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Ben Max
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Executive Editor/Program Director, @NYLawSchool's Center for New York City & State Law. Host, Max Politics podcast. Opinions only mine. (benmax25@gmail)
May 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
New: comment from @NYCMayor Adams on the subway killing of Jordan Neely: Image Adams:“Any loss of life is tragic. There’s a lot we don’t know about what happened here, so I’m going to refrain from commenting further. However, we do know that there were serious mental health issues in play here, which is why our administration has made record investments..."
May 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
noteworthy again the degree to which Hochul consistently conflates setting bail & pre-trial detention she wants more pre-trial detention & should just say/sell that; & there are ways in which the bail changes she just won allow it.
May 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
On @fox5ny, @NYCMayor Adams says "I have never in my professional career, have never witnessed crime at this level," which is a very strange thing to say for someone who came up in the NYPD in the '80s and '90s. It's also a very strange thing to say for a mayor of a city who is pitching workers on going back into offices, tourists to visit, businesses to open/expand, etc, & committed to traveling the country to make those pitches.
Jan 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My conversation with former NYC Housing Commissioner & Deputy Mayor for Housing/Economic Development @VickiBeen on:
-de Blasio admin affordable housing policy
-neighborhood rezonings
-MIH
-'supply-side skeptics'
-advice for Mayor Adams
-& more

Listen: gothamgazette.com/city/11026-max… Also, for housing folks (& everyone, really), I asked Senator Krueger re Gov. Hochul's proposal to remove FAR limit on NYC, which was something Vicki Been cited (above) in discussing debates over upzonings & ++ density to places like Krueger's district: gothamgazette.com/state/11037-ma…
Jan 19, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Inbox: Mayor Adams "will make a transportation-related announcement" on Wednesday morning two blocks from where I live. Given the location, Caton/Coney Island intersection, it would make sense if this was a street safety redesign announcement, but we shall see...
Jan 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
.@GovKathyHochul delivering first Executive Budget today, to become the subject of negotiations with the Legislature. Top lines, per her office, of FY23 proposal:
-All Funds: $216.3B
-State Operating Funds: $118.8B
-General Fund: $95.5B
-Capital Budget: $18.6B Hochul attaching more $ figures to her State of the State policy agenda, released earlier this month: gothamgazette.com/state/11016-ne…
Jan 18, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
wow — Not sure if I’m more surprised de Blasio is not running for governor or that he admitted he probably shouldn’t have kept going to his Park Slope Y as mayor
Jan 5, 2022 • 14 tweets • 10 min read
relevant reading for this morning: Who is Adrienne Adams, Presumptive Next New York City Council Speaker? gothamgazette.com/city/10969-who… As expected, I'm hearing top City Council leadership & committee chair assignments from Speaker Adams will go to CMs Ayala, Powers, Brannan (finance chair), & Brewer - 4 speaker race opponents who backed her - while Salamanca will keep land use chair via BX support for Adams.
Jun 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Initial RCV run of in-person votes in the NYC Comptroller race shows a narrow Brad Lander lead over Corey Johnson:

Lander: 301,846 (51.7%)
Johnson: 281,867 (48.3%)

This RCV run does not include 120,000+ absentee ballots. When I interviewed Lander after primary day, I asked him about his confidence/concerns re absentee ballots & RCV given that his strongholds may be likely to have a lot of absentees but he was the furthest left candidate in the comptroller race - Listen: gothamgazette.com/city/10605-max…
Jun 29, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
NEW via @BOENYC:

RCV run of in-person votes in the mayoral primary ends with Eric Adams narrowly ahead of Kathryn Garcia:

Adams: 368,898 (51.1%)
Garcia: 352,990 (48.9%)

This RCV run does not include 120,000+ absentee votes. Very much worth noting how close the prior round is between Maya Wiley & Kathryn Garcia:

Eric Adams: 324,571 (40.9%)
Kathryn Garcia: 236,146 (29.8%)
Maya Wiley: 232,340 (29.3%)
Jun 29, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The New York City Board of Elections is designed to be dysfunctional, lacking in transparency & accountability.

From 2019 — New York's Election Administration Accountability Vacuum - Part I: 'Bad Choices at Every Step' gothamgazette.com/city/8785-new-… Part II: Partisanship, Patronage & Potential Fixes gothamgazette.com/city/8786-new-…
Jun 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Speaking of absentees & RCV, @KGforNYC is expressing a lot of confidence in a 'come from behind' stunner. Listen here: gothamgazette.com/city/10606-max… We also got into a lot more about Garcia's first run for office, the mayoral campaign that unfolded, regrets, lessons, her alliance with Andrew Yang, & more: gothamgazette.com/city/10606-max…
Jun 28, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Really pretty miffed we're doing this RCV run on Tuesday without 120,000+ votes factored into the initial first-place mayoral primary tally that, in reality, is needed in full before the RCV runoff No, it's not the end of the world, as long as political actors & members of the media handle it well, but it just seems like unnecessary risk to muddy the waters and confuse voters.
Jun 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Inbox: @MayaWiley is in 4 boroughs today for 6 events & offering 6 media availabilities. Meanwhile, among other things @ericadamsfornyc is doing today:
Jun 18, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
got multiple messages from staunch Garcia supporters who say this might be helpful electoral strategy for her but undercuts her message will be very interesting to hear what Garcia has to say Saturday on the trail.
Jun 18, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
As @ericadamsfornyc gets endorsed by former Rep. Eliot Engel, @JamaalBowmanNY is speaking at a @mayawiley rally After @KirstenJohnFoy laced into Adams, Yang & Garcia over stances on policing; @JamaalBowmanNY warns against Adams & Yang, says Adams is backed by wealthy real estate developers & charter school backers who want him to do their bidding, but Wiley will uplift those left behind.
Jun 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In apparent reference to @mayawiley at a rally related to fighting gun violence, @ericadamsfornyc says there are people running for mayor who don't have a "right now plan" on gun violence & just want to offer theoreticals - "we don't need a college professor, we need a professional who knows how to keep this city safe," Adams says, again in apparent reference to Wiley.
Jun 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
'A Very Tough April and May': What's Gone Wrong for Andrew Yang's Mayoral Campaign? | via @GothamGazette gothamgazette.com/city/10569-tro… .@AndrewYang campaign releases last internal poll of primary, they say, done of "voters who have already voted during early voting" & shows Yang with slight lead over Adams. They say polls have been off b/c not showing expanded electorate & they have strongest GOTV operation.
Jun 17, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
.@ericadamsfornyc getting endorsed now in Harlem by former Assemblymember Keith Wright (also New York County Democratic Party chair, tho county party not endorsing, he says) and former Gov. David Paterson. "doesn't take long," @ericadamsfornyc says of transforming the city. he says b/c he's a "visionary" within a year of his mayoralty people will see a different city.
Jun 16, 2021 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
.@ericadamsfornyc says he wants to bifurcate rent regulation whereby tenants living in larger buildings get a rent freeze from the Rent Guidelines Board but tenants living in smaller buildings have a small increase in rents? .@mayawiley gets Q that basically hits this gap on her policing plan - she still doesn't really have an answer
Jan 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I see several arsonists would now like a word with the fire. Some are already trying to draw distinction between their support for Trump's attempt to overturn the election & the violence he incited. They are inextricably linked.