Data scientist, MCB3 member, and writer of the NYCuriosity Substack. Any opinions expressed here are solely my own and do not represent MCB3.
New York, NY
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1/ Every law the NYC Council passes is public. Reading them means digging through Legistar's PDFs and Word files. So I built trackers that read every local law since 2014 for you, and they now include a third: the powers the Council gives city agencies. nycuriosity.com/p/i-built-to…
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Tal Roded argues that Mayor Mamdani should tie pay raises for municipal unions to work-rule reforms, because unaffordable increases without givebacks would add billions to budget gaps that already exist. cc @TalR24 vitalcitynyc.org/union-contr…
1/ Mayor Mamdani has positioned himself as a champion of workers, but with DC 37's contract expiring on November 6, he now bargains with the City's own workforce as management. In my new Vital City piece, I walk through what the talks mean for the budget: vitalcitynyc.org/union-contr…
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5/ Efficiency alone will not close gaps this size, since educators and uniformed workers make up 63% of the City's workforce, and closing the fiscal 2028 gap through headcount alone would take about 35,000 positions.
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6/ So I recommend tying raises to reforms in work rules and civil service hiring, and growing the tax base by clearing the permitting and housing bottlenecks the City controls. Read more and find the data behind these charts on NYCuriosity: nycuriosity.com/p/mamdanis-f…
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Trump’s approval numbers in the toilet and the GOP just got wiped out by midterms. Trump himself has no loyalty to the Republican Party and even indicated on election night he’d work with Dems…
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Democrats meanwhile need to get some legislative wins to deliver on the affordability agenda they campaigned on, and a wave of moderates was just swept into Congress.
Is it hopium to think we could get some bipartisan wins on affordability in the next two years??
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1/ New Yorkers vote tomorrow, and five of the choices on the ballot decide how fast the City can get anything done. I'm voting yes on all five charter questions, from outdoor dining permits to a savings target for the rainy day fund.
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2/ What each question does, and what still needs Albany and the City Council after it passes, in my September guide: nycuriosity.com/p/coge-is-ju…
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3/ For the rest of your ballot, Abundance New York's voter guide covers the governor's race and key State Senate and Assembly races: voterguide.abundanceny.org/ Polls are open 6am to 9pm, and you can find your site at findmypollsite.vote.nyc
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1/ Every year NYC's 59 community boards send City Hall a list of neighborhood needs, and the answers land in separate PDFs that board members have to match back by hand. Henry Grunzweig and I wrote in Searchlight about fixing it in one evening: searchlight.citizensunion.or…
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4/ A board could never justify a software contract for this when a competitive city procurement took a median of 387 days in FY2025. We propose a faster path to test new tools, more capacity at OTI to help every agency, and civil service titles that can hire engineers.
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5/ If you're a builder with a civic problem, a public servant curious about these tools, or a funder, we'd love to hear from you: statecapacityecosystem.com/ Any opinions expressed here are solely my own and do not represent the views of Manhattan Community Board 3.
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