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Mayor Sends Volunteers to Inform Tenants About Rent Hearings; Volunteers Definitely There to Inform and Not to Organize, Mayor Stresses Several Times

Mamdani Rent Freeze Outreach Program Described as Educational; Landlords Describe It as Something Else Entirely CITY HALL, NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that his administration will organize volunteer outreach to tenants in rent-stabilized buildings, encouraging more New Yorkers to testify at upcoming Rent Guidelines Board hearings — hearings that will determine whether rents on approximately one million stabilized apartments are frozen, which is what the mayor campaigned on, and which the Rent Guidelines Board is theoretically independent from the mayor’s office, a point the mayor addressed by promising the outreach would be “informational and not political,” a distinction that landlord groups received with the skepticism of people who have read the mayor’s platform. From Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat . The Rent Guidelines Board is an independent nine-member body that sets annual rent increases for stabilized apartments. The mayor appoints the board memb...
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Federal Authorities Reveal SantaCon Was a Con; New Yorkers File This Under “Things We Suspected”

Charity Fundraiser That Flooded NYC With Inebriated Santas Every December Was Actually a Scam; Shocking to No One in Particular Reported by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat . NEW YORK, NY — Federal prosecutors announced this month charges against the organizers of SantaCon, the annual event that floods New York City’s bar districts with thousands of adults in Santa Claus costumes each December under the banner of charity fundraising, confirming what New Yorkers, bartenders, and anyone who has ever been to the Lower East Side in December has long suspected: the charity was not receiving the money in the manner described, the fundraising was not functioning in the manner implied, and the cause to which participants believed they were contributing was, as one prosecutor noted, “difficult to identify.” The charges allege that the event’s organizers collected charitable donation pledges from participants and sponsors, disbursed a small fraction to any verifiable charitable cause, a...
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The Trump ‘Gold Card’ Immigration Plan

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Donald Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ Immigration Plan: Citizenship for the Right Price A New Era in American Immigration Policy In a groundbreaking shift in immigration policy, the Republican-led House has introduced a budget proposal featuring a “Gold Card” visa, allowing affluent immigrants to bypass traditional pathways and buy their way into American citizenship for a mere $5 million. While previous immigration debates revolved around border security and pathways for hardworking migrants , this plan ensures that America remains the land of opportunity—so long as you can afford the cover charge. “The ‘Gold Card’ is great for billionaires looking to escape their own corrupt governments and join… a slightly different corrupt government.” – Marcella Arguello The days of Ellis Island are officially over. No longer will immigrants have to wade through bureaucratic nightmares, language barriers, or years of waiting. Instead, with the swipe of a black card, new Americans can skip the ...
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Mayor Mamdani Pledges Free Buses for All New Yorkers, City Reminds Him Buses Get Stuck in the Same Traffic as Paying Customers

Transit Experts Suggest Fixing the Subway Might Address More Commuters; Mayor’s Office Finds This ‘Unnecessarily Complicated’ Bohiney.com | The London Prat NEW YORK, N.Y. – Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who took office in January 2026 on a platform that combined socialist housing policy with the particular brand of inspirational transit optimism that New Yorkers greet with cautious enthusiasm and three delayed trains, announced this week an accelerated timeline for his signature free bus service pledge, promising that the MTA’s entire bus network would be fare-free within his first term. The announcement was welcomed by bus riders, applauded by transit advocates, and received by the city’s 4.6 million daily subway riders with the kind of polite silence that signals they have questions about relevance. The free bus proposal, which Mamdani has described as ‘a transformative equity measure’ and which transit economists have described as ‘approximately as expensive as extending the subway to...
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Move the Olympics from Los Angeles

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Move the Olympics from Los Angeles The Olympics Relocation Debate: LA is a Marxist/Lesbian Fiasco Waiting to Happen As Los Angeles gears up to host the 2028 Olympics, critics argue the city is about as prepared for the Games as a snowball in the Texas heat. From crumbling infrastructure to a homelessness crisis so dire it makes dystopian fiction look cheery, LA seems poised to turn the Olympics into the world’s most expensive disaster movie. The city’s leadership , entrenched in Marxist-inspired policies, appears more focused on redistributing blame than solving actual problems. Meanwhile, Texas, with its robust infrastructure, pro-business culture, and no-nonsense governance, is emerging as a much better alternative. Dallas, Houston, and Austin already boast world-class facilities and enough cowboy hats to equip an opening ceremony with an unforgettable yee-haw. Moving the Olympics to Texas would save athletes and spectators from LA’s logistical nightmare—and maybe even a carjack...
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Mamdani’s Bad Landlord Crackdown Stalls At Step One: Finding Them

Brooklyn Premier Holdings LLC Owns Building, Owns Itself, Owns Mayor’s Pension Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the five boroughs and one borough-adjacent New Jersey diner. NEW YORK, N.Y. — Mayor Zohran Mamdani today announced an aggressive new enforcement initiative against the city’s “bad landlords,” but conceded at the press conference that the administration was “still locating them, taking applications for tip-offs, and trying to figure out which ones are actually shell LLCs registered in Wyoming.” The initiative, which the mayor’s office has branded the Bad Landlord Identification, Tracking and Enforcement programme, or BLITE, is intended to systematically catalogue, fine, and shame the city’s most persistently neglectful property owners. It will be coordinated by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development . The Identification Problem “It turns out that finding the bad landlords is, fundamentally, the entire job,” Mamdani said, sta...
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New York’s Food Desert Map Has Not Changed Significantly in a Decade Despite Multiple Initiatives to Change It

The Supermarket Deserts in the South Bronx, Central Brooklyn, and Northern Manhattan Persist Despite Policy Attention Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat NYC Food Deserts: The Map That Has Not Changed NEW YORK, NY — The areas of New York City that lack adequate supermarket access — the South Bronx, large portions of Central Brooklyn, Northern Manhattan, southeastern Queens — were identified as food deserts in studies conducted in the early 2010s. Multiple city administrations have launched initiatives to address these gaps: healthy bodegas programmes, mobile markets, community gardens, supermarket development incentive programmes, and most recently the Mamdani-backed La Marqueta city grocery concept. The food desert map in 2026 is recognisably similar to the food desert map in 2014. The reason the map has not changed significantly despite a decade of policy attention is the economic reason: supermarkets are large-format retail that requires the capital investment, site availabilit...
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