Holly Pretsky
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City editor @CityAndStateNY. Don't forget me @vineyardgazette, @NPR, @WLRN and @KRCC
Brooklyn, NY
Joined December 2015
Our view of dogs is shifting not just culturally but legally from something like "object" to something closer to "person." How do elected officials approach dealing with this new constituency?.
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Elected officials are dealing with hundreds of thousands of barking, pooping, drama-prone constituents.
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Is this a subtweet of the infamous Maloney “grassroots” incident of 2022.
Quick stop at Bagel Shop (yes, that’s the name of the store) on the Upper East Side this morning. The order, as always: poppy seed bagel with scallion cream cheese.
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RT @SKastenbaum: ICYMI, Mayor Adams hasn't done an off-topic Tuesday press avail at City Hall since mid June. He's gone back to taking a fe….
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The weekly “in-person media availability” has been replaced with more frequent, but shorter Q&As on Eric Adams’ terms.
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Of 1200 tenants covered by rent regs, DHCR has only rendered 13 judgments on overcharges, @AJeffNY reports.
Rent control in upstate New York isn't off to a flying start. Many in Kingston have yet to see any money from a historic rent refund, and landlords aren't planning on paying up. More from me: .
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RT @AJeffNY: Rent control in upstate New York isn't off to a flying start. Many in Kingston have yet to see any money from a historic rent….
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The city’s Rent Guidelines Board ordered that stabilized rents be lowered, but few tenants have been able to receive compensation after being overcharged.
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RT @CityAndStateNY: More than a month after his primary loss to Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo has no general election backers. https://t.co/….
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More than a month after his primary loss to Zohran Mamdani, the former governor has no general election backers.
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RT @Annie_McDonough: Two great stories from my colleagues @devynnovikoff and @SKastenbaum dropped today:. Andrew Cuomo’s primary endorsers….
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More than a month after his primary loss to Zohran Mamdani, the former governor has no general election backers.
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RT @emmagf: Zohran Mamdani, pressed by @BrianLehrer on his plan to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations, says the details are subjec….
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RT @devynnovikoff: @BobHoldenNYC @NYCSpeakerAdams Live street theater to protest Lady’s death with a protestor in a horse mask and fake blo….
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RT @devynnovikoff: @BobHoldenNYC @NYCSpeakerAdams @CurtisSliwa Christina Hansen, NYC carriage horse driver who spoke with press before the….
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RT @devynnovikoff: Activists protesting outside of 618 W 52nd street, the stables where Lady, the 15 year old carriage horse who collapsed….
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RT @Annie_McDonough: Mayor Eric Adams failed yet again to be awarded public matching funds today. But his campaign did get a $750k boost th….
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Empower NYC has now raised more than $1 million to support the mayor’s reelection bid, including from the crypto industry.
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RT @nycrecords: Today in 1981 - Mayor Edward I. Koch at a press conference on the Heimlich maneuver with Dr. Henry Heimlich #ThisDayInHisto….
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RT @katie_honan: .@nycmayor has been denied matching funds again, as @ZohranKMamdani gets more than $1.6M, @CurtisSliwa gets more than $1.9….
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When I asked if Eric Adams deserves credit for decreasing crime, Mamdani said it’s part of a national trend that should be celebrated and “we still have more work to do”.
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Mamdani thanks law enforcement, says he learned from slain Officer Didarul Islam “the sacrifice and the service that so many officers extend to the city each day”
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Zohran Mamdani arrives at Grand Army Plaza for National Night Out honoring law enforcement
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