Like I want y’all to recognize THIS is why your favorite local businesses close. Their business can be just as good as it’s been for years but it just takes a landlord to say I’m doubling your rent for no reason and that’s that. Everything is wrong with capitalism
i don't want kohen wiley's name to fade away with time. he was more than another headline about police violence against black people. against black children. i want his case to continue residing in the hearts of everybody who ever heard or read about it.
justice for kohen wiley.
A jury in New York just convicted a man of stealing two Harlem brownstones with forged deeds, about $4.7 million worth of real estate. One of his victims, an elderly homeowner, spent years in a homeless shelter while he rented the building out as market-rate apartments. He's facing up to 25 years.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is asking all Bushwick & Ridgewood transplants to wear aluminum deodorant during this heatwave to protect the health and safety of local residents and wildlife
The New York Knicks have officially won their first NBA Championship in 53 years, defeating the San Antonio Spurs.
It is the Knicks’ first NBA title since 1973.
If you are not a native New Yorker & you move here YOU NEED TO RESPECT THE CULTURE THAT MADE YOUR PUNK ASS WANT TO MOVE HERE.
This is the city that never sleeps & you are calling the cops for loud noise and block parties? Take your raggedy ass back to Iowa.
Mind you, when it was convenient yall was saying lame ass shit like “I am not my elders and ancestors.” Like they were ever weak. Just for them to show up and do more than us in their seasoned years while we tweet.
This is really how NYPD are treating elected officials protecting their constituents from deed theft. Not the people attempting to steal the properties away from Black and Brown homeowners.
The woman whose home Chi is defending is Carmela Charrington, who has been in Rikers for 6 days now for for fighting the theft of her family's home. "Our community is pretty much gone," she told me last month. Said people need to be asking: "How did it happen? Who did it?"
Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.
Reminder that the civil rights movement was not just random people who had enough one day. They were carefully and militantly trained political activists who deployed strategic forces to end Jim Crow segregation. Never forget them.