ThisEastSide

News and Commentary for New York's East Side

[ThisEastSide @ThisEastSide]

@BetterR0ads @JohnMChell @NYCCouncil @SpeakerMenin @NYPDnews @NYC_DOT Because cars aren’t driving on sidewalks, going the wrong way and whizzing through red lights. My 92-year-old dad was hit and hospitalized by a bike going the wrong way. She just rode off.

[John M Chell @JohnMChell]

Stop worrying about who is driving these death machines.

Register them. Insure them. Hold riders accountable.

Protect New Yorkers.

@NYCCouncil @SpeakerMenin @NYPDnews @NYC_DOT

[ThisEastSide @ThisEastSide]

Black and Latino Leaders Ask: What Do Socialist Wins Mean for New York? https://t.co/dGTT6q5pNI via @NYTimes

[ThisEastSide @ThisEastSide]

We mapped every UES cooling tower in the area affected by NYC’s latest Legionnaires’ outbreak - Gothamist https://t.co/Vth4sRiPmK

[NYC E-Vehicle Safety Alliance @nyc_evsa]

Woman Struck by E-bike, Hospitalized by Violent Central Park Crash:Officials, Eyewitness - Upper East Site. This is different from YESTERDAYS E-Vehicle violence in Central Park @juliemenin @shaunabreu @galebrewer https://t.co/wq1KgFxfYf

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

The ancient Greeks were often right: character is destiny. Hubris is one’s undoing.

The warning signs in Graham Platner were there in plain sight. Many chose not to see them. Others extended him a presumption of grace they would never have given to their ideological enemies.

This is a moment not for schadenfreude, however tempting, but for self-reflection.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

I have no endorsement to rescind.

Graham Platner should drop out.

[NYC Common Sense @nyccommonsense]

This isn't abstract. It's happening on our streets right now.

@frankmorano at City Hall on the e-bike chaos he's watched unfold across Staten Island and Manhattan — the reason he (in his personal capacity) and victims are suing @NYCMayor. 🎥👇

[ThisEastSide @ThisEastSide]

Never mind that he had zero qualifications. The older, educated voters on the Upper East and Upper West Sides tend to notice these things. https://t.co/W2wYVdVXb3

[ThisEastSide @ThisEastSide]

Mamdani's victory strut is premature

https://t.co/yai8YqNEPK

[ThisEastSide @ThisEastSide]

Only on Park Avenue. An overheated Aston Martin drew the attention of three fire trucks. Sidewalk on the west side of the street, between 56th and 57th was cordoned off.

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

Platner's many controversies have probably obscured the fact that most of what he says is vacuous sloganeering and gibberish. I listened to a number of his interviews and speeches; and he's never wandered in the vicinity of an original insight
https://t.co/pFKtGzWZGu

[Prof. Jeffrey Lax @CUNY_Prof]

Heinrich Himmler, chief architect of the Nazi concentration camp system, proudly brandished the Totenkopf that @grahamformaine placed on his (now concealed) chest.

Never in my wildest nightmares did I think that someone with that symbol could ever be so close to power again.

[ThisEastSide @ThisEastSide]

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[MAZE @mazemoore]

This is hysterical.

Listen to Bernie Sanders' answer in 2019 when asked on Vermont Public Radio why voters should choose him (a white man, 77 years old at the time) as opposed to choosing a diverse candidate such as a person of color.

DEI for thee but not for me. 🤣

[Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg]

"What’s most incredible is not that Platner would attempt to spin something that is obviously disqualifying. It’s that the leaders of his party are accepting that spin." -- @mikenelson586:
https://t.co/bmqXgCvFAm

[ThisEastSide @ThisEastSide]

So glad we live on the Upper East Side https://t.co/2Cq1YTr6Es

[ThisEastSide @ThisEastSide]

Worth checking out

[Robert Whitcomb @BobWhitcomb1]

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[ThisEastSide @ThisEastSide]

She could win

[Alina Bonsell @AlinaBonsell]

Thousands of New Yorkers from every borough and every political background came together to stand up for the future of this city. 🇺🇸

Proud to stand there representing Manhattan’s East Side. While my opponent endorsed Zohran Mamdani for Mayor and was nowhere to be seen, I’m running this November 3 on both the Republican line and the independent Block Mamdani line because I care about our city and believe every person in our community should feel safe and never targeted.

#AlinaForNYSenate #WeWinTogether #YourNeighborYourVoice #BonsellCares #Manhattan @EndJewHatred @NYCMayor #Manhattan #NewYork

[ThisEastSide @ThisEastSide]

Sonny Rollins knew not to die young

https://t.co/el9KioUcJZ