Non-residents who spend millions of dollars on NYC apartments help drive NYC’s economy. Most of the profit in condominium development is in the penthouses. The Ken Griffins of the world make NYC high end development viable, driving high-paying construction, brokerage, legal, marketing, and other jobs in NYC. We should be applauding Ken for spending $238 million in NYC, not attacking him for doing so.
Importantly, non-resident owners of NYC apartments who leave their apartments vacant for much of the year are not a burden to NYC schools, services, or other resources while they drive growth in retail sales, restaurants, theater, and other important drivers of our economy. They also often support NYC non-profits with donations.
Ken’s company is a major employer in NYC of very high paying jobs which drive a considerable amount of our tax base. We wouldn’t want him to move even more employees to Miami.
These non-resident owners also already pay a lot of taxes including mansion taxes, real estate taxes, sales taxes and more.
While @NYCMayor Mamdani likes the tag line ‘Tax the rich.’ Unfortunately, his policies will harm the constituencies he is supposedly trying to help.
I can’t imagine the NYC construction unions are excited about his plan.
No fue el final de película que todos esperabamos y quizás ocurrió más tarde de lo que se debía, pero absolutamente gracias por todo a los cuatro. Gratitud eterna. ⚪❤️⚪
The biggest clowns in all of Europe arrive in Egypt.
Two of the weakest, most fleckless men who are overseeing the controlled demolition of their own countries and the suffering of their populations.
May they both end up jobless and with nothing.
❤️ Hoy se cierra un capítulo que pesaba toneladas en nuestra espalda , sin su acompañamiento y apoyo hubiera sido imposible LITERALMENTE soportarlo , SIMPLEMENTE GRACIAS
As we hold our breath awaiting the hostages’ return, the facts of the past two years are clear to any decent person, and this is what history will remember:
1. On October 7th, 2023 thousands of Hamas terrorists attacked peaceful Israeli communities and burned, raped and murdered 1,200 Israelis, kidnapping another 250.
This included elderly Holocaust survivors, and months old babies.
2. As a result Israel waged a war with two goals: to remove the Hamas threat and to bring home the hostages.
3. Hamas had previously turned most of Gaza into a massive terror complex, with tunnels, rocket launchers and ammunition in tens of thousands of homes, schools and hospitals.
4. Israel faced this unprecedented challenge by massively evacuating civilians, sending millions of text messages before attacks and essentially bent over backwards to minimize civilian casualties.
5. Given Hamas’ methods, tens of thousands of Gazans died.
Many were Hamas fighters and many, unfortunately, were civilians.
Civilians dying is an inevitable and horrible part of urban warfare.
6. At no point was there a policy of starvation.
There was food insecurity because that’s what happens in wars.
The pictures of supposed starving children, we now know, were of kids with unrelated pre-existing conditions.
7. There was no genocide, nor was there anything remotely close to that.
This is one of the most successful BIG LIES in modern history.
8. The overwhelming majority of Israelis want to raise families and build a good future for our children.
We hate war.
For us it’s personal because we’re a citizen army.
I had to fight wars. I lost close friends.
My son serves in the same commando unit as I did.
We have skin in the game, so nobody in Israel wants to kill or be killed.
But we know that if for one moment we’ll lay down our arms, we’ll be massacred as on Oct 7th, and that’s not something we’re planning.
9. Israel had the deepest gratitude towards @realDonaldTrump and his team.
You saw this in Tel Aviv last night.
Israel also has considerable domestic debates. That’s part of the beauty here, though I’d happily have a bit less of that beauty.
10. We now need to turn a page, and open a new, beautiful chapter for Israel and for the region.
Change is coming soon.
Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
Parties who DID NOT contribute in any way to a ceasefire in Gaza:
🇺🇳 United Nations
🇦🇺 Australia
🇨🇦 Canada
🇫🇷 France
🇪🇸 Spain
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Parties who DID contribute to a ceasefire in Gaza:
🇺🇸 USA
Thank you President Trump, the peacemaker!
Jared Kushner: On October 7, Ivanka and I witnessed horrors that broke my heart and changed me forever. I felt compelled to do everything I could to bring the hostages home—and I’m grateful I had that chance. I’ve never been prouder to be a friend of Israel. Thank you, Jared! 💙
Este es un recordatorio para todos
aquellos que intentan destruirnos:
No importa cuánto lo intenten,
no lo lograrán.
Estamos en casa.
Nuestro hogar de 3.000 años.
Aquí estuvimos,
aquí estamos
y aquí estaremos.
Para siempre.
Am Israel Jai - El pueblo de Israel vive.
I would have expected the streets of European capitals and campuses around the world to burst with joy for the end of what they claimed is “Genocide”.
Might it be that their goal was never to secure Palestinian lives, but to destroy Israel?
Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post 10:09 AM EST 10/03/25
Hamas has been a ruthless and violent threat, for many years, in the Middle East! They have killed (and made lives unbearably miserable), culminating with the October 7th MASSACRE, in Israel, babies, woman, children, old people, and many young men and women, boys and girls, getting ready to celebrate their future lives together. As retribution for the October 7th attack on civilization, more than 25,000 Hamas “soldiers” have already been killed. Most of the rest are surrounded and MILITARILY TRAPPED, just waiting for me to give the word, “GO,” for their lives to be quickly extinguished. As for the rest, we know where and who you are, and you will be hunted down, and killed. I am asking that all innocent Palestinians immediately leave this area of potentially great future death for safer parts of Gaza. Everyone will be well cared for by those that are waiting to help. Fortunately for Hamas, however, they will be given one last chance! Great, powerful, and very rich Nations of the Middle East, and the surrounding areas beyond, together with the United States of America, have agreed, with Israel signing on, to PEACE, after 3000 years, in the Middle East. THIS DEAL ALSO SPARES THE LIVES OF ALL REMAINING HAMAS FIGHTERS! The details of the document are known to the WORLD, and it is a great one for ALL! We will have PEACE in the Middle East one way or the other. The violence and bloodshed will stop. RELEASES THE HOSTAGES, ALL OF THEM, INCLUDING THE BODIES OF THOSE THAT ARE DEAD, NOW! An Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time. Every Country has signed on! If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas. THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP