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Bronx post office cannot safely deliver packages, USPS says, as customers wait “two and a half hours for a stamp!”

People in the Bronx are complaining about painfully long wait times at their local post office as lines sometimes go out the door. 

The United States Postal Service says delays at the Morrisania post office are due to “a significant number of packages” that could not safely be left at homes.

On Thursday, CBS News New York saw multiple people changing their minds and deciding not to even go inside once they saw the line.   

“Two and a half hours for a stamp!”

Residents said a trip to the East 167th Street post office is anything but a quick errand these days, with some complaining about waiting five hours for a package and only one or two clerks helping out. 

“I have to wait two and a half hours for a stamp! It’s ridiculous,” Raymond Cioffi said. 

“It’s probably the worst post office I have been in,” businessowner Frank Farrell said. “If this was in a different zip code, it wouldn’t be like this.”   

Video shows chaos there last week, when signs said packages could not be picked up until the afternoon and some people said their packages were lost. 

“Inside, it’s all messed up,” Alberto Virs said. 

“I don’t want to come back here ever again,” Andres Lopez said. 

Another resident shared a video of when police were called after frustrated customers got heated over the long wait.  

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The ‘Warmth of Collectivism’ Sure Looks Like a Giant Cash-Grab for Woke Governing Bodies

Zohran Mamdani ran on a platform of making things more affordable for New Yorkers. That was a lie, and less than two months into his administration, Mamdani is threatening to raise property taxes on everyone while failing to deliver on all the “free” stuff he promised voters. 

But what Mamdani actually plans to do is use New York City taxpayers’ money to fund a plethora of woke government agencies to undoubtedly advance his socialist, DEI agenda. Check out some of the spending in his massive $127 billion budget.

This spending includes $5.6M for the Office of Racial Equity, $4.6M for the Commission on Racial Equity, $835,000 for the Commission on Gender Equity, more than $260,000 for the Department of Education’s Chief Diversity Officer, $300,000 for three FDNY Civilian Chief Diversity Inclusion Officers, and $118,000 for the FDNY Chief Diversity Inclusion Officer.

Just for some perspective, the 2026-27 budget for the entire state of Florida is $117 billion.

Mamdani plans to pay for all this by jacking up property taxes by almost 10 percent if Governor Hochul and Democrats in Albany don’t let him fleece the rich and corporations, and by cutting the budget for the NYPD, including slashing 5,000 new NYPD officer hires.

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Mamdani Told New Yorkers How He Felt About the Police, Now He’s Showing Them

There were plenty of New Yorkers who did not vote for Mayor Zohran Mamdani because they knew what would happen to their city if he were elected. Since he has been in office, the predictions of those New Yorkers are sadly coming true. No snow removal after snowstorms, garbage piling up, and most recently, a mayoral visit with a man in the hospital who wielded a knife at police and was charged with attempted assault. But now that he is safely ensconced in the mayor’s office, Mamdani is carrying out his vision for New York, and that vision does not include a fully staffed New York Police Department (NYPD).

On Tuesday, Mamdani claimed he “inherited a historic budget gap.” But is that just a cover for doing what he has supported in the past, defunding the police? Former Mayor Eric Adams’ plan for the NYPD was to add 300 new officers by July of 2026 and increase that number to 2,700 by 2027. Adams’ plan would eventually bring the total number of new officers to 5,000 by July 2028. Adams’ plan would also enable the NYPD to put roughly 40,000 officers on the streets of New York. But all of that will come to an abrupt halt under Mamdani. The NYPD budget for fiscal year 2027 is $6.4 billion. Mamdani would decrease that by $22 million and would cap the number of officers on the street at 35,000. 

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NYC’s Mamdani Seeking First Property Tax Hike in Decades to Cover Budget Deficit

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday the city may have to raise property taxes to close a multibillion-dollar budget deficit.

The warning came as Mamdani unveiled a $127 billion city budget.

According to Bloomberg, the mayor said the tax hike would be necessary if state lawmakers in Albany do not impose new taxes on wealthy residents or businesses operating in the city.

It would be the first such hike in two decades.

“We do not want to have to turn to such drastic measures to balance our budget,” Mamdani said during a press conference at City Hall, Gothamist reported.

“But faced with no other choice, we will be forced to,” he added.

The comments are a clear sign that Mamdani, who ran as a democratic socialist, intends to follow through on his promise to tax the city’s working class and property owners.

New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul would need other signs off on the tax hike.

The last time New York City significantly raised property taxes was in 2003, when then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg approved increases following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Mamdani’s city government is still recovering from the fallout from last month’s winter storm.

Snow caused basic city services such as trash collection and ice removal to break down.

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NYC Gets a Free Grocery Store, but It’s a Slap in the Face for Mamdani

New York City got its first free grocery store on Thursday, and yet it does more to discredit self-proclaimed democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani than do him any favors. The store wasn’t launched by the city but by Polymarket, a private prediction market where users bet on world events. More than 400 New Yorkers lined up for free groceries, praising the store as a much-needed relief during challenging financial times.

“Times are hard. Things are very expensive, so this helps,” Tori Hall, who was second in line outside the store, said. “It goes a long way.”

The Polymarket “free” grocery store opened Thursday and will operate as a five-day pop-up through Sunday, with the final day dedicated to donations. They added in a statement that the company had donated $1 million to the Food Bank for NYC “to help fight food insecurity across all five boroughs.” 

The initiative follows a similar stunt earlier this month by Kalshi, another prediction-market platform, which offered New Yorkers $50 in free groceries.

Mamdani responded to the latter stunt, posting a headline on X that read: “Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point.”

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Zohran Mamdani Backtracks on Campaign Promise for Rental Assistance, Claiming it’s too Expensive

New York City’s new socialist mayor is already running out of other people’s money.

In addition to being unable to remove snow or get the trash picked up, Mamdani is now backtracking on a campaign promise to expand the city’s rental assistance program.

He just got grilled by New York lawmakers in Albany who are nervous about his ‘tax the rich’ policies and now this. How long before his base turns on him?

The Post Millennial reports:

Mamdani reverses campaign promise for rental assistance program—turns out it’s too expensive

Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reversed on one of his campaign promises to expand a rental assistance program in the Big Apple. The expansion has turned out to be too costly.

As the mayor is confronting a steep fiscal situation in managing the city during his second month in office, Mamdani does not intend to back the growth of a $1 billion-plus initiative known as CityFHEPS, per the New York Times. The plan to initiate the expansion of the program was previously upheld in court after being proposed by the city council.

Mamdani, during his campaign, had promised to expand the voucher program, but in a news conference on Wednesday, he suggested that the expansion of the program is too costly as the city is facing a budget deficit over two years that is around $7 billion.

His administration is now negotiating with activists to settle a lawsuit that sought to force the expansion of the program. The move may stir tensions between himself and his base of support from those in the Democratic Socialists of America, the organization he is also a part of.

No one seems very surprised by this news.

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Famous Palestinian activist calls for dogs to be banned as ‘indoor pets’ in NYC because they are UN-ISLAMIC

A Palestinian activist has called for dogs to be banned as pets in New York City claiming they aren’t Islamic.

Nerdeen Kiswani said dogs have a ‘place in society’ but ‘not as indoor pets.’

‘Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean,’ she wrote on X.

After receiving fierce backlash she later claimed that her post was a ‘joke’.

‘[Laughing] at the Zionists frothing at the mouth at this, thinking they’re doing something,’ she wrote.

‘It’s obviously a joke I don’t care if you have a dog, I do care if your dog is s***ting everywhere and you’re not cleaning it.

‘Also clearly trying to weigh in on an issue unaware of the current NYC discourse where we’re collectively (jokingly) hating on dogs given all the visible dog s**t in the unmelted snow.’ 

Muslims typically do not keep dogs as pets as many believers feel they are meant to be used for work such as herding or hunting.

Kiswani gained notoriety for leading Pro-Palestine protests in New York City with her organization Within Our Lifetime (WOL), which calls for the eradication of Israel. 

She led several rallies across the boroughs, where protesters marched down busy streets chanting for the ‘full liberation of Palestine’ and ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.’ 

She poked ire with Jewish New Yorkers after WOL suggested the October 7 massacre, where more than 200 Israelis were taken hostage and 1,400 died, was justified. 

At the time, Kiswani shared a post by WOL on X, which called for a rally ‘as we mobilize to defend the heroic Palestinian resistance, honor our martyrs and let the world know that NYC stands with Gaza.’ 

The WOL website states that oppressed people ‘have the right to win their liberation by any means necessary.’ 

Kiswani’s activism goes back to the early 2010s.

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Mamdami Demands U.S. Immigration Policy Start Obeying Islam

At New York City’s Interfaith Breakfast last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not merely criticize federal immigration enforcement — he reframed it as a religious and moral transgression. Invoking the Islamic doctrine of hijra, he urged New Yorkers to “stand alongside the stranger” in permanent, unqualified solidarity, elevating prophetic example above constitutional sovereignty. 

“Islam [is] a religion built upon a narrative of migration,” Mamdani declared. “The story of the Hijra reminds us that Prophet Muhammad … was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina.” He then universalized the narrative into a binding civic command: “The obligation is upon us all … to look out for the stranger.” 

In this framework, federal enforcement is not lawful authority but cruelty. Immigration officers become “masked agents, paid by our own tax dollars,” who “violate the Constitution and visit terror upon our neighbors.”  

“If these are not attacks upon the stranger among us, what is?” Mamdani asked. “There is no reforming something so rotten and base.” 

This is an inversion of moral authority. 

Mass migration is framed as a moral and civilizational imperative, demanding compassion and openness, while serious pushback on enforcement is recast as intolerant, unjust, or even xenophobic. This framing mirrors elements of the Muslim Brotherhood’s doctrine of tamkeen (institutional entrenchment) outlined in strategic writings such as the 1991 Explanatory Memorandum and the 1982 Project, which describe a phased civilizational strategy built on population presence, parallel institutions, resistance to full assimilation, and long-term influence over policy, law, and public narrative.  

The result is a classic hypocrisy cost in the weaponization of mass migration: Constitutional states, bound by professed commitments to human rights and compassion, must either enforce borders and absorb accusations of cruelty, or abandon enforcement to preserve a humane self-image — while the advancing cause bears no reciprocal burden of allegiance, assimilation, or responsibility to the political community whose resources it claims. 

In his speech Mamdani invoked Islamic doctrine to define civic obligation and delegitimize lawful, constitutional authority, largely without media critique — even as hosts of voices on the left regularly decry any invocation of Christianity in the public square. In doing so he transformed Islamic narrative into civic mandate and federal enforcement into sacrilege, which will inevitably cause a gradual dissolution of constitutional sovereignty. 

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Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Agenda Runs Into a Brick Wall of Reality as He’s Grilled by NY Lawmakers in Albany

New York City’s new democratic socialist (communist) Mayor Zohran Mamdani was grilled by state lawmakers in Albany this week over plans to fund his agenda by taxing the rich.

This is the difference between campaigning and governing. Many, if not all, of Mamdani’s ideas sound great on paper to leftists. Implementing them in real life is a different thing, entirely.

Some of the people who questioned him are undoubtedly wondering why he can’t even seem to be able to get the snow removed or pick up the city’s trash.

WRGB News reports:

“Honeymoon is over” Zohran Mamdani grilled by lawmakers as he proposes to “tax the rich”

Mamdani is asking for a 2 percent raise in personal income taxes to the top one percent of New York City residents, arguing someone making $1 million can afford $20,000 in more taxes, and that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would deliver federal tax cuts to more than make up for that sum.

Lawmakers then had the opportunity to question Mamdani’s proposals on all of the above. Lawmakers from other cities shared concerns that if New York City received more money, they would receive less. Many asked about his proposal to increase taxes on the wealthy, and the impact it could have not just on New York City, but the rest of the State as well. Others questioned Mamdani’s actions in addressing antisemitism.

“Once the honeymoon is over, which I think you’ve just felt, you may well prefer three minutes to 10,” State Senator John Liu, Chairman of New York City Education Committee ( D ), told Mamdani at one point. “Speaking of which, you know, it’s mid-February, so I will respectfully say that the time for blaming past Mayors and Governors is passed. We need to hear the details of your plan. And it’s good to hear your revenue proposals.”

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The Dark Question That Looms Over New York After Mamdani’s Failed Winter Storm Response

Don’t get Vickie Paladino started on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The Republican councilwoman appeared on Katie Pavlich Tonight yesterday and took the man behind the barn over the disastrous snow removal operation following last month’s winter storm. It’s getting to the point where even Mamdani’s supporters are yelling outside Gracie Mansion. Besides mountains of snow and ice, there are piles of trash everywhere. It’s what you’d expect from a mayor who hasn’t run anything, doesn’t know anything, and, as a result, can’t do anything related to this job.

Paladino rightly called Mamdani a “media whore” who doesn’t know what he’s doing. Let the city workers, who have more experience than the mayor on many fronts, do their jobs. This winter storm was bad, but not unprecedented—the city has had some serious weather events. I hated Bill de Blasio, but even he was able to clear the roads and get this kind of work done.

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