Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros

Mothers Day, as well as Other Things to do This Weekend & Next Week in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events - Details Below

May 8, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

The photo at right, is of a statue by Thomas J. Price, entitled Grounded in the Stars. The statue depicts an African American woman whom a considerable number of women seemed to cozy up to, on the eve of Mothers Day last year, when we took this photo. This year, there won't be any Mothers Day artwork in Times Square, but there are three performances of gospel music in honor of Mothers Day at the Palladium Times Square. See details below.

Sunrise 5.46 am. Sunset 7.59 pm. We're getting 14 hours & 14 minutes of sunlight, or five hours and 1 minute more of sunlight than we were getting the week of the Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2025 when the sun rose at 7.18 am and the sun set at 4.31 pm. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of this year, providing 9 hours and 13 minutes of sunlight in NYC.

NYC Weather - NYC Can Differ Slightly / Significantly vs TriState TV News Forecasts. There's a 65% - 90% chance of about 1/3 inch of rain between 10.30 am and 6 pm on Saturday and a 50% - 60% chance of about 1/3 inch of rain after 4 pm on Sunday. On neither day does rain seem like a show stopper, but grab your umbrella if you plan to be out during those times. On Friday and Saturday the temperature highs will be around 60, rising to 70 on Sunday. The temperature lows will be about 50 on Friday and Saturday, rising to the mid 50's on Sunday. The humidity will rise from 30% to 80% on Friday, and continue upwardly between 65% and 100% on Saturday, and then falling from 100% to 60% Sunday afternoon, before rising again. Winds are expected to range from 5 to 15 mph Friday, and then settle back down to 3 - 5 mph for the rest of the weekend. All tolled, a manageable spring weekend.

Friday, May 8, 2026 at 3.45 am - Done, including attendant pages. We will also socially post links sometime Saturday via BSky.app, Facebook and X.com. Please Like or be-Friend us, to stay abreast of events, and obtain news related to your borough. This week we continue to strive toward providing a mix of weekly news posts.

Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in NYC

Thursday & Friday, May 7 & 8, 2026 - CUNY Jazz Festival - Free. See full details in Manhattan section below.

Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 10 am to 8 pm - Transportation Alternatives 5 Boro Pizza Challenge - begins at 19 Fulton Street in Manhattan. Bike to all five boroughs, stopping at some of the best pizza places selected by TA. It's a fundraiser and costs $80 to adults / $35 kids. For details and to rsvp see - https://transalt.org/pizza-challenge

Sunday, May 10, 2026 - Mothers Day in the USA. Scroll down for some dining suggestions in the report that follows this one.

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 beginning at 6 pm - Cracks in the YIMBY Consensus - on Zoom. This presentation explores whether we can upzone our way out of the affordability crisis. For details and to register [free] see - https://villagepreservation.my.site.com/s/event-detail?eventId=a1wQP000002odg9

• Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 4 pm - Rally for Free Speech - at 7th Street and Avenue B on the Lower East Side by various folks and their children who are affiliated with the Alliance for Quality Education. NYC Council passed a bill [Intro 175-B] which would have started to curtail New Yorkers' rights to free speech by limiting where they can express themselves. Thankfully, Mayor Mamdani vetoed it.
  • We'll have more on this in our News Section - but it's disturbing to say the least, especially given that NYC Council Speaker Menin managed to convince or cajole enough NYC Councilmembers to vote for it. In Hamlet, Shakespeare said 'there's something rotten in Denmark'. Votes like this, convince me there's something rotten in the NYC Council.

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - Manhattan City Council Special Election District 3 Early Voting Ranked Choice Voting Results published. The special election results for NYC City Council representation of Hells Kitchen, Chelsea and the West Village was published. We'll post them either here over the weekend, or separately with one of the prior related reports.

Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.

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Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in Manhattan NYC

NY African Film Fest, CUNY Jazz Fest, Clio Art Fair, Japan Parade & Fest & Macys Flower Show, Korean / Philippines Fest, Turban Day in TSQ

The photo above or at right was taken at the Frick Museum before it closed for renovations. After years of renovations, the museum reopened a year ago on April 17, 2025.

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Wednesday thru Tuesday, May 6 - 12, 2026 at various times - 33rd Annual New York African Film Festival - at Lincoln Center on the UWS of Manhattan. Tickets range from $16 / $19 and all Festival Passes for $65 / $89. They describe the event as follows, " ... showcasing African and Diaspora filmmakers’ unique storytelling through the moving image ... NYAFF will spotlight 14 contemporary and classic feature films and 25 short films ...". For details and to buy tickets see - https://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/new-york-african-film-festival/

Thursday & Friday, May 7 & 8, 2026 from 11.30 am to 8 / 8.30 pm - CUNY Jazz Festival - in Aaron Davis Hall at 129 Convent Avenue in Washington Heights Manhattan NYC. They tell us, " ... Performances by CCNY faculty and student ensembles. Featuring performances and master classes with saxophonist Chris Potter, and drummer Adam Cruz ..." Free and open to the public. For details see - https://ccnyjazz.com/cuny-jazz-fest/

Thursday - Sunday, May 7 - 10 & 14 - 17, 2026 from 12 noon - 8 pm except Thursday when it's 6 to 9 pm and Sunday when it closes at 6 pm - Clio Art Fair - at 511 West 25th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan NYC. For details and free rsvp or tickets [$35 for opening night] copy & paste - https://www.clioartfair.com

Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 11 am to 5 pm - Japan Parade & Street Fair - the parade kicks off at 1 pm marches south from 81st Street to 67th Street along Central Park West. There's a Japan Parade Street Fair that runs from 11 am to 5 pm along 72nd Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West. Street fairs on the UWS in NYC. For details see - https://japanparadenyc.org/

Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 11 am to 5 pm - Korean / Philippines Fest - along 6th Avenue between 30th and 31st Streets in Koreatown. A multi-ethnic outdoor food festival. The details came in an email from a Korean liaison.

May 9, 2026 from 12 noon to 4 pm - LUNGs Parade & Fest - at Losaida United Neighborhood Gardens [aka LUNGS] near Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side. This is a small neighborhood garden gathering that's open to the public. For details see https://lungsnyc.org

Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 12 noon to 7 pm - Turban Day - celebrating Sikh Culture in Times Square.  Celebration and fundraiser where you can buy fabric and have it rolled into a turban - https://turbanday.org

Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 10 am to 4 pm - Pickwick Vintage Show - at Grand Central Terminal. They charge $10 to enter. For details and tickets see - https://grandcentralterminal.com/event/pickwick-vintage-show/ or https://pickwickvintage.com

Thursday - Sunday, April 23 - May 10, 2026 - The Macy's Flower Show - at Macy's Herald Square in Midtown. Macy's is open from 10 am - 9 pm weekdays, open until 10 pm Fridays & Saturdays, and opens at 11 am on Sundays. For details see - https://www.macys.com/s/flower-show/

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Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in Queens NYC

Sunnyside Art & Crafts Fair, Queens Night Market, Next Week Taste of Queens, Paint & Sip

The photo above or at right, was taken this week in a Queens neighborhood. Spring has sprung.

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Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 9.30 am to 4.30 pm - Sunnyside Art & Crafts Fair - at the Queen of Angels Parish Hall at 44th Street & Skillman Avenue in Sunnyside. It's an opportunity to buy artwork by local artists. For details see - https://www.facebook.com/SunnysideArtists/

Saturday, May 9, 2026 - Queens Night Market began April 18, 2026 and continues thru July. Use the street fairs link below for details on it and other markets.

Next Week.

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 from 6 - 9 pm - Taste of Queens - at the NY Hall of Science at 4-40 44th Drive in Long Island City Queens [moved from its historical Flushing roots]. Taste the food and beverages from around the globe made by about 50 food and beverage vendors, many of which are based in Queens. For details and $125 - $200 tickets see - https://www.queenstaste.org or https://queensny.org/

Thursday, May 14, 2026 beginning at 7 pm - Paint & Sip with Megan Carey - at the NY Irish Center at 1040 Jackson Avenue in LIC. An evening of painting and sipping something good with an artist. For details and $44 tickets [drinks and art materials included] copy & paste - https://www.newyorkirishcenter.org

Saturday, May 16, 2026 beginning from 2 to 5 pm - Sunnyside Rhythm Block - at the Sunnyside Arch at Queens Blvd & 46th Street in Sunnyside Queens. Musical performances each week by a different ethnic culture starting with China, followed by Myanmar, then India and lastly Korea. For details and to free rsvp, see - https://partiful.com/e/XXcbsh9b82lFFlND378M

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Saturday, May 16, 2026 - Spring Concert - at the Kupferberg Center at Queens College in Flushing. Use the MCAL link above to obtain details.

Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in Brooklyn NYC

Atlantic Avenue Art Walk, Haitian Parade & Festival , Open Stages Festival Prospect Park, Black Zine Fair Gowanus, Luna Park & FAD Market

The photo above or at right, taken this past week, showing folks outside, enjoying the fresh air, while dining.

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May 9, 2026 from 3 to 6 pm - Open Stages - in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. They tell us the event includes 19 stages of free outdoor music, involving hundreds of artists and partners. This is a fundraiser by the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music which provides musical education and therapy for over 7,000 people across all five boroughs. Rain or Shine. For details and to rsvp and possibly make a small donation copy & paste - https://bkcm.org/openstages/

May 9, 2026 from 11 am to 6 pm - Black Zine Fair - at PowerHouse Arts at 322 Third Street in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. This fair encompasses most - if not all - aspects of publishing, with a focus on African Americans because there aren't enough platforms and venues for Black Authors and Publishers to learn, mix and mingle. There are nearly 100 exhibitors signed up. Free and open to the general public. For details see - https://blackzinefair.org/

May 9 - 17, 2026 from noon to 6 pm - Atlantic Avenue Art Walk in Brooklyn - along Atlantic Avenue from 4th Street to the Waterfront in Brooklyn. They describe the event as follows, "... This 1.5-mile, self-guided tour along Atlantic Avenue ... and its immediate side streets, will feature art from different mediums while showcasing approximately 150 emerging and established Brooklyn artists at 70+ participating businesses ... eclectic shops, diverse restaurants, galleries and wide range of vital businesses and organizations ... [along a] tree-lined avenue that stretches through charming Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, and Boerum Hill to Downtown Brooklyn ...". The map with locations and artists is supposed to be posted on their website by the time the event begins. There are also three dates for tours 5/9, 5/16 & 5/17/2026. Organized by Atlantic Ave LDC. For rsvps, maps & details see - https://www.atlanticave.org/artwalk

May 9, 2026 w/ Parade beginning at 10 am followed by Market / Celebration beginning at 12 noon - 7th Annual Haitian Parade & Cultural Festival - Ayiti Nou La Toujoul - begins at Church & Nostrand Avenues, marching through Little Haiti & Little Caribbean neighborhoods in Flatbush Brooklyn. For details see - WS - https://www.lohnyc.org/haitian-culture-day-2025-1 or FB - https://www.facebook.com/events/26180213004947036/

Saturday & Sunday, May 9 & 10, 2026 from 10 am to 5 pm - Brooklyn Flea market - under the arch of the Manhattan Bridge at 80 Pearl Street between Water and Plymouth in the Dumbo neighborhood. Street fairs in Brooklyn NYC. It's an outdoor market that stays open weekends until December 20, 2026. For details see - https://www.brooklynflea.com

Friday, May 15, 2026 Luna Park expands opening days to include Friday & on May 22 they open daily. Currently Saturdays & Sundays - Luna Park open in Coney Island. For hours, details and tickets see - https://lunaparknyc.com/plan/park-hours/

Saturday & Sunday, May 9 & 10, 2026 from 11 am to 6 pm - There's a FAD Pop Up Market - at Empire Stores at 55 Water Street. See street fairs for details.

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Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in the Bronx NYC

Bronx Night Market Returns for an Evening, BAFA Boishakhi Parade & Festival & Bronx Weeks Continue

The photo above or at right was taken this past week. It shows a locked bicycle along the sidewalk. A public transit strike has been approved by one of the transit unions representing 3,500 workers of the LIRR. The strike could begin as early as 12.01 am on May 16, 2026, impacting LIRR service. This is a possible strike where biking wouldn't be a realistic alternative mode of transit.

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Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 12 noon to 7 pm - 1st Bronx Night (food) Market of the Season - at 161st Street and Grand Concourse [NOTE - THEY ARE NORMALLY at 1 Fordham Plaza] in the Bronx. FYI - There are only two dates in 2026 at this location - also October 10, 2026 same times / location. Their presence at Fordham Plaza, after eight years, ended following the 2025 season. For details see - https://www.bronxnightmarket.com/

Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 4 to 8 pm - BAFA Boishakhi Parade & Festival - begins at 2172 Starling Avenue and ends about 3 blocks later at the Parkchester Elementary School on Olmsted Avenue. A mela, which is a Hindu fair, will follow and at 6.15 pm cultural performances begin. Organized by the Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts. For details see - https://www.facebook.com/BAFA.USA or https://www.facebook.com/events/928230496783821/

Friday - Sunday, May 1 - 17, 2026 - Bronx Weeks - returns with a parade, festival and other activities. In early April there was an announcement that it was going to be discontinued. Following the announcement, community leaders organized to ensure its continuation. Bronx Week opened today, with events on many days of the two week long event. The biggest events fall on the final weekend, 5/16 & 5/17 including a Ball, a parade and a fair. We'll have more as we approach each weekend. For details see - https://www.ilovethebronx.com/bronx-week-2026

Next Week.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 from 12 noon to 4 to 7 pm - Produce Giveaway / Bronx Eats at the Vegan Bazaar - at the Andrew Freeman Home.  This needs clarification. It's a part of Bronx Week. For details see - https://www.ilovethebronx.com/bronx-week-2026

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026 - Pelham Parkway Neighborhood Assn Hosts Mayor's Public Engagement Unit aka PEU - See MCAL link above for details.

Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week on Staten Island NYC

Annual Golf Outing with the Lighthouse Museum & New Dorp Moravian Market

In the photo above or at right, taken in a prior year on northern Staten Island. The views of Staten Island not only encompass Manhattan and New Jersey, but also the south and western ends of Brooklyn, as depicted in this photo.

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Friday, May 8, 2026 - Annual Golf Outing with the National Lighthouse Museum. For details and tickets copy & paste - https://lighthousemuseum.org.

Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 10 am to 2 pm - Rummage / Trash to Treasure Sale - at New Dorp Moravian Church at 2205 Richmond Road on Staten Island. There will be donated items for sale. Clothing, bed linens and large furniture items not accepted as donations. Free entry. For details see - https://www.newdorpmoravian.org/event/trash-to-treasure-sale/

Coming Next Week.

Yankee Peddler Day is coming to the HRT in Staten Island on May 17, 2026. Details coming next week, generally on Fridays, late.

And Pridefest and the annual Spring Outdoor Market in on the south end of Staten Island is coming in early June, a month later than last year. We'll provide details as we get closer in.

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Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros

Janes Walk, 5 Boro Bike Ride, Derby Party & Long Play, Greek & Emruz Fests in BK; Casino Protest & VFW Day of Service Qns; Pinkster Fest, Community & Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu Fairs in the Bronx & Bronx Weeks begin, Antiquarian Book Fair, Cannabis Parade & Cinco de Mayo in Manhattan, as well as Other Things to do This Weekend & Next Week in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx & Staten Island Events

May 1, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

The photo above or at right was taken some years back at the 5 Boro Bike Ride as it made its way through Queens. The bike ride returns this weekend. See below for details.

Sunrise 5.54 am. Sunset 7.52 pm. We're getting 13 hours & 59 minutes of sunlight, or four hours and 46 minutes more of sunlight than we were getting the week of the Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2025 when the sun rose at 7.18 am and the sun set at 4.31 pm. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of this year, providing 9 hours and 13 minutes of sunlight in NYC.

NYC Weather - NYC Can Differ Slightly / Significantly vs TriState TV News Forecasts. The temperature highs will be around 60 on all three days of the weekend. The temperature lows will be in the high 40's on all three weekend days. There's a 40% chance of a bit of rain around 3 - 4 am Saturday, but otherwise a rain-free weekend. The humidity will range from 40% to 70% on Friday, and between 40% and 90% on Saturday, and from 30% to 70% on Sunday. Winds are expected to range from 5 to 10 mph Friday, average about 5 mph Saturday and kick up to 5 to 15 mph on Sunday.

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Things To Do This Weekend & Next Week in NYC

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, May 1, 2 & 3, 2026 at various locations & times but generally from 10 am to 5 pm - Janes Walk Weekend - at 200 locations in all five boroughs. Various art, culture, history, advocacy and architectural tours throughout all five boros of NYC. Free. They describe the event as follows, " ... MAS staff organize a fleet of volunteer walk leaders, to create 200+ FREE, in-person, virtual, and on-demand walks with over 10,000 participants ... During Jane’s Walk NYC weekend, the simple act of exploring the city is enhanced with personal observations, local history, and civic engagement."... Organized by the Municipal Art Society. Not a street fair so much as a streets tour. For details including a map of locations, copy & paste - https://www.mas.org/janes-walk-nyc-2026/

Sunday, May 3, 2026 waves begin at 7.30, 8.30, 9.15, 9.50 and 10.30 am & officially over between 4 and 6 pm - 5 Boro Bike Ride. Assembly begins along Broaday, south of Canal Street down to Battery Park in Manhattan, depending on the cyclist wave folks are in. The course is 40 miles long, and most of the 32,000 cyclists finish in under 5 hours. It ends at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, where there's a finishing party that runs from 10 am to 5.30 pm. Not a street fair per se, but rather a major cycling event. For details, copy & paste - https://www.bike.nyc

Thursday & Friday, May 7 & 8, 2026 - CUNY Jazz Festival - Free. See full details in Manhattan section below.

Saturday, June 13, 2026 is the last day you'll be able to Register to Vote in the NYC Primary on June 23, 2026. Applications must be received by the NY Board of Elections to be eligible to vote in this election.

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Extra, Extra, Read All About It

Amtrak Quietly Moves Up Deadline, possibly to Deceive & Cheat the NYC Public of Due Process, on Penn Station Renovations

April 29, 2026 / Manhattan Neighborhoods / Manhattan Transit / News Analysis & Opinion / Manhattan Buzz NYC.

If you think our government officials and thus our government at the federal level - is becoming increasingly corrupt, dishonest and / or incompetent - then read on.

The deadline for submissions for the Penn Station Master Development procurement bids was quietly moved up from May 4th to April 30th, 2026. We were informed by a reliable sources, that as of earlier today, this important deadline had not been changed on Amtrak public notice postings.

Please note that moving up deadlines is a trick commonly used by corrupt attorneys and government officials to cheat opponents out of appropriate due process. Amtrak is a federally operated entity, so ultimately Donald J. Trump is currently in charge of Amtrak.

According NYC Streets Blog, Trump also doesn't want the public to know what he's up to vis-a-vis Penn Station. Take a look for yourself - https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/29/amtrak-wont-make-key-trump-penn-station-documents-public

Here's an analysis of the Penn Station redevelopment project.

https://liamblank.com/rpa-penn-station-through-running/

The Penn Station renovation will likely take forever, and cost far more than they tell us at the outset, greatly increase the wealth of a few, be paid for by who? You, of course, with some possible benefit to the public, but at great expense to the public. Public projects of late, seem to include efforts to privatize public investment, by using public funds but for which control somehow ends up in private hands, because so many of the campaigns of our pols, are funded by the wealthy and billionaires, like former Mayor Eric Adams' was.

Please be sure to distribute this as widely as possible, a.s.a.p. especially if you know of anyone who might be interested in this project, so they can stay alert, as the process is beginning to reportedly look like it's being improperly and unfairly administered.

Here's Lookin' at You, Kid

Mamdani Talks about the First 100 Days & the Next 1360 to Come

April 13, 2026 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

Late Sunday afternoon I headed over to the Knockdown Center, located off Flushing Avenue in Maspeth. Maspeth is a neighborhood located on the Brooklyn / Queens border, and a bit of an outpost in a transportation desert, where some of NYC's manufacturing, warehouses and distribution centers are located.

I was on my way to Mayor Mamdani's Press Conference / public speech, where he planned to talk about his first 100 days in office as the Mayor of NYC.

In the photo at right, stand NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and surprise honorary guest, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, at the press event held by the Mayor's Office on Sunday, April 12, 2026 in Maspeth, NYC.

Truly Great Leaders are Humble, Respectful, Determined & Learn-ed

Mamdani is a Muslim American and Sanders is a Jewish American. And one of the things that I find most interesting, is that these two - instead of fighting each other - they have teamed up, in an effort to try to solve some of the real significant problems facing New York City and America. This is the approach America has taken in the past, and hopefully will return to taking in the future.

Happily, but also sadly, both men are exceptions - to the kind of weak, weak-minded, and apparently corrupt leadership, that we currently have in the federal government, and that up until a bit more than three months ago, we also had in NYC City Hall.

Thankfully, Mamdani and Sanders are not exceptions to the kind of high quality leadership America has had in the past. We've been fortunate to have had intelligent, selfless leadership, but that didn't happen on its own. In the past American voters were diligent and wise enough to choose good leaders, because they invested the time in making the right choices, and also made the right choices in selecting the information sources they relied upon to obtain their voting information. The making of intelligent decisions by the American electorate, gradually slipped away over the past 60 years, as TV increasingly became the dominant source of Americans' news, and thus also their voting information. It's been a long slippery slope, with nasty fiscal and other consquences, that has brought us to the state of the City and Union today.

Prior to the arrival of TV News, American voters read the newspapers, run by lots of different people, espousing many different points of view, which the electorate discussed amongst themselves, prior to voting. Thus Americans, back in the day, elected and were led by, wise and caring leaders, representing an an increasingly diverse population, which is what had made America a great nation. Perhaps we're on the cusp of a resurgence of that sort of informed electorate decision making, as voters migrate their news consumption from billionaire TV news to the numerous, varied information sources on the web. Currently just five to six billionaires control the corporations broadcasting TV news.

Later this week I'm going to take you into the Mayor's 100 Day Press Conference, and give you a closer look at things, beyond the shallow billionaire TV News reports and / or the dishonest headlines you may have already seen, if you read billionaire R. Murdoch's NY Post. The NY Post is easily one of the most dishonest newspapers in both NYC & the USA, as Rupert Murdoch uses it to manipulate voters' perceptions, so that they vote for his favored candidates [like Trump], who will give Murdoch and other billionaires huge tax breaks, funded by debt dumped on your children, grandchildren, and future generations, while simultaneously cutting government services, like education and healthcare, to boot. This is not just thoroughly un-American, it's morally and ethically wrong.

Stay tuned, and in the meantime have a nice week.

Trump's Long-winded Speech

Ignores the State of a Faltering Union

The Checks & Balances are Failing: John Thune's Senate is Failing, Mike Johnson's House of Representatives is Failing, the Courts have Faltered, but not yet Failed & Billionaire TV News is Failing the Public

February 26, 2026 / Government Media & Politics / U.S. Politics National News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.

I don't have the time to do Trump's State of the Union true justice. But I can't sit by and say nothing, as TV News has already done a good job of saying a lot of nothing, that's worthy of note.

Trump, spent two hours, delivering his same, old, tired, manipulative, bigoted trash, peppered with so many falsehoods, deceits and outright lies, that even PBS had trouble keeping up with them. And the failed billionaire controlled TV News networks didn't even try.

State of the Union 2026

Trump's Address was Riddled with Key Omissions

What Trump Didn't Talk about, is at Least as Important as What he Did Talk About

There wasn't anything new, worth noting in Trump's State of the Union [aka SOTU] speech except the new people and faces he used to try to direct attention away from, that:

1) Donald J. Trump's name reportedly appears hundreds of thousands of times, in the unredacted Epstein pedo-files,

2) little progress made on the economy - unless you believe his Fox News style distortions,

3) little achieved on healthcare as the erection of a website selling prescription drugs, reportedly doesn't make much difference to Americans who buy rx drugs [stock prices of drug companies went up after Donald J. Trump told them how he was 'cracking down' on them],

4) DOGE failed to reduce spending and that prior to Trump becoming president again, there wasn't the 'corruption, waste and abuse' Trump claimed, but by the time Trump leaves office, he will be primarily responsible for about a third to a half of America's $40+ trillion of debt which has been dumped [in multiple acts of cowardice by Republican Presidents and the Republican Party] on America's children and unborns in order to further enrich some of the richest people on the planet,

5) a couple of Hispanic Americans from Texas, working for ICE, put ten bullets [looked like murder] in a white citizen and resident of Minnesota in his own neighborhood as he was helping a woman protester the ICE agents had pushed to the ground, nor about the shooting [looked like murder] of Renee Macklin Goode, also a naturalized white American citizen from Minneapolis, nor numerous other deaths, as well as beatings and pepper spraying of other American citizens and immigrants - both legal and illegal - who have suffered at the hands of Kristi Noem's ICE agency,

6) the bombings by Pete Hegseth's Department of War of fishing boats in the Caribbean and Pacific in what also looked like the murder of innocents and a war crime,

7) the incredible turbulence in the stock market, the volatility of which Trump and members of his Administration appeared to trade on, with Inside information, due to Trump's erratic decisions regarding tariffs on / off / up / down statements,

8) Trump and Republicans included a statute prohibiting states from exercising their rights on limiting the encroachment of AI into everything,

9) little done vis-a-vis China,

10) Trump and Little Marco Rubio have been betraying Ukraine and Europe vis-a-vis the Russians [Bill Gates admitted to some Russian co-mingling and yet Donald J. Trump denies he did anything - not unlike how he denied raping E. Jean Carroll, the Democratic Hoax Epstein pedo-files, money laundering at his casinos, cheating his workers and contractors out of their pay, inciting the January 6th Insurrection, and so forth,

11) Trump has turned back the clock on slowing or preventing the impending crisis soon coming from Climate Change with the last few years being the warmest and driest on human record,

12) the real intent of his Voter ID legislation which is to disenfranchise women [because of marriage name changes] and the poor [no car = no driver's license] nor that voting fraud by illegals is essentially ZERO even according the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation,

13) he lied a blue streak about how 'great' things are in the American economy since he took office,

14) his Administration is [possible to very likely?] becoming the most corrupt in American history, which includes insider trading, personal use of government property by numerous cabinet members, accepting bribes for U.S. taxpayer funded military technology secrets or equipment, real estate deals done with the possibly bribing nations, crypto corruption, suing the IRS for $10 billion,

15) he's been pardoning numerous criminals, not unlike himself and

16) why he seems to be planning to start a war with Iran.

• CLICK here to read the rest of our report about all of the important issues Donald J. Trump's State of the Union Speech 2026 didn't address.

CBS Self Censors & Trump Manipulations of Biblical Proportions

Alex Pretti Shooting by ICE & Trump's Psychological Violent Tendencies

  ICE Shoots & Kills a Second U.S. Citizen in Minneapolis Is Trump's ICE, Recruiting Deviants who Commit Violent Crimes Against the American Public, in Order to Mak.... Trump's Violent Tendencies and the ICE Shootings and what appears to be the Murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

Happy MLK Weekend

See Things to do Below

January 17, 2026 / Things To Do NYC / Gotham Buzz.

We're working diligently to finish up our year end cleaing and new year planning & preparations. We had hoped to complete this effort by now, but it's taken a bit longer because we want to do it right. And we're incorporating old and new capabilities which we either haven't used in a long while, or haven't used at all. So stay tuned, as we hope to make it worth your while.

So we're going to punt on putting together much for this weekend, other than provide what we'd done previously, as below. We hope to / expect to resume our normal publishing next weekend. Thanks for your understanding and have a nice weekend.

Emergency Action, Pack The Court!

Stop the Out of State Billionaire Oligarchs NYC Public Land Grab

MidtownSouthCC.org sent us the following:

We need to show the judge the overwhelming support for the tenants’ and that public housing needs to be protected! Join us Wednesday, January 14, 2026 — 9AM at 71 Thomas Street. The city, @ebottcher, @essence.development & @relatedcos plan to plan to raze 24 public housing buildings and displace more than 3,000 tenants at Chelsea Addition & Fulton 11. Chelsea Addition is made entirely of senior tenants. This is a greedy land grab designed to benefit wealthy developers. They are lying to residents, trying to force them to accept their eviction from their homes. The city & big developers plan on adding 2450 luxury apartments where Chelsea NYCHA buildings would be demolished. Allowing this to happen would set a dangerous precedent for ALL NYCHA housing in New York City and increase the cost of living for ALL New Yorkers.

Following this meeting there's a Press Conference on the same day, Wednesday, January 14, 2025 — 2PM at Hudson Guild – 441 West 26th Street, Between 9th and 10th.

See a section we started and are still working on - Bloomberg and the Adams Administrations enabled Huge Public Land Grabs at Discount Prices to NYC Real Estate Oligarchs, as well as our Audience commentary in our OpEd section [use link from top tool bar under Politics & Government].

ICE Kills Woman in Minneapolis Minnesota

  Was ICE Justifiably Enforcing the Law when it Committed a Very Public Killing? See and Judge for Yourself, Whether Trump is Using ICE to Desensitize the American Publ.... Trump Administration Violence & Lying - Did ICE Shoots & Kill an American Woman without due cause & then Lie About it?

CBS Censors 60 Minutes Show on Immigration but Leaked by Contributor

  CENSORED but Leaked: CBS 60 Minutes Show on Immigration And While the Video Shows how Cruel the Trump Administration is Treating other Humans; the Background Story Su.... CBS Fails its Viewers by Censoring 60 Minutes Show on Trump Administration Handling of Immigration

Epstein File Vote: TV News Misses the Point .. Again

Billionaire TV News Reports What They are Told (for ratings) with Scant Comprehension

November 18, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion.

Billionaire TV News Reports the Headlines but Misses the Meaning

Billionaire TV News is waiting at the Capitol to cover the House vote to open the Epstein files.

Like it actually matters.

If you have absolutely nothing else going on in your life, then stay glued to the TV News screen to find out how the House and Senate will vote on the issue.

But it doesn't matter and it won't make a difference, as Donald Trump is doing what he does best. Making fools on the American people and the rule of law, by deceiving them and finding loopholes in the law to exploit. Both skills that Donald J. Trump has been practicing all of his life.

• CLICK here to read the rest of our report on TV News Misses the Point Again: Epstein File Vote.

Live Interview with Key Representatives / Activists about FEC Chelsea NYCHA

9.10.25 _ Queens News / News Analysis & Opinion _ Click here to learn a bit more through an interview by Erroll Louis on Spectrum TV on August 28, 2025, who interviewed an author / community activist and the President of the FEC Tenants Against Demolition about what's going on there - NYC Oligarchy - Stephen Ross, Related Companies, Essence, Eric Adams transferring huge amount of public wealth & NYC billionaire TV doesn't much report it. Also on the front page scroll down to the Landlord Tenant Harassment button to become familiar with the bigger picture.  And click into the drop down OpEd section from the front page tool bar to learn more about the FEC Chelsea NYCHA land grab by Stephen Ross and Related Companies.  Ross and Related Companies have been the beneficiaries of the transfer of acres upon acres of prime public NYC land all over NYC for what seem like fire sale / corruption prices.

In the meantime, see front page, government and politics, neighborhoods and things to do sections.

Billionaires are Rapidly Changing TV News & Not in a Good Way

Billionaires are Amassing a Huge Concentration of Mass Media Assets, in What Appears to be the Privately Owned Propaganda Press

September 18, 2025 / New York City News / NYC Billionaire Press Billionaire TV News & Free Speech in America / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.

All six TV Networks are controlled by billionaires [or folks whose wealth rounds up to billionaires or are members of billionaire families]. Increasingly they appear to be turning the TV networks into privately controlled propaganda machines. Too often they appear to resemble Rupert Murdoch's mistreatment of the truth in the news. This means they seem to omit key facts and even entire stories from view, while amplifying falsehoods and outright lies spoken by politicians and their teleprompter readers alike, which go uncorrected, leaving those who still trust Network TV News, ignorant and in the dark as to what's really going on in this country.

Network TV News Corps Appear to be Trading Journalistic Integrity for Media Market Share so they can Price More Aggressively. America Beware, as they will have Even More Influence over what you / we Americans see, hear & think.

Colbert was cancelled by CBS and numerous seasoned journalists departed for journalistic integrity reasons. CBS appeared to be compromising their integrity, as Colbert is the top rated show in the time period. But Trump doesn't like Colbert, and CBS had a merger deal that needed to be approved by the Trump Justice Department and FCC, so poof, Colbert cancelled. CBS denies this reasoning, saying they have other [unannounced] plans.

Disney / ABC paid off Trump in a lawsuit many attorneys were sure they could have easily won. And this week Disney / ABC took the Jimmy Kimmel Show off the air for making an opinionated comment of which Trump didn't approve, on the Kirk assassination shooter. Kimmel had joked that the shooter was a MAGA Republican which he does not appear to be, although reportedly the rest of his family is.

The alleged shooter was reportedly in a relationship with someone working through gender identity issues, which is just one of the many important issues of our day, that billionaire TV News repeatedly fails to fully inform upon. This link will take you to the Metropolitan Museum website, of a past photo exhibit, wherein in the mid 1800's a French photographer documented a hermaphrodite, which is someone with both male and female genitalia. That's a fact, that I have NEVER seen raised nor discussed by the flunkies on TV News, who don't seem to be knowledgeable about the world around them, and definitely far too often, just simply do not do their basic homework on important issues.

And the sad thing is that this translates to an increasingly ignorant American public, as up until this year TV was the dominant news source. This year news on the web FINALLY passed TV News, and I am hoping that that trend will accelerate as more Americans start paying attention to how badly TV News fails them, daily.

If you decide to click this link you'll encounter what is likely a shocker to most folks [was to me the first time I saw it at the Metropolitan Museum exhibit in the late 1990's]. But the idea isn't to shock, but rather to instruct - Metropolitan Museum photo exhibit by Nadar of hermaphrodite.

• CLICK to view the rest of this report about how the NYC billionaire press is taking over free speech in America. GB.

Local & National [Primarily Web] News Sources we Currently Trust

7.7.25 Update / Opinion / Work in Progress

We've entered The Disinformation Age. Much of the mass media is controlled by billionaires, especially TV assets. They changed the FCC laws so they are no longer required to behave ethically, accurately and so the billionaire press does what it does best, pursues profits regardless of community collateral damage. They're only sharing information that they want you to know. They omit key facts they don't want you to know or even entirely ignore important stories that may embarass their billionaire friends. They try to manipulate viewers' perceptions in order to get them to vote for candidates representing the billionaires' interests, and provide open mics to the candidates their choice - not fact checked - even when these pols are making numerous false or misleading statements.

Trusted Web News Sources - Gotham Buzz

6.20.25 _ Currently Recommended News Sources to Help You Wean Yourself from Servile Dependence on Billioniare TV News. We currently favor The City, Politico, Axios, Vox, Wikipedia, the Gotham Gazette, Gothamist, City & State, Mother Jones, Wired, the browser Firefox curates a fair news offering, finance.yahoo.com is good for business news, and moderated social media outlets like BSky.app hace an intelligent audience that does a fair job of identifying key news reports, and use the search engines to look things up. Collectively these news sources should enable you to effectively do your civic duty to inform yourself about people and issues before voting. The NON-Billionaire TV News that we currently find reliable, includes left-leaning Democracy Now [on FNX & CUNY TV], PBS News Hour, and PBS Documentaries are also very informative. The Washington Post and New York Times are still fairly reliable, but not as implicitly so as in the past. Both the NYT and Wapo have undergone ownership / top management changes within the past six years. And the new management teams' values appear to differ from their predecessors, so pay attention to editorial changes / impacts. I no longer find any of the Network TV News outlets to be sufficiently informative. I doubt they ever were, but back in the day they used the newspaper reporting to help keep them informed, which today no longer cuts it. But that said, you can still pick up a few leads from TV News, which you can then use to more fully inform yourself, by doing further research on the internet. Also Vox & Axios. 6.20.25 Murdoch Iran War Monger.

• CLICK here to view our list of trusted news sources on the web for local politics and news in NYC and for national politics and news in the USA.

Click for our report series on Landlord / Tenant Harassment in NYC

Please be advised that this series will be evolving slowly starting sometime in Q4 2025 and continuing thereafter. Thus far we've posted some of our historical coverage, but by far and away, the best is yet to come.

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The LIC Summit 2024

The Changing Cultural and Real Estate Landscape in Long Island City

October 8, 2024 / LIC Neighborhood / Queens Real Estate & Business / Queens Buzz.

A. Prelude to Attending the LIC Summit 2024

It was a beautiful, sunny, dry day as I walked over to the Museum of the Moving Image in LIC / Astoria.  I arrived around 11 am to attend part of the second half of the LIC Summit, which is a real estate and business conference which examines in depth, an LIC centric world, but also mindful of the surrounding environment.

After I made my way through a flawless check-in, I found my way into the theater and sat down to listen in on the panel providing a Long Island City real estate update.  These panels are structured such that the moderator serves up a number of questions to the panelists for comment, which is then followed by audience questions, which sometimes are the best, because they are asked by people like you and me, who have lived and worked in the area for a long while and witnessed and have adjusted to the huge changes that have occurred in Long Island City over the past couple of decades.

I.  First Panel - LIC Residential Real Estate Update

This panel included Patricia Dunphy of SVP of Rockrose Development, Eric Benaim CEO / Founder of Modern Space, Dan Mogolesko SVP of the Durst Organization, Peter Papamichael Principal of the VOREA Group and Crystal Xu Director of Business Development United Construction & Development Group.

As I came in at the end of the panel presentation, I only caught the Q&A portion of the program, which follows.

A performance theater / school owner pondered aloud whether the developers were still interested in involving and supporting the arts and culture scene in Long Island City.  At the turn of the century LIC was well known as a thriving artists community, as it offered very competitive rents and good access to mass transit.  In the near quarter century since then many - if not most - of the artists have moved out of the area as they can no longer afford the rents, which have skyrocketed from under $1,000 / month to over $4,000 per month.

One of the panelists said they are interested in supporting the arts and he mentioned Culture Lab LIC as one of the arts institutions that has survived the changes.  But that was pretty much the full extent of the conversation surrounding the arts community.  So I reckon the short answer would be no.

• CLICK here to read the rest of our report on the LIC Summit 2024 - Real Estate Development in LIC Queens NYC.