Harry Siegel

A very useful @QueensEagle rundown of where these pro-Lasalle ads that I'm suddenly seeing everywhere online are coming from (with the answer including Delaware, and possibly Bradley Tusk)

The center isn’t holding for New York Democrats

The newly elected members of a party at war with itself finally managed to pick a weak new House speaker late Friday night and, with that, to resume all the government business that had been on hold until newly elected lawmakers including fake Jew…

“Anyone can file a suit in USA, that doesn’t mean anything.” twitter.com/katie_honan/st…

Some resolutions for this year’s new revolution

Another half a billion miles and half a million minutes or so later, here we all are again but who’s been counting? I’ve got a few resolutions for this column to share, for how I’ll try to make the most of my 40,000 words in these pages in 2023.…

I’m mostly going dark here for a while - contact info in my profile if you need to find me.

Riker's Island Disgraces City Drugs Freely Smuggled Riots Almost Continuous Politics Rules Operation (From 1921, though not much has changed other than the apostrophe) https://t.co/W7AGmxPX15

Good. New from @TimTeeman—> twitter.com/thedailybeast/…

"There are many dead along the way." New reporting from @haideechu and @JonnyCustodio @THECITYNY about the obstacles for migrant families that make it here as New York City races to expand its overloaded shelter system. thecity.nyc/2022/12/28/235…

Yes indeed https://t.co/2lR0UKHuoK P https://t.co/qposYZTiQa

I have zero sympathy for Santos but it's wild watching Democrats who'd been up in arms about Trump trying to steal the presidential election argue that Santos shouldn't be seated in Congress. twitter.com/ScottHech/stat… (And that Chang shouldn't be…

Between this riff and his undisclosed Xmas trip out of the city, you can really feel where Adams is taking Mike Bloomberg’s advice. twitter.com/sallygold/stat…

~"Could he release a fake album by a non-existent musician, and feature tracks impossible for a single pianist to play? Would the critics get fooled? As a clue, the cover art actually showed 'Buck Hammer' had extra hands." Great stuff from…

Inbox: "Were the editors off for Xmas? Are periods on back-order due to supply-chain issues?" nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope… https://t.co/VlIbxGRrdJ

40,000 empty seats?! I'm late to this excellent @madinatoure article @politicony breaking down why "in a wildly expensive city where monthly child care costs top $3,500, a staggering 30 percent of free pre-K and '3K' seats were unfilled as of…

"He said his father would introduce him to friends with a jokingly lyrical flourish borrowed from the Bible: 'This is my son, in whom I am well pleased.' Mr. Gigante said, 'I was no secret.'" nytimes.com/2022/12/26/nyr…

Santos & Salazar both lied about Jewish roots but, as @WillBredderman notes, the Republican immigrant whose parents came here without much made up a story about family wealth while the Democrat whose family was well-off in Florida made up a story…

(Justin Miller photo, at @vicbekiempis’ brand new photo shop in the Village) twitter.com/faqnyc/status/… https://t.co/m9dnICwDrB

40 years later, please remember how good Curtis Mayfield's 1982 album cut Dirty Laundry is (and that the same can't be said of Don Henley's song from the same year with the same title.) youtube.com/watch?v=K6nrJE…

For Christmas. I wrote about George Santos, Julia Salazar and yada yada—as in pols retconning Jewish family histories for the clout in New York’s bizarre new twist on stolen valor. nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…

Excellent stuff from @henrygrabar @Slate in an implicit counter-argument to my column channeling HG Wells and more than a century of predictions about the (supposedly) inevitable dissolution of the great cities but… slate.com/business/2022/……