A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?”
Harry Siegel
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Harry Siegel
@harrysiegel
Senior Editor @thecityny & Moynihan Public Scholar @CityCollegeNY. Podcasting @faqnyc, writing @NYDailyNews, @vitalcitynyc, @itsflaminghydra, et cetera
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Joined August 2008
- A real-life correction straight from a dystopian novel
- By saying explicitly that voters shouldn't rank Mamdani, the Times is implicitly telling them that they could rank Cuomo but that the board won't directly say what it means is pathetically mealy-mouthed.TLDR this embarrassingly incoherent New York Times non-endorsement editorial: It's a choice between Mamdani and Cuomo, and it's crucial voters make that choice but we think they both stink. nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opi…
- The New York Post ripping into "the increasingly fascist press office of the NYPD" and its "thin-skinned propagandists who spend their days lashing out at reporters" and things are entirely off the rails.
- Incredible that the race is coming down to a candidate the Democratic Party purged not even four years ago and a DSA candidate. However the primary ends up it’s clear that the party is in disrepair and not up to the moment.NEW: Two new internal polls show a tightening race between @andrewcuomo and @ZohranKMamdani, @JCColtin reports: politico.com/news/2025/06/0…
- Adams’ whole platform is policing, and this is what he’s made of the Police DepartmentBombshell report from @TinaMoorereport The NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed cop abruptly resigned late Friday after The Post uncovered explosive allegations that he demanded sexual favors from a subordinate in exchange for massive amounts of OT. nypost.com/2024/12/21/us-…
- NYC 2025: Masked ICE agents inside immigration courthouses arresting people showing up for legal proceedings, and the NYPD outside arresting protesters angry about that.
- A young man running through the tape, up against an old man paying and pressing people to push his message..@ZohranKMamdani held a 5:40 am press conference in Astoria Park before polls opened, reflecting on his campaign and all of the NYers who are already up and out at work.
- The NYPD's bosses, with the blessing of their ultimate boss, Mayor Adams, are pretending that writing critically about them amounts to slamming cops. Nope. My Sunday Daily News column
- Brad Lander’s sit down with the brand-new New York Editorial Board showed a candidate who didn’t know felony assaults are up 25% and who struggled to say anything beyond basic talking points about policing, protests or Daniel Penny (link to full transcript in next tweet)
- Pro-Palestinian protesters and sympathizers who’ve justified or just ignored people tearing down hostage posters should be taking a hard look in the mirror today.
- “Far from being broken, New York is fundamentally a miracle, offering daily testimony to our ability to overcome the worst impulses of human nature and live together in something that reasonably approximates harmony.”Lots of chatter in and around the NYC mayoral race about how broken NYC is. My two cents: vitalcitynyc.org/articles/is-ne…
- I sat down with @ZohranKMamdani to talk about the enthusiasm he's generated with a waterwheel campaign trying to convert momentum into position and posters into policies—and that's bringing some fresh air into the city's stale politics in the process.
