QUEENS VILLAGE, Queens (WABC) — The candidates looking to replace expelled Congressman George Santos hit the campaign trail on Thursday.
Republican candidate Mazi Pilip called out her opponent, former Congressman Tom Suozzi, a Democrat, for what she says is his open border policy when it comes to migrants.
Pilip, an immigrant from Israel, and Congressman Anthony D’Esposito say the way Democrats are handling the migrant crisis is having a negative impact on communities through New York City and the neighborhoods surrounding the Creedmoor Psychiatric Facility.
“Look around me, that playground used to be full of young kids playing here, now parents tell me they are afraid to bring their children here — why? Because just across the street in the back, a massive tent city was built to house 1,000 migrants,” Pilip said.
So far in the campaign, Pilip is known better for what she doesn’t say than what she does — including everything from government funding to why she has only committed to one debate with her challenger Suozzi.
“I have been available to the press every time when I got the request and I am happy to speak and I have a debate coming Feb 8th…only one,” Pilip said. “When they announced my name it was only six weeks ago, it’s a short time to meet people, engage myself to be available for press and do a debate.”
After Pilip’s event on Thursday, her opponent arrived.
“In this post-age of George Santos, I don’t know how anybody can think they can run for U.S. Congress for the 3rd Congressional district and not be transparent with the people, not make themselves completely available in every single way,” Suozzi said.
Suozzi also blamed Republicans with trying to mislead the public about a complicated situation.
He said people care about the issue and want to solve it.
“They’re focused on this issue, they want the problem solved, they’re sick of the finger-pointing, also they want to get a deal on Ukraine, and on Israel, so this is the best opportunity to make a deal in 35 years, but President Trump said ‘I don’t want you to make a deal with the border because it would give a victory to Biden and I couldn’t use it as a political issue,’” Suozzi said.
Many think the back and forth is a moot point as the race is falling along party lines with redistricting playing a key role.
The Bronx, which is heavily Democrat, is no longer included — but Levittown and Massapequa, both Republican strongholds, are included.
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An illegal immigrant from Africa praised the President as he crossed an “overwhelmed” section of the border saying, “I love you, Joe Biden!”
It is a stark reminder that while the administration feigns that the border is operationally secure, illegal aliens assume they can cross into the United States at their whim.
And now, one at least is expressing gratitude to the President of the United States for the opportunity to breach the border of a sovereign nation.
“I love you, Joe Biden, thank you for everything, Joe Biden!” the man says in a video obtained by Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin earlier this month.
“I’m a good person, I want to be good person here in the United States,” he added.
“I love you Joe Biden, thank you for everything, Joe Biden!”
I talked to two African men who crossed illegally into Lukeville, AZ (Morocco & Liberia). Both admitted to me they are not seeking asylum, & instead want work and opportunity in US. Both are planning to go to NYC. pic.twitter.com/IK8fcY3qvB
According to Fox News, both men were seeking to go to New York City, one of the most unaffordable places to live on the planet and also a place where the mayor has actively argued illegal aliens are “destroying” it.
But perhaps it’s more affordable when you’ll be off the books, not having to pay exorbitant New York taxes, and will be housed for free.
The man in orange later told reporter Ali Bradley that he “didn’t care” if American taxpayers had to pay for him once he arrived in New York.
The Fox News report indicates that illegal immigrants coming in through this “overwhelmed part of the southern border in Arizona” have been identified as being not only from Africa, but the Middle East and Asia as well.
This is what our current asylum system enables, rampant fraud. All these men have to say is “I’m scared” and they get to go wherever they please on the taxpayer dime. https://t.co/wllBAh7rNK
Same Location Saw African Illegal Immigrant With Terror Ties Released
The location in Arizona where these two illegal aliens were interviewed is Lukeville, Arizona.
Readers of The Political Insider might note that Lukeville is the site where an African illegal immigrant wanted in Senegal for alleged “terroristic activities” was unwittingly released by Border Patrol officials in October.
That man was “released on his own recognizance” before being arrested, where? You guessed it. In New York City two weeks later.
Earlier this week, more than 12,000 illegal immigrants were encountered at the southern border in a single day — the highest daily total ever recorded.
And all the while they taunt Americans and law officials.
“I love you, Joe Biden” was preceded by this human smuggler who, after guiding dozens of illegal aliens to a hole in the border wall, simply shrugged at and saluted border patrol agents and reporters.
NEW: Our cameras were rolling in Lukeville, AZ as groups of illegal immigrants rushed through a breach in the border wall as Border Patrol & federal contractors were trying to fix it. Their human smuggler then shrugs at our cameras & salutes us. Cuts/breaches all over wall here. pic.twitter.com/z2EI4KC9HH
Just two months into his presidency, illegal aliens were reportedly showing up at the border wearing t-shirts in support of President Biden and holding signs that read: “Biden, please let us in!”
He did. And now they ‘love’ him for it.
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A recent poll by Rasmussen Reports shows Democrats approve of a proposal that would essentially ‘cancel’ George Washington and remove his statue from New York City.
George Washington is – and this is a reminder for liberals mostly – the man who commanded the Continental Army in the American Revolution, nearly single-handedly held the rebellion together despite overwhelming odds, and then served two terms as the first president of the United States.
They want to remove a statue of that guy.
Rasmussen Reports indicates that 82% of those surveyed have a favorable impression of Washington.
And even with that support, they reveal 40% of Democrats approve of removing monuments to Washington – including 21% who Strongly Approve – while 53% disapprove.
That is a shockingly almost even split.
Cancel George Washington? 40% of Democrats Approve
Even though most voters have a positive opinion of George Washington, a substantial number of Democrats support a proposal in New York City that would tear down statues of America’s first president.
New York City Wants to Remove Statue of George Washington
So what prompted this reaction from Democrat voters? What could they possibly be commenting on George Washington for? Could an effort to cancel him be real?
Sadly, it is.
Rasmussen asked the polling question because the New York City Council is considering a measure to remove artwork with the likenesses of individuals such as Washington or Christopher Columbus.
The New York City Council is proposing to tear down the statues of Christopher Columbus and George Washington as part of a reparations plan.
This removal process would affect several statues across the city, including ones of George Washington, New York governor and settler… pic.twitter.com/XWqNtFYYQD
You can’t just chalk it up to liberals having an infantile approach to seeing the world, either. Infants would have had their little tantrum, smashed a few Confederate statues here and there, and returned to being civilized members of society eventually.
You know, let out of time out, so to speak.
This is, instead, mental illness. The drive to cancel every single human being for every single flaw they may have ever had is disturbing. It’s an effort to force purity down everybody’s throats.
Sounds like 1930s Germany if you ask me. Isn’t it the left that’s always calling people out for being fascists?
Former President Donald Trump warned the country that liberals were going to take us down this path.
When vandals were tearing down confederate statues in 2017, Trump semi-joked that monuments to Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be the next to be erased from our history.
“George Washington was a slave owner,” Trump told reporters. “Was George Washington a slave owner? So, will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down statues to George Washington?”
Aug. 15 2017
Donald Trump: George Washington was a slave owner are we going to take down statues of George Washington? Thomas Jefferson was a major slave owner are we going to take down his statue?
And here we are. The ongoing cancel culture against our Founding Fathers and other historical figures has produced some gems.
The left has previously demanded George Washington’s statues be removed, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial be relegated to a museum, and parks named after Andrew Jackson to be dedicated instead to honor Michael Jackson.
These aren’t serious adults, folks.
If you think these are idle threats, however, you’d be wrong.
A statue of Thomas Jefferson, the drafter of the Declaration of Independence and America’s third president, was removed from City Hall in New York two years ago because he was a slaveholder.
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Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina conducted a campaign to undermine mandated outside oversight of city jails in violation of federal court orders and city law, a court filing by a high-ranking DOC investigator obtained by the Daily News alleges.
The notice of intent to sue filed by Ruben Benitez, who was DOC’s associate deputy commissioner of investigations until September, alleges Molina and top aides gave orders to withhold information from federal monitor Steve Martin, who is empowered by a 2015 consent decree and a federal judge to track violence and use of force in the jails.
The allegations come after months of calls for a judge to take away control of the troubled jails from the city.
One of Benitez’s most stunning allegations is that Molina and his former Deputy Commissioner of Investigations Manuel Hernandez ordered staff not to cooperate with the city Department of Investigation and even barred access to the DOC’s Investigations Division offices.
At one point, Molina also directed top executives to try to find a way to oust Martin as monitor, alleges the claim filed Monday afternoon with the city comptroller’s office.
Such directives could constitute violations of the foundational 1978 Mayoral Executive Order No. 16 requiring city employees including commissioners to cooperate fully with DOI.
In September, Molina retaliated against Benitez by demoting him from a senior position overseeing use of force probes to a lowly post checking job applicants and slashed his salary by $40,000, the claim alleges.
Sarena Townsend, who is representing Benitez with lawyer David Erlich, called for a criminal investigation into Benitez’s allegations.
“For years, the highest levels of DOC chiefs and commissioners relied on Mr. Benitez for his wisdom and insight, and for the federal monitor, he was an essential partner,” Townsend said.
“Mr. Benitez experienced first-hand the corruption of this administration, and was ordered to take part in it. As mandated by law, Mr. Benitez reported the illegal activity; shamefully, to no avail,” she added. “Instead, Commissioner Molina and his associates subjected Mr. Benitez to a relentless campaign of intimidation [and] coercion.”
Benitez worked for Townsend when she was DOC’s deputy commissioner for trials and investigations. Molina fired Townsend in January 2022 as one of his first acts because, she has alleged, she refused his demand to dump 2,000 pending disciplinary cases.
Kayla Mamelak, a spokeswoman for Mayor Adams, did not respond to Benitez’s allegations. Instead, she described Molina as having “dedicated himself to reversing decades of mismanagement in the jails.”
“His record of service throughout his career speaks for itself,” she said.
Benitez, a 19-year veteran of the division, kept a “running memo” documenting his interactions with Molina and his aides, Townsend said.
Hours after Molina fired Townsend on Jan. 3, 2022, he met with Benitez and made him acting deputy commissioner of investigations.
In the meeting, Molina stripped the division of the power to suspend correction officers accused of misconduct and those who had been arrested for alleged crimes without Molina’s direct approval, the claim alleges.
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New York City Department of Corrections Commissioner Louis Molina at the City Hall rotunda on July 31. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)
Those orders went against more than two decades of policy meant to keep the division free of political influence, Townsend said.
A week later, Molina allegedly questioned Benitez about why DOI had to “police” the Correction Department.
In a third meeting during the week of Jan. 17, 2022, Molina railed to Benitez about being “sabotaged” by staffers in investigations who were “leaking” to outsiders, the claim alleges.
Benitez tried to assure Molina that the division was only trying to comply with court orders and cooperate with the monitor.
The commissioner replied he was upset about the extent of information being given to the monitor and said the monitor should be an ally.
Benitez, concerned about Molina’s comments, conveyed them to the monitoring team, the claim states.
On Jan. 24, 2022, Molina took away Benitez’s “acting” title and returned him to associate deputy commissioner citing unspecified “concerns,” the claim alleges. In his place, Molina tapped Yvonne Pritchett, an agency attorney with three years’ experience at DOC. Her salary jumped from $97,200 in 2022 to $185,000 in 2023, records show.
In mid-February 2022, Marshall Volk, DOC’s point man for dealing with the monitor, called Benitez and told him Molina had directed his legal and executive staff to try to get Steve Martin ousted as federal monitor, the claim alleges.
On May 9, 2022, Molina made his former NYPD squad commander Manuel Hernandez the deputy commissioner for investigations. The two closely worked together when Molina was a NYPD detective and Hernandez was his commander. Molina would go on to tap several former police colleagues for key roles in the DOC.
The claim alleges Hernandez began attacking the division’s cooperation with the monitor, telling Benitez he was giving the monitor “too much information,” the monitor was “not on our side” and people who assist the monitor were “not looking out” for Molina.
He allegedly ordered Benitez not to contact the monitor or answer questions from Deputy Monitor Anna Friedberg. “Remember who signs your paychecks,” Hernandez warned.
Behind the scenes, Hernandez started manipulating the operations of the intake squad, which acts like a gatekeeper in assessing cases.
An April 3, 2023, monitor report detailed that as many as 400 cases stopped in intake had to be reopened and reinvestigated.
In January 2023, Hernandez ordered staff to stop cooperating with DOI and directed them to cut off DOI’s access to the secure Investigations Division offices in DOC headquarters in Astoria, the claim alleges.
Hernandez also boasted he had a “friend” at DOI, Deputy Commissioner Dominick Zarrella, another former NYPD lieutenant, the claim states.
Benitez reported Hernandez’s order to DOI’s then-Deputy Inspector General Richard Askin and also told the monitor.
DOI spokeswoman Diane Struzzi said Monday it was “absurd” to suggest any DOI employee acted improperly.
In March of this year, the monitor’s concerns about Hernandez came to a head. On March 29, Molina conveyed his anger at the monitor to Hernandez and blamed Benitez, the new claim alleges.
Two days later, Hernandez resigned under pressure.
On April 24, the monitor followed up with another report highlighting the dysfunctional relationship with Molina. The report described Benitez as “a well-respected and seasoned investigator and supervisor.”
The city filed a letter in the Nunez case touting Benitez’s presence to try to allay the monitor’s concerns.
But on July 3, Molina began a series of moves that ended with Benitez’s demotion. It started with a routine visit by Correction Capt. Lawrence Bond, a DOI investigator, to the Correction Academy.
DOI staff do not have to sign in. But Robert Gonzalez, the head of training and another former NYPD lieutenant hired by Molina, insisted.
The men argued. Molina and DOC’s Special Investigations Unit Director Lawrence McGugins then suspended Bond.
As he left DOC headquarters, Bond ran into Benitez. Benitez expressed surprise at the suspension and suggested Bond get a lawyer.
Two months later, on Sept. 1, Benitez was summoned to DOI headquarters in lower Manhattan and interrogated about the encounter with Bond by McGugins and Zarrella.
Four days later, Molina ordered Benitez to his office with Pritchett and Wilfredo Perez, a former union official for state prison guards whom Molina had hired to a top spot in investigations in August.
Benitez was then demoted, serving “to gag Benitez to allow Molina to continue his illegal behavior under a cloak of secrecy,” the claim alleges.
Benitez previously worked for Florence Finkle, who was DOC deputy commissioner of investigations from 2010 to 2014. “He is incredibly knowledgeable regarding correctional and internal investigative procedures, was completely devoted to the job and possesses a lot of integrity,” she said.
New York City has taken a significant step forward in its war against rodents by appointing Kathleen Corradi as the city’s first-ever “rat czar.”
This initiative is a part of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration’s efforts to address a major quality-of-life and health challenge. Corradi’s role involves coordinating rat reduction efforts across city government agencies, community organizations, and the private sector.
Harlem Rat Mitigation Zone and Funding
As part of this initiative, Mayor Adams also announced the Harlem Rat Mitigation Zone, backed by a $3.5 million investment for Fiscal Year 2023. This investment aims to expand and accelerate rat reduction efforts across Harlem, encompassing Community Boards 9, 10, and 11. The funding will assist in employing new staff, purchasing equipment, and implementing innovative rat mitigation techniques.
Corradi’s strategic plan to combat the rat crisis includes cutting off rats’ food sources and deploying new technologies for detection and extermination. These efforts will harness the expertise of various city agencies like the Department of Health, Parks and Recreation, Housing Authority, Department of Education, Sanitation, and Small Business Services.
The rat mitigation strategy is more than just a quality-of-life issue. It symbolizes the fight against systemic challenges that have long affected New Yorkers, especially in low-income communities and communities of color. The plan aims to provide equitable quality of life experiences for all New Yorkers.
Collaborative Approach and Public Involvement
The strategy emphasizes the importance of each New Yorker playing their part in creating a rat-free city. This includes keeping homes clean, securing trash, destroying potential rat habitats, and adhering to common-sense tips. The city plans to offer Harlem-specific rat academies, teaching residents how to prevent rat infestations on their properties.
In support of the initiative, the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City received a donation of over 1,000 Tomcat rodent control products. These will be used across various city locations, aiding the fight against rodent infestations.
Long-Term Vision for the Rat Czar
The appointment of a rat czar marks a new era in New York City’s approach to pest control. The long-term goal is to produce a cleaner, more livable city for future generations. This effort represents a bold and creative approach to tackle one of the city’s most persistent problems.
Kathleen Corradi brings a wealth of experience in community engagement, program development, and facility operations. Her background in science and expertise in rodent mitigation positions her to lead this challenging and crucial initiative effectively.
The Adams administration has shown its commitment to addressing quality-of-life issues through various initiatives, including the ‘Get Stuff Clean’ program. The rat czar appointment further emphasizes this commitment, aiming to make New York City a cleaner and healthier place for its residents.
The NYPD has bolstered patrols in Chelsea Friday as they prepare for large crowds and possible mayhem over an energy drink company’s “golden bottle” contest similar to a recent PlayStation giveaway over the summer that ended in a riot, officials said.
Cops have set up barricades, keeping a careful watch as over-caffeinated fans of Prime Energy Drink enter a pop-up shop on W. 15th St. near Ninth Ave. and try their luck entering a six-digit code that will free a 24K gold Prime bottle from a bulletproof case.
The bottle is worth $500,000, Prime Energy Drink co-founders Logan Paul and Olajide Olayinka Williams “JJ” Olatunji said on Tik Tok.
A view of a solid gold PRIME bottle as Logan Paul visits “Varney & Co.” at Fox Business Network Studios on November 10, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
Paul and Olatunji, known professionally as KSI, have become internet celebrities as they use social media to hawk their energy drink. Their TikTok page has over 4 million followers and their Instagram page has nearly 2 million.
Logan Paul visits “Varney & Co.” at Fox Business Network Studios on November 10, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
In August more than 5,000 people showed up at Union Square after Twitch star Kai Cenat announced that he was going to be giving out free PlayStation consoles.
Cenat and four others were arrested on misdemeanor crimes and an additional 60 people were given summonses for disorderly conduct.
Union Square Riot
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People are pictured in Union Square on Friday, August 4, 2023 in Manhattan, New York. More than 5,000 people showed up at Union Square after Twitch star Kai Cenat announced that he was going to be giving out free PlayStation consoles. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News)
Holding up a copy of the Daily News’s coverage of the riot, Cenat condemned his followers’ actions and the mayhem they caused.
“I don’t condone any of the things that went on that day,” he said.
Where are home buyers paying the most? Mostly on the coasts, according to a new report.
Based on a ZIP Code–level analysis of closed home-sale prices, PropertyShark, a real-estate data site owned by Yardi Systems, found that, of the top 100 most expensive ZIP Codes in the U.S., 65% were in California.
On the East Coast, New York City had the highest concentration of pricey postal codes for home buyers, the report said.
The analysis of ZIP Codes was based on the actual sale prices of homes, not their asking prices, PropertyShark noted. “Whereas asking prices reflect sellers’ wishes, calculating medians based on sale prices reflects the transactional reality on the ground,” PropertyShark said.
The most expensive ZIP Code in the U.S., 94027, in Atherton, Calif., has been a longtime leader on the list, the report said. The median sale price of a home there was a cool $8.3 million. The Bay Area town, in San Mateo County, is home to some rich and famous people, including NBA star Steph Curry and his wife, Ayesha; tech billionaire Marc Andreessen and his wife, Laura; and others.
Curry and Andreessen have opposed denser and more affordable housing developments in their neighborhoods, earning them criticism as “NIMBYs,” for Not In My Backyard. “Atherton is almost exclusively zoned for single-family homes, with a one-acre minimum lot requirement dating back to the 1920s,” the PropertyShark report stated.
Across the country, New York City had the highest density of expensive ZIP Codes, with eight spread across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
The Hamptons town of Sagaponack (11962), a Long Island enclave popular with celebrities, ranked No. 2 on the list, with a median home price of $8,075,000.
Nationally, the median home price, meaning the price in the exact middle of the price range, was $394,400 as of September, according to the National Association of Realtors.
These are the most expensive ZIP Codes in America as of 2023, according to PropertyShark:
Migrants ousted from city shelters due to new time limits are being offered free tickets out of NYC or being sent to so-called “waiting rooms” at local shelters with no assurance they’ll get a new bed, the latest signs the crisis is crashing the city’s social safety net system.
A newly-established “reticketing office” in Manhattan’s East Village is among the latest frontiers in the crisis, where migrants who spoke with the Daily News Monday said they went there after being told that’s where they could reapply for new city shelter beds. Their visits came after the expatriations of their 30- and 60-day allowances to stay in a city shelter — a policy enacted by Mayor Adams as a result of lack of space.
But once they arrived at the office, which is operating out of an old Catholic school on E. 7th Street, they were told the only option available there was accepting free tickets to any city in the country, Java Juarez, a 47-year-old Nicaraguan migrant, told The News.
Other migrants have been sent to a waiting room that’s described by Josh Goldfein, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society, as makeshift with no beds.
Juarez showed The News a notice he received listing the address of the reticketing office as among a handful of sites he could go to should he need “further assistance” after being removed from his old placement in a Queens shelter due to his 30-day notice coming due.
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Java Juárez holds a photo of a notice plastered on a shelter in Queens, where he was living until Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. (Josephine Stratman / New York Daily News)
“These are the places that [shelter workers] told me I can go to get relocated, but I come to these places and they tell me they can’t. None of this is right. All of the addresses are wrong,” said Juarez.
He said he does not want to leave New York as he has already applied for asylum and received an immigration court date for next year.
“I don’t know where they’ll send me,” he continued, “I don’t know if I’ll have to sleep in a tent. I don’t know if I’ll be out in the cold, if they’ll give me a tent.”
Last week, Mayor Adams said the city might be forced to provide migrants sleeping tents instead of lodgings if the shelter population swells.
Bryan Pazmiño, a migrant from Ecuador, came to the East Village location thinking he’d also be able to land a bed for the night after saying he has spent the past two weeks sleeping in a train station in Manhattan.
But Pazmiño, 26, said he was also informed that only reticketing was available.
“They send you from here, to here, to here,” Pazmiño said. “And they’ll give us refuge, but after a month, they’ll kick you out of there and you have to come back here, and they send you to another one until they kick you out again.”
Adams administration officials have previously said migrants should go to the city’s Roosevelt Hotel asylum seeker intake center if they need shelter.
But Legal Aid Society attorney Josh Goldfein, whose fighting the Adams administration in court over its push to suspend the city’s right to shelter, said he understands from speaking to migrants that many of them are sent directly to the reticketing site once their 60- or 30-day notices come due.
“The Roosevelt is off limits to them now,” Goldfein said.
A City Hall spokeswoman said she could not immediately comment on why migrants are being told they can reapply for new shelter beds at the reticketing site.
The spokeswoman did say the administration has offered reticketing services to migrants throughout the crisis, which started in the spring of 2022, as thousands of mostly Latin American nationals started arriving in the city in hopes of seeking asylum. The spokeswoman said she could not immediately provide data on how many migrants the administration has sent to other cities so far.
According to data from Adams’ office, more than 64,000 migrants remain in the city’s care, on top of nearly as many homeless New Yorkers who are also in city shelters. Predicting that the crisis could cost the city as much as $12 billion by mid-2025, Adams has said repeatedly that state and federal government partners need to help out more as hundreds of new migrants keep arriving every week.
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Mayor Eric Adams
“It’s not ‘if’ people will be sleeping on the streets, it’s ‘when,’” the mayor said last week.
Gov. Hochul, meantime, told reporters in the Bronx on Monday it’s mostly up to the federal government to see to it that fewer migrants make it to New York because the “rate is unsustainable.”
“I support the mayor’s efforts to let people know that we are at capacity,” the governor said. “There will be more support next year…but I just want to make sure that we’re managing expectations, because I also have to manage an entire budget that funds education, health care, childcare and other services that New Yorkers want to make sure are not cut.”
Governor Kathy Hochul
The first iteration of the 60- and 30-day policies were implemented by the mayor in July, with Adams saying single adult migrants could only stay in the same shelter bed for 60 consecutive days before they’d need to reapply for a new placement if they were unsuccessful in finding their own “alternative housing” in the interim.
Since then, the administration has decreased the number of consecutive days single adult migrants can stay in the same shelter placement to 30 days, and put migrant families with children on a 60-day clock.
As first reported by the news outlet The City last week, some migrants whose notices are coming due have been sent to “waiting rooms” where they’re supposed to stay until a proper shelter placement becomes available.
The New York Times reported over the weekend that one such waiting room in the Bronx doesn’t have any beds and that migrants are told to sleep on the floor if they need to. Other migrants have been sleeping for days on the floor of another waiting room operating out of an old church in Astoria, Queens, according to the report.
Adams administration officials say the 60- and 30-day notice policies are having their intended effect as several hundred migrants have accepted offers to relocate to other cities so far.
Petter Aguliar, a 24-year-old Venezuelan migrant, is among them. Speaking to The News outside the East Village office, Aguilar said he accepted a ticket to Los Angeles, where he hopes to find work after spending the past two months in a Queens shelter.
“I just came here to get a ticket to leave New York,” he said. “I’m going to work.”
New York prosecutors revealed that an additional police report is part of the evidence against Jonathan Majors as the domestic violence case against the Marvel actor continues.
The existence of a London Metropolitan police report relevant to the U.S. case was disclosed in a bombshell 115-page filing on Tuesday by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has charged Majors with intentional assault, reckless assault and aggravated harassment in connection with a March 25 incident involving his former girlfriend. Majors’ attorneys have vehemently denied the allegations against him and have accused the woman of being the aggressor. HuffPost is not naming her as she remains an alleged victim of domestic violence.
Although prosecutors included the London police report with evidence submitted in their discovery filing, they did not specify the details of that report or how it was related to the Manhattan incident.
Prosecutors also said they’re looking at what’s known as a Molineaux incident, which could be evidence of an additional uncharged crime or “bad acts,” which took place in London in September 2022, around the time when Majors was in Britain to film the second season of the Disney+ series “Loki.” Majors’ attorneys did not comment on the new filing.
American actor Jonathan Majors leaves Manhattan Criminal Court on Aug. 3.
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The information about prosecutors’ expanded evidence came a day before Majors was scheduled to return to court for a hearing. Their filing also gives more detailed allegations of what authorities say occurred on the night of the reported incident.
Prosecutors said Majors was arrested in March after he injured a woman he was involved with when she caught him receiving a romantic text message from someone else.
According to prosecutors, Majors and the woman were in a private car heading to their Manhattan home on March 25 when the woman noticed he’d received a text message that allegedly stated, “Wish I was kissing you right now.”
The woman then grabbed Majors’ phone to see who sent the message, and the actor allegedly began to try and take the phone away from her. According to prosecutors, Majors grabbed the woman’s arm and right hand and began to twist her forearm, then struck her right ear.
Prosecutors said that Majors grabbed the woman to pick her up and throw her back into the car when she attempted to escape, causing more injuries, including bruises and a bump to her head.
The new filing also accused Majors’ legal team of leaking and misrepresenting evidence, making baseless allegations and leaking information to the media. On Monday, The Messenger reported that the alleged victim would soon be charged with assault in connection with Majors’ counterclaim against her. In their new filing, prosecutors said they don’t have plans to charge her.
“On September 8, 2023, and September 12, 2023, the prosecution informed the NYPD that the People would decline to prosecute any charges brought by the NYPD against [the woman] related to the belated allegations made by defendant,” prosecutors said.
According to prosecutors, Major’s legal defense team has also demanded that authorities turn over potential evidence that prosecutors insist does not exist, including a 911 call from the scene. Majors’ lawyers allegedly asserted that a New York Police Department patrol car responded to the scene that night. However, prosecutors said they confirmed that the NYPD simply pulled over a taxi over an incident “wholly unrelated to this case.”
Prosecutors have accused the defense team of “disseminating” video surveillance footage they claimed prosecutors had “buried,” showing the woman “completely unharmed” after the alleged assault. However, prosecutors now say that the video the defense team referred to was “deprived of crucial context.”
The defense had argued that the video constituted Brady material, or evidence that could be favorable or exculpatory to Majors, a claim prosecutors contradicted.
“The surveillance video referred to by the defense actually shows Ms. Jabbari visibly upset, crying, and seeking help from strangers to get an Uber cab home,” prosecutors said. “The fact that Ms. Jabbari did not disclose that she was a victim of domestic violence to three strangers is not Brady material.”
A detective based in Israel has been able to provide timely information that has allowed his NYPD colleagues to better protect New York City as war rages on, a top department official said Monday.
Detective Charlie Benaim, part of the NYPD’s International Liaison Program, said he works closely with various Israeli law enforcement agencies, most notably the Israeli national police, to relay to 1 Police Plaza timely intel, “so that way our executives can have a good understanding of what’s going on in Israel and how things that are happening here may impact our city.”
Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence & Counterterrorism Rebecca Weiner, speaking during a Zoom call with reporters and with Benhaim, who was in an office in central Israel, said any overseas terror attack always prompts what she called “the New York question.”
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NYPD Counterterrorism Deputy Chief Rebecca Weiner speaks next to Police Commissioner Edward Caban.
“What would this attack look like it it were to happen in New York?” she said. “How can we protect New York City better? What lessons can we learn from these jurisdictions around the world on how to better protect New York City?”
Weiner said, without adding specifics, that Benaim’s intel enabled the NYPD to “surge resources based on what we’re seeing overseas to protect New York’s infrastructure.”
He has been in Israel for 16 years, four years before the NYPD first started its liaison program. Funded by the Police Foundation, it sends cops to 16 posts around the world, all but three outside the United States.
Benaim said he’s been out of harm’s way and that life in many ways goes on as normal outside the conflict zones.
Weiner said that while New York City remains on high alert, there are “no credible threats.”
This is a roundup of news and other interesting pieces that I’ve come across over the last few days. I thought they are worth sharing so I hope you enjoy reading them.
Amex Sees Growth in Spending by Business Customers Slowing Down
American Express saw volumes on its cards slow faster than expected in the third quarter as small business and corporations alike pulled back on their spending on the firm’s cards. Total network volume jumped 7% to $420.2 billion, the lowest level of growth in ten quarters, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That missed estimates as spending by commercial services customers climbed just 1% in the period.
Amex reported $15.4 billion in revenue, topping analyst estimates and surpassing the $13.6 billion it generated in the same period a year prior. That was aided by a 20% increase in net card fees, with Amex saying fee-based cards accounted for more than 70% of all new accounts it added in the quarter. ➡️ Read more
120-year-old subway station is NYC’s hottest ticket
New Yorkers are clamoring to get a peak at the splendid Old City Hall subway station that served the city from 1904 to 1945. But, the only way to get a good look is via tours offered solely to members of the New York Transit Museum. They go on sale three times a year and sell out in minutes. ➡️ Read more
Miami Art Week Night Party and Musical Performances
Chase Sapphire Reserve cardmembers can purchase one ticket to a show-stopping A-List musical performances for Friday, Dec. 8 and/or Saturday, Dec. 9. Premium signature cocktails and food curated by Krüs Kitchen and Los Felix in partnership with restaurant discovery platform, The Infatuation. ➡️ Read more
Hilton launches its LXR luxury brand in Italy
Guests at Grand Hotel Gardone Lake Garda, LXR Hotels & Resorts, will enjoy a glamorous Italian lakefront experience, marked by bespoke, personalized service and authentic culinary and wellness offerings. The property will be located on the banks of Northern Italy’s Lake Garda, famed for its crystal-clear waters, and will offer guests panoramic views of the picturesque lake and surrounding mountains. ➡️ Read more
Two Iconic Las Vegas Properties Are Undergoing a ‘Resort Refresh’
With so many visitors checking in and out of the city’s world-renowned resorts on a daily basis, there’s almost always a property undergoing some type of refresh to keep guests comfortable. One of the Strip’s most luxurious resorts, Bellagio, is completing a $110-million transformation of all 819 guest rooms and 104 suites within its Spa Tower in October. Inspired by the beauty and tranquility of Italy’s Lake Como, the remodeled rooms showcase why the AAA Five Diamond property is considered one of Las Vegas’ premier destinations. ➡️ Read more
Google Wallet catches up to Apple Wallet for digital IDs
Android-owning U.S. residents living in Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia who want an official digital copy of their license are in luck: Google Wallet now allows them to add their digital IDs, and you can do so right now. Google first announced Google Wallet in May 2022, promising during its I/O keynote that it would soon enable digital IDs to substitute for a driver’s license. Since then, only one state — Maryland — has supported the feature, and we began to wonder if the feature would ever expand. ➡️ Read more
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Alaska Adds Nonstops from Anchorage to NYC and San Diego
Alaska Airlines announced today seasonal nonstop service for summer connecting Anchorage to both New York City and San Diego. Daily flights to New York JFK begin June 13, 2024, and weekly flights to San Diego start May 18, 2024. Flights are available for purchase now at alaskaair.com.
The new nonstop between the Big Apple and the Last Frontier offers New Yorkers an easier option to get away and enjoy the wilds of Alaska with its countless outdoor adventures, rich Alaska Native culture, wild Alaska seafood, jaw-dropping scenery and more. It will be the only nonstop service between New York JFK and Anchorage.
The Anchorage-New York JFK route will become the longest flight in the carrier’s network, clocking in at 3,386 miles. Alaska will serve the route with new 737-8 aircraft, which has the longest range of any plane in its fleet.
With these new routes, Alaska will fly to 14 nonstop destinations to and from Anchorage in the summer to the Lower 48 and Hawaii. It will serve all of these cities by mid-June from Anchorage: Chicago, Denver, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, New York JFK, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Seattle/Everett (Paine Field).
A new program that aims to provide an exit ramp from the revolving-door justice system will boost access to services for New Yorkers in need with $3 million from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.
The investment in the Fortune Society-run program aims to fill holes in the city’s social safety net where they’re perhaps most clearly displayed — in arraignments. It will see courtroom-based outreach workers engage people arrested on low-level offenses when they would otherwise leave the courthouse with only a subway ticket, a return date and nowhere to go.
Bragg told the Daily News the “courtroom navigators” program seeks to recognize and remedy the life challenges that cause so many to remain tangled up in the criminal justice system, released time and again back into the circumstances that led them to offend.
“This is a cycle that many of us have seen for years and years,” he said. “They can literally put that person in a Fortune Society vehicle and ride with that person to a bed, provide that person with a bed and find out what else that person needs. … Recidivism being addressed by stabilizing people.”
Navigators, as they’re known, will staff Manhattan arraignments seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m., offering to help people dealing with issues like poverty, homelessness and mental illness navigate complex paths to housing, substance use disorder and behavioral health treatment and other immediate and long-term services at the start of their cases.
The voluntary program adds a layer to a tattered patchwork of mental health services available to criminal defendants. It will operate parallel to court-mandated treatment interventions like supervised release, an alternative to jail focused on ensuring someone’s return to court that’s had limited success.
The city’s ad-hoc mental health courts — operated at will by a handful of judges — have shown strong results diverting participants away from the justice system permanently by bringing together a team to tailor the resolution of their case to their ongoing needs. However, admission is highly limited due to a lack of funding and has drawn criticism for the requirement that a participant admit guilt.
New York County Criminal Court at 100 Centre St. in Manhattan in 2020. (AP)
There are fewer options for those with mental health needs who fight their cases from jail.
According to city data, more than half of the roughly 6,000 people incarcerated on Rikers Island have a diagnosed mental illness — with one in five classified as severe.
While some efforts to remedy the situation have been made, according to the most recent report by federal monitor Steve Martin, the increased need for mental health services at the dysfunctional jail complex vastly outweighs the availability of help. More than a dozen detainees have died by suicide since the start of 2021.
Many of the 28 to die waiting for trial on Rikers since the start of 2022 struggled with mental illness, like Manish Kunwar, a 27-year-old Nepali man found unresponsive in his cell earlier this month.
An officer familiar with Kunwar’s cell block at the Taylor Center in the wake of his death told The News, “The basic needs of a human being are far beyond gone in that place.”
The courtroom navigators program, which will primarily serve those walking out of court with nowhere to go, is the second element of a mental health grant initiative launched by Bragg’s office and the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance in December. The funding comes from $9 million seized from international banks in criminal investigations by the DA.
Bragg in June awarded $6 million to the nonprofit organization The Bridge to oversee the initiative’s first prong, connecting high-needs people spending significant time sleeping rough in Manhattan with wraparound services.
The trained navigators who will work to forge lasting connections with participants have experienced and overcome struggles with the criminal justice system, health needs and housing themselves, according to Stanley Richards of the Fortune Society.
“This investment reflects a visionary approach to address the underlying drivers of crime and violence at their root, aiming to reduce recidivism and create a safer, more supportive community,” he said.
Bragg hopes to hold up data a year from now that will compel state leaders to scale up navigator programs and install support in courthouses and communities where there is none in other jurisdictions.
“Stabilizing people, addressing the root causes of crime, obviously benefits that individual, but it benefits all of us,” he said.
The sun rises on the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City.
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In its July 2023 Market Update, Midtown-based brokerage Elegran described the Manhattan and Brooklyn markets as “neutral, where neither buyers nor sellers have a significant advantage.” While decreasing supply and a sharp decline in median listing discounts may point toward a seller’s market, a retreating demand and median price per square foot favor buyers.
Just under 1,000 contracts were signed in Manhattan in June, or a sizable 14% decrease from the month before, while supply decreased by 3% to 7,300 listings, according to the update. Despite a quieting demand, sales above asking price increased 12% from Q1. In Brooklyn, demand similarly shrunk, down 8% with 670 contracts signed, and supply dropped 1% to 3,250 listings.
With supply decreasing, buyers can expect fewer opportunities and sellers can expert more … [+] competition.
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As for the future, the report continues, “It remains uncertain which direction the market will shift and whether buyers or sellers will come out on top. Only time will reveal the outcome as we better understand the future market trajectory.”
What seems all but certain is that the New York City luxury real estate market will continue to remain active with sales and exceptional new listings. Here’s a look at some of the latest $5-million-plus properties hitting or leaving the market
Listed at $5.75 million: A newly reimagined loft in Soho by noted firm Ike Kligerman Barkley.
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FOR SALE | SoHo ($5.75 Million)
Completely renovated by 2022 Architectural Digest 100 firm Ike Kligerman Barkley, this 3,000-square-foot apartment puts a luxury spin on the classic SoHo loft. 10-inch oak flooring runs throughout the two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment. Stretching across the length of the sizable great room, a white brick wall is outfitted with sleek wood shelving.
The kitchen, which flows into the main living area, features an open design and top-of-the-line … [+] appliances.
Paul Mileman Photography | Elegran
Massive wood beams run the width of towering ceilings. Some elements lean heavier on the luxurious than the traditional loft space, like a primary suite with a walk-in closet, soaking tub and heated floors. Other highlights include a mirrored wet bar, service elevator and open-concept kitchen complete with custom blue cabinetry, a seated island and top-of-the-line appliances.
A row of Browntone-style row houses in the Slope Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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SOLD | Park Slope ($7.2 Million)
The Park Slope area of Brooklyn has one the highest resale values in the city, according to Jules Garcia, founder of Waterview Advisory Group at Elegran. This is in part due to the neighborhood’s collection of large, historic homes, such as the recently sold property.
Garcia recently represented the buyers of a Park Slope townhome that sold for $7.2 million. Built just before the turn of the 20th century, the Romanesque Revival townhome blends modern comforts with old-world glamour. This merging of styles is best showcased in the dining area, with its original dado paneling and cabinetry, coffered ceiling and hand-painted wallpaper and the ultramodern kitchen, with sleek white cabinetry, stainless-steel appliances and minimalist lighting. Covering five floors including a basement, the 4,800-square-foot home fits five bedrooms and four bathrooms. Outside, the property includes an array of terraces, patios and garden spaces.
Paul Mileman Photography | Elegran
FOR SALE | Chelsea ($6.5 Million)
Housed inside Lifesaver Lofts, this 4,000-square-foot loft apartment is located across the street from the Hudson River Greenway and less than a block away from the High Line. This premier positioning paired with the home’s size and exceptional design make it one of the most expensive listings in Chelsea. An expansive great room with 11-foot ceilings fronts the four-bedroom residence, centered by an impressive two-sided fireplace that serves as a subtle partition for an open yet intimate floor plan.
Paul Mileman Photography | Elegran
Restored cast-iron columns and brick walls recall the industrial charm of artist loft studios while high-end finishes like European oak floors, Carrara Gold marble kitchen countertops and wide trim put the home’s prestige on display. Luxury amenities include keyed elevator access, an integrated Sonos sound system and state-of-the-art lighting. Elegran’s Ignacio Cesped holds the listing.
Colorful fall trees line a street in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
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SOLD | West Village ($7.45 Million)
After six weeks on the market and a bidding war, this 120-year-old townhome in historic West Village sold for just under the original asking price of $7.5 million. Standing four stories tall, the 3,500-square-foot home features a Federal-style brick facade complete with a quintessential New York City fire escape.
Inside, the home marries turn-of-the-century charm with contemporary updates. Original oak plank flooring, woodwork and built-in shelves have been thoughtfully preserved. Two working fireplaces showcase ornate detailing and craftsmanship. A pitched roof, beach wood-paneled ceiling and triple exposure make for a rare Hamptons-inspired retreat in the middle of the big city. The home’s rarest amenity can be found outside—an enclosed private garden with an impressive Japanese Maple tree. Jules Garcia represented the buyers in the West Village sale.
I’ve lived in the city for the last four decades, but I’ve mostly been renting. My priorities are a three-bedroom apartment with easy access to grocery stores and the subway in a nice, quiet neighborhood.
But housing prices are insane in New York City. I want a house, but my partner is looking at a co-op. And for my price range of $700,000, the best options I can find are co-ops.
I plan to buy the home and live in it, and am not looking to rent it out in the foreseeable future. The home is for my family of four.
So my question is this: Is a co-op a good idea?
New York Native
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Dear New Yorker,
For those unfamiliar with what a co-op is, it’s short for housing cooperative. A cooperative is a legal group that owns one or more residential buildings, and the residents are members of it. The cooperative can comprise apartments, but it can also be made up of single-family homes. Residents who purchase a co-op unit don’t own the unit itself and have a share in the common areas. Instead, they’re purchasing a share of the overall property, and that share gives them the right to live in a specific unit.
When you look for homes, you may find that co-operative apartments are cheaper than comparable condominium units in the same city, or than single-family homes. And with the median home price in Manhattan being $1.2 million, according to Douglas Elliman, a co-op apartment for $700,000, if you find one, may sound like a good deal.
But, as you already know, for a three-bedroom, you’ll be quickly priced out of Manhattan. The real-estate brokerage said that a three-bedroom co-op apartment on the island would run about $2.23 million. And only 12% of co-op sales were three-bedroom apartments, versus 38% for one-bedrooms.
You will find deals further out. In Queens, Douglas Elliman said, the median price of a condo unit was about $720,000 in the second quarter of this year, and a co-op apartment cost roughly $310,000.
But there are drawbacks that you should consider, if you haven’t already.
First of all, you don’t technically own your co-op apartment as you would own an apartment in a condominium. Co-ops also charge you fees, which can run $4,000 a month, as Streeteasy observes, depending on the size of the unit, and so on. Applying for co-op ownership can be a painful process. Renting them out (if you can do that at all) will be hard, since the renter will have to go through the co-op board.
Selling is similarly tough, as the prospective buyer needs to be approved by the board. A board can require that a buyer put a lot of money up front, as Curbed explains. Ultimately, you may end up with less equity over time as experts say co-ops don’t typically appreciate at the same pace as condominium units or single-family houses or town houses.
Co-ops are also very “secretive,” as the Guardian put it, with little transparency into how boards make their decisions about potential buyers and renters. According to data from the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, there were 3.6 million housing units as of 2021, out of which 832,000 were in a condominium or a co-op.
That being said, co-ops aren’t all that bad.
The important thing to remember is if you’re just looking for an affordable place to live with your family, the numbers may very well make sense.
Co-op apartments are priced lower than units in condominiums, as already mentioned, so you’re still able to find good options with easy access to the subway and other urban amenities. You can stop dealing with rent hikes from your landlord and have a property to call your own. And, ultimately, you also live in a building with many long-term tenants versus living among neighbors who change every year. There can also be a greater sense of community in a co-op vs. a condominium as co-op residents may tend to change less frequently.
So you have to weigh the pros and cons. If you’re looking for a more affordable entry into New York City real estate, and have the stomach to navigate the co-op process, then, by all means, apply for that apartment your wife liked.
Bottom line: Just be sure you won’t want to move in a couple of years from now because you likely won’t be able to rent it out for long, if at all.
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At issue is her townhouse on Franklin Street in Tribeca, a high-end neighborhood in lower Manhattan. As a homeowner, Swift is responsible for maintaining the 27 feet of sidewalk in front of her property. But since purchasing the home in 2017, the city has ticketed her on 32 occasions for “failing to clean the area in front of her building, having a dirty sidewalk, and improperly disposing of garbage.”
What kind of garbage? “[P]iles of newspapers, bottles and cardboard; napkins and wrappers; and ‘scattered ashtray contents’ and a cigarette carton, according to the summonses.” The Post’s Matthew Sedacca quotes Christine O’Connor speculating that the trash is probably attributable to fans staking out the door hoping for a glimpse of Swift when she’s in town, “and smoking while they’re bored….She doesn’t even smoke!”
The nearly three dozen fines have totaled $3,010 in charges — though, as Sedacca notes, Swift and “her army of lawyers” have disputed some, getting $200 reversed on appeal. Given her lawyers’ probable four-figure hourly rate, maybe they just did it for fun?
If Swift is really expected to do cigarette sweeps multiple times a day (or, let’s be real, pay someone to do it), good luck to her on staying ahead of New York’s smokers, who I don’t think ever drop their butts anywhere but the sidewalk. Still, when you have the resources to live in a three-story townhouse in the city, nuisances like this truly are “champagne problems.”
VF.com has reached out to Taylor’s rep for comment.
Thorsun is looking for Spring ’23 product development and ecommerce operations interns to work in a unique role reporting directly to the brand’s founder. We are searching for bright, fashion-loving, and driven individuals with some knowledge of the fashion industry. The ideal candidate is responsible for assisting with the creation of commercially viable product designs across collections. Coordinate and deliver brand-right designs that tie back to the overall concept and business strategy encompassing style, color/print, fit, and fabric for new/existing product lines. Applies a solid working knowledge of fashion trends and consumer needs to product designs.
This position will provide the opportunity to contribute to the development and operation of the re-launch of our women’s swimwear line.
Current stockists include: Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Mr. Porter, Matches Fashion, The Webster Miami and many other domestic and international doors.
Core Qualities Required: ● A current student or recently graduated from university ● Detail oriented and highly organized ● Excellent written and oral communication skills ● The ability to work independently in order to meet deadlines ● Knowledge of Microsoft Office ● Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
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Babel Fair showroom is looking for a sharp, fast-paced junior sales executive to excel in a small business environment. The ideal candidate has a minimum of one year experience in fashion wholesale sales. This is a heavily sales focused job and the candidate must be highly motivated and able to hit sales goals. Being able to maintain and establish good working relationships with retailers is key.
Responsibilities ● Maintain and acquire boutique/independent retailer wholesale accounts ● Ability to meet sales goals ● Analyze and report on weekly and yearly sales ● Sample management including tagging, hanging, steaming, packing, and shipping samples. ● Assist with logistics of wholesale marketing ● Initiate and set up up showroom appointments ● Willing to go on road appointments to meet with retailers ● Setup and attend major and regional tradeshows
Experience/Qualifications needed ● At least 1+ of fashion wholesale sales experience ● Basic knowledge of Excel, MS Word, and Powerpoint ● Excellent email/phone communication skills ● Organizational and follow up skills ● Driver’s license ● Knowledge of Showroom Exchange, NuOrder, Squarespace, Canva and email marketing programs (MailChimp, Constant Contact) is a plus
Salary: $45-$50k plus health, dental, vision
To Apply: Please send your resume toerica@babelfair.com and a short summary of why you would be a good fit and/or what has driven you to apply.
