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Peter Sterne
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News & Opinion Editor @CityAndStateNY. Previously @nysfocus @freedomofpress @politico. He/him. Tips & pitches: [email protected] Signal: petersterne.91
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    Peter Sterne
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    May 15
    Want to know what's really happening in NY politics? Subscribe to HEARD AROUND TOWN, the new City & State newsletter I'm editing. For just $17/month, you'll get access to exclusive reporting and analysis, delivered every Tuesday and Friday. Sign up here:
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    Peter Sterne
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    Sep 12, 2022
    Incredible juxtaposition
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    Peter Sterne
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    Oct 19, 2021
    So @AOC just sent out this email with the subject line "My tips for burnout." I assumed it was one of those thinly-veiled fundraising emails with a faux-informal subject line that tricks you into opening it, but nope. It really was just an email about dealing with burnout.
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    Peter Sterne
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    Aug 10, 2025
    Roughly half of all rental units in NYC are rent-stabilized, like the one that Zohran Mamdani lives in. Is Cuomo really proposing that middle class and upper middle class New Yorkers should be barred from 50% of all apartments?
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    Andrew Cuomo
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    Aug 10, 2025
    Today, I am proud to announce that I will be proposing “Zohran’s law," a law that will keep the rich out of New York’s affordable housing. @ZohranKMamdani : you say freeze the rent. But for who? Rich people like you? Hardworking, working class New Yorkers are being pushed from
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    Peter Sterne
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    Nov 12, 2025
    Mayor-elect Mamdani stakes out a position against the Protestant Reformation
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    Timmy Facciola
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    Nov 12, 2025
    Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani citing James 2:14 this morning: “Faith, without works, is dead.”
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    Peter Sterne
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    Apr 4, 2019
    So @AOC is on Instagram Live assembling furniture while speaking off the cuff about how she believes that she has a moral responsibility to fight for what's right, even if people call her an extremist. "People don't realize Martin Luther King was a democratic socialist."
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    Peter Sterne
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    Sep 26, 2024
    The indictment claims that an Adams campaign staffer told a potential donor that Adams probably wouldn't want to accept illegal donations, but then checked with Adams and learned that actually he was totally cool with it. (p15) documentcloud.org/documents/2517…
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    Peter Sterne
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    Aug 11, 2025
    This is the craziest policy I have ever seen. Cuomo's proposed law would literally require that people be rent-burdened (pay at least 30% of their income in rent), which is generally considered to be a bad thing.
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    Chris Sommerfeldt
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    Aug 11, 2025
    Cuomo's campaign provides some more details on his Zohran Mamdani-trolling proposal to make rent stabilized units in NYC income-restricted:
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    Peter Sterne
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    Feb 8, 2023
    Replying to @mings_ga
    "Dear Temple Student, as a result of your protected concerted activity, we are retaliating against you."
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    Peter Sterne
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    Aug 25, 2024
    If a reporter pitched me a story saying a candidate lied about receiving an award from the Chamber of Commerce and in the course of reporting learned that they did receive an award from the Junior Chamber of Commerce, I would probably just kill the story.
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    Alex Thompson
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    Aug 24, 2024
    In his 06 campaign, Walz boasted “that in 1993, he ‘was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his service in the education, military, and small business communities.’” But he wasn’t. Via @elianayjohnson freebeacon.com/democrats/for-…
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    Peter Sterne
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    Apr 23, 2024
    One thing that's notable about the Gaza Solidarity Encampments is how they're *not* making a free speech argument. They are very specifically not saying "you should support our right to do this even if you disagree with us" but rather "you should support us because we're right."
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    Peter Sterne
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    Mar 9, 2024
    You wouldn't know it, but the settlement agreement requiring the NYPD not to violently police protests technically went into effect this week.
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    Ash J
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    Mar 8, 2024
    NYPD is making violent arrests right now. Cops seemed to have knocked one pro-Palestine protester unconscious but was more concerned with cuffing them.
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    Members of the SRG (Strategic Response Group) of the NYPD in 2015.
    The NYPD is now legally mandated to respond to protests differently
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    Peter Sterne
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    Sep 26, 2024
    Adams' press conference – inexplicably held outdoors on the street where anyone could attend – was frequently interrupted hecklers and counter-hecklers & ended with a group of people chanting "Resign, resign, resign!" as Adams left. Possibly the worst presser I've ever seen.
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    Peter Sterne
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    Jan 3, 2019
    It's bad enough not to pay your interns. But this site wants to hire an unpaid MANAGING EDITOR.