Reza Chowdhury
@RezaC1
Entrepreneur, CEO/Founder @alleywatch, Founder @nystartuplab, @Georgetown MBA, Technologist, and Evangelist for the global #startup and #tech ecosystem.
Blackout 1977 The New York City blackout of 1977 was one of the most infamous in the city's history - not just for the power outage itself, but for the chaos that followed. 🔌 What Happened? Date: July 13–14, 1977 Duration: ~25 hours (from 9:36 PM July 13 to 10:39 PM July 14)…
THE TAXPAYER-FUNDED OPEN-AIR HEROIN INJECTION SITE HAS MOVED A BLOCK SOUTH TO JERSEY STREET In a game of cat and mouse, chemically dependent vagrants have slipped outside NYPD’s view near Houston. Public disorder continues while taxpayers foot the bill.
🚨 BLEECKER & HOUSTON: TAXPAYER-FUNDED HEROIN DEN GETS A TEMPORARY CLEANUP 🚨 After the New York Post reported on the open-air heroin market flourishing between Mercer and Elizabeth, the NYPD finally deployed SRG officers to the area. However, this is a short-term PR move.…
MTA SHRUGS OFF ITS $900M/YR FARE EVASION PROBLEM WHILE TAXING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT One man looked both ways, braced himself and then smoothly jumped the arm of the turnstile before politely asking other commuters, “Want me to open the door for you?” amny.com/nyc-transit/br…
“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.”
ANOTHER MOSTLY PEACEFUL FATAL STABBING IN THE DANGEROUS AND DEADLY NYC SUBWAY It’s a good time to remember that the fatality rate in the NYC Subway is greater than that of vehicles in NYC based on passenger miles. abc7ny.com/post/man-stabb…
Hey @GovKathyHochul why is this permissible under your leadership?
NEW: According to the DHS post, the suspect in the botched robbery and shooting of an off-duty US Customs and Border Protection agent was illegal alien with prior arrests for felonies and an order of deportation.
WHY PEOPLE HAVE NO FAITH IN THE GOVERNMENT’S ABILITY TO DO INFRASTRUCTURE IN NEW YORK The current construction disaster on the Van Wyck Expressway has been dragging on since 2007 - nearly two decades of bungled phases, blown deadlines, ballooning costs, and daily traffic misery.…
ONCE AN INTEGRAL PART OF NEW YORK, THE SUBWAY IS NOW AN EXPENSIVE, UNDERPERFORMING AFTERTHOUGHT Eighteen months later, and this space still sits empty - at the third-busiest station in the mostly peaceful NYC subway, a system where riders are set on fire and passengers expire…
How long before these two empty retail spots in Herald Square are leased?
But the store, in a city-owned strip mall, is on the verge of closure. Customers say they are increasingly afraid to shop there — even with visible police patrols — because of drug dealing, theft and vagrancy both inside and outside the store and the public library across the…
Despite a recent $750k taxpayer subsidy, the shelves at Kansas City's government-run grocery store are "almost bare." It also lost $885k last year and is, unsurprisingly, hemorrhaging customers.
BREAKING: @CBS cancels The @LateShow after @bradlander and @ZohranKMamdani appearance.
BREAKING NEWS: Citibike's latest monthly operating report for June 2025 reveals that bikes within the Citbike network, a "bike sharing" system, sat unused 96.15% of the time, confirming that this a publicly-subsidized bike warehousing program where capacity is not being…
Hey @NYCMayor - this is right at the mouth of the Manhattan Bridge on the Manhattan side, just a block from the 5th Precinct. What started as repeated graffiti vandalism has now spiraled into an open-air encampment of chemically dependent vagrants. You might remember this spot…
ANOTHER MOSTLY PEACEFUL ATTACK IN THE DANGEROUS AND DEADLY NYC SUBWAY; VICTIM NOW CLINGING TO LIFE WITH THE AID OF AN ARTIFICIAL BREATHING APPARATUS Welcome to one party New York - where criminals roam free, and innocent riders end up fighting for their lives in ICU.
Straphanger, 51, on life support after stranger punches him to ground in Times Square subway trib.al/BOjt5RB
THIS IS THE THIRD TRAIN HIJACKING IN QUEENS ALONE IN THE LAST YEAR If @GovKathyHochul and the @MTA can't even safeguard their equipment, how will they provide for your safety as a passenger? It's a good time to remember that according to data released at the MTA June 2025 board…
Woman commandeers Queens N train for 1-stop joy ride, NYPD says gothamist.com/news/woman-com…
🌊 DID YOU KNOW THE EAST RIVER ISN’T ACTUALLY A RIVER? 🌊 Despite its name, the East River isn’t a river at all - it’s a saltwater tidal strait. It connects Upper New York Bay to the Long Island Sound, with water flowing in both directions depending on the tide. That’s why…
The Democratic inflation hawks are upset at the singular June print. I wonder where these people were when inflation went from 1.4% to 9.1% in 18 months.
THE MAMDANI MATH CHALLENGE: SEWERS "We must upgrade our infrastructure" - Zohran Mamdani We have a sewer system designed in ~1850 for 515K residents. As of 2014 - "The average age of New York City’s 6,400 miles of sewage mains is approximately 84 years." and that's the…
Earlier tonight, NYC was drenched by more than 2” of rain in a single hour, flooding streets, basements and subways. I’m grateful to the city workers and emergency responders we rely on in these events. But we must upgrade our infrastructure for this new climate reality.