Basically we've favored candidates who we believe are qualified, and who will demonstrate more integrity to serving you than serving the people who fund their campaigns to pay for all of those dishonest TV News attack ads.
- Manhattan. We choose George Conway for Congress on the UWS - not either of the two 'chosen heirs / successors' like Jack Schlossberg [Kennedy] and Micah Lasher [Nadler], nor JStreet backed and Democratic machine supported Alex Bores. Bores has been accused of inappropriate behavior. Conway is qualified [an attorney], knows his way around D.C. as the former husband of Kellyanne Conway [former Trump campaign manager & senior advisor], and he promises to be a thorn in Trump's side for the next two years, far more than he had been while his ex-wife had worked for Trump. To get involved see - https://www.georgeconwayforcongress.com
- Manhattan. We choose Layla Law-Gisiko for NYC City Council - not Carl Wilson nor Lindsey Boylan nor Leslie Boghosian Murphy - see previous report on this race. Layla Law-Gisiko for NYC Council vs Carl Wilson. She may not be actively campaigning, but she's still actively fighting for the community [see her Instagram page] - https://www.laylaforny.com
- Brooklyn. We choose Brad Lander for Congress - because he will represent all New Yorkers, versus AIPAC funded and Democratic machine supported Dan Goldman. To get involved see - https://linktr.ee/bradlander
- Queens. We choose Chuck Park for Congress Flushing - not Democratic machine supported, absentee Congresswoman Meng, who's received nearly $1 million in AIPAC and related funding, and who supports unconditional funding of Israel's imperialistic expansionist efforts - see prior report on this race. Chuck Park running for Congress vs Grace Meng Queens. To get involved see - https://chuckforqueens.com
- Queens. We choose Claire Valdez for Congress Qns & Bk - not the wealthy real estate developers and Democratic machine favored candidates Reynoso or Won [report coming next week]. To get involved see - https://clairevaldezforcongress.com/
- Queens. We choose Jessica Ramos for NYS Senate Jackson Heights - not Democratic machine supported Gonzales Rojas, whose partner is paid a six figure salary, which comes from a nonprofit, that reportedly accepted generous donations made by entities affiliated with Insider Trading plagued billionaire, Steve Cohen. While Gonzales Rojas' husband was accepting the billionaire's indirect donations, a company affiliated with the billionaire sought and received approval for a casino license next to CitiField which includes transferring control of public parkland into private control - thanks in part to Gonzales Rojas' actions / non actions [scroll down for 6.10.26 report]. To get involved see - https://www.ramosforstatesenate.com/
- FYI - AIPAC - the American Israeli Political Action Committee. Recently AIPAC has become the poster person for appearing to buy influence in the U.S. federal government. AIPAC has been working the political influence game since the 1950's and Israel has received over $300 BILLION [in today's dollars] of U.S. taxpayer handouts. As Israel has a population of only 10 million, that's the equivalent of EACH PERSON living in Israel receiving $30,000 of our money for free.
- Israel doesn't fund their own wars, even though they have a $600 billion economy and one of the higher standards of living in the world. We, the American people do. This is in part, why our government can't afford to do more to help its citizens with healthcare and education, while the Israelis' government can. And billionaire TV News doesn't inform us, because at least one owner [Rupert Murdoch of Fox News] appears to have his hand in the till [look up Genie Energy on illegally occupied Syrian Golan Heights]. All of the top billionaire TV News owners have shown an interest in Israel, including some with documented business interests, like Murdoch above. Here's a link to learn more about who's accepting money from AIPAC and affiliated donors. It will help you better understand what's been going on under our noses, and why our taxpayer dollars are funding Israeli wars, instead of U.S. education, healthcare and infrastructure. Compare that with the Israelis, whose government has been increasing support, while ours cuts back. Trump's fraudulent campaign slogan was America First. but Trump's policies reveal his real policy agenda puts middle and working class Americans Last.
- But on some level these failures are also the voters' fault for not paying closer attention. Voters have been failing miserably to do their voting homework - to make sure they're getting accurate information from reliable sources, and sources who actually have their best interests at heart - BEFORE they go into the voting booth. TV Talk is cheap relative to the returns taken from public wealth, so pay attention to media and pols' actions and follow the money - https://www.trackaipac.com/congress.
- FYI - Open Secrets - a nonprofit that tracks donations to politicians. Don't stop with AIPAC, because there are numerous other selfish interests out there doing the same [just not as long, nor as effectively as AIPAC]. Here's another information source that TV News fails to disclose as well, to help voters understand who's funding all of those dishonest TV News attack ads. You can start following the money on your own, because the TV News featherweight anchors appear unaware, or just plain don't care - https://www.opensecrets.org
- We will have more about the primary races, including some important background material, about how the Democratic Party is working hard to maintain their inept colleagues and incompetents of the status quo. The Democratic Party Machine has been using their leverage to pressure union heads to make endorsements of status quo candidates, that were not voted upon by union members - only union leadership. And the Democratic Machines has been leveraging their ties to their billionaire TV News allies, who have been using their influence to distract voters with a relentless barrage of nonsense news that distracts from and ignores the incredible deficiencies of the Democratic party incumbents.
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Stay Tuned. More & More Expansive Updates coming soon.
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'TV News' is a misnomer, as these days they do little reporting about the important news stories of the day. Instead they allow themselves to be led around by top government officials, who use them to distract their viewing audiences from what's really going on in government, by spinning tales of nonsense - like the United Nations escalator conspiracy, the Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats in Ohio, and the like.
Billionaire controlled Network TV News no longer appears to be generally staffed by competent, dedicated, truth-seeking newspeople, but instead by teleprompter reading actors and models. TV News whittles away their audiences' precious time by showing them what seem the same repetitive police crime videos and social media accident videos. Billionaire Network TV News is also guilty of broadcasting long-winded weather reports [do they really think people need to spend ten minutes to find out what the temperature, wind, humidity and precipitation will be tomorrow?]. They sprinkle the crime, accident and weather reporting with cleverly disguised advertorials for their corral of signed celebrities, their TV syndicated or related shows, and their licensed music and movies, which they present as the news.
So, in the interest of community service, we've decided to provide our audience with short reports, with links to sources we find reliable, of the important stories we think are not well covered, or not properly covered by billionaire TV News - if covered at all. We hope you'll appreciate our efforts to inform you. And if you do, please spread the word, so that your friends and family will start migrating their news consumption from billionaire TV News to the web. It's worth noting that the six TV Network News organizations are controlled by billionaires, family and their friends; and they're using TV News and sometimes their other shows, to manipulate voters' perceptions,
This is not your parents or grandparents TV News, which ended sometime around Walter Cronkite's retirement in the early 1980's when TV News reliably informed Americans about the real news stories of the day. At that time TV News was reporting stories that were were important to know and understand as participants in our democracy, in order to stay informed of issues so that we the people, and the representatives we selected, would collectively and communally address them.
We've started this news section in late September / early October 2025 and had been updating weekly until about mid November 2025, when we hit some capacity road blocks. It's mid April 2026, and we're embarking on this effort again, hoping that the remedies we put in place over the winter, will enable us to continue, uninterrupted, going forward.
This begins the national news feed _ 5.7.26
- CLICK here to read the rest of our Queens News National Reports NYC.
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May 7, 2026 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Queens Politics / Queens News NYC / Queens News Updates / News Analysis & Opinion / Queens Buzz NYC.
*** What Follows was posted Week Ending 4.17.26 & updated 5.7.26 - we're working up to a more robust news offfering. Please stay tuned.
It Seems Trump is Talking up the Stock Markets, via Lies, Spread by Billionaire Network TV News - May 7, 2026
MAGA Values. What Happened to AG Bondi Testifying Before Congress on her Handling of the Epstein Files?
Is the Republican Party, by Their Inaction, a Party the Trump Administration's Corruption?
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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.
- CLICK here to read the rest of our report about all of the important issues Donald J. Trump's State of the Union Speech 2026 didn't address.
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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
LINK
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
- CLICK here to read our report about Alex Pretti Shooting in Minneapolis & Donald Trump's Psychological Tendencies Toward Violence.
* 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 the whole 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.
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
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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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Stay Tuned. Updates coming soon.
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OpEds 2026 - New OpEds Added Weekly or Monthly
- We resumed posting OpEds this month, after discontinuing over the Winter, as we focused on other projects.
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Corporate Tax Will Have Negligible Impact on Large Corporations
- May 11, 2026. An exploration of the key issues surrounding NYS / NYC fiscal policy and what to look for during the NYS budget negotiations. By the Fiscal Policy Institute.
Corporate Tax Will Have Negligible Impact on Large Corporations
- April 23, 2026. About real estimated impact raising taxes on large corporations operating in NYC would have. By the Fiscal Policy Institute.
Proposed Hudson Mosaic Development at 388 Hudson St. in Greenwich Village
- April 22, 2026. About a proposed development in the West Village by a developer who "... appears on Public Advocate Jumaane Williams' list of the city's worst landlords, with over 1,000 open HPD violations ...". There's more and it's the work of Layla Law-Gisiko, who's been an ardent and articulate advocate on housing generally, but particularly on the west side of Mid Manhattan.
Fiscal Policy Institute's Dr. Oz Report Makes National Headlines
- April 19, 2026. About wildly implausible figures cited by the Trump Administration that were caught by an FPI analyst. The figures were off by a factor of more 10x when attacking NYS' management of Medicare / Medicaid.
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
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 Billionaire Press Billionaire TV News & Free Speech in America
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.
Queens Arts Queens Culture Queens Performing Arts & Culture NYC
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Queens World Film Festival - The Film Scene in Queens NYC
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Mother's Day Restaurants In Queens
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Mother's Day Restaurants In Queens
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From the Front Lines of the NYC Harassment Housing Wars
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NYC Oligarchy _ Massive Mayoral Transfers of Public Wealth & Land to Private Control Continue to go Under Reported Edit
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Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, September 11, 12, 13 & 14, 2025 from 6 - 10 pm Thursday & Friday, 5 - 11 pm on Saturday and 1 - 9 pm on Sunday - Hellenic Orthodox Traditionalist Church of America [St Markella] - celebrates patron feast day with traditional Greek food, arts and crafts and music. Along 22-68 26th Street between 22nd & 23rd Avenues in Astoria. For details see - https://www.saintmarkellagoc.org or FB - https://www.facebook.com/saintmarkella
In the photo above or at right, you can see the Greek festival at St. Markella in Astoria. The festival returns this weekend. Details coming soon / above.
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Queens Parades & Festivals - Cultural Festivals and Parades in Queens Astoria Sunnyside Jackson Heights Corona Flushing Jamaica Bayside
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LIC Summit 2024 - Real Estate Development in LIC & Queens & NYC
The LIC Summit 2024
The Changing Cultural and Real Estate Landscape in Long Island City
October 8, 2024 / LIC Neighborhood / Queens Real Estate & Business / Queens Buzz.
A. Prelude to Attending the LIC Summit 2024
It was a beautiful, sunny, dry day as I walked over to the Museum of the Moving Image in LIC / Astoria. I arrived around 11 am to attend part of the second half of the LIC Summit, which is a real estate and business conference which examines in depth, an LIC centric world, but also mindful of the surrounding environment.
After I made my way through a flawless check-in, I found my way into the theater and sat down to listen in on the panel providing a Long Island City real estate update. These panels are structured such that the moderator serves up a number of questions to the panelists for comment, which is then followed by audience questions, which sometimes are the best, because they are asked by people like you and me, who have lived and worked in the area for a long while and witnessed and have adjusted to the huge changes that have occurred in Long Island City over the past couple of decades.
I. First Panel - LIC Residential Real Estate Update
This panel included Patricia Dunphy of SVP of Rockrose Development, Eric Benaim CEO / Founder of Modern Space, Dan Mogolesko SVP of the Durst Organization, Peter Papamichael Principal of the VOREA Group and Crystal Xu Director of Business Development United Construction & Development Group.
As I came in at the end of the panel presentation, I only caught the Q&A portion of the program, which follows.
A performance theater / school owner pondered aloud whether the developers were still interested in involving and supporting the arts and culture scene in Long Island City. At the turn of the century LIC was well known as a thriving artists community, as it offered very competitive rents and good access to mass transit. In the near quarter century since then many - if not most - of the artists have moved out of the area as they can no longer afford the rents, which have skyrocketed from under $1,000 / month to over $4,000 per month.
One of the panelists said they are interested in supporting the arts and he mentioned Culture Lab LIC as one of the arts institutions that has survived the changes. But that was pretty much the full extent of the conversation surrounding the arts community. So I reckon the short answer would be no.
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City of Yes Text Amendments Part II - Economic Development
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Plans for Sunnyside Yard Moving Along
Window of Opportunity Closing for Residents' Input into Likely the Single Most Important Real Estate Development in Queens in a Lifetime
May 14, 2019 / Queens Neighborhoods / Queens Real Estate / Queens Buzz NYC.
The Sunnyside Yard development effort began on February 9, 2015, when Mayor Bill de Blasio presented a vision for the development of Sunnyside Yard in his first State of the City Address. The first effort in the project was a Feasibility Study, which began soon thereafter.
Two years ago, on April 18, 2017, I attended a session where the NYC Economic Development Corporation presented the results of the Feasibility Study to the Community Board in Sunnyside regarding the building of a deck over Sunnyside Yard, in a fashion similar to what was done over a century ago, when the rail lines heading north from Grand Central Station were decked over and Park Avenue was paved over them. Click here to read our series on the History of Sunnyside Yard.
The photo to your right shows Park Avenue between 1910 - 1920, being decked up above NYC infrastructure.
Sunnyside Yard Public Meetings: Moving Along the Development Curve
Last year, on October 24, 2018, the NYC Economic Development Corporation hosted an estimated 375 people at the NYCEDC's first Public Meeting at La Guardia Community College in Long Island City. I was told that they had modified the process and expanded the venue there in order to accommodate the community interest. The goal of the meeting was to obtain community input on how to utlize, the largest publicly controlled space in New York City, likely to be developed in our lifetimes.
The photo at right shows some of the elevated roads traversing Sunnyside Yard, in the same manner as some of the east / west roads traversed Park Avenue in the early 1900's. The plan is to deck it over to make use of the nearly 180 acres that encompass the space.
And on March 26, 2019 the NYCEDC held their second Public Meeting at PS 166Q Henry Gradstein Elementary School in Astoria. At this meeting the NYCEDC and the committee presented the findings of the first Public Meeting, and then oversaw breakout sessions by topic for anyone interested in contributing input into the direction of the Sunnyside Yard development project.
Sunnyside Yard Development & Community Input: Three Categories
The breakout sessions centered around three primary topics: 1) Urban Design, 2) Transportation and 3) Open Space. I chose to attend the transportation session, as it represents the underlying infrastructure - but I must admit that I would have also liked the opportunity to sit in on the two other sessions, as each has its own set of opportunities and costs.
More coming later today. I also placed a request earlier this morning with the NYCEDC as to the timing of next steps, as the information was not available on their website.
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