This was inevitable.

There are tenants who haven't paid their rent for upwards of nearly 3 years now.

Government can't keep extending eviction moratoriums, and NY doesn't have the budget to just pay everyone's back-rent, either.

The one benefit tenants still have is that courts are still short-staffed, and the backlog is still going through pre-pandemic evictions.

Much like the weekly crime thread, I propose a weekly George Santos thread.

I've noticed a growing number of people, including those who don't otherwise post on this sub, are using the Santos scandals to farm karma by posting every random article they can find on here.

For instance, today alone two people have posted a total of six different articles on here, including one user spamming 3 articles in the span of 10 minutes.

Because Adams talked a whole lot of shit about NYC welcoming them for the cheap PR when small border towns in TX were overwhelmed.

You can only hold so many press conferences running you mouth until red state governors call your bluff.

And for context, NYC is "overwhelmed" because of the amount of migrants that have come here in the past six months, which is equivalent to approx. 5 days along the border.

Was this a pit stop en route to Cancun or something?

The stats they present are accurate.

Instead of whining about the source that published independent stats, feel free to dispute the data.

And I mean the data regarding violent crime specifically.

He later clarified on Steve Bannon's show (because of course....) that he would resign if every single person who voted for him renounced their support; not 142,000 people in general.

LOL dude is just trolling now, but he has way bigger issues on the horizon than resignation.

It didn't reach peak numbers (30,000+) this year, but it was def. busy.

Probably not the type of viral marketing Romantic Depot appreciates.

NYSC went full Leeroy Jenkins during the pandemic.

Kept charging people, including former clients, even after the NYAG told them to knock it off.

Fuck them.

What NYC democrats have called out Adams for his consistent bullshit?

Dude gives off major Julia Salazar vibes, including the dubious claims of being Jewish.

Not sure if (maybe) lying about being gay is worse than (definitely) lying about being an immigrant, though.

>Isn’t it common sense that, as a lawyer, you don’t patronize businesses that you’re firm is litigating against though?

But if you work for a larger firm and aren't even practicing in the state the litigation is taking place in (as was the case with the Radio City mom), it probably isn't something which crosses your mind as you may not even know all the clients and cases your firm is involved in.

That said, MSG claims they sent out letters to the firms informing them of the blanket ban, so I do think at that point, even if they disagree with the policy, the onus is on the firms themselves to notify their employees that they are all banned from MSG properties.

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>It seems like the lawyers should know better and are stealing the spotlight from the actual story about facial recognition being way more prevalent than most folks realize.

To be fair, the only reason this is a story is because attorneys are banned from MSG properties.

If the Rangers fan who sucker-punched that guy @ MSG complained about facial recognition tech. flagging/banning him from entry, nobody (outside of NYPost) would care.

Facial tech. use is rapidly expanding in both the private and public sector.

For instance, here in NYC there are over 15,000 cameras that feed into facial recognition tech. and Mayor Adams is bullish on expanding it.

If this was a narrow ban limited to the actual lawyers involved in active litigation against Dolan's companies, I'd still think it is dumb but at least I'd understand the logic of not wanting someone suing you around your businesses.

But a blanket ban of entire firms is so petty. Where does it end?

You often hear a lot of concern from the west about so-called "social credit scores" in China, but what is happening here, at an increasingly rapid pace, is private institutions implementing social credit scores to block people out of participating in society.

When it comes to the end result, IMO it is just as bad as the government doing it.

Excellent news, and it looks like the gov. will sign it.

Right to repair absolutely helps when it comes extending the life of electronics, which is of course tied to sustainability and broader climate change policies.

The fact this isn't the default nationwide is embarrassing.

> we've ceded A LOT of ground to the car industry/car culture and have reshaped out cities to accommodate cars

The suburban industrial complex is a unique and dangerous menace!

He need a few more ribbon cuttings and at least one more Christmas party to make up his mind.

>Yuma is currently seeing 1000+ crossings per day. New York is losing it over a couple of buses.

Yeah the situation here is bad, but a recurring trend on this sub is that people really have no idea how insane the situation is along the border.

NYC has a population of 8.48 million, and is feeling the squeeze from 30,000 migrants and counting since the spring.

For comparison, the border town of Del Rio, TX has a population of 35,000 and last fall had to deal with 15,000 Haitian migrants arriving over a single week.

El Paso, which just declared a State of Emergency despite the White House pressuring the mayor (D) for months not to do so, has 678,000 residents and from August-December, had over 84,000 migrants released into the city.

There are typically over 100,000 migrant encounters along the TX-MX border every single month, and that doesn't include migrants who enter the country illegally without being processed by border patrol.

NYC's numbers are child's play in comparison.

>Feds should transfer money allocated to southern bored to NY.

Federal funds allocated to the southern border specifically is for federal resources such as border security, migrant detention, and federal personnel staffing. If you think the migrant crisis is bad now, what do you think would happen without any border patrol?

Federal humanitarian aid is given to NGOs as grants; not deposited into the coffers of border states.

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> A) we should receive some as we are now supporting more people.

If you took the NGO humanitarian aid that United Way spends in TX and had them disperse some of it to NYC based on proportion of migrants who are sent here, we'd get like pennies on the dollar.

Border towns in TX deal with tens of thousands of migrants arrivals per week on top of all the ones who are residing in the state. Can't compare their situation with NYC.

Federal border patrol records upwards of a quarter-million migrant encounters per month. If feds took away their funding as you suggested, you'd have literally millions of people entering the country every month.

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> B) southern states might rethink their strategy

Southern states wouldn't re-think their strategy if feds transferred their border patrol funds to NY.

They'd just send even more busses.

>These people are likely not being moved voluntarily,

Everyone who is bussed signs a consent form that is available in multiple languages.

The consent form with the migrant's signature can be verified via barcode bracelet which also includes their ID info. Bizarrely, politicians here are really mad at TX providing migrants with a form of ID.

You can find multiple articles, such as this one, where migrants are thankful for free bus rides to friendlier jurisdictions like D.C. and NYC.

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>potentially being misled

Economic migrants were misled by coyotes who promised them citizenship in the US; not the TX governor who truthfully and accurately told them that the mayor of NYC would welcome them with open arms.

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>some of these may not be legal to send them

The migrants being bussed here have been released from federal custody. Why would it not be legal to offer them a free bus ride?

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>they're being sent far from the immigration courts handling their cases. How will they report to their hearings if they are thousands of miles away? etc

Migrants released into the U.S. are given instructions on checking in with immigration. They are not bound to a specific office and at this point they haven't even been assigned a court date or a judge yet.

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>Using people as pawns in stunts like this needs to be halted.

Agreed. The mayor of our city shouldn't have talked so much shit and exploited the migrant crisis to get some good PR which inspired the governor of TX to call his bluff.

Publicity stunts beget publicity stunts. Go figure.

Maybe you forgot how wretched the situation was during the first wave of COVID.

If nurses who had to deal with people gagging to death on ventilators and seeing bodies stacked into refrigerated trucks decided to dance like air traffic controllers to relieve stress and maintain their sanity, it is pretty uncouth to mock them over it.

How do you take comments from anonymous redditors, and attribute their anecdotal experiences as doctors-in-training to the entire profession of NYC nurses, which makes up thousands of people?

If I took the same thread of comments and concluded that NYC residents and fellows are notoriously unprofessional with terrible bedside manner and poor interpersonal skills, would that become a "widely known" fact?

>When you think of a hate crime, you think it’s physical before anything else.

Says who?

>Read the post with the article about the city trying to help billion-dollar corporations from shoplifting loss, and then also say that they can’t afford help the “little people”.

Going after serial shoplifting and improving shelters are not mutually exclusive.

89% of NYC businesses have less than 20 employees AKA "the little people", and they will also benefit from NYC's efforts to curb serial shoplifting.

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>Otherwise, it sounds like you’re saying that if innocent civilians get murdered, then “Oh well.”. I’m listening.

No, I'm saying boosting security/NYPD at shelters and screening out dangerous people makes them safer options for homeless New Yorkers seeking refuge.

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LOL @ u/G2046H blocking me after being incapable of having an answer to my suggestion of more security (including NYPD) @ NYC shelters.

Then again, this is someone who thinks coffee theft is somehow impeding shelters getting more resources, so u/G2046H was never capable of putting together a coherent perspective on this matter.

>about how he believes that using taxpayer money to prevent people from stealing coffee at Starbucks, is money well spent

What "taxpayer money" is used to prevent coffee order theft from Starbucks?

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>How about this city make Starbucks pay for that and then spend our money on helping their citizens, in a real way?

Starbucks does pay for it.

They eat the cost of any theft at their stores (and pass it onto customers by raising prices) and if you see NYPD working security @ a Starbucks (or any other business), that is privately paid for by the company.

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>Like, preventing people from getting stabbed to death? Does that sound like a good idea?

Involuntary inpatient holds for clearly unhinged people would segregate them from the broader homeless population and prevent stabbings, but there are people very much opposed to it.

More security, either private contractors or NYPD, at shelters would also help, but again, the same people are very much opposed to police presence in shelters.