Jeff Coltin
@JCColtin
NYC political reporter with @PoliticoNY, co-authoring New York Playbook. 🌵➡️🗽 Used to be at @CityandStateNY
Got something private that ought to be reported? You can leak it to me, fortunately. @ JCColtin.93 on Signal
Mayor Adams’ Charter Revision Commission approved five questions for the ballot this November. And a majority of the City Council is NOT happy.
New video via @thenyic shows conditions for migrants on 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, which House members including @NydiaVelazquez @RepEspaillat have not been allowed to access to inspect.
"The problem is his self-confidence: he loves dictators and billionaires. When he sees people with money, he melts," a member of the FIFA council tells @SophiaCai99 and @Tim_Roehn for this @politico @welt collab on soccer king Gianni Infantino politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
Queens and NYC elected officials - many of whom who have yet to publicly endorse - pictured alongside @votejgr at what can be assumed to be a launch party for her primary against Jessica Ramos
New w/ @Julcuba: Tolib Mansurov, an Uzbek businessman accused of organizing straw donations to Eric Adams, is planning a 99-unit building in Park Slope. Prosecutors had suspected his purchase of 4 adjacent properties was part of a money-laundering scheme. ebx.sh/JpVP1d
A super PAC supporting the mayor reported raising $425k, including from the crypto and blockchain world (Last week, we wrote about a leader of the PAC who attended the same Bitcoin conference as the mayor) politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
NEW: @ZohranKMamdani recounts his high school shenanigans. "If I hadn’t gone to Bronx Science, I would have remained within a privileged bubble for my whole time in NYC." In a resurfaced HS alumni podcast, he talks cutting class, playing soccer & cricket: politico.com/newsletters/ne…
Tiniest bit of drama at the @2025NYC_CRC final meeting as City Hall adviser @dianesavino votes against proposal to shift NYC elections to even-numbered years, arguing local candidates would get drowned out. 4 housing-related proposals all pass unanimously, head to Nov. ballot
Two opposing Italian-American groups — one is anti-@ZohranKMamdani & the other is for him — are protesting in Astoria, Queens now —> The anti-group says Mamdani disrespected Italians/Christopher Columbus statue in the past & that’s why they organized the initial protest.
Curtis Sliwa:
Says his wife Nancy has been banned from adopting cats on death row
Curtis Sliwa is having a presser outside Animal Care Centers of NYC in East Harlem to criticize them for not taking in more animals after they reached max capacity. He’s running on the “protecting animals” independent line in addition to GOP line
Trump administration officials said they’d increase staffing in New York City after getting blocked from opening an office in the city’s jails:
ICE will ‘flood the zone’ in NYC ow.ly/NYxT106grXp
“We’re gonna flood the zone” with ICE agents since the City Council blocked the Feds from opening an office on Rikers Island, Trump Border Czar Tom Homan says. “We’re gonna put more agents in New York City.”