Frank Morano

TV/Radio commentator, New York City Councilman, raconteur. Staten Island's Favorite Son. Longtime Talk Show Host. E-mail me at [email protected]

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

🚨MORE on Mamdani’s roundtable today with a minyan of rabbis at City Hall — from inside the room:

During the private, hour-long meeting, Jewish clergy across denominations urged the NYC mayor to change his tone on Israel.
https://t.co/rTljz7hAQX

[Gothamist @Gothamist]

Staten Island flag could become official under NYC Council bill

https://t.co/FDUL11LU7H

[SIAdvance @siadvance]

Staten Island councilmember chides 50+ officials who get NYC taxpayer-paid chauffeured cars: ‘Ride the bus’ https://t.co/xIqtEM3mYD

[NYCLASS @nyclass]

🚨 BREAKING: ONE HOUR after NYC suspended carriage rides due to dangerous heat, horses are STILL pulling carriages full of passengers through the city.

NYC is under a Heat Advisory with high humidity AND an Air Quality Health Advisory.

These horses never should have been brought out in these brutal conditions. Now they face the long trek through Midtown traffic to stables near the West Side Highway, risking heat stress, collapse or another tragedy that could endanger horses and people.

PASS Romanch’s Law, Intro 943.

Take action: https://t.co/FCn0bRD79Y

@SpeakerMenin @Lynn4NYC @galeabrewer @LindaBRosenthal @CarlMichaelW @NYSErikBottcher @NYCMayor @nycHealthy @C_Sommerfeldt @JCColtin

[Frank Morano @frankmorano]

Should we be testing AI like a weapon? @bjgol thinks so. This column is worth a read.
https://t.co/ZHtlYFtzBL

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Mike Rowe just made Bill Maher's audience gasp. He says young men aren't volunteering, joining clubs, or doing anything productive because they're spending 2,100 hours a year staring at a screen.

It's actually even worse than he said: the average Gen Z adult spends ~9 hours a day — over 3,200 hours a year — on a screen.

This is the biggest reason for two decades of social decay: screens replaced face-to-face human contact.

[Phil Wong @PhilWongNYC]

John Mangin led the development of City of Yes and has referred to communities resisting greater density as “homeowner cartels.”

I fundamentally disagree with that philosophy.

[Frank Morano @frankmorano]

If you think public hearings, local input and checks and balances slow government down, you're probably not the right person to lead the agency that's supposed to protect them.

[Chris Sommerfeldt @C_Sommerfeldt]

New: Mamdani’s pick for a key housing post faces a rocky road to City Council confirmation.

Council members, including some progressives, are uneasy about how the process has played out and concerned about the pick's views on development & homeownership. https://t.co/7pzAUMrCrx

[Melissa DeRosa @melissadderosa]

Nothing more entertaining than watching hack Democratic consultants who bear-hugged Eric Adams after he won - even going so far as to call him presidential timber - now leap into the arms of socialist, antisemitism-stoking, all-flash-and-no-substance Zohran Mamdani.

No core. No principles. But wildly transparent.

[Frank Morano @frankmorano]

@JustinBrannan @bern_hogan The letters raise a separate and even more important question: why were primary homeowners being asked to prove something the City may already have had the ability to verify?

[Frank Morano @frankmorano]

@JustinBrannan @bern_hogan When you launch a new pied-à-terre tax, publish a supplemental roll alongside it, and then have thousands of homeowners trying to figure out whether they’re affected, government has to own some responsibility for the resulting mess.

[Frank Morano @frankmorano]

Warrior!

[Scott LoBaido @ScottLoBaido]

Open for business! 🙏🇺🇸😘

[Frank Morano @frankmorano]

This is a disturbing trend, that I've been hearing about from more employers. Parents who do this aren't doing their children any favors. https://t.co/OD8rK8xNP5

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

This is really so strange and pitiful. Read the full Ethics Committee report. He was found to have been too nice to two young female staffers. And too emotionally bonded to them or something. No sexual activity, no sexual propositions, nothing. So bizarre.

[NYPD Vintage Fleet @NYPDVintageFlt]

NYC Councilman Frank Morano Stopped by National Night Out with his family at Midland Beach in Staten Island to say hello to the NYPD Vintage Fleet. @NYPDstatenIslnd @NYPD122Pct @NYPD123Pct @frankmorano @NYPDdcer

[Frank Morano @frankmorano]

@KathleenHanley Thank you!

[Frank Morano @frankmorano]

Crime is down overall, but antisemitic hate crimes are up. That's a trend every NYer should be concerned about. We can't allow hatred against Jews to become normalized. There's no place for antisemitism in our city, at least there shouldn't be.

https://t.co/1pmiBSARNq

[Real America's Voice (RAV) @RealAmVoice]

SCOTT LOBAIDO ON THE GROUND AFTER CONFRONTING MAMDANI

@ScottLoBaido was confronting Mamdani at an event when his live report was abruptly interrupted. Video showed LoBaido on the ground surrounded by police, and @stinchfield1776 said, "We have not heard from him yet.”

[Jeff Coltin @JCColtin]

Mayor Mamdani got booed on Staten Island at the NYPD National Night Out event at Midland Beach, per this Facebook video. He smiled through it and kept remarks *very* short.