Howard Slatkin
@hslatkin.bsky.social
Urban planner, New Yorker, more. Executive Director at Citizens’ Housing and Planning Council. Views expressed here are my own.
Striking how Brooklyn accounts for both the top 5 Mamdani (blue) and top 5 Cuomo (purple) districts
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Striking how Brooklyn accounts for both the top 5 Mamdani (blue) and top 5 Cuomo (purple) districts
Specious logic like this is what has landed us in a deep affordability crisis:
80% of our (inadequate) new housing is built without going through our cumbersome, costly process. So what’s the big deal? That process isn’t so important 🤡
Well…
80% of our (inadequate) new housing is built without going through our cumbersome, costly process. So what’s the big deal? That process isn’t so important 🤡
Well…
October 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Specious logic like this is what has landed us in a deep affordability crisis:
80% of our (inadequate) new housing is built without going through our cumbersome, costly process. So what’s the big deal? That process isn’t so important 🤡
Well…
80% of our (inadequate) new housing is built without going through our cumbersome, costly process. So what’s the big deal? That process isn’t so important 🤡
Well…
All this, and our new special correspondent, tonight on 60 Minutes
October 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
All this, and our new special correspondent, tonight on 60 Minutes
The @mta.info ought to do something about the widespread glitches in the info about transfers that’s posted on the LED boards in subway cars.
No, you can’t transfer from the R to the L in all these stations.
I see these glitches all the time. Let’s help out tourists and visitors.
No, you can’t transfer from the R to the L in all these stations.
I see these glitches all the time. Let’s help out tourists and visitors.
August 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The @mta.info ought to do something about the widespread glitches in the info about transfers that’s posted on the LED boards in subway cars.
No, you can’t transfer from the R to the L in all these stations.
I see these glitches all the time. Let’s help out tourists and visitors.
No, you can’t transfer from the R to the L in all these stations.
I see these glitches all the time. Let’s help out tourists and visitors.
In case you were wondering: it’s unprecedented to see the negation of a public land use approval and City development commitment based on a back-room signing of an IOU written on a napkin by officials who are highly unlikely to be there to fulfill any commitments they gesture at emptily today
June 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In case you were wondering: it’s unprecedented to see the negation of a public land use approval and City development commitment based on a back-room signing of an IOU written on a napkin by officials who are highly unlikely to be there to fulfill any commitments they gesture at emptily today
At 10:41 the Star Tribune reported this statement from the president
June 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
At 10:41 the Star Tribune reported this statement from the president
Credit to Mark Johnson and his delegation
Still waiting for national voices
Still waiting for national voices
June 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Credit to Mark Johnson and his delegation
Still waiting for national voices
Still waiting for national voices
New Yorkers aren’t “bracing” for protests. We embrace freedom of assembly and the right to speak out peacefully in opposition to government actions. Together, local law enforcement and demonstrators will keep it peaceful.
There is no pretext for military belligerence.
This is how democracy works.
There is no pretext for military belligerence.
This is how democracy works.
June 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
New Yorkers aren’t “bracing” for protests. We embrace freedom of assembly and the right to speak out peacefully in opposition to government actions. Together, local law enforcement and demonstrators will keep it peaceful.
There is no pretext for military belligerence.
This is how democracy works.
There is no pretext for military belligerence.
This is how democracy works.
Surprised some of us to hear Kash Patel say the FBI will be jailing the Jan 6 insurrectionists
June 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Surprised some of us to hear Kash Patel say the FBI will be jailing the Jan 6 insurrectionists
I’m sure there’s a good reason, completely unrelated to DOGE and other efforts to destroy federal agency capacity, why EPA’s AirNow air quality site can’t provide info to parents wondering if wildfire smoke poses a risk to asthmatic children playing outside in a small town of 8.5 million residents
June 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’m sure there’s a good reason, completely unrelated to DOGE and other efforts to destroy federal agency capacity, why EPA’s AirNow air quality site can’t provide info to parents wondering if wildfire smoke poses a risk to asthmatic children playing outside in a small town of 8.5 million residents
Old enough to remember when this was an outrage to Republicans rather than official policy
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June 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Old enough to remember when this was an outrage to Republicans rather than official policy
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Hi @nycparks.bsky.social - is it customary to leave construction vehicles and half-driven piles in a DPR ballfield? Makes it hard for the little league teams who have permits to play here!
This field (41st & 3rd, Bklyn) is terribly maintained on a normal day, but WTF is this? Who’s the contractor?
This field (41st & 3rd, Bklyn) is terribly maintained on a normal day, but WTF is this? Who’s the contractor?
June 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Hi @nycparks.bsky.social - is it customary to leave construction vehicles and half-driven piles in a DPR ballfield? Makes it hard for the little league teams who have permits to play here!
This field (41st & 3rd, Bklyn) is terribly maintained on a normal day, but WTF is this? Who’s the contractor?
This field (41st & 3rd, Bklyn) is terribly maintained on a normal day, but WTF is this? Who’s the contractor?
I find myself thinking about NFIB v Sibelius a lot these days. The Roberts Court held that the federal government couldn’t withhold Medicaid funding to states that didn’t expand coverage - because this went beyond encouragement; it was “a gun to the head” of the states.
May 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I find myself thinking about NFIB v Sibelius a lot these days. The Roberts Court held that the federal government couldn’t withhold Medicaid funding to states that didn’t expand coverage - because this went beyond encouragement; it was “a gun to the head” of the states.
MAGA went from fearmongering about America instituting Sharia law to “Sharia law is cool, you do you” awfully fast
May 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
MAGA went from fearmongering about America instituting Sharia law to “Sharia law is cool, you do you” awfully fast
Taking credit for a sunny day while feverishly denying responsibility for the rain
May 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Taking credit for a sunny day while feverishly denying responsibility for the rain
Every accusation a confession
May 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Every accusation a confession
It begins and ends with this.
Ends.
Ends.
May 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It begins and ends with this.
Ends.
Ends.
I said it once, and I'll say it again:
"There are some elected officials who have taken heroic steps to approve housing and the zoning to enable it ... But if it takes heroes to get housing built, we will never build enough housing."
A better process can give us better results.
"There are some elected officials who have taken heroic steps to approve housing and the zoning to enable it ... But if it takes heroes to get housing built, we will never build enough housing."
A better process can give us better results.
April 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I said it once, and I'll say it again:
"There are some elected officials who have taken heroic steps to approve housing and the zoning to enable it ... But if it takes heroes to get housing built, we will never build enough housing."
A better process can give us better results.
"There are some elected officials who have taken heroic steps to approve housing and the zoning to enable it ... But if it takes heroes to get housing built, we will never build enough housing."
A better process can give us better results.
Basically comparable levels of physique here
April 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Basically comparable levels of physique here
Misled reality TV viewers thought they were tuning in to The Apprentice, but they got The Biggest Loser
April 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Misled reality TV viewers thought they were tuning in to The Apprentice, but they got The Biggest Loser
Abundant evidence that neither the individual in question nor the pattern of executive overreach is anything close to “wildly popular” - this is the answer
March 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Abundant evidence that neither the individual in question nor the pattern of executive overreach is anything close to “wildly popular” - this is the answer
Rule #1 of democracy
March 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Rule #1 of democracy
And a couple more
February 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
And a couple more