Monday, June 1, 2026
Comrade Mamdani Issues Large Gathering Ban For World Cup And America’s 250th B-day
(New York City Mayor Mamdani has banned people from celebrating America’s 250th birthday in Times Square, and he’s using the excuse of the World Cup to do it.
New Yorkers are not happy about it:
New York is used to having large gatherings for games. I know it’s the World Cup, and it will be in New York the weekend of July 5th, but this is no excuse to ban gatherings in Times Square for such an occasion as America’s 250th birthday.
I don’t blame New Yorkers for being pissed, but this is what they get for voting that communist into office.)
It could be quite tough to get a crowd together for any formal public celebration on designated city parkland this summer. Last month, the city issued a substantial city permitting freeze for “large gatherings” during the World Cup, which they say would end up diverting police resources from more pressing needs.
There will also be no public crowd allowed at a Times Square ball drop celebrating the United States’s semiquincentennial (250th) anniversary. The co-organizers of the event, America250 and One Times Square, have confirmed that they have yet to receive a permit to allow a crowd to be present.
“While there will not be a public event in the Times Square plazas, we are working through standard coordination with city partners and look forward to sharing additional details soon,” the organizations said in a statement to the press. Instead, they promise a “live broadcast and celebration.”
"A limited, ticketed in-person experience inside One Times Square will also be available, with details to come."
(I'm curious who will be the elites to be given these limited, ticketed in person experiences.)
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Parks Dept. announced the massive freeze on March 18, after the NYPD made the permit-denial request of the city. Mamdani has signed an emergency executive order to this end, which will encompass a period that extends from June 11 to July 19, which just so happen to be the start and end dates of the soccer tournament.
The 250th anniversary ball drop is set for July 3, leading into Independence Day, meaning that it falls squarely within the parameters of the emergency order banning special permits.
NYPD officials must be “on-site” during such events with “large crowds,” according to the executive order, “to ensure safety and proper order.”
“The events associated with the FIFA World Cup and the United States 250th anniversary will require significant realignment and deployment of NYPD personnel, which will further divert resources from regular assignments or require the scheduling of NYPD overtime,” the order adds, which would “foreseeably cause an unnecessary risk to the safety of New Yorkers.”
Mamdani and Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura clarified that denials will be issued under the following rubric: “(i) the event was not held in the 2025 calendar year; (ii) the event is not a demonstration; (iii) the [Parks] Commissioner determines, in consultation with NYPD, that the agencies do not have sufficient resources to ensure public safety and welfare at and around such event.”
Technically, One Times Square is not administered by the Parks Department, meaning that permits for any public celebration there should be handled by the NYC Street Activity Permit Office (SAPO).
Patrick Hendry, the head of the NYPD’s police union, said on April 6 that the police force was “6,000 cops short of peak staffing.” He added that he believes this “summer’s massive workload” will increase rank-and-file attrition, i.e. “push even more [cops] out the door.”
The semiquincentennial ball drop is unambiguously modeled after the iconic annual New Year’s Eve ball drop, and is unsurprisingly set to feature a ball colored in red-white-and-blue. The organizers also plan on shooting off one ton (2,000 lbs.) of confetti, plus conducting a firework finale set to the tune of “America the Beautiful.”
Notably, it will mark the first time a ball has been dropped at One Times Square outside of New York’s Eve.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Mamdani The Slumlord
The New York City mayor’s real estate statism will backfire, leading to constricted housing supply and higher prices — the opposite of his promises.
Between his $30 million proposal for one government-run grocery store and now his $22 billion proposal for 200,000 government-built “affordable” homes, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is on track to beat California Governor Gavin Newsom’s record of throwing the most taxpayer money at a problem with nothing to show for it.
As usual, whenever affordability is the issue (and it always seems to be worse in Democrat-run cities and states), the Dems’ go-to solution is to spend more taxpayer money, even though all that will do is exacerbate the problem.
Mamdani revealed his housing plan on Tuesday. Called “Block by Block: A Housing Policy for a New Era,” it includes $22 billion for new housing investment, $5.6 billion for the New York City Housing Authority, a $40 per hour minimum wage for construction workers on city-funded developments, strict code enforcement measures, a city-approved home insurance provider, and reduced regulations on prefabricated homes.
The mayor claims that housing is the “No. 1 driver” of the affordability crisis and that his proposal will “deliver the kinds of investments that for too long New Yorkers have been denied.” And of course, he’s increasing taxes to pay for all of this, at least on the wealthy who actually bring revenue and jobs to the city.
A better idea than driving away your highest tax revenue source would be to deport the huge number of illegals in the city, which is one of the biggest factors driving up costs. As we have seen across the country, the more illegal aliens that are deported, the more we see housing and rental prices come down.
According to city data prior to Mamdani’s election as mayor, 150,000 new homes were built between 2021 and 2025, the most for a five-year period since the 1960s. That was done without government intervention and without taxpayer dollars, so why the huge urgency to get more federal grants?
He’s from a third-world country; he knows how it works. Everyone involved in the scheme has to line their pockets along the way.
We saw that happen in California after the Palisades fire. A bunch of money was supposed to go to the victims of the inferno. Instead, the majority of it was spread among leftist NGOs. Now we can see why Mamdani’s plans for “affordable homes” will be run by, you guessed it, nonprofit groups and the city itself.
The site for his government grocery store in East Harlem had already been allocated $25 million in taxpayer money in 2017 to update the area. Yet it still sits empty and run-down with no one to account for where the money went. A private grocery store costs a few million to open, but Mamdani wants many times that amount on top of the $25 million, bringing the total for this government grocery store to $55 million. Pretty pricey, and it reeks of corruption. Critics have warned that his plan will only hurt local grocery stores, which won’t be able to compete, and that it will waste taxpayer money.
Big Apple real estate moguls are also blasting Mamdani for his housing plan, which will hurt private companies and working New Yorkers. Steve Fulop, president of the Partnership for New York City, argued that while building new homes is a “moral imperative,” Mamdani’s plan to do so by “imposing potentially crushing minimum wage mandates and restricting property sales will slow construction and preservation.”
Fulop noted that extreme housing regulation had been tried in St. Paul, Minnesota, resulting in an 80% drop in construction. “St. Paul has since been forced to walk back those policies,” he posted on X. “New York City cannot afford to run the same experiment.” He continued, “When government positions itself as the primary driver of housing production and treats private capital as an obstacle rather than a partner, the people who pay the price are the working New Yorkers this plan is trying to help.”
James Whelan, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, laid into the proposal, warning that dependence on union-backed labor contracts will backfire. “At a time when we need to build as much housing as possible, we question why the City would choose to make projects more expensive to build and finance through the addition of costly and inflexible Project Labor Agreements,” stated Whelan.
Common sense is not a trait that anti-capitalist leftists possess.
Like all good communists, Mamdani seeks to crush private businesses so that the government gets more control and power, and he also seeks to abolish private property. With the mayor’s rent freezes, he is driving thousands of landlords to foreclosure. He is claiming he will crack down on landlord violations, even though the largest and most egregious violations occur in rent-stabilized buildings where rent doesn’t cover costs.
It seems apparent he will use the “violations” as an excuse to take private property. As he put it, “We will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers. We will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards,” including “community land trusts, nonprofits, or even the tenants themselves.”
Mamdani’s radical housing chief, Cea Weaver, promotes imposing low rents and high taxes to force owners into foreclosure so the city can claim their property. Communism is rooted in envy and laziness, and therefore it must legalize theft.
Will Mamdani’s “Block by Block” policy actually materialize, or will it be that mirage in the desert that communism always promises? As history has proven, it will turn out just like all the other times and places it has been tried before. There will no longer be a middle class or an open, free economy, and the government will own and run everything poorly.
What will remain of New York City will be the poor and the government elites, like Mamdani, who have enriched themselves off the people’s taxes and are now the “Slumdog Billionaires.”
https://patriotpost.us/articles/127960-mamdani-the-slumlord-2026-05-29
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Significant Events In Music Week Of 5.23 - 5.29
This is for those of you who were keeping up with Significant Events. this is for the 2nd week my computer was down.
Significant Events In Music This Week - 5.23 - 5.29
May 23rd In Music
1973 - Jefferson Airplane were prevented from giving a free concert in Golden Gate Park when San Francisco authorities passed a resolution banning electronic instruments. The group later wrote 'We Built this City' about the ban.
2006 - The King of Sweden presented the surviving members of Led Zeppelin with the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm recognizing them as "great pioneers" of rock music. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were joined by the daughter of drummer John Bonham, who died in 1980. The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA who named it after his record label, Polar Records.
Birthdays:
1934 - Dr. Robert Moog. Inventor of the synthesizer. He built his first electronic instrument, a theremin, at the age of 14 and made the MiniMoog, "the first compact, easy-to-use synthesizer" in 1970. Born in New York City. He died on 8.21.2005.
1946 - Daniel Klein. Bassist with American rock band The J Geils Band, who had the 1982 US No. 1 single 'Centerfold' which was taken from their US No. 1 1981 album Freeze Frame. Born in The Bronx, New York City.
1947 - Bill Hunt. Keyboardist and horn player for Electric Light Orchestra. Born in Birmingham, England.
1953 - Rick Fenn. English rock guitarist, best known for being a member of 10cc since 1976. He has also collaborated with Mike Oldfield, Rick Wakeman and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. Born in England.
May 24th In Music
1975 - Earth, Wind & Fire went to No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Shining Star', the group's first and only US No. 1.
Birthdays:
1938 - Tommy Chong. Comedian of Cheech & Chong. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Not a musician, but I don’t care.)
1944 - Patti Labelle. American singer, songwriter, who scored the 1975 US No. 1 single 'Lady Marmalade', and the 1986 US No. 1 single with Michael McDonald, 'On My Own'. Labelle became the the first African-American vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1947 - Albert Bouchard. Drummer, guitarist, songwriter, from American hard rock band Blue Oyster Cult who scored the 1976 US No. 12 single '(Don't Fear) The Reaper'. Blue Oyster Cult have sold over 24 million records worldwide. Born in Watertown, New York.
May 25th In Music
1967 - Procol Harum's 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' entered the UK chart for the first time, where it went on to become a No. 1 hit. 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' became the most played song in the last 75 years in public places in the UK (as of 2009). The first video for the song was shot in the ruins of Witley Court in Worcestershire, England.
1974 - Rick Wakeman became the first member of the group Yes to have a No. 1 album when 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth' went to the top of the charts.
1977 - The Star Wars title theme, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, is a No. 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and John Williams takes home numerous awards for the soundtrack, including an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Grammy Award.
Birthdays:
1936 - Donnie Elbert. American soul singer and songwriter who had a 1972 US No. 22 single with ‘I Can’t Help Myself, Sugar Pie Honey Bunch’ and a hit with 'A Little Piece of Leather'. He died on 1.26.1989.
1948 - Klaus Meine. From German rock band Scorpions. Their 1990 power ballad 'Wind Of Change' topped the European charts and was a No. 4 hit in the US. The Scorpions hold the record for the best-selling single by a German artist and band. Born in Hanover, Germany.
1950 - Robert Steinhardt. From American rock band Kansas, who scored the 1978 US No. 3 single 'Dust In The Wind', and the 1978 hit single 'Carry On Wayward Son'. which was the second-most-played track on US classic rock radio in 1995 and No. 1 in 1997. Born in Illinois.
May 26th In Music
1966 - The Rolling Stones were at No. 1 on the UK singles chart with 'Paint It Black', their sixth UK No. 1 single. It was the first No. 1 single to feature a sitar on the recording.
1967 - The Beatles release their landmark album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the UK.
2016 - A set of stamps celebrating 50 years of Pink Floyd were unveiled by the Royal Mail. The ten stamps which would be available the following month marked five decades since the band turned professional. The collection included the band's most famous album covers as well as live performance shots.
Birthdays:
1945 - Gary Peterson. Drummer from Canadian rock band Guess Who who had the 1970 US No. 1 single 'American Woman'. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1948 - Stevie Nicks. American singer-songwriter, from Fleetwood Mac who scored the 1977 US No. 1 single 'Dreams', taken from the world-wide No. 1 album Rumours and the 1987 UK No. 5 single 'Little Lies.’ She scored the solo, 1981 US No. 1 album Bella Donna, and the 1989 hit single 'Rooms On Fire'. Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 along with her then boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham. Born in Phoenix, Arizona,
1964 - Lenny Kravitz. American singer, songwriter, who had the 1990 UK hit single 'Let Love Rule', the 1999 UK No. 1 single 'Fly Away', and the 1993 UK No. 1 album 'Are You Gonna Go My Way'. Kravitz has also worked with Mick Jagger, Madonna and David Bowie. Born in Manhattan, New York.
May 27th In Music
1957 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets released 'That'll Be The Day' which became a US No. 3 hit. The song had its genesis in a trip to the movies by Holly, Allison and Sonny Curtis in June 1956. The John Wayne film The Searchers was playing. Wayne's frequently used, world-weary catchphrase, “That'll be the day" was the Inspiration behind the song.
Birthdays:
1948 - Pete Sears. Bassist, keyboardist, guitarist for Jefferson Starship. Born in Bromley, Kent, England.
May 28th In Music
1968 - Creedence Clearwater Revival released their debut album. The band had played for years as the Golliwogs, Saul Zaentz who had bought Fantasy Records offered the band a chance to record an album on the condition that they change their name. The album features an 8 minute version of the Dale Hawkins song 'Suzie Q' which became the band's only Top 40 hit not written by John Fogerty.
1973 - Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon was on both the UK and US album charts. It remained in the US charts for 741 discontinuous weeks from 1973 to 1988, longer than any other album in history. (After moving to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Chart, the album notched up a further 759 weeks, and had reached a total of over 1,500 weeks on the combined charts by May 2006).
Birthdays:
1917 - Papa John Creech. American blues violinist, with Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Starship and Hot Tuna. He had also worked with Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Nat King Cole. Born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He died in 1994 aged 76.
1945 - John Fogerty. American musician, singer, and songwriter from Creedence Clearwater Revival who had the 1969 US No. 2 single 'Bad Moon Rising', plus ten other US Top 30 hits and the 1970 US No. 1 album Cosmo's Factory. After CCR parted ways in 1972 Fogerty had a successful solo career. Born in Berkeley, California.
May 29th In Music
1962 - Chubby Checker won a Grammy Award for Best Rock and Roll Recording for ‘Let's Twist Again’ and Ray Charles won Best Rhythm & Blues Recording for ‘Hit The Road Jack’.
1965 - The Beach Boys started a two week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Help Me Rhonda', the group's second US No. 1.
1969 - Crosby, Stills & Nash released their self-titled debut on Atlantic Records label. It spawned two Top 40 hits: 'Marrakesh Express' and 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes'.
1971 - The Rolling Stones started a two week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Brown Sugar', from Sticky Fingers. The first single released on Rolling Stones Records, it was the bands sixth US No. 1.
Birthdays:
1945 - Gary Brooker. English singer, songwriter, pianist and founder and lead singer of the rock band Procol Harum who had the 1967 UK No.1 and US No.5 single A Whiter Shade Of Pale. (one of the few singles to have sold over 10 million copies) and scored the hits 'Homburg', 'Conquistador'. Brooker founded The Paramounts in 1962 with his guitarist friend Robin Trower and has also worked with Eric Clapton, Alan Parsons and Ringo Starr. Born in Hackney, East London, England.
1955 - Mike Porcaro. Bassist with American rock band Toto who had the 1980s Top 5 hits 'Hold the Line', 'Rosanna', and 'Africa'. The band has released 17 studio albums, and has sold over 40 million records worldwide. Born in Windsor, Connecticut. Porcaro died on 3.15.2015.
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