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Randy Mastro keeps suing City Hall over the rich people's tax, and Tuesday, City Hall decided not to show up and defend it.
Mamdani's administration will skip Tuesday's Council oversight hearing on the pied-à-terre tax rollout and submit written testimony instead, citing ongoing litigation [2]. Speaker Julie Menin called the no-show a break from past practice, and Council members in both parties criticized it publicly [2]. The dodge comes as attorney Randy Mastro, Eric Adams's former deputy mayor, presses his fifth lawsuit against Mamdani's City Hall this year, the latest challenging how the city identified taxable homes [6]. A Staten Island judge's temporary restraining order pausing the rollout was itself stayed on appeal within days [6].
“Oversight is an essential function of government, and past mayoral administrations have shown up to answer questions despite ongoing litigation.”
“I'm non-denominational. I'm not a politician. I'm just a lawyer who believes in the rule of law and holding the government accountable when it breaks it.”
City & State New York - All ContentThe tunnel that flooded with 14 million gallons of saltwater in 2012 finally works again, and Amtrak and the MTA are still fighting about how long it took.
Amtrak reopened Line 2 of the East River Tunnel Monday, finishing the first phase of a rebuild that stripped the 116-year-old tube to its concrete shell after Superstorm Sandy flooded two of its four tubes in 2012 [92][90]. The 13-month closure cut peak Long Island Rail Road service into Penn Station by 20 percent, and MTA Chair Janno Lieber used Monday's celebration to fault Amtrak for refusing to work nights and weekends the way the MTA rehabbed 11 of its own Sandy-damaged tunnels [83]. Amtrak said a full shutdown was still faster than a phased one. Line 1, the tunnel's other damaged tube, closes for the same rebuild this fall [92].
“This project forced the Long Island Rail Road to reduce its peak hour service into Penn by 20%.”
“We are confident the plan we put forward — in order to be completely taken down to the core and rebuild all the systems up was the right investment to make.”
A Flatbush spa that used to get five to ten walk-ins a day is down to about four visitors a week, and the owner blames fear nobody can quite point to.
A Flatbush-Nostrand Junction Business Improvement District survey found 70% of responding merchants reported less foot traffic over the past year, with half saying customers explicitly raised concerns about ICE [96][101]. Wendy Jules, co-owner of Fleur de Lis Beauty & Esthetics, said daily walk-ins have dropped since late May, around when ICE activity concerns began circulating in the neighborhood, home to roughly 20% of the city's Caribbean community [96]. More than 80% of the district's businesses are minority-owned, and BID director Kenneth Mbonu said some merchants report revenue down as much as half [101].
“You can definitely see there's a downturn on the activity in the street.”
“We saw that a lot of their revenues had dropped by even up to 50%. And that's a drastic situation for many of these businesses because many of them would not be able to pay their rent.”
Only in New York does a mouse become a fellow passenger. Traveler Lindsey Powers filmed two of the four mice she counted racing under the chairs at LaGuardia's Terminal B on Sunday, one pausing to snack on something dropped near the gate before disappearing back into the crowd of waiting flyers [108]. It is not even the terminal's first brush with wildlife fame: a raccoon caused a similar commotion at the Spirit Airlines gate back in 2024 [108]. Somewhere out there, a very well-traveled rodent has better airport instincts than most of us.