Eric Lach
@ericlach
writer, @newyorker.
is there an AI that can process the inexplicable number of tabs I've kept open for the past six weeks, and that can also analyze the psychological hang ups keeping me from closing all these tabs, and that even as I type this fills me with dread at the thought of ever closing them
don't the experts ever get tired and pine for the simpler days when they were just perts?
this is how the copy department gets umlauts delivered
Lightning striking One World Trade during tonight’s flash flood warning #NYC
In retrospect, an early sign that the race was not going to go the way Cuomo expected was when the Post greeted his announcement with a savage unsigned editorial calling him “Raggedy Andy, the fabulist, the misleader, the maligner.” nypost.com/2025/03/01/opi…
Damn! The @nypost is not pulling any punches with @andrewcuomo. Not that they ever liked him. “He has until 5 p.m. today to inform the city Board of Elections. The clock’s ticking, Andrew: Let your final move in politics be doing the right thing.” nypost.com/2025/06/27/opi…
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 anti-Mamdani bot thinks the original post is about Michelle Wu but it’s about the Wu-Tang Clan 😭
Michelle Wu’s “quiet support” for Zohran Mamdani isn’t inspiring—it’s enabling. Mamdani’s platform? $10B in taxes, rent freezes that’ll bankrupt landlords, and refusing to condemn “globalize the intifada.” Wu calls that “joyful”? Real joy is a city that works—not collapsing under…
and the reason NY doesn't have a Sore Loser Law is because in the 1880s the short-lived No Backsies!, No Returns! party opted for the Hey, I'm Walking Here Act instead
Cuomo is only able to stay on the ballot because NY is one of just two states that doesn’t have a sore loser law banning this. (The other is Connecticut.)
would this apply to ICE agents arresting local comptrollers?
NEW: Mayor Eric Adams wants to bypass Albany and create New York City’s own mask ban that would come with jail time for repeat offenders, The Post has learned. nypost.com/2025/07/08/us-…
NEW: How Andrew Cuomo blew it, according to his own allies and advisers “All of us have a blind spot,” said former Gov. David A. Paterson, who endorsed Mr. Cuomo. “His blind spot is that he doesn’t really connect particularly well with, just, people.” nytimes.com/2025/06/27/nyr…
“Regular New Yorkers encountering Mamdani on the street don’t recoil. The most fervent fear of him was expressed by the powerful.” @ericlach newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
Eric Adams is going to find campaign donations behind the picture frames, in his knapsack, secreted in a baby doll, inside a pillow with a button...
Hearing that real estate and business leaders in New York City are convening a 2 pm call to discuss The Zohran Situation
Timely and important piece from @mayaaking on the eve of the big NYC mayoral primary nytimes.com/2025/06/23/nyr…
it'll be fun to wait a week for them to run the ranked-choice numbers, no stress at all