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NYS Inflation Refund Checks to be Deposited or Mailed in October & November 2025
September 26, 2025 / NYS. The Hochul Administration began sending NYS Inflation Refund checks to the 8.2 million residents of NYS. The refunds will be $150 / $200 or $400 per person depending on income and tax paying related persons status. The ostensible purpose of the checks is to help New Yorkers combat the negative impact of inflation on New Yorkers' household budgets. For details see - https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-inflation-refund-checks-are-now-being-sent-82-million-new-york
NYC Mayoral Election - Voter Registration / Voting by Mail / Early Voting / Ballot Questions / Poll Site Locations
October 1, 2025 / NYC Citywide. Click on the 'Don't Wait / Vote by Mail' ads on this site to go to the Board of Elections website, where you can find all of the information identified in the headline and to obtain instructions for all of the above. It's just a click away.
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Collapse at the Mitchel House in the Bronx is Part of an Ongoing Saga of Neglect of an Incredibly Valuable Public Asset - NYCHA - Yes NYCHA - Read on.
October 1, 2025 / NYCHA Mitchel House in Mott Haven in the Bronx / News Analysis & Opinion. The value of NYCHA is realized by the billionaires and real estate developers who fund the pols in office, and then turn around and cut deals with the pols to transfer publicly owned NYCHA land to them for pocket change on the dollar, in exchange for what only can be described as something close to an indiscernible public value.
Billionaire TV News fails to recognize NYCHA's intrinsic land value, and in fact constantly aids and abets the wealthy real estate investors by disparaging NYCHA. Thus the NYC public is kept in the dark, ignorant of the real value and potential of all of the incredibly large swaths of prime real estate to which NYCHA holds title. And which could be used to address NYC's affordable housing crisis by building and selling apartments to New Yorkers at prices pegged to the median income in the city, transferrable via a lottery, at sale prices also pegged to median income.
In the photo above or at right, you see the top of the Mitchel House NYCHA complex in Mott Haven in the Bronx. Most of the damage essentially destroyed the chimney which one stood between the far left line of windows and the far left side of the building. As you can see, it was a pretty clean sweep.
But TV News, the well funded pols and the wealthy real estate investors who fund both, seem to look out only for themselves. While making tenants of New Yorkers, byhanding out billions in tax breaks, cheap land and cheap financing to the uber wealthy, thus continuing to transfer wealth to them by taking it from ignorant working class New Yorkers who are kept in the dark.
The photo above or at right was taken a few days ago at the Mitchel House NYCHA complex in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx. The explosion destroyed a chimney, but that appears to have been a clean break, and the sum total of the damage to the complex, which is fairly negligible given the size of the structure. Nobody was hurt.
In the second photo above or at right, you're looking at the base of the chimney of the Mitchel House NYCA building, which again shows a fairly clean break from the rest of the building, leaving me to guess [completely guess] that little structural damage has been done to the rest of the building. Workmen were working on cleaning up the debris when I took these photos on Sunday 10.5.25.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/01/nycha-explosion-bronx-mitchel-houses/
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√ _ INCLUDED IN VOTING PIECE - Ballot Questions - Leave it to Eric Adams to continue doing the billionaire dirty work of selling out the working and middle classes.
X _ TOO LATE / NOT POSTED _ LIRR Strike Averted in Defiance of Union Members.
******** POSTED WEEK ENDING 10.2.25 *********
*** What Follows was posted Week Ending 10.3.25
Actors Equity Voted to Authorize Broadway Strike Following Contract Expiration 9/28/25. But First Talks Next Week.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Actors Equity voted to approve a strike on Broadway which could affect 32 theaters during peak season. Over 1,000 actors signed a letter in support of the strike which is about healthcare contributions, safe staffing levels and paid leave.
https://deadline.com/2025/10/broadway-strike-actors-equity-1236567875/
Three Casino Proposals Gain Approval by Fairly 'New' Community Boards
Tuesday, September 30, 2025. Proposals for casinos at Resorts World in Queens, Ballys in the Bronx, and the most recent approval at in Flushing Meadows Corona Park were all approved by community boards that have undergone significant turnover in the past five to ten years. Many of the reconstituted community boards now appear to serve the billionaires and real estate developers instead of their communities. A fourth casino proposal is for MGM Empire City in Yonkers, which was also approved.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/citi-field-casino-queens-casino-steve-cohen/
Trump / Hegseth Preparing the Department of War to Invade U.S. Cities
Tuesday, September 30, 2025. Hegseth tells U.S. generals if they are uncomfortable with what he and Trump are planning to do, which is to use U.S. cities as a deployment target, they should resign. We were hard pressed to find much information about this important and very disturbing story on billionaire TV News. Billionaire TV News is too busy investigating the UN escalator conspiracy. Kind of reminds me of about a year ago, when Trump sent the networks off to Ohio to look for the dog and cat eating illegal Haitian immigrants. TV News has become ridiculous.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq044n72po
VP J.D. Vance & House Majority Leader Mike Johnson Mislead Public About Government Shutdown on TV News
Media Fails. Fox News Fails to Correct VP Vance, While ABC Corrects House Speaker Mike Johnson. NBC did a Fair job of Properly & Contextually Explaining one of the Leading Issues at Stake in the Government Shutdown
Friday, September 26, 2025. VP Vance Tells a Big Lie Regarding Government Shutdown on Fox News, which was also posted on X and continues to go Uncorrected. Billionaire Rupert Murdoch's TV news continues to disrespect their audiences by providing them with factually incorrect information, as they have previously done in reporting on the 2020 election results, and the insurrection of Jan 6th, 2021.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-misleads-claim-democrats-shut-give-health-care-illegal-immigrants-rcna234905
Mets Eliminated from the MLB Playoffs - but the Biggest Part of this Story went Unreported by Billionaire TV News
Mets Owner, Billionaire Steve Cohen, was the Founder of a Securities Firm that was Involved in One of the Largest Insider Criminal Cases Against a Hedge Fund in U.S. History. Now Cohen is Vying for a Casino. Should Someone with Cohen's History be Allowed to Operate a Casino in NYC? And is Cohen Competing Fairly for a Casino License?
Sunday, September 28, 2025. Mets owner Steve Cohen has been preoccupied vying for a casino license in the CitiField parking lot. This is why Cohen didn't have much time this summer to find a 'black edge' equivalent to win a pennant for the Mets. Now the question is whether Cohen has found some 'black edge' equivalent to use to win a casino license, because someone convinced the board member appointee of former NYC mayoral candidate Jessica Ramos, to change their vote from valiantly advocating against the proposed casino, to voting for it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/mets-eliminated-from-playoffs-as-humiliating-collapse-is-complete/ar-AA1NtKFL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Martoma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cohen_(businessman)
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/citi-field-casino-queens-casino-steve-cohen/
U.S. & NYC Economic News Updates
Saturday, September 27, 2025. Over the past couple of weeks the economic news releases have been a bit troubling. GDP was revised significantly upward to 3.8% vs 3.3% provided previously, and 3% provided previous to that. But the growth in output didn't carry along with it any attendant uptick in employment, which is disturbing, assuming the data hasn't been tampered with.
On the other side of the scale there's inflation, which is showing signs of life again, after falling back nicely since June of 2023. This could be the costs associated with tariffs finally beginning to show themselves as macro economic data has a lag factor which generally runs 6 - 18 months, which the TV newspeople don't seem to understand.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2025/consumer-prices-up-2-9-percent-from-august-2024-to-august-2025.htm
Democrats Releases a Few Big Names Found in the Epstein Estate Files
Friday, September 25, 2025. The Democrats released three prominent names that were found in the Epstein Estate files including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon. No surprises here.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musk-peter-thiel-and-steve-bannon-named-in-epstein-files-released-by-democrats/ar-AA1Nnm0Z?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's Speech Sets Record for a UN Delegate Walk Out
Friday, September 25, 2025. Over 100 delegates from 50 nations walked out when Netanyahu stepped to the podium, which reportedly set a record for a UN delegate walk out.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=video+of+Netanyahu+walk+out+at+un&PC=APMC&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dvideo%2bof%2bNetanyahu%2bwalk%2bout%2bat%2bun%26form%3dAPMCS1%26PC%3dAPMC&mmscn=vwrc&mid=E425FA43C859AF8D4978E425FA43C859AF8D4978&FORM=WRVORC&ntb=1&msockid=eee2706d9eab11f0913bbcfbe547bd6d
Brazilian President Lula Makes Noteworthy Speech at the UN, in Support of the Ideals Historically Championed by Previous American Presidents
Wednesday, September 24, 2025. Brazilian President Lula complimented our American ancestors for the positive role they and our nation has played in world affairs generally. But President Lula also took note of how things have changed. Lula hinted at what is now generally believed around the globe, which is that America can no longer be relied upon to fulfill the outsized role we used to play on the world stage. He noted that other nations around the world need to step up to fill the void, and now would be a good time to do so. See his 20 minute speech at the UN using the Bing.com link below.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=brazill+president+compliments+Us+for+role+it%27s+played+in+the+world+until+now+at+un&mid=C40D4A7A23CACE21C0D2C40D4A7A23CACE21C0D2&FORM=VIRE&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0
Yankees Clinch Playoff Berth in the MLB Playoffs
Wednesday, September 24, 2025. Yankees step up and are now contenders in the World Series.
https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-clinch-2025-playoff-berth?msockid=2d203cb5997f631635a42acd98c162af
