happy groundhog day! spring is just around the corner.

Remember when Bill de Blasio (allegedly) murdered that groundhog? https://t.co/DJ8OtsEphG pic.twitter.com/SqCK4AnBvx

— Gawker (@Gawker) February 2, 2016

g-d damn.

plz welcome... the next overscaled monstrosity to blot out the sun over central park. one of seven new supertall towers inching toward fruition along 57th street. UGH.

thx a lot, de blasio!

there's a whole breakdown of just wtf exactly has been going on down in those tubes the last few months...

By one of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's measures, the total number of delays in 2014 increased an astonishing 45.6 percent over 2013. Even the MTA's less drastic numbers still point to slower service. More is at work here than meandering crowds of uncivilized cretins sullying the sacred shrine to transportation the the New York City subway once was. But the agency has no clear institutional explanation for the decline. (via)

send this to your dad

A new poll by Quinnipiac University suggests that the city's voters have seen through the police union's tactics, and that its temper tantrum will cost it political support.
Consider the following findings:

"Police union leader Patrick Lynch's comments that the mayor's office had blood on its hands are 'too extreme,' voters say 77 - 17 percent, the independent Quinnipiac University Poll finds. There is no party, gender, racial, borough or age group which finds the comments 'appropriate.'"

"Voters say 47 to 37 percent that Mayor de Blasio's statements and actions during his 2013 campaign and during his first year in office show he does support police."

"The recent slowdown in police activity is more of a protest, 56 percent of voters say, while 27 percent say it is because police officers fear for their safety."

"Voters say 57 to 34 percent that officers should be disciplined if they deliberately are making fewer arrests or writing fewer tickets. Black, white and Hispanic voters all agree."

" Voters give Patrolmen's Benevolent Assn. President Patrick Lynch a negative 18 to 39 percent favorability rating and say 43 to 27 percent that he is a mostly negative force in the city."

50 percent of voters approve and 41 percent disapprove of the way Mayor de Blasio is handling crime.

Just 41 percent approach and 52 percent disapprove of the way de Blasio is handling relations between police and the community (a number that presumably includes people who think he is too pro-police and too anti-police.)

56 percent approve of the way the NYPD is doing its job. (via)

peep the deblasio family's free pile in front of their house

not very impressive - really wish chiara would donate her witch's hat.

deblasio family at the nyc pride parade

um, i honestly can't say who i love more in this photo, chiara or her dorkus malorkus dad/mayor of nyc bill:

oh, bill.

"I used to be a gardener" says Mayor de Blasio as he sweeps out pothole. pic.twitter.com/7EPwG2wD1k
— John Kenny (@jjk607) February 20, 2014

check out mayor de blasio out filling potholes in queefz.

bill de blasio eats chipotle

Extra hot sauce, please. pic.twitter.com/5lgIZqZ05D

— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) January 15, 2014

Mayors - they're just like us!

Adorable Everyman Mayor de Blasio took to shoveling snow today after Snowstorm Hercules dropped a big dump on New York:


Although I thought that was Dante's job, according to his mom:


While I respect the Mayor's commitment to Keeping It Real, I kind of also appreciated the fact that Mayor Bloomberg was so rich he could pay someone to do life chores while he focused on mayoral tasks like reducing soda sizes and plopping bike paths everywhere.

welcome mayor de blasio!!

click here to watch / listen to his inaugural address.

tell me more about maria de blasio wilhelm

kylie's post about bill de blasio and his apparent tardiness issues made me wonder about what kind of lady his mother might be. everyone knows loving moms make the best alarm clocks.

anywho, turns out the man we know as bill de blasio was born to maria de blasio wilhelm, and was named warren wilhelm jr after his father. his dad had some post traumatic war issues and divorced maria when bill was young. she raised her three boys on her own in cambridge, mass. the daughter of italian immigrants from the city of Sant'Agata de' Goti, she grew up in manhattan, went to college at smith, and later worked for time magazine as a researcher and the office of war information which broadcast news programs into fascist controlled italy. in 1988 she wrote and published a book titled The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War II. how accomplished!

she sounds just like another italian american mother that i know: smart, hard working, resourceful, and supportive. mrs. de blasio wilhelm died in 2007, but we can bet she would be so proud of our new mayor. cheers maria de blasio wilhelm! via via via 

bill de blasio is a little-miss-late

Yesterday, New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio arrived at least thirty minutes late to his announcement that William Bratton will serve as New York City's next police commissioner, and members are the press were not having it.

For those media members who will be forced to cover Hizzoner for the next four years, De Blasio's tardiness has already become predictable. He has been late to a number of events, notably arriving one hour after a get-out-the-vote rally began at 11:30 a.m. in November. When asked if he overslept, de Blasio responded with a non-apology. "I am not a morning person," he said. (via)

sounds like he just needs to get his mom involved. #nothingwrongwithit

mayor bloomberg is grumpy with new mayor de blasio

CONGRATULATIONZ MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO

2Pz is projecting that he's our next mayor. just like we already told you.

have you seen this week's nymag cover?

bill de blasio is going to answer your questions today.

he's doing a reddit ask-me-anything (AMA) today at 2:45pm, so you can use this opportunity to bring up issues that are important to you, like #tennisreform.

i think this is kind of sweet.

salon's alex pareene tackles the tone issues of yesterday's nytimes feature hit-piece on 2Pz preferred mayoral candidate bill de blasio's social justice background:

Despite the article’s myriad problems of tone and its various insinuations, it’s a useful and interesting look at the background of the guy who might soon lead America’s biggest city — a city that has a great deal of money and also a huge, struggling underclass. It’s heartening, actually, to see the idealism of young de Blasio, especially for those who supported him but were concerned that he was perhaps just another empty Clintonite Democrat with a consultant-crafted “progressive” message. The guy actually does care. A romantic attachment to a popular revolutionary movement suggests a sincere commitment to justice. (via)

the best endorsement of all

new york city's favorite rap station, hot97, has endorsed bill de blasio for mayor! and with good reason:

After the de Blasio interview, Rosenberg told the audience he was siding with de Blasio, and rattled off a number of reasons. The first reason Rosenberg stated was de Blasio's focus on the wealth gap in the city. Then he said, "I personally don't like the Christine Quinn-estabishment vibe. I don't like how much she's embraced by Mayor Bloomberg" and, "I want a change from Mayor Bloomberg."

After that, Rosenberg said this: "On top of that, and maybe most importantly, you can't tell me you don't want to have [a mayor] who happens to be white but his wife is black and his kid has the most epic, non-Jewish Jew-fro of all time."

Rosenberg said "all of those reasons are why I'm going to vote for Bill de Blasio." (via)

i stand with the celebs.

and celebs stand with bill de blasio. (joel, keep your eyes peeled for janice!)

i want a new york where i can play tennis for free. #tennisreform

blas was on the radio this morn.

For three and a half years, Bill de Blasio has been the city’s official gadfly. As Public Advocate, his job has been to point out where the city’s fallen short. And that’s been the primary message of his campaign, up until the last few weeks, when he catapulted to frontrunner status in polls. Now, he’s trying to show voters he also knows how to run things. (via)