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Chaim Simon

@chaimsimon.bsky.social
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urban planner/transportation planner Seattle | Albany | NYC

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The appeals court has sided with New Kings Democrats in Brooklyn Democratic party struggle, ordering the Aug. 25 rule changes voted on by prior district leaders, calling them "null and void."
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 28/08/2026
Unreal Brian Lehrer segment, you’ve got to listen to believe it. Brian keeps saying that callers are blowing up the lines to complain about e-bikes, and then he gets progressively more annoyed with callers when they keep saying cars are the real danger in NYC nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/08/27/t...
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Thursday's Headlines: Lehrer's Essential Blindness Edition - Streetsblog New York City
The longtime WNYC host is unable to see the real danger out there. Plus other news.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 20/08/2026
Every time I travel outside of NYC, somebody inevitably asks me "so, how is NYC under Mamdani?" or similar. The guy is nothing more than what appears to be a competent mayor doing competent mayor things, but they just assume he's releasing prisoners from Rikers or doing batman villain shit.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 14/08/2026
KALSHI LOSERS GTFO
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Kalshi ordered to stop most operations in WA
Kalshi is a gambling operation and likely violating multiple provisions of state law, a King County Superior Court judge ruled.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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Gary Hershorn @garyhershorn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A thunderstorm passes over lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York, seen from the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building, Friday evening #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #thunderstorm
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Progressive LA Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman told Vanity Fair that her main difference with DSA is on housing. www.vanityfair.com/story/nithya...
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In a roundabout way, one can make the argument that the corrupt and impenetrable chicanery of the NY Democratic party has helped the DSA. Participating in Democratic party politics is impenetrable and transparently futile, and people are looking for an outlet for their organizing energy.
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
AB 130 cleared CEQA's biggest weapon against housing—an 814-home LA project went from application to unanimous approval in 9 months, once "unheard of" at that scale. www.bisnow.com/los-angeles/...
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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Sam Schwartz: “We’ll take anybody. Even cops.”
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 17/07/2026
Why is the Flatbush Avenue busway construction not finished yet? This is taking far too long for a project that should’ve been done in a week or two. Construction delivery is a big barrier to getting people to accept these projects.
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
We need to: Update zoning, invest more City $ in affordable units, lower the time & cost City bureaucracy imposes on construction, get 1000s of vacant regulated units back on the market. We need bold action. This is a crisis.
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 09/07/2026
A cycling advocate and transportation planner for the city of Boston was identified as the cyclist who was struck and killed in a crash near Roxbury Crossing this morning.
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Cycling advocate and city worker killed after being struck by car near Roxbury Crossing, family says - The Boston Globe
The 36-year-old woman "was a dedicated public servant to the City of Boston and passionately advocated for safer streets,” her sister said.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
UPDATE: THE POWER LINE JUST CAME BACK ONLINE still NOT great for the grid! story republished:
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Canadian Power Line Meant to Shore Up NYC During Heat Waves Went Down For a Day
Crews north of the border resolved the issue Thursday afternoon, the company that runs it said.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 02/07/2026
The city will allow smaller buildings to share curbside trash containers rather than rely on wheelie bins clogging up the sidewalk, marking a small but promising policy change that brings the Big Apple’s waste reforms closer to best practices common in Europe and Latin America.
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Sanitation Will Let Smaller Buildings Share Curbside Containers - Streetsblog New York City
The Big Apple is getting closer to the European way of trash containerization.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/07/2026
regular reminder that Balogun, our kickass striker who just scored, would not be a US citizen if not for the birthright citizenship the right is so busy screaming about his mom was visiting the US while pregnant and had to stay in NYC to give birth
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The city needs to take more roadspace on the bridges. Even if we could rein in fast e-bikes and scooters today, narrow, two-way bike lanes + the steep slopes of bridges means you have a big mismatch of speed between people going in opposite directions.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This graph from Australia shows how quickly the tide is turning.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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LOS ANGELES CITY PRIMARY NOMINATING ELECTION Mayor
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KAREN RUTH BASS
34.68%
250,871



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NITHYA RAMAN
27.12%
196,198
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SPENCER PRATT
26.69%
193,085
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ADAM MILLER
3.67%
26,531
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RAE CHEN HUANG
2.88%
20,822
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
TODAY: New York City’s entire electric grid just got about 20% more renewable power. That’s because it’s the first day the CHPE transmission project is sending commercial power to New York City's electric grid. 👏👏👏 Lower prices! Less pollution! HUGE!
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 29/05/2026
E24-24, my proposal to raise the IBC’s single-stair apartment building height limit from three stories to four, has passed the final membership vote, and will now officially make it into the 2027 IBC 🎉
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 26/05/2026
Mayor Mamdani has announced the Affordable & Efficient Code Reform task force, to convene later this year. The housing plan says that among other things, elevator and plumbing reform will be considered. www.nyc.gov/content/dam/... (pgs. 98-99)
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 26/05/2026
Looks like Eric Adams really delivered on housing production with City of Yes newyorkyimby.com/2026/05/new-...
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New York YIMBY’s 2026 First-Quarter Construction Report Tallies a Dramatic Increase in Development - New York YIMBY
YIMBY has revealed its report on construction permit filing activity for the first quarter of 2026 across the five boroughs.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 18/05/2026
To be clear – he didn’t really make $245k, he made mid-$100k’s. The $245k was just working a ton of unsafe overtime his last few years before retirement to juice his pension, which riders and taxpayers will be on the hook for for decades. Here’s 2023, 2024, 2022, and 2021, respectively:
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is HUGE: The CHPE hydropower transmission project from Quebec to NYC entered service today.😀 It’ll be ~20% of the NYC grid, renewable.🤩 TWENTY PERCENT! ✅ lower energy bills ✅ good jobs ✅ less pollution Power to grid under contract starts June 1. 👍 H/t @jandersonenergy.bsky.social
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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 10/05/2026
San Francisco Chronicle endorses fire code reformer!😊
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Endorsement: There’s only one candidate capable of filling Pelosi’s shoes in Congress. That’s Scott Wiener
OPINION: Do you want California's most relentless legislator zeroing in on universal healthcare, housing, immigrant and LGBTQ protections? Or do you want vibes?
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Jon Orcutt @jonorcutt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A Politico item this evening calls Fair Fares "half-a-loaf" compared to free buses. But expanded, accessible Fair Fares is far better than Mamdani's proposal, because it makes *subways* affordable for those who need it, and doesn't push lower income NYers to slow, less reliable transit
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Menin’s Fair Fares push tests Mamdani
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Gary Hershorn @garyhershorn.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The skyline of New York City, seen from the southern end of Jersey City, NJ, Saturday evening #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #statueofliberty #empirestatebuilding
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james beard @beardjam.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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John Karalis @johnkaralis.com · 29/04/2026
17-8 Sixers in the fourth .... That play when Grimes tipped into the backcourt was very telling. No one went back to help Brown, just let him do it all himself. Where was everyone? C's looking very out of sorts right now
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/04/2026
TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?
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Rachel May @srachelmay.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy Earth Day! Yesterday we passed 2 great solar bills: ASAP to reduce red tape for rooftop solar and expand our goal from 6gw to 20gw by 2035, and SUNNY for plug and play balcony solar. Here’s to more energy from the sun here in NY!
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Rachel May @srachelmay.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I've been pushing the right to repair farm equipment in the NY legislature for years now. Under the settlement Deere must provide “the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair” of tractors, combines, and other machinery for 10 years." www.thedrive.com/news/john-de...
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John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement
The ag manufacturing giant will also make digital diagnostic, maintenance, and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years.
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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 31/03/2026
The current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing: "NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."
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Colin Kinniburgh @colinreports.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Kind of incredible how far ahead of the rest of the country California and Texas are on battery storage. CA hit 12 GW of storage on the grid at one point this weekend (42% of load); Texas 8 GW (16%). New York and all of the other ISOs/RTOs are functionally at zero.
Chart from gridstatus.io showing CAISO fuel mix on March 29. At around 7 pm, battery storage (purple) makes up by far the largest share of the state's power — more than 12 GW or 43%, almost double the share of the next largest at that time, natural gas.Chart from gridstatus.io showing ERCOT fuel mix on March 28. In the morning and evening hours, battery storage (purple) makes up a significant share of the state's power, peaking at 8 GW around 8 pm.
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KeithSmithNBA @keithsmithnba.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Really good rear-contest by Scheierman on SGA. Not sure if he got a piece of the shot, but he definitely impacted it.
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Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I mean, it is pretty funny that the Sixers and Lakers were 1-2 ahead of them both times.
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Sean Jursnick @seanjurs.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Despite a massive shortage of units, "Affordable" housing is now more expensive than market-rate housing in several major U.S. cities. I'm not an expert but it feels like U.S. housing industry is broken. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 09/02/2026
make gambling seedy again. no more draft kings promotions, no more commercials about making prop bets on your phone. there needs to be friction. bet with your friends. fly to vegas. go to the horse track. lots of fun ways to do it. but get this treatler parlay bullshit out of my face.
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Lauren @bigbruinsenergy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
the refs really said we can’t let tb lose this bad here
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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
an image with the head of a sphynx who is crying as elongated hands reach for it. the text surrounding the sphynx says "for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"

the outlines are black and the sphynx is a golden color with accents
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
NEWS from inside the Senate Dem meeting tonight: 1-Schumer has the votes to block the DHS funding bill 2-They're going to ask for real investigations into the murders (including an end to impeding the state/local investigations), an end to masks and arrest quotas. (cont'd)
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Andrew Callahan @andrewcallahan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Welcome to the AFC Championship Game in Denver. Alex Pretti and Renee Good should be alive today. 5-year-old Liam Ramos should not be in a detention center today. And our government should never, on any day, use children as bait.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026
Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."
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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
One time recently a guy told me that me having guy best friends was a red flag, so I told him still viewing the world through the lens of a sixteen year old was a bigger red flag
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Patrick Spauster @patrickspauster.com · 19/01/2026
Just Home is back. At a presser this afternoon, Mamdani announced that the affordable housing project was going forward after the Adams administration had tried to stop it this fall. 83 homes for ppl leaving jail had hung in the balance in the mayors race.
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Michael Divita @michaelpdivita.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
South Bend's pre-approved housing catalog has expanded! Bungalow and townhouse plans are now available.
BungalowRow of townhouses
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