Bloomberg Government reporter in Albany. Tips: rjustin@bloombergindustry.com 🤘🏽
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Raga Justin retweeted
Jun 11
Welcome to the New York rental market, where the median asking rent hit $3,616 in the first quarter this year. To manage on a starting salary, some young professionals are turning to convents. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4ezUDUG
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Raga Justin retweeted
Jun 11
Darializa Avila Chevalier up over Rep. Espaillat 39-35, per Data for Progress poll
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Raga Justin retweeted
Jun 10
NEW w/@danarubinstein: Mayor Mamdani paid roughly $1,000 for a standing-room-only ticket to Game 3 of the N.B.A. finals.
The mayor was able buy from a pool of house seats, reserved by MSG for VIPs and the well-connected and not available to regular fans nytimes.com/2026/06/10/nyreg…
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Raga Justin retweeted
New: @NYCMayor will be attending Knicks Game 3 with outgoing State Senator @SenGianaris - State Senator @NYSenatorRivera - State Senator @JuliaCarmel__ and City Councilman Ty Hankerson
.@NYCMayor says he bought a ticket for tonight’s Knicks Game 3 for “close to a $1,000” - says it is for standing room only and says he bought it directly from the Garden
Says there is no plan to meet with @POTUS right now - but says that could change
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Raga Justin retweeted
Jun 5
After years of trying, both houses of the legislature have approved a bill creating Kyra's Law.
The measure is sponsored by @JamesSkoufis and @AndrewHevesi and spearheaded by @KyrasChampions.
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Jun 5
NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie choking up on the floor as he talks about impending retirement of Majority Leader Crystal People-Stokes. He calls her “a big sister” and “my protector”
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Jun 5
To Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, also departing this year: “Thank you my brother, I love you”
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NEW: @Polymarket is spending big money to quietly pay some of the biggest stars on this platform, like @nickshirleyy, @Riley_Gaines_, @dom_lucre, @alx and its coming out of an exec's personal PayPal account.
POLITICO obtained payment records that show @MatthewModabber sent out over $2.5 million to over 800 people in 14 months, and we verified the identities of about two dozen content creators who received money. Most never disclosed the payments. W/ @mayakauf, @Jtblaeser and @declanharty
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Raga Justin retweeted
Another behind-the-scenes tidbit: @KathyHochul asked @ZohranKMamdani to back @RepEspaillat in recent weeks. He told her he couldn’t, and a few days later called to let her know he’d be supporting @DarializaforNY instead. Within a day, Hochul announced her backing of Espaillat.
NEW: As @RepEspaillat faces challenge from @DarializaforNY, he’s focusing on Harlem, where he’s long been in a turf war. @hakeemjeffries has gotten involved, trying to mend fences b/w Espaillat and Harlem leader Keith Wright. W/ @mayaaking
nytimes.com/2026/06/05/nyreg… via @NYTimes
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Raga Justin retweeted
That's it folks! The state Senate is DONE for the year. Assembly set to wrap later today.
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Raga Justin retweeted
Jun 3
Prediction market Kalshi has reported former Rep. George Santos to prosecutors over a bet he made on himself, a person familiar with the investigation says. apnews.com/article/george-sa…
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Jun 2
RT @YanceyRoy: NEW: This announcement has sparked a big pushback from major building unions, now working to kill the bill and the moratoriu…
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Raga Justin retweeted
Jun 2
Conveniently NYS is excluding its own 15-megawatt AI facility from its ban.
Jun 2
Speaker Carl Heastie says lawmakers intend to pass a data center moratorium bill introduced overnight.
Would place a 1-year pause on permits for data centers, outlines other guardrails like energy efficiency goals
nysenate.gov/legislation/bil…
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Raga Justin retweeted
In time for @TheTonyAwards. New York’s Broadway tax credit has been going to shows backed by billionaires, while other shows “Devil Wears Prada” continue to head to London where production costs and ticket prices are lower. By @muoiod
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-…
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New York says the subsidy remains necessary because Broadway costs have climbed since the pandemic, sending more producers to London, which offers an even steeper tax credit.
Read more in @CityLab: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Speaker Carl Heastie says lawmakers intend to pass a data center moratorium bill introduced overnight.
Would place a 1-year pause on permits for data centers, outlines other guardrails like energy efficiency goals
nysenate.gov/legislation/bil…
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Jun 1
Sources say NY lawmakers are now weighing a 1-year moratorium on data centers, viewed as more doable than the 3-year pause previously discussed
(No other state has approved a moratorium)
Industry concern is that other large-scale energy facilities are also targeted
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Raga Justin retweeted
Jun 1
Deputy Sen. Majority Leader @SenGianaris says we may no longer be looking at multiple redistricting amendments— tells us to stay tuned as to what is in—and what if anything is out—under that arrangement expected to hit the floor later this week
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Raga Justin retweeted
Jun 1
The final week of the legislative session kicking off with @RepMikeLawler joining Assembly and Senate Republicans to oppose an impending set of constitutional ammendments intending to change NY’s redistricting process following Texas etc. Their message: NY Dems did it first
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Raga Justin retweeted
May 29
Lawmakers in a handful of states—including California, New York and Illinois—are scrambling to cancel out payments from a $1.8 billion fund the Trump administration has earmarked for people alleging government mistreatment by imposing a 100% tax. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-…
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