Primary Tomorrow! + Rent Guidelines Board Approves Another Rent Hike
No. 380 | Monday, June 24, 2024
The NYC Thorn is a weekly roundup of local political news compiled by members of NYC-DSA.
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Election News
Gothamist outlined the competitive State Assembly primaries in New York City, including three races with NYC-DSA-endorsed challengers. According to private polls leaked to Jewish Insider, all three races will be close.
Representative Jamaal Bowman (NY-16, Westchester) and his American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)-funded challenger George Latimer discussed Israel's war on Gaza in their last debate as the Congressional primary shifts to its final days.
Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14, Astoria) headlined a rally to support Bowman, pointing out that the race has now seen more dark money than any Congressional primary in history. Groups condemning Democrats for working with Joe Biden protested the rally.
The New York Times covered progressives’ challenges to the establishment in the June 25 primary, including DSA-endorsed Eon Tyrell Huntley’s challenge to incumbent Assembly Member Stefani (District 56, Bedford-Stuyvesant) Zinerman and DSA-endorsed Assembly Member Sarahana Shrestha’s (District 103, Ulster County) fight to keep her seat from former Assembly staffer Gabriella Madden.
Local News
The Rent Guidelines Board approved another rent increase to rent-stabilized apartments in its fourth consecutive year of approvals for increases after a contentious hearing in which tenants protested any increase at all.
Officials around the City protested to restore the major cuts to library funding, as the City was forced to open alternate cooling centers to make up for the closed libraries.
Despite the Mayor's insistence that he personally paid for his 2023 trips to Mexico, Ecuador, and Colombia, his latest financial disclosures reveal the trips were covered by a nonprofit.
Nobody in Albany knows how they're going to fund the MTA.
The city of Poughkeepsie unanimously adopted rent stabilization. All buildings with 6 or more units and built before 1974 are now eligible for protection.
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