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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
Under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, NYC has become so much more affordable for people like his Hamas-loving wife Rama Duwaji who was lucky enough to score a centerline ticket worth $3K-4K on a salary of $8K. photo still from @Arightside 📹
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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
Ask a small property owner about their building, and you’ll often hear a family story first. Decades of sacrifice. Long hours. Risk. A belief that New York could be a place to build something for the next generation. Many of these buildings have housed families for decades. They’ve survived downturns, 9/11, COVID, rising costs, and constant change. But today, many small owners are facing a hard reality: they want to keep investing in their buildings and communities, but the numbers are getting harder to make work. SPONY exists to make sure they don’t face those challenges alone. Because behind every building is a family, a legacy, and an American Dream worth protecting. #NYC #NYCHousing #HousingPolicy #PropertyOwners #RealEstate
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Jewish New Yorkers are facing elevated levels of antisemitism, but the way to combat hate is for all of us – Jewish or not – to find opportunities to come together in the public square. NYC is at its best when we are all civically engaged and unafraid to have dialogue across demographic groups.
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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
Small landlords are NOT the enemy of tenants.. In most cases they maintain their properties & arnt dicks. Rather than squeezing the little guy, why not provide them with a tax exemption so they can maintain affordable housing? We dont need more luxury housing.. just a thought
Ask a small property owner about their building, and you’ll often hear a family story first. Decades of sacrifice. Long hours. Risk. A belief that New York could be a place to build something for the next generation. Many of these buildings have housed families for decades. They’ve survived downturns, 9/11, COVID, rising costs, and constant change. But today, many small owners are facing a hard reality: they want to keep investing in their buildings and communities, but the numbers are getting harder to make work. SPONY exists to make sure they don’t face those challenges alone. Because behind every building is a family, a legacy, and an American Dream worth protecting. #NYC #NYCHousing #HousingPolicy #PropertyOwners #RealEstate
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Some say renters have all the political power in NYC. But tenants are not the top of the food chain. Homeowners are — despite being outnumbered two to one. That's why they have the lowest property taxes. Yet tenants don't complain about that. therealdeal.com/new-york/202…
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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
Small property owners are the backbone of New York City housing. Across the five boroughs, countless apartment buildings are owned by families, immigrants, retirees, and longtime New Yorkers—not large corporate landlords. They know their tenants. They maintain their buildings. They pay rising taxes, insurance, and repair costs while keeping neighborhoods stable. When policy ignores the reality of small property ownership, NYC risks losing local ownership, generational legacy, and stronger communities. Protecting small property owners means protecting New York itself. #NYC #NYCHousing #NYCRealEstate #HousingPolicy #PropertyRights
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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
🚨 HYPOCRISY ALERT Ben Stiller urged New Yorkers to “do something” about homelessness Today he walked straight past a homeless man on the street like he didn’t exist. “Are you enjoying a home right now?” Stiller asks. “Thousands of others can’t.” Another Hollywood Fraud
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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
Mamdani is setting small owners up for failure, clearing the way for a sinister plan to seize private property 🤷🏾‍♂️ nypost.com/2026/06/09/opinio…
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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
“Even as their finances deteriorated and the values of their buildings declined, owners of larger rent-regulated buildings saw their property taxes increase. Meanwhile, the disparity between the assessments on high-end condos and co-ops grew, giving the owners of some of the most expensive homes in the city a huge property tax break” thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/…
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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
NYC’s failing small landlords deserve a Rent Guidelines Board split decision trib.al/fpYoMzC
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RT @TheJewishAlly: Israel didn’t have troops in Gaza on October 8. Israel has the right to defend herself. Darializa Avila Chevalier — th…
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NYC courts are of no help to landlords fighting dead-beats and squatters. I'd just hire goons. It'd be cheaper.
A Brooklyn landlord says he's trapped in a legal battle with a '9-year-squatter' over unpaid rent — and it's already drained his daughter's college fund. Thomas Diana estimates he's owed up to $325,000 while New York courts keep adjourning the case. The saga now stretches into its 10th year after another delay this April.
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This is the map to our future doom.
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RT @TheJewishAlly: NYC! Tomorrow! See you there! Graphic by @ usjewess Instagram The Israel Day Parade (officially known as “Israel Day…
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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
My body my choice unless to appease Islamists @AOC

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A housing market can't function if a property owner and tenant are in housing court for over 8 years! "But for the last eight years, one of his tenants has refused to pay rent, and refuses to move out of the building, leaving Diana more than $200,000 out-of-pocket while still having to pay $1,500 a month in outgoing expenses for the two-bedroom apartment, plus thousands in legal costs trying to have the squatter evicted." nypost.com/2026/05/27/opinio…
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Good morning everyone! Today is such an emotional and special day for me — it’s my daughter Azirra’s Sweet 16! 💙✨ Happy Birthday to my amazing daughter, my first born and my only child. From the moment I found out I was having a girl, I knew God had answered one of my greatest prayers. Watching you grow into such a beautiful, smart, kind, and strong young woman has been one of the biggest blessings of my life. The bond between a mother and daughter is unconditional, unbreakable, and forever. No matter what life brings, always remember that Mommy loves you endlessly and will always stand beside you. I am beyond proud of the young woman you are becoming. Today is bittersweet because I know if my dad was still here, he would be so proud of you too. I know he’s smiling down on his granddaughter today. ❤️ Everyone please help me wish my only baby, Azirra, a very Happy Sweet 16 Birthday! Drop your birthday wishes in the comments and show her some love! 🎉🎂💕
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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
A1621A is Assembly Housing Chair Linda Rosenthal’s bill. She is the prime Assembly sponsor. She chairs the Assembly Housing Committee that decides it. It was amended and recommitted in this session, March 26, 2026, with 21 Assembly co-sponsors. Today she is on the Million Dollar Staircase headlining a press conference to pass it. Last week she told reporters my criticism was “rambling about legislation introduced in 2009.” Pick one: trivial enough to mock, or urgent enough that the Housing Chair carries it, gatekeeps it, and headlines today’s Capitol presser to pass it? What A1621A actually does: it bars any rent-stabilized owner from collecting unpaid rent if a single CO battery is dead in any building, in any unit they touch anywhere in the state. Or a tenant pulls the battery out of their own fire detector because it goes off when they cook. Or a tenant brought home bedbugs from a thrift-store couch. Or an elderly hoarder triggers a roach citation. Or the inspector wrote up a slow drip in a kitchen faucet, or a loose hinge on a fire exit door, or a leaking radiator valve is called in the morning of the first court appearance. Any one of these, in any building anywhere in the portfolio, kills the case. Many of these are conditions tenants themselves cause, and under A1621A, a tenant can disable their own smoke detector and then defeat their own nonpayment proceeding in perpetuity with that disabled detector. That hits every operator of pre-1974 stabilized stock, and “operator” here does not split cleanly between for-profit and nonprofit. Phipps Houses, RiseBoro, Settlement Housing, and the small LLC owner down the street pay the same insurance premiums, the same mandates, the same water and sewer rates, the same heating fuel costs. They operate under the same RGB rent orders. They live under the same HSTPA repair caps. They collect the same regulated rent. The cost stack does not care who holds the deed. Neither does this bill. Tenants who pay rent deserve good housing. Tenants who need help deserve real help. Neither is achieved by a portfolio-wide rent collection ban triggered by a single inoperable smoke detector — least of all by aiming that ban at the “good” operators preserving the affordable stock New York is supposed to be trying to save. Calling 21 Assembly sponsors and her own Capitol press conference “2009 legislation” is not a rebuttal. It is an admission of obfuscation.
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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
For anyone who thinks it only costs $20K to prepare a unit for rental after a decades-long tenancy, I have an idea: Create a program to do the work for that amount, and guarantee city approval for occupancy. My pitch to solve the vacant-unit problem: therealdeal.com/new-york/202…
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Rob —our residents before migrants retweeted
Fire the corrupt Letitia James Vote Saritha Komatireddy For NY AG #NYC #NewYoker #Manhattan
Attorney General Letitia James is facing intensifying backlash after missing the April 15 deadline to release her tax returns, a move critics say undercuts her long-standing emphasis on financial transparency. By attributing the delay to “accounting staff transitions,” she has opened the door to accusations of double standards, given her record of holding others to strict disclosure expectations. While filing for an extension is legally routine, the political optics are far less forgiving, especially for a high-profile official in New York heading into an election cycle. Opponents are already framing the delay as strategic, suggesting it could be intended to shield details about outside income or property holdings until after key campaign moments. For voters, the concerns are mounting: A transparency advocate has failed to meet her own benchmark No clear timeline has been provided for full disclosure The “clerical error” explanation is being met with skepticism The episode is damaging to institutional credibility, warning that when top officials fall short of the standards they enforce, it deepens public distrust at a time when confidence in government is already under strain.
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