Twitter was a 24 hour diner. You could get coffee there at any time. You could get breakfast there. You could get lunch there. (You probably ate there too often.) Now suddenly the diner is gone and in its place is one of those shops that sell bongs, energy drinks, and cbd kratom.
Eric Lach
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- annoyingly Michael stops short of offering building by building, apartment by apartment, and voter by voter analyses and predictionsNEW: I predicted the results of the New York City mayoral election BLOCK by BLOCK. 🚨Spoiler Alert🚨 Zohran Mamdani is going to win 2,000,000+ Votes, 120,000+ Blocks, 350 Neighborhoods, 5 Boroughs, 3 Candidates ONLY 1 PREDICTION: michaellange.nyc/p/predicting-e…
- I spent the past few months reporting a profile of @ZohranKMamdani trying to answer two questions: 1) Who is this guy? 2) How does he fit into NYC history? Here's what I found (it's long, sorry):
- TV cameras weren't allowed in the courtroom with Trump on Tuesday, but courtroom sketch artists were. Jane Rosenberg, who has been recording court scenes in New York for forty three years, made this week's @NewYorker cover newyorker.com/culture/cover-…
- NEW: "I think the mayor of New York is on the take," a businessman told federal prosecutors last year, after a run in with Bishop Lamor Whitehead. The backstory of Eric Adams's mentorship of a fraudster Brooklyn pastor, plus much, much more:
- instead of picking lunch today I’m assembling a panel of prominent New Yorkers to tell me what they like for lunch
- sources familiar with the matter say he appears to acknowledge he may be close to coming around to accepting the reality that though he has yet to make up his mind it is time to seriously weigh his options
- the entirety of NYC's political class flying to Puerto Rico for parties immediately after the mayoral election -- a tradition, like The Masters, unlike any other
- Replying to @ericlacheven a casual Top Chef viewer can tell you the classic mistakes are making risotto and marching your mercenary army toward Moscow
- I'm here at the hipster coffee shop and all the billionaires are saying tearful farewells to their friends while enjoying one last iced oat matcha latte
- Eric Adams is going to find campaign donations behind the picture frames, in his knapsack, secreted in a baby doll, inside a pillow with a button...Hearing that real estate and business leaders in New York City are convening a 2 pm call to discuss The Zohran Situation
- What this candidate, this race, and this moment mean for New York City:
- always the most thrilling part of an nyc ballot, being asked to vote for people you’ve never heard of to be invested with public powers you don’t understandWho should you vote for judge? The NYC Bar Association rated 16 candidates *not approved.* They always refuse to explain WHY… but it’s not a bad rule of thumb in the absence of much info about these folks. (Every Bronx + Staten Island candidate was approved, so no screenshots.)
- The thing I’ll remember from the scene outside the Roosevelt Hotel this week isn’t just the asylum seekers sleeping on the sidewalks, it’s the happy hour revelers drinking Aperol spritzes at outdoor tables just feet away








