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Mayor Bill de Blasio's latest announcement of RAD conversions coming to NYCHA appears to confirm data obtained by Progress New York about the partial privatisation of public housing in New York City. Progress New York/Photo Illustration

February 18, 2020

de Blasio’s latest announcement of RAD conversions confirms the leaked list of NYCHA public housing developments facing private landlord management

A list of public housing apartment developments identified for partial privatisation in 2020 appears to confirm data obtained by Progress New York, which reportedly revealed which NYCHA public housing developments would be put into the hands of private landlords under the controversial RAD programme.

Members of the activist group Fight For NYCHA obtained copies of RAD/PACT documents, including the RAD Residential Apartment Lease Agreement. Fight For NYCHA

January 25, 2020

DOCUMENT DROP : RAD Lease shows that NYCHA residents are forced to accept apartments “as is,” waiving implied warranty of habitability

NYCHA’s form of its RAD Lease Agreement includes what may be an unenforceable disclaimer of the implied warranty of habitability. The RAD Handbook distributed by NYCHA shows that residents have no guarantee for repairs, face supportive service cuts.

December 15, 2019

Outside of AOC’s Woodside town hall, a callous indifference to suffering and misery at NYCHA

Supporters of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seem unable to discern how her green “New Deal” bill acknowledges no urgency to the crises facing NYCHA residents.

Photo Illustration/Federal Bureau of Investigation/Fair Use

November 4, 2018

As REBNY ramps up efforts to stop or gut SBJSA, two politicians renounce campaign donations from the real estate industry

Council Speaker Corey Johnson adopts a REBNY talking point, saying that the SBJSA must not be passed as-is, just as two prominent politicians renounce real estate donations.

New York City Councilmember Rory Lancman has announced a campaign to run for Queens District Attorney. New York City Council : Public Domain

October 3, 2018

Feds mum as Lancman announces run for Queens D.A. after supporting Crowley as chair of Queens machine that is reportedly being monitored by FBI

Rory Lancman plans to make social justice system reform a key plank in his race for Queens District Attorney, ignoring the problem of corruption in the Queens machine.

When the Feds let Political Machines use smooth transitions of power to avoid accountability

Will the Queens Machine be able to avoid the consequences of a long of corruption, so long as it puts into effect a smooth transition of power to another Congressional lawmaker ? Photo Illustration/Progress New York

September 1, 2018

Some mob families have succession plans. So does the Queens Machine.

EDITORIAL : Any political transition of power that lends legitimacy to the ways that the Queens Machine has been allowed to corrupt democratic functions will fail to restore the public’s dwindling faith in Government institutions.

U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY 6) is telegraphing her reported interest in succeeding U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY 14) as chair of the Queens Democratic Party county committe. U.S. House Of Representatives/Official Photograph

August 27, 2018

Grace Meng reportedly interested in taking helm of Queens Democratic County Committee that is of interest to Federal investigators

Queens Democrats avoided serious consequences from a previous, reported Federal corruption investigation by installing a Congressional lawmaker as a new chair. Will it work, again ?

Rahm Emanuel notoriously used insider access as a way to enforce a centrist control over the idealistic political supporters of then-President Barack Obama (D). 2015-03-23 Rahm Emanuel, Gesticulating CC BY 2.0 Daniel X. O'Neil

July 23, 2018

Ocasio-Cortez team arranging private meetings with activists : sources

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign team are arranging private meetings with activists as she comes under fire for backtracking on issues, recalling the role of Rahm Emanuel in silencing critics for a former, once-progressive torch-bearer, Barack Obama.

Letter From New York Queens CC BY 3.0 AAK

July 21, 2018

Despite Trump’s deportation machine and crisis over family separations, for-profit ICE jail in Queens goes overlooked

One way that the Queens Detention Facility could be put on the social agenda would be to make its closure an issue in the much-speculated maneuvering to succeed Richard Brown as Queens District Attorney.

June 19, 2018

To detriment of voters, Inspector General report alludes to FBI preferring to allow corrupt politicians to be reëlected, which is good news for Joseph Crowley

The controversial Inspector General’s report about the FBI investigation into the Clinton e-mail server scandal reveals that Federal law enforcement rules and policy favour the reëlection of politicians suspected of corruption.